Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-07-13

Gu Win plUuldlue pOlsouluB. Ola VI lnt
children are at the General Hospital
in a critical condition are from the
Craig Orphans Home. OF the thirty
children at the picnic twenty-four were
affected. It is not known for certain
wheher it was the ice cream or the
meat sandwiches that caused the poi
soning,
For thirty years continuously N. B.
Goodnight has appeared or the Sc
dalia market with home grown roast
ing ears ahead of anyone else in Cen
trail Missouri. He brought in some
fine specimens recently, the first of
the season, and said it was just a lit
tie late on account of the cold and wet
weather early in the spring.
Henry Myers, a farmer living near
Olathe, was attacked by a bull at his
home and narrowly escaped death.
He is deaf and did not either hear or
see the Infatuated animal when it
charged him in the back, dislocating
his neck and paralyzing him.
Plans for raising $500, 900 for a stu
dent and alumni building at the Uni
versity of Missouri were discussed re-
Gently at the meeting of the board of
directors of the Missouri Union, rep
resenting alumni Of the university.
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Robert DAILY and Louis Reitz, pri-
Yates in Company H, Fourteenth reg
iment, Brooklyn, were drowned the
other afternoon while bathing in the
G~asconade river near Jerome. The
bodies we're later recovered.
Rev. B. F. Thomas, formerly pastor
of the First M. E. church at Nevada,
and also formerly pastor of the church
at Girard and other towns in Kansas,
is dead at the home of his son, P. NJ.
Thomas, in Nevada.
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Jefferson Swanger of Milton, SO
years old, is dead. He is survived by
a son, John E. Swanger of Sedalia,
Republican candidate for the nomina-
ton for governor of Missouri,
Jesse White, an insurance agent,
was drowned in Forest Park lake at
Moberly the other night, His wife
and daughter survive. The body has
not been recovered.
Within thirty minutes after the
close of a four weeks revival, the peo
pie of Linneus raised a thousand dol
lars for the Rev. Herbert C. Hawkins
who conducted the meetings. Three
hundred and sixteen members were
added to the various churches of the
county.
The thriving business of the Mis-
souri, State Town Mutual Fire Insur
ance Company was stopped recent!
by an injunction issued by Judge Lu
cas-. Water K. Chorn, state super
intendent of insurance, showed the
assets to be $176 and the liabilities
100000.
An offer to raise a full regiment o.
cavalry in the counties of the Ozari
region in the event President Wilson
calls for volunteers has been wired
to Senator James A Reed by Colone
R. P. Dickerson, wealthy land ownel
and sportsman of Springfield,
A rock road jubilee at Liberty wa!
attended by about 5000 people. Elk
celsior Springs, North Kansas City
Smithville and Kearney attended il
large crowds. The music was fur
nished by Liberty, Excelsior ant
Smithville bands.
Professor French Strother, 81 year
old, for many years a prominent edu
Gator of Missouri and Virginia, diet
recently in Mexico. He conducted
girls colleges at st. Charles, Glasgow
Perry, Carrollton and Strother, TIL
latter town being named after him.
The army supply depot at st. Loui
has been directed by the war depart
ment to be ready as Don as possible
after July l to equip thirty regiment
of infantry, ten regiments 'of cavalr,
and six regiments of field artillery, il
addition to the troops now being SUI
, piled from the st. Louis depot.
, The first sale of a large farm fo
lowing the success Of the rock road
election in Clay county was made a
Excelsior Springs, when S. D. Mere
, ness sold his farm of 4S2 acres, fou
miles east of Liberty, to DR.. T. N. Be
I CART and John Emmke of the Elm
Hotel, who paid $56,500, or $125 pc
, acre. Mereness was paid $40 an acr
more than he asked before the roa
election. 1t is said that the purcha:
, ers have been offered $4,000 abov
what they gave for it. There alread
is increased demand for farm land a
a result Of the vote for better roads
, More than 10000 men and wome
2 marched in a great parade at st. Jos
/, eph recently in the interest of pre-
p%aredness. Residents of the town
and country within a radius of fit
| miles Of st. Joseph participated an
many of the delegations were accom-
panied by brass bands.
Fred II. Munson OF Osceola, pres
dent of the Usage Valley Highway Al
ISOLATION, announced recently tha
the highway which runs from Kansa
, City to Springfield, will be ofhciall
dedicated the week Of July "a.
Columbia had its first war weddin
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