Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-12-14
HAPPENINGS
of the sOeek
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cry, which was founded more than
fifty years e by Julius Winkel
meyer, had made little money in the
last two years and will be closed be.
cause prohibition sis inevitable and
will come in six or eight years" The
brewery occupies property valued at
ST. 900 and is owned by the st.
Louis Brewing Association, of which
the Excelsior is a member. The plant,
which was built when there was no
refrigeration, has great cellars forty
six feet below the street level.
University Of Missouri students,
overjoyed by a football victory over
the University of Kansas, bombarded
a Columbia theater with eggs at so
cents a dozen. what dye we carer"
they cried, 'Kansas is paying" The
students were beaten off in their at
tempt to storm their way to the play
house interior, but the lobby locked
like a futurist mural decoration. The
walls were Of a sickly yellow and the
odor-well. all of the eggs were not
of the 50-cent variety.
Elder Aaron d. States, orator and
writer, is dead at his home in Green
field. In earlier life he was a reporter
in Kansas City, later being success
lively editor Of the Republican at Lie.
mar and of a newspaper at Spring.
field.
With the death at Excelsior Springs
of James w. Cones, IA years old, there
are left Just twelve men who lived
there in 1882, when Mr.. Cones came
there. The town then was only a year
old.
Willie Shelton, 8 years old, who was
accidentally shot while hunting with
his two brothers, is dead in a hospital
at Springfield. His parents live at
Grenada.
Fire of unknown origin caused $780,
900 damage to four buildings on the
town square at Neosho the other morn.
ing. The theater was destroyed.
b University of Missouri had to
borrow another $4,000 to pay current
expenses and salaries of professors be-
cause of the states depleted finances.
AT the quarterly meeting Of the board
or curators in Kansas City, a loan of
$4,000 was obtained from the Ger.
man-American Bank of st. Joseph. The
first $4,000 was borrowed this year
from the Commerce Trust Company
OF Kansas City, and the second loan
Tor the same amount was made by the
Mississippi Valley Trust Company of
st. Louis.
At Saline county's second annual
corr show and seed corn auction held
at Marshall recently, one bushel Of
Boone county white corn, grown by
Henry Akeman of Miami, brought
S1O0. Three hundred and seventy-five
bushels sold a~veraged1$5 a bushel.
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All automODlle belonging to Louis
FIFTH was stolen in st. Louis recently
when he left the car standing in front
OF a house for a few minutes, SIeep.
ing on the back seat of the car was
P1ttIs 4-year-old daughter. The child
was taken away with the automobile.
S. P. Robinson, 81 years old, won a
turkey at a shooting match at Gren.
ada recently over a field of nine crack
rifle shots. He used a rifle and wore
no glasses.
John 7. Hunt, a member of congress
from the Eleventh Missouri district.
from 1901 to 1905, died recently in st,
Louis.
An appropriation of $4,000 will be
asked of the next legislature for the
state normal school at Springfield for
the biennial period, it was decided at
the annual meeting of the board of re.
gents.
Increased cost Of living brought
employees of the Broderick & Bascom
Rope Company, including Seattle and
New York branch plants, 10 per cent
salary increase, dating from last July.
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After declaring to- friends that he
preferred death to further service on
the border, Earl F. Raymond, mess
sergeant Of Company G, Second Mis-
Infantry, committed suicide at
Joplin by drinking poison. He was
granted a months furlough October
26, when stationed at Laredo, Texas.
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The ~5-year-old son of Thad e. Rob-
lnson was run over and killed by q
motor a near Lexington recently.
Samuel Engleson, a barber. 70 years
old, n of the most unique characters
Of early days in Marshall, was
drowned in a lake zeal there the
other day. His body was recovered.
r. N. Lower, one of Pettis county's
largest stock ~raisers, has lost five
large steers, due, he believes, to their
eating ergot, q fungus growth on corr
stalks. The steers were turned into
! stalk field a few days ago where
here was also blue grass.
For tha fiset time in forty-five years
JentiSEa u without a Jail. Arrests
we're few and the city council has rent
the city jail to a new firm for a
steam laundry. The police say local
option for ten years has caused the