Iron County register., 1915-01-21
HAPPENINGS
Of the sOeek
IN MISSOURI

" MlSSOVN
Ten dentists offices in three
buildings were entered by burg
lars at St Louis and robbed
of hundreds of dollars worth of gold
and platinum crowns, Filings. bridges
and scraps of the metals. AS a result
of the robberies scores of patients will
be compelled for several weeks to adj
here to a near-liquid diet, the dentists
declared.
Six shade trees that died from the
effect of fumes from gas plant will
bring $3.50 to Anna Lee Taylor OF St.
Joseph. The owner brought suit
against the St. Joseph Gas company.
won a verdict and contested the com
pany's appeal.
A bronze allegorical tablet commeIn-
Grating the one hundred years of
peace between the United States and
Great Britain will be unveiled in the
Jefferson Memorial at st. Louis Feb
ruary IS. The ceremonies will be un-
der the auspices of the state branch
of the National Society of the Daugh
ters of 1912. President Wilson and
King George v of England have been
invited to attend the ceremonies.
The President has nominated the
Following Missouri postmasters: D. f.
Willm, Crystal City; Peter J. Weber,
Upton; A. E. Niche, Webb City; A. L.
Carter Fairfax; J. B. Smith, Farm
ingtor; Frank D. Bell, Holden; BEN
nett Wardlow. Lancaster; N. B. Yates,
Pattonsburg; R. L. Hamilton, Sails
bury, and W. H. Zorn, West Plains
The Henry County court has called
in the last of the bonded debt of the
county, amounting to $4,000, due Sep
tember l. 1t will be paid February 1.
This old debt was for the construc-
/ ton of the Tebo & Neosho Railroad
in the early '70s, which was not built.
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Fire which caused loss of $4,000
3at Carrollton, destroyed the Scott liv-
cry barn and damaged Everett's cafe
and the Jarboe -four mill
A tabernacle being built at Fulton
for a series of union revival meetings
partially collapsed recently and eight
persons were injured severely.
The Rev A. J Koehler of Kansas
Catholic church at Martinsyille, to
succeed the Rev. Conrad Plus, O. S.
B., who has served as pastor Of that
congregation twenty-five years.
The farmers near Centralia have
lost about seven thousand hogs from
cholera and pneumonia in the last two
months. In several instances the hog
serum cure proved success, but in
most cases it failed.
Charles w. Campbell, Sc years old,
city engineer, of st. Joseph, is dead as
q result Of injuries received in a mo-
tor accident last November.
Robert Burris, the young farmer Of
the New Cambria neighborhood who
was convinced at the September term
of the Macon Circuit Court of killing
d. D. Dowell, the father of Burris's
sweetheart, came in and voluntarily
surrendered himself to the sheriff, an
nouncing that he would dismiss his
appeal to the supreme court and 60 to
the penitentiary for ten years in ac-
cordance with the jury's verdict
Young Burris was accompanied by his
father, Jesse Burris, to Jefferson City.
Refusal of $1,000 bequeathed her in
the will of the late Valda S. Stone, a
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
passenger conductor, has been fled
in the probate court at Sedalia. Mrs.
Fannie Smith signed petition asking
that the court transfer the amount to
Stones divorced wife, Mrs. Ella Stone,
and such order has been made.
The nomination of Ewing G. Bland
of Kansas City to be United States
marshal for the western district Of
Missouri has been rejected by the SEN
ate by unanimous vote.
The junior juvenile court OF st.
Louis, in which yohng lawyers acted
as judges and schoolboys as police
officers, has proven a failure. The
court tended to make tattlers of the
boys it sought to correct and will
therefore be abolished. That was an
nounced by Judge Rhodes e. Cave Of
the juvenile court
The farmers in central Missouri
are losing their horses from some un-
known disease The horses that have
died in this locality seem to go mad
and while in this condition run
through fences or collide with any
thing in their path.
Thomas G. Hunter, chief Of police.
of Sprinfield, Mo-, has been acquitted
on the last eight of ten counts of an
indictment charging him with solicit
ing and accepting bribes from saloon
owners and resort keepers.
The entire freshman law class of the
University of Missouri has been asked