Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-07-29
HAPPENINGS
of fbe sOeek
IN MISSOURI


Tracy Richardson. a machine gun
operator. who was reported in news
dispatches recently as having been
killed, has written his mother, Mrs.
Ella Richardson, under date Of July 8.
He is still in a hospital in North Eng
land and won't go to France for some
time. He writes he had a letter from
Washington, D. c., saying that there
was a captains commission il he
would come home and a staff job IL
there was trouble in Mexico.
The Sloan Park bonds for $4,000
carried seven to one at an election in
Excelsior Springs the other day. That
insures the Immediate expenditure or
$35, 900 for the Sloan and Sulpho-Sa-
line pavilion at the Broadway entrance
to the proposed park and driveway
system.
F. NJ. Thompson, 30, and c. p. Lay
ton, 2S, miners, probably were fatally
injured when a holster with which
they were being pulled to the surface
broke, allowing them to drop fifty feet
to the bottom of a mine shaft near
Carthage.
Carrollton recently decided to oust
its five saloons by voting dry" by a
majority of 1856. The county court OF
Carroll county, in which Carrollton is
situated, will be asked next month 10
call a countrywide local option cleo
ton in September.
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Pearl Gehrs, the ~13-year-old daugh-
ter Of Edward Gehrs, rural mail car
rier of Versailles, residing four miles
in the country, was struck by light
ming the other afternoon and Instant
ly killed.
Six members of the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union of Commerce
intercepted a negro at the ferry as he
was landing two sacks filled with beer
and whisky, and destroyed the liquor.
The entire lot was valued at $40.
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A. p. Jeffrees of Chillicothe, was
probably fatally injured when the au-
tomobile in which he was riding near
Salina, Kas., turned turtle. H. D.
Davis also was seriously hurt.
Charles H. Evans, known through
out Central Missouri as Uncle Buck
Evans, died at his home in Lamonte
recently. He was born near Smithton,
Pettis county, eighty years ago and
probably was the Oldest native resi-
dent Of that county. He formerly was
engaged in the mercantile business in
Smithton, Dresden and Lamonte.
Because of the high price Of ore,
due to the war in Europe, school boys
in the Missouri Ok ahoma-Kansas zinc
district are '%'scrapping" free ore from
old dump piles and r making more
than spending money.
Mystery surrounds the death OF Osa
Wolton of Carthage who was found
dying on a vacant lot in Joplin. He
died later in a hospital in that city.
Indications are that his death was
due to morphine poisoning.
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Judge Joshua E. Stephens. a cousin
of former Governor Lon v. Stephens,
and a former circuit judge of Cedar
county, is dead at Webb City, OF
Bright's disease.
So busy has the Ozark hen been
this summer and so low the market
price for her product. that more eggs
are stored in Springfield at this time
than ever before in the history of the
poultry industry in this section. In
one plant there are 10000, 900 eggs, and
they are being received by the hun
dreds Of dozen daily. The eggs are
being bought up by large produce con
Germs and will be held for higher
prices.
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, Announcements was made recentl.
5 by A. F. Vandeinse, general manage.
. of the Springfield Gas and Electric
Company, of the completion of de
t signs for motor trucks to be installe'
r in the jitney service by the Spring
field Traction Company.
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J, C. & A. train No. 81, the Red Flyer
r due at Marshall at 8 p. M, struck an
o killed William Booker at Norton, fv
: miles east Of that city. Booker wa
S walking on the r~ight-of-way. He wa
hard of hearing.
: Mrs. Emily ]. Hull, mother of Speal
er James H. Hull, died at 1.-THE home {
her son, Charles v. Hull, Newmarke
Platte county, recently.
William Orr, "a years old, Of Ricl
mond, was drowned recently viii
i, trying to cross a break in the levee
front of the farm of William Meadow
N opposite Lexington.
a John A. Knott, veteran editor al
u owner of the Hannibal Morning Jou
nal and state inspector, who has bee
d near death for several days fro
ptomaine poisoning, will recover.
Bud Nichols, engineer Of a tracti'
engine belonging to Watt Hinton, W
~ drowned when his machine we
through a bridge over East Fo
Az Creek a mile from Huntsville. 1t
supposed the bridge was weakened
recent high water.
ID, Mrs. st. Clair Moss, president of t