Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28


boys class, X. Porter Graham, Center
vile champion bushel yellow corn, F.
N. Rebel. Arbella champion bushel
white corn, J.. F. Roberts, Arbella;
best ten ears yellow corn, boys class.
Clifford Clark, Rea; best single ear
and single a championship, Clark
Rebel, Arbella; best single ear white
corn. Thomas Lawson, Rea; best peck
of oats, S. T, Matches, Eagleville.
Three men pleaded guilty in the
federal court at St. Louis for violation
of the federal law requiring the pay
ment of tax on colored oleomargarine.
These three were the first forty de-
PENDANTS to be placed on trial.
The eighth annual convention of the
Missouri Valley Gamers Association
was concluded at Springfield with the
choosing of Kansas City for the next
meeting place and the election of
these officers: r. B. Gillette, Mar
ionville, president; H. N, Brown,
Odessa, vice president; ]. P. Harris.
Prairie Grove, Ark, secretary and
treasurer.
R. e. Eastwood and George Bur
COON, pioneer settlers Of Southeast
Missouri. died recently at Carthage of
the infirmities Of age. Each was 50
years old and each served in the Con-
federate army during the Civil War.
The board of ~curators of Stephens
College at Columbia have reelected
these officers: DR.. w. w. Charters,
president; the Rev. G. w. Hatcher,
vice president; DR.. ]. E. Thornton,
secretary; W. X. Bayliss, treasurer.
Jeffer Mason, 10 years old, one of
the oldest coal miners in point of
service in Missouri, was found dead
in his working channel in the coal
mine at Bevier. Death was caused by
heart disease.
An offer of 1000 acres of land in
Shannon county, as a site for an agri.
cultural college was made to Drury
College by ]. b. White of Kansas
City, lumberman and former president
of the National Conservation Con-
gress at the semi-annual meeting Of
the board of trustees of the college.
Details of the offer are not made
known.
Melvin Raines White, the 7-month-
old son of William D. White, a fruit
grower near st. Joseph, was officially
designated the most nearly perfect
baby in the state at the farmers week
baby show. He was given the cham
pionship ribbon in the baby health
contest.
DR.. George Allen Nash, 66 years old,
a pioneer surgeon of Northwest Mis-
souri,, is dead at Maryville. Doctor
Mash became III early in December.
He was a native of Indiana.
.
Five stores on the south side of the
public square at Savannah we're de-
stroyed by fire the other day. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, principally
insured.
Judge Henry Parker is dead at Mont
gomery. He, was SO years old and one
of the pioneer citizens of North Mis-.
souri,. He leaves a widow and five
children.
Fifteen out Of nineteen precincts in
Oregon county gave COS majority
against whisky in the recent election.
Four other precincts will increase this
majority a few.
Isaac S. Presley, 50 years old, is,
dead at his home in Springfield from
an injury to the skull sustained on
November 10, 1914, when he was at
tackled by a long-horned COW on his
ranch near Oklahoma City. Presley
was tossed thirty feet by the enraged
animal.
DR.. ]. w. Connoway, head of the vet
Urinary department of the Agricul-
tural College of Missouri, developer Of
the serum for the prevention of hog
cholera, announced to farmers
week. visitors at Columbia, a new
vaccine. It is a treatment to make
poultry immune to roup.
John w. Herd, president of the Mis-
souri, Fire Prevention Association, and
six members, visited Macon recently
at the request Of the Macon Mer-
chants Association. They made a
complete inspection.
Miss Leta McElroy was sentenced
to two years in the %penitentiary by a
jury in the circuit court at Hannibal
for the murder of her sweetheart,
Robert Hopkins, whom she. shot at
her home last July.
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Journalism week this year at the
University of Missouri, May 3 to z, in
according to announcement to-
day, will have a Made in Missouri
program. Publishers, editors, report.
ers, magazine writer's, illustrators, car
..oonists, special correspondents and
representatives Of other fields OF journ.
resident in Missouri or formerly
Of Missouri viii constitute the speak.
ers.
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The body Of Paul B%ondurant, about
years old. was found hanging in an
elevator shaft at Kirksville recently.