Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-12-21

After forcing LOUIS hOOh, e
driver, to take them to Armstrong, 30
miles from Moberly, three men looted
the store of Harvey & Snoddy of goods
valued at $1,000. Three suspects glv-
ing the names of Frank Ward, John
Smith and Tennessee" have been ar.
rested. Later another man, suspected
as the leader of an organized gang OF
thieves was arrested by the police and
Sheriff Dollard arrested a Higbee man
alleged to be a fence for the gang.
The grand champion ShorthorIi
trophy at the International Livestock
Exposition in Chicago was awarded
Village Supreme, a Missouri bull I'M
der 2 years old, entered by Bellows
Brothers of Maryville.
Herbert Lehe, Is years old, son OF
a Marshall clothing merchant, in at
tempting to jump a small ditch on his
way home from school, fell to the
ground and was picked up dead by
his playmates as a result of heart
disease.
DR.. Joseph Soggs, for twenty-five
years a physician at Norborne, is dead
at ~Bellefontaine, o. He was So years
old. q
The body of Mrs. Jennie Finger, who
lived on a small farm near Dearborn,
was found by a neighbor woman who
called at her house. There were no
evidences of violence and it is be-
lieyed death was the result of heart
disease. Mrs. Finger was 49 years old.
A marriage license was issued at J
Montgomery the other night to Mich.
ael Rinkle, 70 years old, and Elizabeth
Won Vrain, 10 years old. Both live
near Middletown. Rinkle is a bache-
lor and a farmer.
Frank l.. Taylor, manager of the
Hotel Snapp since August, died unex.
pectedly the other morning, He was
formerly with hotels at Kansas City,
Los Angeles and Rockford, Ill.
Mrs. Mary Chism, a widow, received
burns which caused her death a few
hours later when fire destroyed her
home in Douglas county recently.
Two white men tied Miss Lillian
Schultz, II years old, to a chair in the
home of S. F. Schultz, a Hannibal fur
niture dealer, the other afternoon and
while one held a gun in, the girls face
his companion searched the house.
They took a few small articles. h
girl placed a butcher knife between
a drawer and the top of the table and
cut herself loose.
H. C. Irish of st. Louis was ~re-elect
ed president of the Missouri Horticul-
tural Society at the close Of its fifty
! ninth annual meeting at Kansas City
Other officers elected were: 3. H.
Favor, st. Joseph, and E. L. BeaL
Republic, vice presidents; H, S. Way
nan, Princeton, secretary; Daniel Low
miller, Parkville, treasurer.
A Council Bluffs, Ia, syndicate has
purchased the Joseph Michenor ranch
of 3,040 acres near Nevada. The ex.
act sale price was not given out, but
it is said to have been close to $780,
:, 600. The ranch is used largely for
:, grazing purposes.
: DR.. e. H. Bullock of Edna has been
appointed superintendent of state hosa
, pital for the insane No. 2, located at
!. st. Joseph. He will take charge Jan,
, uary /. DR.. w. L. Wilmington, the
present superintendent, will remain a
! member of the medical staff.
Nathan Gibson, an aged bachelor
). was killed when his team ran away
neal Neosho the other afternoon.
Mrs. Maria Lawrence Golladay, an
, active temperance worker and promi.
i nent in the Woman's Christian TEN,
q perance Union, is dead at her home
| in Holden. She came to Holden in
e 1868.
Chillicothe's last saloon closed its
e doors recently and that city again en-.
k tered into the dry column for another
l. four years following four years of high
e licensed saloon.
Roy Stamper, 8 years old, was run
over by his fathers motor truck at
Centralia recently and died a few
d hours later.
d The Cass county Automobile and
$ Good Roads Club, an auxiliary of the
Missouri State Motor Association, was
organized at Harrisonville recently,
Frank Foster was elected president
RI and Del K. Hall secretary.
r = .
=, Boyd M. Rowland, 80 years old,
e was killed by a Frisco train at a cross
n ing at Norwood, east Of Springfield,
IL recently. He was deaf. He was the
father of r. A. Rowland, former
county treasurer there.
q, The body Of a man was found re-
IN Gently on a sand bar in the Missouri
II liver, opposite Steedman. Fulton Of
ficials believe that the body was
n buried in the sand through accretions
A and her unearthed by the government
dredge boat at work there.
wv No
4 Charles W. Shelton Of Macon hal
v been appointed receiver for the Macor
ne Times Democrat, the Oldest paper Il