Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-08-12

Kansas City November 4, ) and 6 of
this year. it was announced recently
in a letter from DR.. A. Ross Hill, presi-
dent of Missouri University. Three
thousand delegates are expected to
attend and the Coates House will be
the convention headquarters.
What is believed to be the biggest
real estate deal ever made in Gala
way county was closed recently when
Judge Thomas f. hurry, former mem
Der of the county court, sold his 1000
acre farm in the northwest part of the
county to T. ]. McMahon, a retired
real estate operator of Oklahoma City,
for 100000.
The Liberty Commercial club has
made a donation, which is supple
mented by farmers and others, to
make a test of oiled roads in Clay
county, pending the canvass of the
county for a bond issue for macad-
amizing main roads and laterals
throughout the county.
The great tabernacle revival which
has been held in Rich Hill during July
closed with 100 conversions during
the last day, making 100 conversions
during the meeting. The meeting was
under the auspices of the various
churches of Rich Hill.
By a majority of two votes Spring
field has adopted commission govern
ment. The recent election was the
fourth held in the city on the PROPOSE
ton, and was the most holly contested
Of all. The total vote was 1868 for
and 1861 against.
While returning home from church
D few days ago William M. Pheron,
% years old, suffered a stroke of par
alysis which resulted in his death
later. He was a pioneer citizen of
Rich Hill.
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Frank L. Johnson, assistant cashier
Of the Mercantile National Bank of st.
Louis, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head late the other
night. The body was found by a night
Waterman in an office of the bank.
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George G. Mclaughlin, 90 years cid,
Is dead at Sedalia. He was a retired
merchant and had lived in Sedalia
nearly a half century. He vas n of
the beneficiaries of the late Mrs.
Sarah Knight, who died a year ago in
New York, leaving one million dollars.
Ira Beard, a young farmer, was
shot and killed in a mysterious man
ner at Montserrat, a village six miles
east of W%arrensburg the other night.
Villagers heard the shot and on in
vestigation found Beard lying dead in
a box car.
Mrs. George Rubison Of Seattle,
Wash, was struck and hurled twenty
feet by a bolt of lightning at the home
of a relative at Hannibal the other
night. The fact that the handle of an
electric iron she was using was made
Of wood saved her life.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hyten, 92 years old,
a native of Kentucky, but a resident
Of Galloway county most of her life
and believed to be the Oldest woman
in the county, is dead at Fulton.
Mrs. Sarah Westenberger of Sc
dalia, widow of George Westenberger,
born in Clay county, Missouri, in 1910,
and a resident of Sedalia since 1866,
died recently.
The ~2-year-old daughter Of w. K
Warren, residing five miles west OF
Collins, fell in a we'll the other day
and was drowned.
j. e. Lawson, So years old, is dead
1T his farm home ten miles southwest
Of Rich Hill, from the effect Of q
spider bite received ten days ago..
A delegation of road boosters, rep
resenting both the Old Trails and the
north route from New Florence
through Montgomery to Mexico, went
over the two roads the other day on
q tour of inspection. The purpose was
twofold: First, to view the two
routes and the obstacles in the way
Of improving them, and second: to in
crease interest in the cross-state high
way movement from Kansas City tc
st. Louis,
Hugh Harsha, a rural route mai
carrier, vas thrown against a tree
when his team ran away near Oregon
recently. He was picked up uncon
scious by a farmer and removed to his
lome in Oregon. The doctors say his
injuries are fatal.
A 14-year-old son of Steve Avery ac
:identally shot and killed the 9-year
Did son of Thomas Johnson, five miles
southwest of Lincoln, Benton county
while out hunting the other day.
DR.. Walter Blackburn Dorsett, who
was superintendent of the quarantine
hospital in 1879 during the last yellow
fever epidemic in st. Louis, is dead a
his home there. He had been presi
dent Of the Missouri State Medica.
Society and professor of %gynecology
and pelvic surgery at st. Louis uni
versity.
The proposition to issue $4,000
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