Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-27

Carthage on IRE, IOusnC the lldmeS'
finally extinguishing them, and then
tagged the train.
Edward ]. Shannahan Of Kansas
City was elected state president of
the Fraternal Order of Eagles and
St. Louis was chosen as the next
place OF meeting at the business ses-
sion of the state convention in lnde-
pendence.
Lees Summit has undertaken to
subscribe $4,000 for the purpose of
extending from the Jackson county
hospital at Little Blue the pipe line
which was built several years ago
from independence.
News was received at st. Louis re-
Gently that Postmaster Baynes at
Kennedy had been killed by robbers,
who looted the Kennedy postoffice.
Col. Robert T. Van Horn celebrated
his 91st birth anniversary quietly at
his home in Mount Washington re
Gently. No special arrangements had
been made for commemorating the oc-
casion with any formality.
Miss Myra Harris Of Bowling Green
was crowned queen by the women
of the University of Missouri in their
annual fete on the campus. 1t was q
golden festival" the queens throne
being gay with yellow flowers. All
the classes were represented
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It costs $500 to present an Uncle
Toms Cabin" show in Clay county,
which discounted a theatrical troupe
that booked into Smithville recently.
1t was in 1898 that the county court
assessed this high license against
Tom shows and there has not been
one in the county since.
Rial Creason, a former judge OF the
Ray county court, is dead at his home
in Richmond. He was so years old.
FOrty-one men patrons OF Wnlttler
School and more than that number OF
students turned out at a community
meeting and cleaned off a block OF
ground in East Sedalia where social
entertainments will be neld this sum-
mer. With rakes, spades, lawn now
ers, pruning knives and other tools
the volunteers worked until dark.
task then was about half finished
when adjournment was had until next
Monday night, when the 'frolic" Will
be resumed and the job completed.
.
That the Hessian fly has damaged
growing wheat in Jasper county to the
extent OF thousands of dollars is the
statement of farmers who were in
Carthage the other day. Some fields
are said to have been almost stripped
by the fly. Already much of the grain,
which is uninjured, is beginning to
!. head out and the harvest i'll southwest
, Missouri will be early.
Fire was discovered in the millin'
cry store of Mrs. Lottie Pennock al
Glasgow the other night. Persons Nv
ing over a store in the adjoining build
: ing were awakened by the barking oil
. dogs and the smoke. Fire was seer
coming out of the door in the millin
ery store. Mrs. Pennock was found
!, at the door bound and gagged and the
store on fire.
Cecil A.. Webster, an instructor II
: the Missouri college Of agriculture
left recently for his home at Dundas
Ontario, Canada, where he will enl1s
in a company of Canadian u%niversit.
9 graduates for service in the Europeai
N war.
Because he did not visit the steil
&c room every two hours and becaus
he was said to have performed a Gel
tain part of his work in less than tn
allotted time, Max Lehman, a brew
i, cry worker Of st. Louis, was fined b
70 the Brewery Workers Union and O.
II refusing to pay the fine was suspend
70 ed from the union and subsequent
No lost his job.
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s. M. Jordan, county agent, said tina
in many wheat fields in Pettis count
the Hessian fly is doing great injur
al to the crop. This pest promises to d
i. much more damage than the chine
ba bug, Mr.. Jordan believes. Fear also
expressed for the corn crop from th
he two pests.
Mich Gooch, 10 years old, for fiji
years a resident of Jasper count
dropped dead while blowing in a te'
near his home. The body was disco
no cred by his 12-year-old daughter.
nt The jitney business in Columbi
started two months ago, has increase
to such an extent that the promote
announced they would put a four
car in operation.
Frank H. Werries, a mining prom
lry ter of Kansas City, who shot al
ers, killed Andrew Wilson, his brother-i
,er- law, on the depot platform at Lexir
ton Junction February 3, has been {
quilted by a jury at Richmond. T
jury found that Werries shot in Sc
the defense.
Iler -
-iss After a separation Of sixty-thr
Ite years, S. L. Womack of Karnack,
is visiting his sisters, Mrs Thorn
non Bedford and Mrs. Frances Burner,
Seymour. Mr.. Womack last saw
sisters when he was s years old.