Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-23

ion. The gifts aggregate $550,0OO.
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Unofficial returns from all precincts
Of Morgan county in the recent local
option election gave the "drys' a ma
jority of $50. There was a heavy vote
in most precincts, although a snow
storm kept many from the polls.
Oliver Gilbreath, % years old, fell
through a window from the second
story of the opera house the other
night and died the next day as a re-
suit of his injuries.
Chester Warren, S-year-old son of
Rev. D. c. Warren, was run over and
killed by an automobile driven by Med
Craighead in Nevada the other night.
Here he is-the newest member OF
the thieving fraternity-the gasoline
thief. He drains the tanks Of I'M
guarded motor cars parked in the
streets. Chief Of Police Young of st.
Louis has issued an order for the ar,
rest of a gang that has been stealing
the costly fluid from the tanks.
Carries Metz, a teamster, was
burned to death near Rockport when
a load of five gallon can Of gasoline
which he was placing in a tank eX-
ploded. Metz was smoking a pipe
he started to unload the gasoline.
The Bible school of instruction for
the second district Of the Christian
church, comprising the western coun.
ties of Missouri, was held at the First
Christian church at W%arrensburg. Sew
eral hundred church workers from
Central and Western Missouri attend
ed and forty-eight graduates in Bible
study and Sunday school work were
awarded diplomas at the close OF the
school.
A saddle horse sale at Columbia
brought more than $4,000. There
were thirty-one horses sold. Porter
Taylor of Montgomery City raid $1,000,
the highest price Of the sale, for Rex
Thornton, a son of Rex Mcdonald, be-
longing to E. D. Moore of Columbia.
James D. Barnett, 81 years old, o.
Montgomery City, for eighteen years
probate judge of Montgomery City ano
for the last twelve years judge OF the
Eleventh circuit court, died recently
at a st. Louis hospital.
William S. Crouch, prominent as {
temperance worker and a business
man at Carrollton for fifty years, is
dead. Mr.. Crouch was at n time
the prohibition nominee for lieuten
ant governor. He was active as
Baptist layman. He was Sc years old
Pettis county is preparing for
special corn growing contest this sea
son in which $1,000 will be awarde'
to young farmers who make the hes
showing.
A taste of Puritan life, such as
must have been in the early days G
New England, was given Moberly o
a recent sunday by Chief of Polio
Hinton. The rigidity with whic
Chief Hinton enforced the clty's blu
laws was not only surprising, br
paralyzing. Some laughed and SON
swore, but most all agreed that tn
chief and his force were strict.
Dudley Groves, 4 years old, a drive
of an oil wagon at Springfield, is dea
from burns received when a mate
was carelessly thrown in some gas
line which had been spilled from h
wagon.
Thirty farmers had a wolf DRY
near Hughesville the other night.
number Of animals were discovers
and chased, but all escaped. Not a dt
lar Of the $40 reward fund had to
used.
Mrs. James Maddox, % years old,
dead at her home near Athol, six mi
north of Rich Hill, from burns 81
fered when a can of gasoline, mistake
for a can Of coal oil, exploded VIII
she attempted to start a fire.
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Sedalia is to have more than 2
gardens raised by pupils in the pub
schools this season. c. M. Long, 2,
tbs county agent, will be the direct'
The lots for gardens are to be civ
gr~atuitously. Contest prizes are to
offered.
Commission government was defe
ed at Excelsior Spring by a majori
Of lat. The proposition undoubtet
would have won had the election be
held several months ago or before
Democrats had selected a compile
city ticket.
Lenore YtaEus, 3 year old, OF MOI
Vernon, N. r., was awarded $500
the full amount asked, by a jury in
circuit court at st. Louis because ]
father was burned to death in q I
that destroyed the Missouri Athle
club building two years ago. The $
was against the Boatmen's bank, o'
er Of the building.
r. N, Denham, So years old, form
G. A. R. commander in Missouri,
dead in st, Louis. He vas wild
known among the veterans in
state.