Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-04-15
HAPPENINGS
offbe sOeek
IN MISSOURI

In lX40SOV IA
Attorneys for Mrs. Clarisse Harri-
'on Of New York have filed a petition
or damages in the federal court at
Kansas City asking that she be paid
'13,213.73 and interest on bonds pur.
by her husband in 1864 of the
rebo & Neosho Railway Company.
rhe bonds we're issued by st. Clair
Missouri, and later guaranteed
by the Missouri state legislature.
Jesse Matthews, editor Of the Blade
1t Bakersfield, is dead Of pneumonia.
He was a pioneer editor of that Sec
ton. Before the war he was editor
Of the Informer at Salem, Mo. He was
a printer on the Kansas City Times
when Doctor Mumford was editor. In
recent years he lived at Bakersfield.
Judge George P. Huckeby, a Civil
War veteran, died at his home in Rich
Hill of pneumonia. Mr.. Huckeby re-
tired April 1 from the office of post
master, which he had held for eight
years. He was born in Indiana in 1871.
w. C. Mcmillan has been elected
county school superintendent of How
ell county by 315 majority over Miss
Bertha Meinecke, who made a horse
back canvass Of the county.
Miss Amanda Herndon Painter,
daughter of Lieutenant Governor and
Mrs. w. R. Painter, was married to
Eugene H. Salisbury of Chicago at
Carrollton recently.
Mrs. Susan G. Garth, a pioneer resi-
dent of Liberty, and widow of Capt.
William G. Garth, is dead there. She
was born in Liberty, May 81, 1885, and
that place has always been her home.
Joseph C. Sprinkle, who recently at
tempted to kill his wife in Lamonte,
has been adjudged insane. He was
taken to the Nevada asylum. Mrs
Sprinkle will ecoyer.
Mrs. Lula McCarty, % years old, is
dead at Springfield of ~pellagra, the
first case of that disease ever known
there.
Many Missouri cities and towns
elected municipal officers the Other
day. Little interest was manifested
in the election and only a small vote
was polled. In st. Louis the entire
Republican ticket Of twenty-eight al
dermen, led by A. H. Frederick fol
chairman of the board, was elected b.
a plurality estimated at $4,000.
The citizens of the Richmond Schoo
District voted for the issuance o
$4,000 bonds for the purpose Of build
ing a central high school building ant
two ward schools. The city Demo
cratic, ticket was elected in Richmon'
without opposition.
The tenth annual horse sale of tn
Missouri Special Sales Company wa
held recently at Mexico. More tina.
200 horses we're sold. Presley v
Ray of Bowling Green, KY, privatel
bought from e. D.. Moore of Colun
bia the sensational show mare, LIE
Chief, for $500.
According to reports made to tn
state board Of agriculture the sprin
season in Missouri is opening late
Much cold, cloudy weather durin
March held back farm work. Despit
a deficiency in precipitation for tn
month, the soil is we'll filled with W;
ter.
Ira Foltz, 80 years old, committe
suicide by hanging himself at his HON
four miles north of Richards. Foil
was unmarried and had been of III
sound mind for some time, He was
have been taken to the state hospit'
for the insane.
A site has been selected by tn
Carnegie library committee at Exec
sior Springs for the Carnegie libraI
which is to be erected. Ten thousan
dollars will be given by the Carneg'
library fund for the purpose, the eli
guaranteeing the upkeep of the librai
and property.
Eli Dock Graham, former mayo
died at Mexico recently of paralysi
He was general manager and trea
urer of the Lafayette Telephone Coz
pany in Lexington and installed Me1
co.'s first telephone system in 1898.
August H. Kuhs, a member OF Il
st. Louis board of education, has bee
indicted on a charge of being conne'
ed with the sale of a high school ST
to the board.
A proposition to issue 100000 bon
for a city high school carried at Pitt
burg by a vote of 359 to q.
4-8N q n
The Clinton Commercial Club
making a strong fight to get the ma
offices Of the Kansas City, Clinton
Springfield Railroad Company.
William Henry, an Ardmore, Mace