Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-08-10

amount oil Sl5,OOO for the purpose OF
building a high school carried by a
vote Of 224 to SO. A meeting Of the
board was held Tuesday night and
the secretary instructed to see what
price could be secured for the bonds.
An election to determine on a site for
the building will probably be held at
an early day.
Mrs. Mary McGin of Graniteville
lost a hand bag containing s14 in bills
and some change while in Ironton
last Monday afternoon. Mrs. MeGin
had done some trading at the Lopez
store, and, after paying for her pur-
chases, started up the street. She de-
tected her loss about the time she
reached Rosentreter's livery barn,
and hurrying back to the store, she
made a careful search but could not
find the hand bag or the money.
The following named attended the
teachers examination last Friday and
Saturday: Clarence Thompson, Brule;
Carl Pippin, Verna Croker, Red
mondville; @. s. Williams, Sabula;
Robert Miller, Annapolis; Blanche
O'Neal, Frankclay; Blanche Beard,
Bismarck; Minnie Crocker, Myra
Peck, Ironton; Maud James, Des Arc;
Artilla Jones, Ellie Kammholz,
Dorothy Kammholz, Graniteville,
Lulu Bell, Edgehill; John Stuart, Blk
by; Emma White, Arcadia.
The remains of Sam Gosney, of
Poplar Bluff, son of the late s. HI. Cos
ney, for so many years an engineer on
the pusher at Arcadia, were brought
to the valley and inferred in the
Masons and Odd Fellows cemetery
last Friday afternoon. Death came
suddenly on Wednesday and was oc-
casiohed by a congestive chill. The
remains were accompanied here by
the mother and brother of the de-
ceased and a number of friends. He
was about IS years of age and spent
the greater portion of his life in the
valley.
During the storm about noon last
Wednesday the big elm tree in the
lot west of the old Zwart home, on
Shepherd street, was struck by light
ming and the bark pealed for several
inches the entire length of one side of
the massive tree. 1t was a terrific
shock. Singular to relate old timers
recall that probably fifty years ago
two horses were killed by lightning in
this same vicinity; and twenty-five
years later lightning struck there and
the shock shattered glass in the CLARK
building on Main street, fifty yards or
more away.
The following compose the new
Democratic Committee for Iron coun-
ty: Union Township-O. @. Morris;
Liberty Township-R. A. Dunn; Ar
cadia Township. M. Hawkins; Iron
Township-J. L. Logan; Kaolin Town
ship-A. E. Westerman; Dent Town
ship. F. Irwin. The members Of
the committee met at the courthouse
Tuesday afternoon and organized by
electing j. NJ. Hawkins, chairman, B
P. B%urnham, secretary, and B. s
Gregory, Treasurer. The committee
will meet again September I'd.
From Tuesdays st. Louis Republic:
"Several hundred delegates to the
Missouri Baptist Assembly at Area dia
Heights passed through st. Louis last
night and early to-day. Two thousand
are expected to attend. 1t is the larg-
est meeting of Baptists in Missouri
w. w. Martin of Doniphan has beer
president four years. Thomas "
Bryant, president Of the st. Louis Bap'
fist Young Peoples Union, estimates
the probable attendance fromSt. Lou
is at 100. Each forenoon will be spent
in class work and the afternoon il
swimming, riding, tennis playing, etc
The evenings will be devoted to adj
dresses by Rev. George W. Mechanic
of Richmond, Va. The B Y. P. U
class is conducted by Arthur Flake O
Baldwin, Miss"
Last fridays st. Louis Globe-Demo
crat: "Friends of Miss Roberta Lewis
of 81 Westmoreland place, daughter
of R. D. Lewis, vice-president of the
i Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company
, and Miss Katherine Pierce of 8!
i Kingsbury place, daughter OF
! Lawrence B. Pierce, yesterday learn
ed of their narrow escape from deatf
several days ago at Arcadia, Mo,
, Miss Lewis and Miss Pierce, in com
pany with two young men friendf
= from Ironton, started for a horseback
, ride from the Lewis summer home
near Arcadia. A storm came up wher
they-were a distance from home anc
they tied their horses to a fence ant
, sought refuge in a farmers house
AS they ran across the field towards
the house, the storm broke and lightn'
. ing struck the fence where the horsel
were fastened. Miss Pierce's horse
was killed and another horse dice
shortly after from the shock"
Congressman Hensley is in receip
d Of a letter from the Fourth Assistan
s Postmaster General as follows:
beg to advise you that an orde.
has been issued by the Postmaste'
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