Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-11
HAPPENINGS
of The sOeek
IN MISSOURI

IN MISSOURI
Charles w. Wall, until recently
treasurer Of the Meyer Brothers
Drug Company, has filed a voluntary
petition in9bankruptcy in the United
States district court at st. Louis. He
gave his liabilities as 1929. 6s1.65 and
his assets as $500, all included in his
claims Of exemptions.
Announcement was made recently
that the Union Electric Light and
Power Company, which furnishes most
of the electric current used in st.
Louis, win provide military training
for all its employees who wish to par
ticipate. The company will furnish
the arms and uniforms, and also a
rifle range.
0aker Smith, 1~5-year-old son of Mr.
ami Mrs. c.. T. Smith of Joplin, was
killed at Carthage recently by being
run over by a Frisco freight train. 1t
was said he was cumming a ride on
top of the train and fell between the
cars.
tlcipate. The company will furnish
widower with three children, COM
mitted suicide at his home in Lexing-
ton with a shotgun. He was a cam
dictate for city collector at the recent
city election and was defeated.
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Charles M. Grow, ST., 81 years old,
who taught fifty years in the North
Carolina and Maryland school for the
deaf until his retirement, fifteen years,
ago, is dead at Fulton.
The Rev. Samuel G. Pierce, IS years
old, a pioneer, is dead at the home of
his daughter in Brookfield. The body
was taken to Bevier for burial.
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John F~itzgibbons, 70 years old, a
pioneer citizen of Marshall, is dead.
He was a bachelor and left his entire
estate of approximately 100000 to
the city of Marshall for the establish
ment of a general hospital.
Miss June Van Nostrand of Elyria.
O., a senior of the University of Mis- 4
scuri, was elected May Queen. She
is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma
Sorority.
DR.. T. B. Potter, sc years old, a lead
ing st. Joseph physician, died the
other day.
Ash Grove High School captured
first honors in the Southwest Missouri
high track and field meet of class B
schools, scoring 8 points. This meet
broke the tie registered in two recent
meets between Ash Grove and Repub-
lie, the latter scoring 80. Ash Grove
won the meet last year.
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The resignation Of Jacob L. Babler
of st. Louis as chairman of the Repub-
lican state committee was accepted by
the committee and T. w. Huckridge,
was elected to succeed him. Babler
resigned because of his recent election
as Republican national committeeman.
Mrs. Eliza Roberts, 81 years old.
who had been ill twenty-eight years.
died at Sedalia recently. She leaves,
n son, Benjamin MCGEE.
The 1-year-old son of Henry Dick
erson was drowned at Seybert by fall
ing into a tub containing four inches,
of water.
O.. L. Bocock, who had been super
intendent of the st. Joseph street rail-
way lines twelve years, is dead in a
s~anitarium there. He was sc years.
old.
J. P. Fully of st. Paul, Mimi, vas
killed and Asbury Phillips and Jack
e. Phillips of Shady Point, Ok, were
injured by a switch engine at Neosho
the other day.
DR.. Ralph Graham, inspector in
charge of the United States hog chol-
era station at Sedalia, has found that.
in a number of cases where hogs had
died suddenly death was the result Of
cockleburr poison. DR.. Graham says.
the first two oblong leaves Of the
cockleburr are poisonous at this time.
Of the year, when vegetation is young
and tender, and that hogs will eat a.
sufficient quantity of these leaves to-
cause death. Usually death occurs.
from this poisoning in a very short
time. The hogs generally die squeaI-.
ing.
J. w. Pierce, former cashier of the
Bank of Holden, is dead. He was con-
= nected with the bank from September
, Is, 1875, until February 20, 1916. He,
! was an ardent prohibitionist.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hall and her maid,
Miss Alma Shaw were burned to death
recently in a fire that destroyed the
: country home of Mrs. Hall, six miles
!. northwest of Carthage. Edward Hall,
: a son Of Mrs. Hall, was seriously
: burned, and it is feared he cannot re-
. cover.
Mrs. Walter H. lobe of Kansas City
a was unanimously elected president Of
! the Missouri Mothers' Congress at Co
a lumbia recently. Mrs. Jobe has been
r second vice president Of the, o~rganiza-
! ton for the past two years and presi-
) dent Of the KANSAS City Council of