Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-10-21

installed: w. w. Meyers, Bethany,
grand patriarch; A. 7. Huddleson.
Louisiana, grand high priest; H. G.
Fisher, Liberty, grand senior warden;
DIR. e. W. ousley. st. James, grand
junior warden; H. S. Hamilton, St
Louis, grand treasurer, and DR.. W 5.
Wheeler, Kansas City. representative
to the sovereign grand lodge.
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 c. Burch, jefferson City; vice
president, Park NJ. 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 NJ, Shields, Jackson; Rob
ert Robert, Perryville: Emile Land
mann, Sedalia; David Stuart, Chilli
Gothic.
:
Emma, a town of three hundred in
habitants, was destroyed by a fire
that started from an overturned lamp
in a hardware store recently. Emma
is about half way between Sweet
Springs and Concordia, in Saline coun-
ty. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The funeral Of Daniel M. Houser.
publisher of the St. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat, who died recently, was held at
the family home. The services were
in charge of the Rev. 2. B. T. Phillips,
rector of st. Peters Episcopal church.
In a local option election held at
Brookfield the city went wet by a
majority of 202, carrying every ward
in the city. The fight for the wet"
side was led by the Daily Argus.
Mrs. Christen Dean, 80 years old, a
cousin of George Washington, is dead
at Carthage. Records showing Mrs.
Deans relationship to the first pres1-
dent Of the United States are in pos
session of the family.
Hamilton Cook, wealthy farmer and
pioneer temperance lecturer, is dead
at the home of his son in Weston. His
own home was on a Missouri farm
near there, where he had lived since
childhood.
Alfred L. Dickmann of Pettis
ty is cutting his 15-acre field Of alfalfa
for the fourth time this year. The
yield will be in excess of a ton to the
acre with the three previous crops
averaging v e two tons to the acre.
]. M. Briant, merchant and mayor
of Turney, was acquitted recently OF
a charge of murder for the killing OF,
James Mullinix, May 81.
Nathan Van Buren, Smith, 4-year-
old son of Thomas D. Smith, a farmer
of Pettis county, is dead as a result of
being kicked by a horse the other day.
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E. e. johnson, postmaster at Sedalia-
recently began a plan whereby resi-
dents of the rural districts of Pettis
county may derive benefits from the
public Drary by e of parcel
post. A list of five hundred books in
the library has been sent to each OF
the ITO schools in rural Pettis county.
The teacher of each school serves as
a sub-librarian. The pupils are given
charts and any book on the list or
which they know TO be contained in
the library is sent by parcel post. This
plan also includes the adult residents
of the rural districts, but all books
are sent through the schools.
Three months Of legal procedure in
Boone county courts was necessary
to prove to a farmer living near Co
lumbia that he was drunk last Fourth
of July when a policeman arrested
him. A decision was handed down in
the Boone County Circuit Court re.
Gently and the farme- will pay his fine
of 81 and costs amounting to about
SIS. He was fined in a justice of the
peace court July 10, but appealed the
case.
George Cundiff, the 18-year-old boy
who was charged with embezzline
$4,000 from the Wells Fargo Express
Company at Macon June 10 and who
was captured in Wyoming, pleaded
guilty in the circuit court the othel
day, was sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary and paroled by Judge
Shelton. Nearly all the money youni
Cundiff took was restored to the ex
press company, Of which he was al
employe.
John Lafayette Roberts, fifty year,
a merchant in W%arrensburg, is deat
at the home of his daughter, Mrs
Nose Wiley. He vas born in johnson
county, Mo-, eighty-one years ago.
'
While hauling a load Of wood nea
Jonesburg on the Old Trails ROAD
Michael Ramsours, rs years old, wa
instantly killed when inc Of the stand
ards holding the wood on the WACO
broke, the wood falling on the team
which became frightened and ran OF
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Recent frosts in Missouri will do III
tie damage to corn. About 81 per cen
was safe from frost on October /, &C
cording to the state crop report. TIL
/ yield promises to be 232 million bush
/ els on 7,495, 900 acres, 81 million bush
els more than last years crop.
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