Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-07-15
HAPPENINGS
of the sOeek
IN MISSOURI

parts of this territory with four inches
of rain in half an hour.
The first load of the 1915 wheat crop
of johnson county was marketed in
Warrensburg by G. M. Bancroft, a
Mont Serrat township farmer. The
wheat weighed out fifty-nine and one
half pounds and brought 81 per bushel.
With every type of the Missouri
horse being drawn on to supply
mounts and artillery animals for the
belligerents of Europe the horse in
dustry is to take on an impetus this
year that will be truly remarkable.
Never in the history of America has
there been such a situation confront
ing the farmer who produces horses.
James Carbon, SO, a native of Ire
land, died at his home in Brookfeld
the other night. Mr.. Carton was the
father of Police Judge w. ]. Carbon
of that city and had been a success
full farmer of Linn county for more
than forty years.
Col. H. D. Mackay, 50 years old,
is dead at his home in Pomona. He
was a pioneer fruit grower of the
Ozarks. He was born at Rochester,
N. Y, and for many years practiced
law there.
With his skull crushed, DR.. 7. Doc
lin, IS years old, pioneer resident OF
Green county, was found the brick
sidewalk in front of his office at Ash
Grove the other morning.
While swimming in a creek in the
suburbs of St. Joseph, Joseph Shea,
10 years old, was drowned. His faith
er is John Shea.
The Peoples bank of Caruthers-
Vile did not open its doors the other
day, and a notice on the door said
the institution temporarily was in the
hands of the state bank commission
er. G. F. Scoggin, assistant cashier
of the bank, now is under arrest as a
result of an alleged shortage in his
accounts.
The thirteenth annual convention of
the Missouri State Association of Ru-
raj Letter Carriers held a two-days'
session at Marshall recently. Hanni-
bal was chosen for the 1915 conven-
ton. The following officers were
elected: Claude Smith, Guthrie, pres
ident; John ]. Luken, Oregon, vice
president: Walter S. Schulenberg, In
dependence, secretary-treasurer; P. D.
Bailey, Marshall, e. E. Duckett, Jop-
lin, members of executive committee,
Nine delegates to the national conven
a ton, which meets in Detroit in August
\ were also elected.
q While oiling a merry-go-round a
4 Tarkio recently, G.. Elise's legs were
4 caught in the machinery and both were
4 cut off below the knees. Elise prob
! ably will not survive. He is rs years
Y old, married, and his home is at Ham
Il burg, Ia.
\ Nfnety-six years old on July 4, Mrs
R Catherine Forbes of Carthage cele
4 brated the nations and her own nata
n day by attending a dinner party in hel
+ honor and then later assisting a mum
4 Der of youngsters in shooting frecrack
Il ers and setting off fireworks at night
q The Rev. ]. w. McAtee, pastor o
a the independence Avenue Baptis
church of Kansas City, has been aske'
q to accept a call to the %pastorate of tn
B Robertson Avenue Baptist church il
Springfield.
8. Peter Cavanaugh, 70 years old,
resident of Laclede, Linn county, TO
- forty-five years, is dead in Chillicothe
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IN Uncle Matt" MCPHERSON, SO year
"a old, and one of the pioneer citizens c
~ Dade county, and Miss Clara Burn:
10 years old, of Higginsville, wer
r. married at the court house at Greer
y field recently. The ceremony was pc
formed by the Rev. William Shaw.
Three months of almost incessan
4 rain have driven Princeton, seat
y. Mercer county, a town OF l,50O,
a. paved streets 4. Bids will be opene
July ~ on 10000 square yards of col
crete paving. Main street, from th
- Rock Island station to College avenu'
IN and the streets surrounding and on
n. block each way from the square al
to be improved,
According to the Missouri crop r
port Just issued from the office of til
secretary Of the state board of agI
~ culture, and which shows condition
~ on July 1, most of the state is in nee
of fair and warmer weather. Ho'
j, ever, the report as a whole holds o,
hope for an abundant harvest.
Mrs. Jane Derreux, 81 years oil
~ probably the Oldest oma in Call
IaI way county, died at her home net
80 Mokane the other day. She was ma
~ ried when II years old and was Il
Nv mother of fourteen children, ten
~ whom survive. Mrs. Derreux was bo
he in Virginia, but had lived in that cou
"a ty eighty-nine years.
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ne Hundreds Of acres Of overripe whe;
the cutting Of which has been delay
'er by continued rains and muddy field
were harvested in Pettis and 9th
U.s. central Missouri counties July 4.
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