Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-12-16
HAPPENINGS
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IN MISSOURI

The Missouri Probate Judges Asso-
citation adjourned at sedalia with Z
luncheon. St. Louis vas chosen for
the 1916 meeting, which win be held
December 8 and 4. Officers elected
were NJ. NJ. Miligan, Richmond.
president; T. W. Hurriede, Warrento1
vice president; B. R. Williams, Ma
con, observation-disclosures; Sam -
Hodgedon. st. Louis, sergeant-at-arms-
Bryant Bailey, 10 years old. son Of
Thornton Bailey, a farmer living west
of Kingsville, was killed recently. The
boy had been sem to the pasture for
horses. He was found later with his
neck broken. A halter was around
the boys neck and the body had been
dragged some distance.
George e. Church, So years old, liv-
ing four miles northwest of Butler, is
dead after several weeks illness OF
heart disease. Mr.. Church was a
leading citizen of Bates county and
had represented the county in the leg
islature.
Samuel Caldwell, So years, old, a
farmer living near Knobnoster, was
killed and his daughter, Ruby, was
severely injured when their motor car
was struck recently by a Missouri
Pacific train at a crossing in Knob
noster.
Returns from the special election
held in Stone county to vote on the
issuance of $35, 900 of bonds for the
construction of a new court house at
Galena, indicate that the proposal was
defeated by a majority estimated at
500.
Jack Covington, SO years old, a law
yer, has made application for a hunt
er's license in Montgomery county.
He is n of the Missourians who
went overland to the gold fields OF
California with an OK team sixteen
years before the Civil war.
A suit to collect a share Of reye
nue. from each Joplin saloon has been
filed by the prosecuting attorney of
Jasper county. Joplin, operating UNI
der the commission form Of govern
ment, has a special charter giving it
exclusive control of its dramshops.
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The Missouri state board Of agrf-
culture has again set aside $3.50 to
be awarded as premiums OF the best
country cured hams and bacon,
try cured shoulders, fresh, smoked
and fancy country sausage exhibited
at the Missouri farmers ham and ba-
con show to be held during farmers
week at the Missouri College of Agri-
culture, Columbia, January 8 TOT, 1916.
The Missouri Central Highway As
sociation held a meeting at Linneus
recently and established two addition
al lines of highway, one from Brook
field to Linneus and Trenton and the
other one from New Boston to Lin
neus.
Fred POINTER, who last July killed
three women when they attempted to.
eject him from their farm, was found
guilty of murder in the circuit court
at Vienna and was sentenced to the
%penitentiary for twelve years.
A state hospital for INDECENT persons
suffering from disease or accidental
injuries, to be located in Columbia, and
to furnish clinical experience for med
ical students at the University Of Mis-
souri,, is a plan backed by the Mis-
souri, State Medical association, which
will be placed before the next Missouri
legislature.
Peter ]. Tribble, a retired farmer or
Ray county, died at his home in Rich
mond the other morning. He was S5
years old and a native Of Kentucky.
H. B. Daggett, 81 years old, a ma
tive Of New York and for forty years
engaged in the mercantile business in
Brookfield, died at his there recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Hainen cele-
brated their golden wedding neal Tip
ton recently. One hundred and thir-
teen friends attended the dinner and
supper. Mr.. Hainen is 70 years old,
and his wife is 70.
.
Charles Copeland Nicolson, 6S years
old, who had a statewide reputation
as a raiser of fine colts and who once
owned a prize-winning string OF thor
oughbreds. is dead at his home near
Fulton of paralysis.
A needle which Edward Schuster
swallowed while drinking a bottle or
beer pierced his heart and caused his.
death, it became known at st. Louis,
through the coroner's autopsy. The
case Is the first of its kind within the
knowledge Of physicians.
Mrs. Virginia Robinson Sutton, wild
ow of the late John G. Sutton, who
came to Atchison county from Ken
lucky in 1851, is dead at Rockport.
William Allen, a member Of a steel
J gang encamped at Iantha, near Lamar,
I was killed by a Frisco passenger train
recently. Allen had gone to the com
missary car for tobacco. AS he came
out Of the car, on a siding, he stumbled
and fell just as the morning flyer
rushed by at forty-five miles an hour
. by consent Of the girls mother, w.