Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-08-17
HAPPENINGS
of the sOeek
IN MISSOURI

church at Marionville, died in a
Springfield hospital recently, follow
ing an operation. He was chairman
II The board of examiners of the III.
Louis conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
A check for $4,000 has been received
by G. w. McGinty, a farmer OF near
Fruitville, representing a bequest 10
his and his wife from Captain Robert
A. Torrey, a wealthy retired army Of
ficer of New York and Duluth, who
died recently.
Amos R. Bumgarner, &c years old,
instantly killed when a wagon on
which he was riding was struck by a
Frisco freight train neal Marshfield.
His 1~O-year-old grandson, who was
also on the wagon, was taken from
the pilot of the engine uniniured.
George X. Smith, for years secre"
tary of the recently dissolved Yellow
Pine Manufacturers Association
leaped or fell to his death recently
from the fifteenth story Of the Boat"
mems Bank building in st. Louis.
The official count on Republican
candidates for Congress in the Sew
enth District gives Sherman H. Hous-
ton of Saline, 6,293; G. G. Kelley OF
pattis 4227. G.. s. Blackmar of How
ard, 2,167.
Elmer Gibson, 80, was killed at the
Jack Mining %Company's plant at Car
thage recently when a belt flew OIL a
pulley, hurting him into the ore crush"
ing rolls.
Mrs. John Tate, "a, wife of a
farmer, was killed recently near Car
thage when a horse she was driving
ran away
James Cowgirl of Kansas City, for
mer state treasurer, probably will be
named chairman of the Democratic
state committee when it meets to Or
ganize August %. 1t is known that
Cowgirl is favored by Frederick y.
Gardner.
Mrs. Anna Bittinger, widow of Maj.
John l.. Bittinger, for many years
prominent in public life in Missouri,
is dead at the home of her sister, Mrs.
T. ]. Chew in st. Joseph. Mrs. Bit
finger was "a years old and had lived
in st. Joseph almost continuously for
fifty years.
Harry McGinnis, % years old, Of
Columbus, Kan, is dead at Joplin
from a broken neck. The injury was
sustained when McGinnis, who was
swimming in Shoal creek, dove from
a tree limb into three feet of water,
despite the warning Of friends.
When Samuel Bryant, a negro prls-
oner, broke Jail at Platte City, a posse
went in pursuit. Bryant jumped into
the Platte river to swim across and
was drowned.
w. E. Larvelier was killed and D.
Westfield probably fatally injured
when a charge of dynamite they were
preparing to fire in the Yale mine
near Carthage exploded prematurely.
much 0 on the higher lands is
past help" says the weekly weather
and crop bulletin issued at Columbia.
ION heavier soils and in the bottoms
it is somewhat more promising and
a heavy general rain will make a fair
crop"
: Complete returns from the First
, district of Missouri give Judge M. A.
Romjue, candidate for congress. a
: lead of 473 wei Senator Charles Car
, ter of Kirksville.
. w. S. D, Lamont, rector of the
Holy Trinity Episcopal church at st.
: Joseph, has resigned to accept a cali
to st. Phillips church, in Trenton.
The summer session OF the UnlVeT-
sity of, Missouri has closed. The en-
rollment this year reached 1914, two
hundred more than that of any pre-
vious year.
The prolonged drouth which pre-
p walls over southern Missouri and
"a northern Arkansas is resulting in I'M
~precedented receipts of live poultry
Il at Springfield and the five large
n packing concerns there are taxed 10
! handle the shipments. Farmers are
4. beginning to feel concern over the
shortage of feed and are rushing their
poultry to market while the fowls are
fat.
70 A complete new code Of laws for
y Missouri children is embodied in the
Is preliminary report of the Missouri
code commission, appointed by GOV
n ernor Major in June, 1915. A finaI
q report will be submitted to the next
legislature.
!, The acreage Of vacant government
land in Missouri is now the smallest
q in the history Of the state, according
A to a report just completed by Johr
- H. Bowen, register of the United
States land office at Springfield. There
ia are but 1872 acres subject to cash O
~ homestead entry. Ozark county leads
- with I'll acres and Shannon county
- is second with 1873 acres.
is Oliver Holmes, So years old, former
az . - pl,o cnrinps Is dea(