Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-04-06
HAPPENINGS
of TIE sOeek
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week at the University of Missouri,
May Is, are William ]. Bryan, Jose
plus Daniels, secretary of the navy;
Chase S. Osborn Of Michigan; Freder-
lex w. Lehman, solicitor-general in
Taft's administration; Arthur Bris-
bane, editor of the New York Jour-
nal; Harvey w. Ingham, editor of the
Des Moines Register and Leader;
CORTLAND Smith of New York, presi-
dent and general manager of the
American Press Association; S. c..
Dobbs of Atlanta, Henry c. Campbell,
editor of the Milwaukee Journal, and
James Schermerhorn, editor of the De-
troit Times. The Missouri Press Asso-
citation of which ]. Kelly Pool of the
Centralia Courier is president, will
meet in Columbia on Thursday and
Friday of that week.
Mrs. Magdalena Preetorius, SO years
old, widow of DR.. Emil Preetorius and
mother of the late Edward L.. Pree-
torius, who committed suicide by
shooting, November l last, is dead in
st. Louis.
George Cone, an employee Of a
Springfield provision company, was
drowned the other night in the James
river when he and a friend overturned
a boat.
DR.. Frank j. Lutz, noted as a sur
geon throughout the United States,
died of heart disease at his home in
st. Louis recently. He was 60 years
old.
Six men were painfully burned at
st. Louis recently when an explosion
occurred in the boiler room of the
plant of the Polar Wave ice company.
William E. Barns, publisher of the
st. Louis Lumberman, died at his
home in that city after a few days of
illness of pneumonia. Mr.. Barns was
SO years old and had been connected
with the st, Louis Lumberman TWEEN
ty-five years. He had a very wide ac-
quaintance in the lumber trade of the
Southwest.
Ex-Governor Folk will seek the DEM
ocratic nomination for governor, will
open his campaign headquarters in st.
Louis this month and will make the
first speech of his campaign in st.
Joseph about April Is. This informal
tion was given out the, other night by
one of his closest political advisers.
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The 15~-months-old baby of Mrs.
Thomas Nelson, who died recently,
supposedly from poison, is dead. A
sister of Mrs. Nelson also died. Miss
Ella Matthews, another sister, who
became ill, is reported to be out of
danger.
Andrew Springer of Webb City and
John Yeisley of Joplin were killed and
six other men were injured, two per-
haps fatally, when a 50-foot rock fell
on them in the Consumers mine near
Joplin the other day.
A district just east of California is
being mined extensively for lead and
zinc. Several rich finds are being
worked on IN 80-acre tract belonging
to G. Meusch. It is paying dirt"
as much of it is milling out 40 per
cent high grade ore.
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John f.. Meyers, a wealthy farmer Of
Platte county, is dead of pneumonia
at the home of his son-in-Iaw, John
Schinbeck, in ~Leavenworth, Kan.
Raymond Pafst, the ~13-year-old son
of John Pafst, a farmer near Clifton
City, died the other night of injuries
inflicted when kicked by a mule.
Sales at the fur auction in st. Louis
totaled $435,0 The highest price
paid was $1,500 for a silver fox, fur.
c. T. Patterson, pathologist of the
state poultry experiment station at
Mountain Grove, has been chosen di-
rector Of the institution by the board
of trustees. He succeeds T. E. Quisen-
berry, resigned.
A farewell reception in honor of
David R. Francis was given at the
Merchants Exchange in st. Louis re-
Gently. The reception continued two
hours and was open to the general
public. 1t was the last Of a series Of
three public or semi-public events
given in st. Louis in honor of the de-
parting ambassador. One was a meet
ing of the Missouri Historical Socie-
ty, the other a banquet given by the
= Business Mems League and the Mer-
chants Exchange.
j. H. Hickin of Hume, after read
ing in the local newspaper that the
best way to get rid of empty tin cans
was to burn them, gave it a trial.
After burning all the tin cans in the
heating stove during the winter he
saved the zinc and solder melted and
sold it and paid for his winters coal
supply.
The rings on the trunk of a cotton
wood tree, despised among tree fami-
lies, were accepted by a Platte City
jury recently as proof the tree was
thirty years old, and settled the own
ership of land on which the tree
stands. Eighty acres, valued at about
$50 an acre, were in controversy.
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A meeting of the Missouri Histori
cal Society was held in st. Louis re-
cnnflu &c a farawall To David r Eran-