Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-06-22
HAPPENINGS
of the sOeek
IN MISSOURI

The "dry'p forces v ere victorious in
one of the most spirited local option
campaigns that ever closed in Chilli
Gothic, with a special election giving
the "drys" a majority of 212. Three
rousing meetings were held in the
churches in the morning and In the
streets in the afternoon and at night
Fully five thousand persons were pres
ent at the night meeting. Daylight
prayer meetings we're held at the sew
eral churches before the polls opened
at 6 O'Clock.
Missouri university has been again
designated by the United States war
department as one of the ten "distin-
guished" military schools of the ma
ton. Under the regulations the presl-
dent of the university can name a sec
ond lieutenant to the United States
army who will have to pass only the
physical examination.
Virgil NJ. Gearhart, II years Old q
native of Kentucky and a veteran OF
the Civil War, is dead in Sedalia. He
came here at the close of the war.
.
Carlot shipments Of strawberries
from the Ozark region practically
have ceased. Statistics compiled by
the department of development OF the
railroads give the total shipments for
the season as 1,001 car loads, as
against $50 car loads shipped last
year.
Mardi gras, dress and automobile
flower parade, an official ball, a bar
becue, races and baseball games are
amusements planned for the seventh
annual reunion of the Missouri ElksS
to be held in Moberly June 20, IL
and 20.
In a special election Red Oak, iH
Dade county, recently voted $4,000 in
bonds for good roads. The vote was
ITO for to SO against. A similar pro-
posal was defeated at Lockwood by a.
small majority, and another election
will be held there soon.
y n
:. Mrs. Mary v. Meet, who has been
dean of women of the Warrensburg
Normal school for twenty-seven years.
has resigned and will remove to St.
Louis. During more than a quarter
of a century Mrs. Meet has annually
. had charge Of the personal welfare
of more than 1919 women students
She saw to it that they were placeG
in the homes with healthful and
t moral surroundings, and made it a
4 point to know the conduct of everyone
of the thousands who have attended
this school. Mrs. Meet is now IA
years old.
Park college, Parkville, according
to an announcement by Homer Manu.
9 a member of the governing board has
t been given a donation of $4,000 by
Y Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Lawrence of
Galesburg, Ill. This is the first large
contribution to be received in a cam
paign for 81, 100000 endowment. Mrs
Lawrence is the daughter Of the late
Colonel John s. Park, founder of he
= college.
Henry E. Sombart, 81 years old, is
dead at his home in Boonville. He
t was a native Of that city and one OF
h the wealthiest men in that section OF
Missouri. His wife and two children
survive him.
10 H. Smith, postmaster at Warrens-
burg during the administration of
e President Roosevelt and President
Taft, died at his home there the other
3 evening.
Frank Fruin of Brookfield, an *
s, ira conductor for the Chicago, Burling-
n, ton & Quincy railroad, was killed at
$. st. Joseph when he stepped in front
of a moving train. He was 80 years
7r old and married.
a. Twenty-three persons were injureG
G. when Chicago e Alton train No. 312-
e. due in Mexico at 6 o'clock a. M, struck
a broken rail a mile east Of Francis,
IN and three cars, comprising the train,
20 turned over and slid down an embank-
ment.
ne DR.. Burris A. Jenkins and Fred W.
I'd Fleming of Kansas City were elected
ID trustees of Christian college at Co.
We lumbia recently.
lis . .
r. The proposition to vote 100000
bonds for a new poor farm in Ran
dolph county carried recently by 28T
81 over the required two-thirds majority.
A similar proposition was defeated
he several weeks ago by eight votes.
,r- Ralph Wells, 20 years old, Of Lamar,
ed was drowned the other afternoon in
Muddy creek, at Mayor Egger's ranch.
ng The body has not been recovereds
he
of Bernard G.. Farrar, brevet ~brigadier
he general, United States army, and
Ipt former United States sub-treasurer at
ty st. Louis, is dead at his home there
'al at the age Of IS.
nd
Estimates on the Ozark. peach crop
nut for this season.. issued by railroad
On, crop experts, place the probable pro-
me duction at SIS cars, as compared to
in 1896 cars produced last year. The
to bulk of the peaches this year will
on come from the Brandsville, Koshko'
pa nong and North Arkansas orchards,
as the crop in other sections is prac
he tically a failure.
mn George N. Cox, a widely known citi