Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-10-28
HAPPENINGS
of the tOeek
IN MISSOURI

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forger and his companion after a
chase of sixty miles in two states and
brought the men back to Cape Girar-
deau without the formality Of obtain
ing requisition papers. Stubbleneld
entered the bank a moment after a
man cashed a check for $3.50 made
payable to w. Birchfiel, secretary OF
the Grassy Lake Drainage Company,
Osceola, Ark, and learned over he
long distance telephone that the check
was forged. He pursued the man n
a companion across the Mississippi
river to Cairo, ILL.,, IN a motor car n
brought them back.
The Rev. and Mrs. c. ]. Carmicnaeh
Of Hopkins have just celebrated the
sixtieth anniversary of their wedding
One hundred and fifty relatives n
friends were invited. Mr.. CarmichaeI
has been a Baptist minister more than
fifty years. He is 80 years old, n
his wife is 76.
Judge Harmon >. Potter, d wealthy
retired farmer of Palmyra, is dead
there after a ~protracted illness OF
several months.
E. M. Gates, a banker, was found
dead at his farm, three miles south
of La Plata recently. A bottle OF a r
bolic acid was found beside him. A
week ago he resigned as cashier OF
the La Plata bank. Gates was 5O
years old. He left a widow and
babies.
Russell M. Kneisley, formerly a
member of the state legislature from
Carroll county and who served as
presidential elector from the Second
Missouri District in the last preslden-
tial campaign, is dead at Carrollton
from injuries received in a motor car
accident.
Charles C. Crone, for years a wide
ly known real estate dealer of ST.
Louis, recently pleaded guilty to forg-
cry in the first degree and was sem
fenced to ten years in the peniten-
tiary.
T. M. Freeman, a vender of proprie~
tary medicines and extracts in How
ard county, who swallowed a bug
while riding along a county road
three weeks ago, is dead at Fayette~
A post mortem examination showed
that an abscess had formed in the
lungs resulting in gangrene poisoning
Hugh Mackay, university publisher
and editor of the Missouri Alumnus,
has resigned to become half owner OF
the Regina, Sask., Province. Mr..
Mackay was graduated from the
School Of Journalism here in 1912.
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Luther Nesmith, S. years old, was
killed by a Santa Fe train while cross
ing the tracks near his home in Car
rollton. Nesmith is survived by a
wife and two children.
TEH" EsH #E.HLE
University athletes again ranked.
higher in their grades in school than
other men students in the university,
according to the annual report on stu
dent grades, just issued by the faculty.
The grand encampment of the In
dependent Order Of Odd Fellows held
a two days session at Mexico recent
ly. These officers were elected and
installed: w. w. Meyers, Bethany
grand patriarch; A. 7. Huddleson,
Louisiana, grand high priest; H. G.
Fisher, Liberty, grand senior warden;
DR.. E. W. Ousley, st. James, grand
junior warden; H. S. Hamilton, St.
Louis, grand treasurer, and DR.. W. S.
Wheeler, Kansas City, representative
to the sovereign grand lodge.
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M. B. Murray, former member OF
the Missouri house of representatives,,
recently announced the sale of twen-
ty-seven bulls and sixty h~eifers, all
pure bred Herefords, and all under
2 years of age, to B. Naycock Of Mid
land, Tex, for $15,045, a record sale
for the county, and bringing his sea
son sales to 100000.
: The Missouri Abstractors' Associa-
ton adjourned at Mexico after elect
> ing officers and selecting Kansas City
, as the next meeting place. Officers
were elected as follows: President
! Nelson G. Burch, Jefferson City; vice
: president, Park M. Anderson, st
! Louis; secretary-treasurer Sam X
Black, Jr., Fulton. The executive
committee is composed Of the follow
ing: John T. Ricketts,, Mexico, chair
man; John M. Shields, Jackson; Rob
! ert Robert, Perryville; Emile Land
! mann, Sedalia; David Stuart, Chilli
= cothe.
q In a local option election held a
4 Brookleld the city went wet" by
majority Of 2O2, carrying every ware
in the city. The fight for the wet
side was led by the Daily Argus.
! Prof. y. M. Hudson Of the depart
/, ment Of philosophy Of the Universit,
4 of Missouri received word recently o
z the death Of his wife in Denver. Mrs
4 Hudson had suffered from throat trou
Bile for four years, which compelle'
her to live in Colorado.
IN ~ A. N HN
Emma, a town Of three hundred ir
habitants, was destaroyed by a fir
u that started from an overturned lam
y in a hardware store recently. Emm
y Is about half way between Swee