Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-10-12
HAPPENINGS
of the eceek
IN MISSOURI

Miss Louise Disser of Denver lost in
the federal district court at st Louis
a suit to establish her claim to a half
interest in the $4,000 estate Of her
great-grandmother, Mrs. Mary Disser
of Ferguson. Mrs. Disser, who died
in 1914, made a will ten days before
her death, providing that her estate
should go to her son and her grand
daughter. On the same day a warran-
ty deed was filed in which Mrs. Disser
transferred her property to her son.
The federal court hid that the warran-
ty deed was genuine.
When a motor car in which he was
driving with two women turned over
near st. Joseph, David Van HooZer, a
farmer, 20 years old, was killed. The
women escaped by jumping. Van
Hoozer is survived by his bride of two
months.
The Rev. Calvin Allen, 80 years old,
is dead at B%rookfield. He was the
| father of E. B. Allen, until three years
ago internal revenue collector in st.
Louis.
Four prisoners in the county jail
at Macon, set fire to their mattresses
and bed clothing and attempted to
escape recently, but the officials hur-
ried the prisoners to upstairs cells and
firemen put out the blaze.
]. T, Pickens, a druggist, was killed
when a motor car occupied by himself
and five others overturned near Joplin
the other night. None Of the other
occupants was hurt.
William H. Kennedy, rs years old,
a farmer of Linn county, died at his
home, twelve miles north Of Brook
field, the other morning.
T. West Goodwin, of Sedalia, was
so years old October 3. He was born
in New York October 8, 1886. He
learned the printing business at
Watertown, NJ Y, in 1850. Later he
conducted a country newspaper in In
diana. He served in the Union Army
I in the Civil War. He removed to Sc
l dalia in 1868 and later established the
! Daily Bazoo, which he gave up severa.
4 years ago. Since then he has conduct
4 ed a job printing office.
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1 Memorial resolutions in honor OF thu
! late Colonel L. H. Waters were adopt
4 ed recently by the Kansas City Ba
4 association and will be placed upol
3 the records of the United States dis
q trict court and the circuit, suprem
4 and the appellate courts of the state
Marvin Priest, 8 years old, was ru
V down and severely injured at Popla
d \ Bluff by a motor car driven by h so
d of R. G. Felts, mayor of the city. Tn
f boy is not expected to live.
The thirty-fourth annual encaml
ment of the variouls G. A. r. post
in Livingston and Grundy countie
was held at Kidder recently. The &c
"a lowing officers were elected: Sine
. Grove, president; G. W. Saunder
"a vice-president; P. l.. Haskins, cha
8 lain; w. P. Griffith, ad1utant, and E
81 Thomas, quartermaster.
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I Kansas City will have a music ha
M If plans launched at a meeting OF tt
EA Rotary Club are carried out. II
E4 club plans a building for music to co
sa $3.50, 900, to be erected as a kind
kA lasting memorial to the work in Ka
WI sas City of the Rotary Club.
S3 Rather than ask of her nelghbo
S3 or relatives, Mrs. Anna Eisenman, la
of Kansas City, and who is said
8 have wealthy relatives now living
that city, died from the effects
starvation at a st. Joseph hospital
# Gently.
A memorial to the late William
Nelson, founder Of The Kansas Z
" Star, was decided upon by the N
orv souri, Writer'S Guild, encamped
Powersite on its annual autumn Q
is ing in the Ozarks.
the
ing Dave Minick, 35 years old, a W
TODD farmer, living north OF key'
vile, was instantly killed when
motor car ran off a bridge into a d
ditch on the Charlton and Linn Hi
way about twelve miles north
Keytesville.
Mrs. Andrew Roberts was shot
severely wounded by her son, Err
Roberts, at Moberly the other mt
ing when she reprimanded him
drinking.
John Dunn, At years old, a for
newspaper man of Fulton, and at
time connected with Mexico and
umbia newspapers, died at Fulton
other morning after a long illness.
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John Helms, 9S years old, Is
at Pilot Grove. His neck vas bro
in a runaway several days before
Nh /. Newton Evrard of Marshall
been nominated for state superint
ent of schools by the Republican s
committee. The nomination is tc
a vacancy caused by the death OF
p%erintendent Gass, whose term W
49, not have expired until 1918.
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