Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-02-03

years.
Charles Bradford Duncan, GA years
old, died recently at Columbia of grip.
He had worked at the printing trade
continuously for f%orty-seven years. In
the early '70s when Eugene Field was
a student at the University of Mis-
souri,, he and Duncan we're friends.
Plans for a commission form of gov
eminent for Sedalia have been form.
ally launched there by twenty-five rep
~resentative citizens. Petitions will be
circulated Immediately to obtain the
required number of signatures to call
an election.
S. L. Gibson of Browning has bought
259 shares, representing a controlling
interest, in the Bank of Chillicothe
from H. A. Tompkins and his sons.
Mr.. Gibson will take charge Febru-
airy /.
Thomas Kenton, for more than fifty
years an influential citizen of Carol
county, died recently in Tulsa, Ok
Burial vas held at his home in Nor
borne.
A suit to have the will of Charles
G. Stifel construed has been filed here
at st. Louis by the trustees and by
Otto G. Stiff, son, and E. H. Comrades,
son-in-law of the testator. The estate
is estimated at 2 million dollars. The
will left the estate in trust for the
widow and three children for twenty
five years. Mrs. Stifel has died since
E. w. Miller and NJ. B. South, police
men at Weston, who were accused o.
causing the death of R. D. Krumely, a
Leavenworth peddler, who was fount
dead in the Weston Jail after his arres
a month ago, have been freed for lacl
of evidence.
John W. Mcconnell, said to be thu
oldest man in Missouri, is dead a
his home at Esrom, Barton county, a
the age of 1O6 years. He was borl
January 6, 1910, in Ohio and moved
to Southwest Missouri before the war
engaging in farming. q
II Il
At a special election held in thu
Billings special road district, Chris
tian county, the other day, a proposed
bond issue of $4,000 was defeated
The vote was 242 for the proposition
and 1872 against. A two-third vott
was required.
The council of administration of thu
Missouri Bankers Association, in SEES
sion at Sedalia, decided to hold thu
1916 convention in st. Louis, May 2!
! and %.
Jacob A. Long, city assessor O
Springfield, is dead, aged II. Fol
many years he was engaged in thu
general merchandise business at Fai
Grove.
Leona Coin, 10 years old, was prob
ably fatally injured at Springfield
when her 10-year-old sister, Mary
shot her with a rifle. The bulle
struck her above the right eye
Col. H. M. Dake, for thirty year,
a prominent citizen of Brookfield ant
founder of Dake City, a suburb,
dead.
The war in Europe promises t
make the Church OF God at Carthag,
wealthy. That organization fiv
years ago purchased the old Chautau
qua grounds in Carthage for abou
$4,000. Recently rich mineral strike
have been made on the land an
operators are scrambling to take u
the fifty acres and work it.
Ira A. Day, formerly postmaster a
Warrensburg, died at the home of hi
son, Frank Day, in Mount Washing
ton the other day.
Saline county recently voted dow.
the proposal to issue $1,310,0 900 i
bonds to be used in constructing,
countrywide system of 365-day-in-tht
year highways. With all but a fey
scattering precincts heard from,
was evident that the bond propose
did not get even a majority Of tn
votes.
Mrs. William McCullum, wife of
farmer living ten miles northeast Q
Brookfield, was burned fatally tn
other night when her clothing caugh
first from a stove.
W. O. Atkeson, editor Of the Bate
County Record, has announced hi
candidacy for the Republican nomin;
ton for lieutenant governor. Fou
years ago Mr.. Atkeson was the Repul
lican nominee for congress in tn
Sixth district against g. G, Dickinson
Henry Semple Ames, vice presider
OF the Mississippi Valley Trust Con
pany, is dead at his home in st. Loui
Of pneumonia. He belonged to club
in st. Louis, New York, Seattle an
Helena. Mont, and also to sever
Yachting clubs. He was 50 years Ok