Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-07-27

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loss was $4,000.
Leonard Hayes, while bathing in the
Missouri river at Glasgow the other
apd drowned before assistance could
reach him.
Harvey Hodgrove, 70 years old, was
shet and killed the other morning by
Tom Strickland, 16, a tenant on the
Hndgrove form in Monegaw township,
st. Clair county, following a quarrel.
The Wellsyille Optic News, the only
Republican paper in the county, has
been sold by L. l.. Turnage to r. G.
1scobi, formerly of Fayette.
The body of Lorine Tye, IS months
old, who wandered away from the
home of her parents at st. Joseph,
was found by searchers in a hole in an
abandoned brick yard. The baby had
been dead about forty-eight hours. In.
dications were that she had starved
20 death.
The Switzerland Building and Con-
tracing Company of st. Louis has Sc
cured the contract to rebuild St. Fran
els convent, a Catholic institution that
was destroyed by fire at Nevada ten
months ago. The new building will
cost 6 5000.
The epidemic of ileocolitis that hit
J1piu a week ago, still is raging. Fiji
ty-five new cases have been reported.
The death rate up to this time has
been almost SO per cent. Rigid in
spection of milk and admonition of
physicians to have all milk boiled be-
fore giving it to the babies, seems to
have failed to check the disease.
Homer Boyd, IS years old, a tele-
graph operator for the Rock Island at
Cameron, was drowned recently in the
city reservoir while fishing. A fish
pulled his pole in and he ran after it.
A wife and two daughters survive.
The Quick Seven Mine, in the Joplin
district, was sold the other day for
$139, 500. Seven men originally owned
the mine and each is a near millionaire
from its earrings in seven years.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Slaven, IS years old,
is dead at her home in Sedalia. She
is survived by her brother, Richard
Anderson.
The ceremonies attending the lay
ing of the corner stone of the new
$150,000 administration building Of
the Warrensburg Normal School were
held recently on the Normal campus.
Officers of the grand lodge A. F. &
A. M. of Missouri were in charge. The
ceremonies were attended by five
thousand persons. Governor Major,
who had promised to be on hand to
deliver an address, failed to put in
an appearance. Addresses were made
by Grand Master LESSEE, Judge Ed
ward Higbee, G. A. Keith, president of
the board of regents, and e. L. Hen
bricks, president of the faculty.
Frank Steele, a laborer rs years old,
was drowned recently in the Noda-
way river, nine miles west of Savan-
nah. He had been working with a
rip-rap gang and went in for a swim.
The body was recovered about ten
minutes after drowning.
Six officers and lis enlisted men
Of the Missouri naval reserve have
left st. Louis for Philadelphia to
board the battleship Rhode Island for
a ten-days' cruise. Part of the re-
serves were from Kansas City.
According to reports received at the
state experiment fruit station at Noun
tain Grove, the apple crop in that sec
ton has been greatly damaged by re-
cent hailstorms. 1t is also learned the
peach crop in that section and in the
big orchards in the K%oshkonong belt
south Of there will fall short of esti-
mates.
The first wheat Of the new crop in
Green county was marketed at Spring
field recently. 1t brought 90 cents a
bushel. Threshing is in full blast.
The yield is poor.
Five deaths resulted In Joplin the
other day from an epidemic Of ileo-
colitis among babies. Within the last
ten days there have been fifteen fatal
tiles here from the malady, which
physicians declare to be infectious
and similar in its early stages to in
fantile paralysis.
Two cases of infantile paralysis
were discovered at MQberly recently,
according to DR.. s. r. Towles, county
health officer Measures are being
taken to prevent the disease from
spreading in this county.
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