Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
HAPPENINGS
of ire sOeek
IN o

The annual meeting of the Royal
Arch Masons of Missouri was held at
Joplin recently. All the grand officers
and 400 delegates attended. Stanford
NJ. Daniels of Kansas City and Victor.
H. Falkenheiner and w. ]. Vannix OF
st. Louis were elected to represent the
grand council of royal and select mas
tiers At the general council in San
Francisco in August. *
Announcement was made at st. JOS
eph recently of the appointment by E.
M. HARDER, collector of internal reve-
nue., of Wiley o. Cox as deputy at st.
Joseph. Cox, formerly of Kansas City.
is a Democrat and succeeds George c.
Toel, Republican, who had held the
Office twelve years.
William Kelly of Frankfort, Kas.,
who owns a farm near Versailles, was
shot and killed recently. He had been
there about two weeks looking after
his farm, and had been carrying a
shotgun about the place the last day
or two. 1t is not known how the gun
was discharged.
Fishermen zeal Springfield probably
saved an Iron Mountain passenger
train when it was on fire. Sparks from
the engine had ignited the roof of the
chair car. The fishermen tagged he
train.
H. A. Murphy was convicted in the
criminal court at Springfield of violat-
ing the state bulk sales law and vas
sentenced to six months in Jail. This
is the first conviction in Missouri UNI
der the statute.
r Joseph Newlin, 2S years old, is dead
at Springfield from injuries he receiy-
ed in a motorcycle race when he was
hurled against a fence while his ma
chine was making sixty miles an hour.
Mis-. VNcIIlC DCl1O oOhOlCWb q AACNS
of Cole Younger, is dead in Kansas
City. Mrs. Donohew was the daughter
of Mrs. Belle Hall of Lees Summit,
Mo-, an elder sister of Cole Younger.
The annual convention of the South
west Missouri Teachers Association
ended at Springfield with the election
of Perry Carmichael Of Pierce City
as president, and these other officers:i
]. Appleby, Ozark, vice president;
Charles j. McCroskey, Ash Grove, sec
ond vice president; A. R. Curry Noun
tain Grove, third vice president; Miss
Romaine Roach, Springfield, secre-
tary; Arthur M. Hull, Springfield,
treasurer; F. H. Barbee, Nevada, mem
Der of the executive committee.
Complete Identification of a skele-
ton found in a zinc mine at Joplin re-
Gently was established when miners
unearthed other bones and a pocket
book, containing more than So and
an Identification watch charm, thirty
feet below the place where the other
bones we're found. The watch charm
bore the inscription wv. w. Wenzel.
hoisterman, Zincite, Mo-, 1881" Wen
eel, a Kansas farmer, disappeared
there Christmas day, 1910. He is sup
posed to have fallen into the shaft.
The board of managers of the Mis-
souri, Training School of Boonville
has selected Senator H. H. Hohen-
schield as the architect for the erec-
ton of the new reformatory, for
which the last Legislature a%ppropri-
ated $65, 900. All the brick will be
made at the training school and most
Of the work will be done by the occu-
pants Of the institution.
George T. Hippin, a prominent fruit
grower of Springfield, has been noti-
ged of his appointment as superintend-
ent of the Missouri horticultural ex-
hibit at the Panama-Pa cifc exposition.
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The city council Of Excelsior Springs
has let the contract for repaving four
blocks in the heart of the city, re-
placing asphalt paving placed ten
years ago and which has gone to
pieces. Creosoted blocks will be used
on one block and asphalt on three
blocks of the new paving.
William M. Campbell, So years old,
is dead at his home in Lexington OF
a complication of diseases. Mr.. Camp
bell was a pioneer in the moving pic
ture show business.
j. w. Rowe, SO years old, a veteran
of the Civil War and a pioneer OF
Green county, is dead at his home near
Springfield. He had lived in Missouri
seventy-four years.
A schedule motor car service be
tween Springfield and Reeds Spring,
via Nixa and Highland lille, has been
instituted by motor car owners Of
Reeds Spring.
Brent Rowland, 35 years old, a for
mer school teacher, was struck by
lightning and killed while blowing II
his field near Centralia recently.
William E Bell is dead af Liberty
He was a resident Of Clay county
eighty years, coming with his parents
from Barren county, Kentucky, wher
{ be was one year old. He was a bank
er and capitalist. One child survives
Mrs. C. 3. Yancey.
Debaters representing the Univer
sity OF Missouri won over their oppo