Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-12-07
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He says officers and men are ready
for any emergency that may develop.
The health Of the soldiers, he de-
clared, was excellent. General Clark
declined to make any prediction when
the remainder of the. Missouri troops
would be returned from the border for
rehabilitation.
Guy Freeman, 19-year-old son of
Joseph Freeman, a country merchant
of Shafter, Linn county, was killed
near Brookfield when a speeding mo-
tor car overturned on the Capitol
Trail. Gus J. Coulter, owner and
driver of the car, escaped with only
slight bruises.
st. Louis and Kansas City men are
among those chosen as members of
the board of trustees of Missouri Val
ley College in Marshall, and they are
expected to be a big influence in the
campaign through which it is expected
to raise 100000 for endowment and
buildings for Missouri Valley.
A piece Of wedding cake baked six
ty years ago was shown at the six
tieth wedding anniversary celebration
of Mr. and Mrs. John Gamblers, at
Mountain Grove. They were married
in st. Louis, November 26, 1856.
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Louis Roschek, 10 years old, acct
dentally shot and killed Peter Hum
mel, his ~1O-year-old companion at st.
Louis, when the latter asked him to
demonstrate the use of a rifle, which
both boys believed was u%nloaded.
Mrs. Sarah Baker, a widow, IA years
old, was killed by a passenger train
at Lewis Station, neal Clinton, the
other afternoon. She was deaf and on
the track.
Claude Reckard, % years old, a Wa
bash railroad employe, is dead at Mo-
berly from injuries sustained when he
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C%o-insurance in Missouri is at an
end so long as the insurance laws Of
1899 remain, the Co-insurance Act,
known as the reduced rate clause,
passed by the legislature in 1915, not
withstanding, in view of a decision
made at Chillicothe by Judge A. B.
Davis of the Livingston county circuit
court, which in effect held the act I'M
constitutional.
A small child of Mr.. and Mrs. F. D.
Fulbright of Springfield was burned
to death when a baby carriage in
which it was sleeping caught fire.
Another child, while playing, wheeled
the carriage against an oil stove,
which ignited the child's garments.
At a meeting in Marshall addressed
by M. V. Carroll of Sedalia, a Saline
County Good Roads Association was
organized. The organization, which
is an auxiliary of the state associa-
ton, is headed by G.. A. Radford, a
banker.
Seventy members of the Co-opera-
tive Club of Kansas City were the
guests recently of their child organi-
cation, the Cooperative Club of st.
Joseph. 1t was the first union meet
ing of the two organizations since the
organization of the club there.
Mrs. Mary Gordson, a sister of
Senator Thomas B. Catron of New
Mexico, is dead at her home in Mar
shall. She was born in Lexington in
1858, but had lived there for the past
twenty years.
The Pettis county bureau of agricul-
ture, one of the first organizations Of
its kind in the United States, employ
ing a farm expert, recently went On
record as opposed to the proposed en-
barge on foodstuffs. A resolution was
adopted to circulate petitions asking
congressman and senators to use
their influence against the embargo,
claiming it would greatly lessen the
price of farm products.
University of Missouri the other day
because of lack Of heat and power
caused by a coal shortage. Lack of
coal cars is the reason assigned by
coal dealers who contracted to furnish
the school with fuel.
The implement and hardware house
of Romig Brothers, the grocery store
of Fred J.. Kreisel and the apartment
house of M. B. McMullen, all two
story buildings, burned at Sedalia re.
Gently.
Governor Elliott w. Major will move
to st. Louis January / to make his
residence there and to open offices as
an attorney at law.
st. Charles. the first capital of Mis-
souri,, suggests, as one of the most
appropriate means of commemorating
the centennial of the states admission
into the Union, the spanning of the
Missouri river at st. Charles on the
Boon's Lick and Santa Fe highways
by a memorial highway bridge, erect
ed by the state of Missouri.
The Lection Clubs annual 'possum
hunt was held near that town recent
ly and hi 'possums were caught.
They were served with the necessary
trimmin's at a big supper.
Miss Freda Phillips, 10 years old,
and Mrs. Charles Irwin were killed