Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18

The Burke and Hobbs tabernacle re-
yfval at Hume, a real Pentecostal
Molly Ghost meeting" closed the other
night with $50 conversions. The clos
ing day was marked with three sery-
ices and a basket dinner at noon in
the glory shed. Eighty-five per cent
of the converts were men, including
bankers, business men and farmers.
Seyenty-fiye per cent were from 80
to 80 years old. When it is consid-
cred Hume has only 51A persons, al
most the entire +. o~pulation of the town
and community are now in the church.
Physicians at the city hospital nj
st. Louis have pressed into use two
toy rubber ballons, shaped like water
melons, in an effort to save the lives
of two small boys suffering from
pneumonia, Raymond Bonfils, 9 years
old, of Brideton, and Clarence Pear
son, s years old, of st. Louis. One
of the doctors at the hospital pur-
chased two toy ballons. He showed
the boys how to blow them UP. The
result has been to give exercise to-
the patients lungs, and the efficiency
of the treatment is marked.
With the "Made-in-America" BAN
quet, attended by $50 guests, the
seventh annual journalism week OF
the University of Missouri came to-
a close. All the food served at the
banquet was made in America but
the real feature of the evening was,
the issuance of three editions OF the
Banquet News by the students In the
school of journalism. /
Joe Ashens and O. A. Kuderman
were caught recently in a cave-in
while removing cribbing from a
shallow shaft at Aurora. Ashens chung
to the rope and climbed out. Kuder-,
man was buried under four feet OF
earth.
Five hundred physicians from all
sections of Missouri attended the am
nual meeting of the state medical as
sociation at Excelsior Springs. Frank
lin Welch of Salisbury was elected
president and Springfield was award
ed the 1917 meeting.
George w. Niece, 81 years old, who
had been a resident and business man
of Lawson many years, is dead. He
was found unconscious in his store
and died a few minutes later.
N. L. Roberts Of Joplin was elect
ed president of the Missouri division
Of the Travellers Protective Associa-
ton which closed it's annual 'conven-
ton at Joplin recently. J. Herbert
Stafford of st. Louis was reelected
secretary. Both were elected by ac-
clamation. The convention selected
Sedalia as the meeting place in 1917
Plans are now on foot for a Ray
county stock fair, the first Of its kind
since 1873, to be held in Richmond
during the first week in September.
The state secretary Of agriculture,
Jewel Mayes, whose home is in Rich
mond, is back Of the enterprise.
Homer Ford, % years old, was in-
stantly killed at the Oronogo Circle
mine when he slipped and fell head
long down the shaft. His home was
in Ozark, Ark. He came to this dis
trict to work only a few days ago.
Twenty-Five thousand pickers will
be needed to harvest the record
strawberry crop Of Missouri and Ar
kansas this year, according to esti-
mates furnished by the Ozark Straw
berry Growers Association,
John Edwards, 80 years old, was.
killed by a Missouri Pacific passenger
train at Panama recently. It is said
that Edwards attempted to flag the
train.
W. J. c. Kenyon, a rate expert Of.
Ottawa, ILL.,, of wide railroad expert
ence, has been appointed traffic COM
missioner of the st. Joseph CONNER
cial Club. Hhe assumed his duties
May 10.
The Columbia special bond issue
election resulted in an affirmative vote
by 4 to l to issue 100000 in bonds for
new school buildings.
J.. H. Henderson, 68 years old, drug
gist of Glasgow, died the other morn,
ing Of pulmonary %apoplexy.
The unusual spectacle OF a man at
tending the funeral Of his wife in COM
pany with his bride was presented in
st. Joseph recently. The wife Of Louis
Ryse, a Japanese porter, died at 8
O'Clock in the morning and before noon
he had obtained a license and was
married to his sister-in-law, who was.
a sister Of the dead woman. In the,
afternoon the bride and bridegroom at
tended the funeral of the former Mrs.
Ryse as chief mourners and they are
now occupying the home in which the
first Mrs. Ryse had reigned.
Mrs. Almira Atkinson, mother Of.
Frank M. Atkinson, ex-postmaster in
st. Joseph, is dead at her sons home.
there. Mrs. Atkinson was so years
old, and her husband, DR.. Jesse A.
Atkinson, who died in Lexigton, Mo-,
~thirty-four years ago, was prominent
there.
, The resignation Of Jacob Bretz as
steward Of state hospital No. 2 was
!. accepted at a meeting of the board Of
. manaoaro ranantIv aud A Chop.