Iron County register., 1916-08-03
HAPPENING.S
of the sOeek
IN MISSOURI

Before q union meeting OF the
churches DR.. L. L. Lumsden OF the
bureau of rural sanitation OF the
United States Public Health Service
preached a health sermon at Liberty IN
the open air on the campus OF Wiiiiam
Jewell College. Other speakers also
emphasized the fact that practicai re-
ligion cannot be dissociated from
health. and the meeting was opened
with a reading of the Biblical account
of Christ's healing ministries.
Hale and hearty at the age of l04
years, uncle" Jesse Hartley recently
greeted his family In reunion OF hve
generations, the first after lapse OF
five wears. The reunion of the family,
composed of more than two hundred
members. was held in Hosmer Grove,
eight miles west of Marshtield.
Pearl Maze, a well-to-do farmer,
was struck and killed by the fast mail
at a Missouri Pacific crossing at Knob
noster recently His brother-ln-law,
Bob Williams, jumped from the buggy
and escaped injury.
Joseph Newton, go years old, resi-
dent of Malta Bend, was struck anu
killed by Missouri Pacific passenger
train two miles east OF Malta Benz
the other morning.
s. R. Williams, q farmer, and his
wife were severely injured when
Rock Island passenger train hit their
wagon near st. Joseph One horse
was killed.
The National Guard of Missouri will
be recruited at once to full strength
| under the new military law, to total
of approximately seven thousand men,
according to the announcement made
by Major Charles Miller, federal
| army officer in command at the gov
ernment reservation at Nevada.
William M. Paxton, lawyer, author,
poet, and grand old man of Platte
City," died recently in that city. lie
was SO years old. Besides being the
oldest citizen of Platte City, he was
the Oldest Free Mason in the state.
w. H. Hall of Denver, Col, was kill
ed in the Wabash railroad yards at
Moberly recently. He was crawling
under a train when the wheels pass
ed over his body. His wife and one
childr survive.
Enoch J. Simmons, SO years Old
choked on a piece of meat which
lodged in his windpipe while he was
eating lunch the other day at Spring
field. He died within ten minutes.
Joseph Sparks, president of the Ne
braska State Normal school at Chad
ron, Neb., has been elected superin-
tendent of Joplin schools ending a
deadlock among school directors that
lasted two months.
M. A. Kelley, instructor in agricuF
tural engineering in the University OF
Missouri for the last four years, has
resigned and will go to Fairfield, 1a.,,
to accept a position with the Louden
Machine Company.
The Missouri Store Company OF
Columbia has been awarded the Mis-
souri, state library contract for the
next two years. The contract calls for
the supplying of books for every high
school and rural school library in Mis-
souri, and amounts to about 100000.
This is the first time the contract was
awarded to a Missouri firm.
]. T. Williams, police Judge at No
berly, has sent his resignation to
Mayor J. F. Harrison, on account Of
i'll health Judge Williams is 79 years
old and had held the office the last ten
years.
U. H. Breck, rs years old, a retired
farmer near Rockport, committed sui
eide by hanging himself. His body was
discovered suspended in the barn by
his aged wife.
|. r. W. Jones, for nine years city ed
itor of the Columbia Daily Tribune.
, has been appointed professor of jour.
nalism and editor of publications al
the University of South Dakota.
|
Work of draining lake near Joplin
has been begun in an effort to deter
mine whether the driver of motor
car, which had been backed into the
!. water, had drowned in the lake. The
car, overturned in five feet of water
/. was discovered by passenger motor
!. list. A mans hat was found on the
: bank. The number of license plate
found a short distance away CORE
sponded with one held by Joplin
man, but the car does not belong tC
him.
q DR.. w. M Shankland, for many
! years practicing physician and sur
geon, and present city health Officer
of Clinton, died of apoplexy the Other
!. night.
n Four men, who had been imprison
i ed in the Babcock mine near Joplin
q were later rescued alive. The men die
8 not appear exhausted by their vigil O.
a forty-one hours without light, food ol
= water, and were able to walk to theil
q homes
y The mutilated body Of man wai
: found at Nodaway recently on thu