Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
HAPPENINGS
of the sOeek
IN MISSOURI

IN
DR.. Albert Bushnell of Kansas City,
widely known in the Midwest as a
temperance worker and s~uperintend-
ent of the Missouri Anti-Saloon
League, was found dead in his hotel
room at Chillicothe recently. DR..
Bushnell came to Chillicothe from
Kansas and was to have addressed a
meeting at 1880 o'clock. The audi
ence waited an hour, then a message
was sent to the Leeper house, where
DR.. Bushnell was registered, to learn
what detained him. 1t was then his
body was found. Physicians said death
was due to acute indigestion.
Cole Younger, former bandit and
member of the Jesse James gang, is
dead at the home of his niece, Miss
Nora Hall, in Lees Summit, where he
had been confined to his room for the
last year. Death was due to uremia
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and a complication Of disease, said
his physician. He was 70 years old.
A bond issue of $G0,0 900 was autho-
lied by the voters of the Aurora spe-
cial road district at an election held
recently. The vote was 1853 for the
bonds, with only So against. The
money will be used in the construc-
ton of permanent roads in the Aurora
district.
Bishop Partridge says that work on
the construction Of the Episcopal
church at Excelsior Springs will start
at Easter. Sunday services will be
held regularly in the city hall until
completion of the new building. The
church will be called st. Luke's
Chapel.
Lead ore reached the highest mark
on record recently when it sold for a
sos basis so per cent metallic lead.
This will mean a settlement figure of
about $100 a ton for exceptionally
choice grades. The previous highest
price for lead was $50.
Mrs. Bertha Mines went to g
clothes closet in her home at Spring
field, turned On the gas and lay down
on a pallet. She was dead when found.
She was AZ years old and was born
and reared at Carthage.
S. w. Jurden, president Of the First
National Bank of Wellston, a suburb
OF St. Louis, and treasurer of the In
ternational Life Insurance Company,
is dead at his home there. Mr.. Jurden
was 68 years old. He had been active
in politics, twice having been a dele
gate-at-large to Republican national
conventions and once the %unsuccess-
full Republican candidate for congress
in the Ninth Missouri district.
Charles Reign Scoville will open re
vival meetings at Nevada April 8.
Committees have started work on the
fund for a tabernacle, which will seat
five thousand or more people.
BY a fire of unknown origin, the
dairy at Springfield of W. R. McAlis
ter, containing twenty-three cows anc
the barn that housed them, were burn
ed. The loss is estimated at about
$4,000.
Fire of undetermined origin recent
Iy destroyed the plant Of the st. Louis
Plate Glass Company at Valley Park
st. Louis county. The loss is estimat
ed at $250,000.
Martin Kloss, 73 years old, is deaf
at his home in Sedalia. He was bor1
in Germany and came to the United
States shortly after the close Of thu
Civil War.
Benjamin E. Smith, Sc, n of Mont
gomery's old settlers, is dead at hi
home on Bear Creek, He leaves
widow and three children.
The Saline County Farm Bureau
has appointed Robert ]. Howat coun
ty farm adviser, to succeed Paul V
Maris, who has accepted a position a
state leader of agricultural research
work for Oregon. Howat has serve'
for nearly a year as assistant to tn
retiring farm adviser.
j. The consolidated high school dis
trict No. 4 of Bates county was OF
ganized at Hume recently under tn
Buford act by a vote of 129 to II. TIL
new district takes in three and par
of a fourth school district comprisin
twenty-five square miles with an as
sessed valuation of more than $420
000. The four districts have bee,
maintaining schools at a cost of $2.7
on the 500 assessed valuation. TIL
new organization will organize a Ger
trail school and transport the pupil
with a saving of less than a third c
the cost Of the four.
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August w. Horn, 81 years old, VIII
served eleven years as city assessc
and for several years as member
the board Of public works, is dead
st. Joseph.
Barney Reilly, who came here a
second baseman of st. Joseph Wester
League baseball team, has been nom
mated for mayor by the Democrat
convention. Reilly is proprietor of
motion picture show and also pra'