Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-06-03
HAPPENINGS
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The Rev. R. Graham Frank OF Lib.
erty, was elected president Of William
Woods College at Fulton at a recent
meeting of the board of managers.
DR.. William S Woods of Kansas
City and Los Angeles announced gifts
to the school approximating $4,000.
Mr.. Frank promises to give the board
an answer on the presidency in twenty
days. He is president of the state
board of missions of the Christian
church and also is general secretary
of the national convention Of Christian
churches.
DR.. j. E. Cannady, a member of the
national prohibition committee, said
recently that he expected soon to Sc
cure the assistance of an~ti-saloon lead.
ers for a dry campaign in Sedalia and
If he succeeded a special election will
be held in August.
A straight wind at Brookfeld un.
rooted the Lynn County Bank build.
ing, blew down or uprooted several
large trees, Uttered the streets with
broken branches and damaged build.
ings in the country.
The second tornado within a week
hit Springfield at $3.50 o'clock the
other night, doing property damage
which will run into thousands of dol
lars.
Following a swat the rooster" cam
paign started by the state poultry ex-
pertinent station at Mountain Grove,
the first carload of roosters was re
Gently shipped from Springfield to Chi
cago. The car contained $500.
Ward Wolfe, a Cass county farmer
and stockman, Is dead of injuries re-
ceived while working with a hay bal
ing outfit on the w. H. Hon farm near
Pleasant Hill.
Every farmer and his wife and
every Missouri farm boy and girl will
have al opportunity in the next two
years to participate n the educational
advantages of the college of agricul-
ture of the University of Missouri.
With $150,072 available for the extern
sion work in the next two years, the
Missouri College of Agriculture is be-
ginning a campaign on a large scale
to "take the college to the people,"
The city council of Columbia has
voted to reduce the electric light and
power rate an average of 25 per cent.
The maximum rate for lights will be
ten cents a kilowatt for large quanti-
ties. The rate was reduced two and
one-half cents. Columbia has one Of
the Oldest and most successful NUM-
cipal light and water plants in Mis-
souri,.
A tornado following a path Of about
three miles wrecked three large barns
on the farm of George Taylor, three
miles southwest of Holden. Numerous
small buildings, fences and trees in
the path Of the storm were destroyed.
The storm took a n~ortheasterly
course.
The first death resulting from treat
ment for drug users occurred at
Springfield when Arthur E. Everly, 36
years old, died suddenly. The treat
ment left his heart in a weakened con-
dition, the coroner reported.
William B. Wilson, Ga years old,
former prosecuting attorney of Lafay-
cite county, is dead at his home in
Lexington of paralysis. Two brothers.
DR.. Charles Wilson and Theodore Will
son, reside in Kansas City.
Bonds to the amount Of $4,000 were
voted at C%hilhowee recently to buy
a light plant. The proposition carried
by three to one. There are five hun
dred persons there.
Mack Barker, a widely known horse
man OF Northeast Missouri, is dead in
Denver, where he had gone for his
health. The body was brought to
Wellsville.
J. w. Given was killed and twenty
two strawberry pickers were made I'M
conscious by a bolt of lightning which
struck a barn on the Given farm nea
Neosho in a rain, storm recently.
A provisional quarantine against
all live stock from the states of Ari-
IONA, California, Nevada, oregon, Utah
and Washington has been declared by
the Missouri state board of agricul-
ture.
S. M. Jordan of Sedalia has an
nounced that he will on September l
go back home to the state board OF
agriculture and become a statewide
missionary for county agent develop
ment and farmers institute work,
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MI. Mary A. H%ornback, a resident
of Marion County for seventy-seven
years, is dead. She was "a years old
and was the mother of DR.. E. 7. Horn
back of Hannibal.
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