Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-01-06
HAPPENINGS
of fbe tOeek
IN o

of fbe eOeek
IN MISSOURI
Missouri. outside OF metropolitan
cities. has given $250,00O toward the
men and millions movement, it was
unofficially stated recently at a meet
ing in st. Louis of leading churchmel
of the Disciples Of Christ. 1t was also
announced that one Missourian gave
$4,000. No clew to his identity was
given, but he is believed to live in Kan
sas City.
-
Acting on orders from the depart
ment at Washington, John H. Bowen,
register of the government land Office
at Springfield, added to the public do
main a 40-acre tract of land in Wash
ington county. This is the only tract
in Washington county subject to en-
try, as all government land there was
entered many years ago.
=
Mr.. and Mrs. Nichlons Mayer cele-
brated their golden wedding anniver-
sary at their home in Rich Hill re-
Gently. Their seven surviving chill
dren were among the guests. They
were married in Rock Island, Ill. Mr..
Mayer is a Union veteran of the Civil
war.
e. D. Seamans, formerly president
of the Blain-Seaman Grocery Com
pany of Springfield, received a frac-
ture Of the skull which resulted in in
slant death when he slipped and fell
on an Recovered sidewalk in the bus.
mess district. He was 60 years old.
Dempsey Brown, born in North Car
DINA se~venty-three years ago, who
served in the Confederate army and
had lived in Pettis county since 1866,
died recently in Houstonia.
Mrs. Emma A. Eaton, a widow, So
years old, died in a hospital at Spring
field recently, as a result of an over
dose of a poisonous drug.
Testimony in the controversy be-
tween the rafters and tie drivers over
the rights to the use the Current river
was taken at Van Buren, recently be-
fore Major Dent Of Little Rock, repre-
senting the war department at Wash
ington. The findings and recommen-
dations will be forwarded to Washing
ton and a decision is expected soon
after the first of the year.
The Rev. David King, for fifty years
a Baptist minister, is dead in Garth
age, aged rs. He was a veteran of the
Civil war and a former Indian agent.
He served as an escort to President
Lincoln's body when it was taken from
Washington to Springfield, ILL.,, for
burial.
Charles w. Smith of Mitchell, Ill,
widely known horseman, was killed
and George Link, also of Mitchell, was
injured probably fatally when an inter-
urban a struck their buggy ten miles
north of st. Louis.
Northeast Missouri had an exceed
white Christmas this year. The
was about thirteen inches on a
level, the heaviest for several years.
will protect the wheat.
George Epperson fell dead from a
buggy in which he was riding at Noun
tain Grove the other afternoon.
A campaign to raise $4,000 for a
negro Y. M. C. A. building in st. Louis
olased with the announcement that
more than $4,000 had been sun
All the contributors, except
ten, were negroes.
Charles Wells, a farmer, was fatal
y injured the other day when a port
lble wood saw collapsed near West
Plains. The machinery flew in every
Erection, and Wells was struck by
he saw itself.
Emmett Thomas, IS years old, Is
minus the thumb and two fingers of
lis left hand as a result of participat-
ng in a charivari party at Monet.
Thomas brought a rusty musket to
i'd to tire noise of the celebration and
ahmed about eight inches of powder
Town the barrel.
The bodies Of n white man and
wo negroes, who apparently had been
Tiled in a fight or murdered, were
ound recently at Eldorado Park, on
he west shore of Creve Couer Lake,
bout twenty miles west Of st. Louis.
he bodies were covered with blood.
David Lubin, United States delegate
0 the International Institute of Agri-
in Rome, will speak in Colum-
ia January 8, opening day of the an
farmers week held by the Mis-
ouri State Board Of Agriculture.
The Rev. DR.. Andrew Gietl, one Of
pioneer priests of the Community I
{ the Precious Blood, who thirty-ive /,
ears ago was actively engaged in
Missionary work in Central Missouri, ,
led recently at Collegeville, Ind. He
as more than 70 years old.
". B. Davis, "a years old, and father /,
{ Al children. 33 Of whom are alive, I,
as married the other dav In CahooI