Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-06-08
HAPPEWINGS
of the sOeek
IN MISSOURI

day to midnight Sunday. This will
still be in effect, and the dramshops
will be open from midnight to ]
o'clock every Monday morning.
Mrs. Susie w. Davis of Richmond,
widow of Clyde Davis, circuit clerk,
who was killed in an automobile ac-
cident heal Buckner last summer, has
filed with the county clerk for the
Democratic nomination for circuit
clerk. Shortly after the death of her
husband Mrs. Davis was appointed to
serve her husbands ~unexpired term
Of nearly a year.
While lowering a timber in the
Baldwin mine at Aurora, it fell twen-
ty feet, striking William F. Black, a
miner, and crushed his skull. He
was SO years old and had a wife and
two children.
Mrs. George H. Ruggles, wife Of a
farmer residing t~hree-fourths of a mile
from Verona, was fatally injured the
other morning in a runaway.
Joseph B. Williams, 16 years old,
son of Mayor Henry Williams of Pa
cific, drowned recently while swim
ming in the Meramec river. Two COM
panions who tried to rescue him mar
rowly escaped death.
Two men were killed and a third
slightly injured recently in an eXplo-
sion of gas in the Nevada Mining
Company's shaft at ~PIeasanton, Kas.
The dead are Walter Bray and Ed
ward Riggs, both of Nevada.
Henry Bildridge, former city mar
shall of Centralia, was acquitted by
a jury ir. the Galloway county circuit
court of the charge of murder in con-
nection with the killing of DR.. ]. Q.
Cooper. The jury ~deliberated twelve
hours.
4hlo. JdllICS VI ACl1yJ OK JSdIp oiNb
who came to Lafayette county in 1851,
died recently. Her husband and Wal
ter Duncan of Bloomfield, a brother,
survive,
Hannibal now has a population OF
22,170, which is an increase of nearly
four thousand in six years.
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Thornton Cooke of Kansas City was
elevated to the presidency from the
vice presidency Of the Missouri Ban
ers' Association at the closing session
of the t~wenty-sixth annual conven'
ton of the ooly in st. Louis recently
w. B. Sanford of Springfield was
elected vice president, and Edward B
C~lare-Avery of st. Louis was chosen
treasurer. Preparedness for the
United States was Endorsed by the as
sociation in one Of the adopted reso
buttons.
A meeting was held at Glasgow re
Gently to take some action in getting
the War Department to have work
done on the Missouri river at Cam
bridge Bend, about three miles west
of there. The river is cutting through
at that point, and if something is not
done at once it will cut through valu
able farm land and make a bridge
necessary.
More than 1000 people witnessed
the parade aud ceremonies at the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the new Car
negie library in Excelsior Springs. c
H. Briggs of Sedalia, past grand mas
ter of the MasCr5. had charge of the
ritualistic work for that order in the
ceremonies. Judge Frank P. DivilbisS
delivered the principal address.
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John Fielding Meek, one of the las
of the Mexican wal veterans, is deat
at his home i'll Chillicothe. Mr.. Meel
was born in Wayne county, Ind, 4
1924. He was enc of the origina
] "boys" of the ~Brandywine swimming
pool, which James Whitcomb RILEY
later made immortal.
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A terrific w;ndstorm and downpou,
: of rain occurred at Collins recently
: Several houses and barns were blown
away. A farmers team drowned il
! the creek ut a ford just west of tow
as he was coming to town with a LOAF
of hogs. The hogs and man swan
> out.
I The highest ptice ever paid for bee
! pulp cattle was received on the 81
3 Joseph market recently. Five ca
loads marketed by a sugar compan!
; Of Denver averaged 1870 pounds ant
: sold at $10.l0 a hundredweight. Thre,
other loads shipped by the same con
7 Germ averaged 1,45S pounds and sol,
at $500 and four loads averaged 1856
and sold at $3.50. The previous rec
D ord was established there when sew
eral loads brought 1896.
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lhC pOpuldllOh VI 0ulllbClJ q tONl
D in Cove County, 40 miles west o
q Hays, moved bodily to Hays in a CON
munity motor run to visit the stat
normal school and agricultural experI
? ment station there, The eighty-si
, cars that made the run conveyed b4
persons.
. The exercises of the forty-fourth ar
: nual enhancement Of the Warrens
! burg Normal school we're held in tn
auditorium recently. Ninety-on
young men and women were grad,
ated from the school.
Mrs. John Harris, who resides three
0 fcurths Of d nile south of Avondal'
n CLAW county. was attacked by an Ell