Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-11-25
HAPPENINGS
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John B. Thomas, banker Of Willow
Springs, and Marion w. Rose of the
firm of Rose & Daniels, produce com
mission men of Willow Springs, were
acquitted in the federal court at Kan
sas City on all counts of a federal
indictment charging them with using
the United States mails to defraud.
The Missouri Dry, the official or
gan of the Missouri Dry Federation,
made its appearance at Sedalia recent
ly, issued from the office of the Good
win Publishing Company. Charles E.
Stokes of Kansas City is editor and
manager. H. P. Faris of Clinton is
the financial hacker.
A $4,000 bond issue with which to
buy a 40-acre tract Of land and con-
vert it into a city park carried in a
special election by a vote of ASS to
1S9 at Cape Girardeau.
Three hose companies we're called
out the other day to fight a fire in
Calvary cemetery, a Catholic grave
yard in Southeast st. Joseph. The
grass had caught fire and was burned
off a great part. The smoke blackened
many monuments and tombstones.
Elroy E. Codding, a prominent Re-
publican in Missouri, and former post
master at Sedalia, died at a football
game there the other afternoon be-
tween the Sdalia High school and the
Warrensburg Reserves.
William Moorehead, rs years old,
was convicted of the murder Of Roy
Jenkins, a farmer, in Admission No
vember 20, 1914, and was sentenced
to the penitentiary for forty years by
a jury in Charleston.
Thomas Hope, who died recently at
his home in Excelsior Springs, had
lived in that part Of Missouri fifty
years. He was born in Jacksboro,
Tenn, in 1845, and served in the Con-
federate army.
Ed Ilgenfritz, who has been on trial
at Kirksville for the alleged murder
Of Jacob w. Davis, whose death oc.
Cured October 26, 1912, was found
not guilty by a jury the other day.
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Girls carried off the honors at the
seventh annual Jasper county corn
show at Carthage recently. Waneta
Poncot, II years old, was awarded the
$500 silver loving cup for the, 10-ear
sweepstakes prize, while her sister,
Hattie Poncot, Is, won the sweep
stakes award in the Junior depart,
ment, a trip to the state corn show
to be held in Columbia the week of
January 8.
Abraham Sechrist, IS years old, who
for many years conducted hotels al
Kirksville and Brookfield, but who
had been living in retirement at st
Joseph for fifteen years, is dead. He
was a veteran of the Civil var ant
had been a Mason for fifty-eight years
He was a native of Pennsylvania.
DR.. Sherman Miller, a physician Of
Mayesburg, Bates county, while re
turning home from Clinton in a motor
car with H. B. Hibbs, was drowned
in a ditch beside the road when the
car overturned. Hibbs narrowly es
capped by crawling through the mut
and water under the side of the car
A family reunion was held at Elk
celsior Springs recently in celebration
of the 92d birthday anniversary O.
Mrs. Zerelda Bates, probably the old
est woman in that section. She has
lived in Missouri almost ninety years
county's most widely known citizens
died the other morning from a strokt
of paralysis. He was at one tint
treasurer of Bates county.
The buildings and stocks of thu
Scarlisse & Doty Hardware Compan,
and the T. H. Miller clothing store a
Holden were destroyed by fire tn
other morning. The loss is abou
$4,000, about half insured.
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The man who stole a motor car fron
=. r. Morrison in Kansas City an
was captured at Montrose, broke ava,
from the men guarding him and is still
at large. 1t is thought that he ma,
be Dale Jones, who broke Jail in But
Ter on December 20, 1914, while be
ing held there for trial as IN accom-
! plice in the murder Of Samuel Queer
a constable of Rich Hill.
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/ An association to improve the M
tional Trail, a highway sixteen mile
long, connecting Brookfield and Mel
don with one of the best kept cart
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