Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-02-24
HAPPENWGS
of the sOeek
IN MISSOURI

AS a result of the increased price
Of r during the last thirty days a
raise in wages of 25 cents a day has
been given the miners Of the Missouri
0klahoma-Kansas mining district.
Nearly 10000 men r affected. High
grade T now is bringing s125 a ton.
Judge M. R. Maick is dead at his
home in the north part of Henry coun-
ty after a short illness. He was a
wealthy farmer and formerly presid-
ing judge of that county. He was 20
years old.
A big mining transaction has Just
been closed by which a company head
ed by Senator Ed Wilkerson of Win
field, Kas., purchased the controlling
interest in the Dick Turpin mine west
of Carthage for $125,OOO.
. . .
The 100000 good roads bond is
sue on which st. Louis county voted
recently was carried by a vote of ap-
proximately 5000 for to 1900 against
the proposition.
The Maryville city council has
called for Friday, March 3, the cleo.
ton at which the commission gov
eminent city manager plan will be
submitted. A petition with $50 names
was presented by representatives of
the Commercial Club.
When sleds upon which they were
coasting at st. Joseph simultaneously
crashed into a street car at the foot
of a hill, Teddy Walkowiak, IL years
old, and George Saulan, IL years old,
were probably fatally injured.
John Miller, SO years old, one of
Montgomery County's most wealthy
farmers, died at his home near Mont
gomery City. His wife died several
months ago. He leaves four sons, all
farmers of that county.
H. E. Shackelford, SO years old, is
dead at Glasgow, after a three days
illness of pneumonia. He was travel
ing salesman for Arbuckle Brothers
Of Kansas City.
The body of Joseph Hudson, SO
years old, a dairyman, who has been
missing a week, was found at the bot
tom of an abandoned mine near Jop-
lin. 1t is believed that lie slipped on
the ice and fell into the opening.
The board of managers of the Mis-.
souri, congress of mothers and Par
ent-Teacher Associations, at it's con
GLIDING session in Springfield, select
April ~ and % as the dates for the
annual convention to be held at Co
lumbia.
Paul Williams, 10 years old, a mem
Der of the 1915 football team of West
minister college, was probably fatally
injured at Fulton by being run over
by a passenger engine in the Chicago
& Alton railroad yards.
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The main part of the plant of the
Pine Grain Distilling Company, two
miles west of Liberal, was destroyed
by fire the other afternoon. A large
amount of grain burned.
E. W. Stephens will not be a can
didate for the Democratic nomination
for governor of Missouri. This was
the statement made recently by E.
Sidney Stephens, son of the proposed
candidate.
Mrs. Mary Hale, wife of Rev. L. S.
Hale, a Baptist minister living near
Shelbina, died the other night. Rev.
George Hale Of Hannibal and Rev.
Lewis Hale of Maryville are among
the surviving children.
Listening to the persuasions of his
uncle, William Jennings Bryan Wise,
20 years old, of Crane, visited a barber
shop recently for the first time in his
life and had his ave t~resses, meas
uring two and one-half feet in length,
cut off. The boy was born in Bryan's
free silver campaign in 1896.
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Carthage is being flooded with coun-
terfeit dollars, and bankers and Off
cers believe that a gang is making
the spurious coins in that district and
putting them in circulation there. All
the coins bear the date 1882 and are
unusually good limitations.
The Marionville Cold Storage Com
pany, capitalized at $4,000, has been
formed at M%arionville to provide the
necessary facilities for handling the
commercial apple output of orchards
in that vicinity.
Charles c. Crickette, postmaster al
Queen City, and formerly a Methodist
minister, was arrested at his postof-
flee recently in connection with an
alleged shortage of $2,750 in his &C
oo,,ntc with tba Oouornmanf