Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-10-26
HAPPENINGS
of the sOeek
IN MISSOURI

river, near III Of rIduCOiS
county. The party attempted to ford
the river in a two-horse buggy. Lin
dell Lester OF st. Louis, who was
driving, saved himself by swimming.
E. U. Lamkin of Jefferson City has
been nominated for state su~perintend.
ent of schools by the Democratic state
committee to fill a vacancy caused by
the death of Howard A. Gass.
Jefferson City was selected as the
next meeting place at the closing ses-
sion of the Missouri State Library AS
ISOLATION at Columbia. The officers
selected for the year are: Ward H.
Edwards, Liberty, president; Mary
Baker, Columbia, and Frances Jarvis,
Parkville, vice-presidents; Harold
Wheeler, Rolla, secretary; Miss Mar
gerry Quigley, st. Louis, treasurer; o.
Severance, Missouri university libra
rian, and Purd B. Wright were chosen
delegates to the American Library
Convention.
Boy Scouts officially became men,
bers of Joplin's department of public
safety recently as a result of their
good handling of the huge crowd that
greeted Charles Evans Hughes there
the other night.
Mrs. Mary A. Cole, rs years old, is
dead at Sedalia. She left two chill
dren, Miss Emma Cole, a school teach
er there, and a son, Joseph Cole, of
Pilot Knob.
Mrs. Charles B. Farris of Jefferson
City was elected president of the Uni
ted Daughters of the ~Confederacy in
their thirteenth annual session at
Hannibal. The other officers follow:
Mrs. Elliott Spalding, st. Joseph, first
vice-president; Mrs. M. Dolan, Hanni-
bal, second vice-president; Mrs. Les.
ter Parker, Jefferson City, CORE
spending secretary; Miss Ada Potts,
Fayette, recording secretary; Mrs. W.
W. Pollock, Mexico, registrar; Miss
Nellie Burris, Warrensburg, treasur-
er; Mrs. Blake Woodson, Kansas
City, historian; Mrs. c. A. Chenault,
Richmond, recorder of crosses.
AT the request of the city commits
missioners the Springfield Traction
Company suspended car service at 7
o'clock the other evening on all the
lines it has been operating since the
a mems strike. The commissioners
could give no promise of adequate po-
lice protection, saying the police
would be needed to control crowds at
a political rally and those ATTRACTED
to the business district on account of
it being payday for Frisco employees.
II
Mrs. ]. F. Weaver, wife of the edi-
tor of the LaPlata Republican and
vice-president of the Farmers and
Merchants Bank, is dead in LaPlata
Fulton is in the throes of a typhoid
fever epidemic, all the cases SO far
being of a mild character. Physi.
clans reports brought the total to
eleven. Among those i'll are Prescott.
ing Attorney Nick Cave.
Judge Thomas F. Ryan, of the Grim
inal court at st. Joseph, announced
that Oscar D. Mcdaniel, indicted on
a charge of numbering his wife, would
not be suspended as prosecuting at.
torney pending his trial.
Mrs. Elizabeth Branstetter, mother
of Mayor c. X. Sleeps of Montgomery
is dead at her home there. She was
70 years old. She had been a resi-
dent of Montgomery County for about
thirty-five years.
The Rev. Irl R. Hicks, nationally
known weather prophet, is dead at his
home in Wellston, a suburb of St
Louis, of pneumonia. He was II
years old.
Mrs. Margaret Harger, a widow
while walking on the back porch Of
her home at Hume, fell into the els
tern and drowned in five feet Of
water. Her husband, James S. Har
ger, died a few months ago.
Kenneth Rigg, ~17-year-old 0 o.
Charles Rigg of H~igginsville, was
killed by a Chicago G Alton trair
while watching a battalion Of thu
Seventh Massachusetts, infantry en-
train.
Clarence Krebs, editor of the Bell
flower News. is dead at the age o
80. Knowing that he was fatally ill
Krebs recently sold his paper to ], c
Peroffitt, who has taken control.
Harold Stanley. Is years old, was in
stantly killed at Carthage when HI
attempted to HOP" a moving motto
truck and missed his hold, falling un
der the machine.
The one ~hundredth birthday ami
versary of Mrs. William Brewer wa
celebrated by herself and her famil,
in Springfield, recently. Mrs. Brewe
has good health and is alert mentally
She walks without difficulty abou
her home.
Jacob Zunz, So years old, travelling
salesman for the Sedalla Candy CON
pany, was found dead in bed at tn
Terry Hotel there recently. zunz'
home was in st. Louis. where a widoy
and several children live.
These officers we're elected at 81
Joseph at the close of the two days