Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-02-10

u. w. CroWdeT, CITY attorney VI
Carthage, has filed a petition with
the Missouri public utilities commits
sion asking that the Carthage Gas
Company be compelled to provide bet
ter service. During the cold weather
Carthage practically has been without
gas and much suffering has resulted.
Judge Henry Lamm, former justice
Of the supreme court of Missouri, in
an address before the Lammfor-Gov-
ernor club at Sedalia, formally an
nounced his candidacy for nomination
on the Republican ticket for governor
o. Missouri.
The city council of Mt. Vernon has
called a special election for February
Is to vote on the proposal of issuing
bonds of $500 for the construction
of a municipal lighting plant to re-
place the municipal plant which was
destroyed by fire recently.
The record price in Missouri for a
bushel of corr was paid in Carroll
ton recently. scores of farmers were
there to buy seed corr and SIPS was
paid for a bushel of pure Yellow Dent.
Thirty ears brought $25 and ten ex-
exceptionally choice ears brought $26.
A proposition to bond Odessa for
$500 for a water works was defeat
ed there recently at a special election
by a vote of 154 to 1853.
Petitions are being circulated among
the voters of Greene county for sig
natures asking the county court to
declare Greene county a district in
which bonds may be voted for the es-
tablishment of a sanitarium for the
treatment of tuberculosis sufferers.
One of the few who crossed the
great plains in buffalo and Indian
days to reach the California gold
camps, was Abram Franklin Faucet,
81 years old, sho died at his farm,
north of Columbia, the other day.
John Jackson, So years old, for many
years proprietor of a string of hard
ware and implement stores in Iowa,
is dead at his home in st. Joseph.
= y y
, John M. Atkinson and John Ken
nish of the Missouri public service
commission heard testimony at Jop'
lin recently concerning an application
e of the Home Telephone Company Of
Joplin for az permanent increase il
g rates.
d Joseph W. Folk, chief council fol
9 the Interstate Commerce Commission
d and formerly governor of Missouri, has
issued a prepared statement saying
e he would not be a candidate for gov
ernor.
Three citizens Of Montgomery diet
O of grip and fever in one day recently
a Mrs John Br%andenburg and Mrs Mag
=. gle Reed, both old residents, and Leon
d ard Brandenburg, SO years old, su
cumbed.
John J. Murphy, CT, a farmer resic
. ing south of Macon, died from a para
> lytic stroke recently. Mr.. Murphy wa
an extensive contributor to newspa
pers and farm journals, writing unde
- the pen name of uncle Reuben"
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e Robert B. Monroe, assistant casf
Is Ter of the Jefferson County bank, wa
IL acquitted at Hillsboro on a charg
of accepting deposits after he knee
VI the bank to be insolvent. The jur
I was out three hours.
Fulton went dry the other da
~ by a majority of 17S, the vote bein
610 to 1872. An especially large vot
was polled. The licenses of both
IT. Fulton,s saloons expire February 1
RS Thirty-three defendants in tn
nightrider trials at New Madri
~ pleaded guilty, thus bringing tn
ne trials to a sudden end. ALI were SCI
1t fenced to six months imprisonme1
and then Immediately were parole
he on good behavior. Two who were G
trial at the time were allowed to plea
he guilty and were paroled with the res
Oh The sentences of the eighteen who's
m cases already had been disposed
will stand unless the trial judge shoul
parole them.
J. L. Frederick Of st. Joseph W;
elected president Of the Missouri Ora.
Dealers Association before its annu
lr convention at st. Louis. The associ
ton went on record as favoring III
form grading and inspection Of gra
~ under the auspices of the Unit
vs.. States department of agriculture.
is
A second gift Of $780, 900 has be,
given to Underwood college at {
Charles by James Gay Butler, a !
tired tobacco manufacturer Of {
Louis, 1t was announced recently
DR.. John l.. Roemer, president Of t
college. The new gift Of 100000 W
be used for q domltory.
L. G.. Hood of Bolivar, who finish
q his work in the school Of journals
Of Missouri University this semest'
has left for Minneapolis, where
20 will become a member of the Journ
40 ism faculty of the University of M
az nesota.
he Rains varying from 2k inches
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