Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-04-20
HAPPENINGS
of TIE sOeek
IN MISSOURI

William Jewell won its debate with
Columbia University of New York
City by a unanimous decision. The
subject was: Resolved, That the
United States should Immediately and
materially increase its army and
navy" The winners upheld the sf-
firmative. The team was composed Of
L. L. Wallace, w. B. McGraw, and w.
Holt Smith. The judges were Judge
James NJ. Johnson. Judge John G.
Parks and ]. /. Williamson, all of Kan
sas City. Judge Francis H. Trimble
of the Kansas City Court Of Appeals
presided.
The acting chief Of police of Be-
vier, Omar Yocum, shot and killed
David Tooney, a coal miner, As years
old. Tooney is said to have attacked
the officer with a knife and the Off
GER returned the attack by shooting
four times at his assailant. The Off
Ger was arrested by a constable.
Death came to the Rev. Caleb W.
Litchield, pastor of the Epworth
Methodist Episcopal church (South),
of Kansas City, as he spoke the clos
ing words of his sermon in the small
church at F~orty-ifth and Genesee
streets. He was SO years year old.
Colonel Tilton Davis, 50 years old, a
resident of Lexington since 1862, is
dead at his home there. In his early
years he was a prominent attorney.
Judge e. L. Callison, a wealthw re-
tired farmer and exjudge of the coun-
ty court of Morgan county, and ex-
mayor of Upton is dead. He was rs
years old. He came here twenty-five
years ago, and for a number Of years
he was president of the Farmers
Bank.
Judge J. M. Shelton, for fourteen
years incumbent of the bench of the
Second Judicial Circuit, has an
~nounced formally his candidacy for
the Democratic nomination for Con-
gress from the First District.
Mrs. Elizabeth Burrows Warren, a
widow, 68 years old, died necr Sc
dalia recently. She was a native OF
Grundy county, Tenn, but had lived
in Pettis county since 1865.
Jacob L. Bretz, steward of the state
hospital at st. Joseph, has been citeG
by Judge Thomas B. Allen of the cir
cult court to appear in court and show
: cause whey he should not be ousteG
from that office. The citation was al
J the instance of Prosecuting Attorney
Mcdaniel and R. E. Culver. repre-
senting a committee Of freeholders
The application alleges that Bretz is
unlawfully holding the office because
! he is a member of the general Assem-
. bly,. Bretz was elected to the legis
lature in 1914.
Announcement was made in tn
: Democrat-News at Marshall recent.
. of the purchase Of a controlling inter
est in that paper by Charles H. Bul
CESS of Butler, Mo-, from A. L. and +
> L. Preston.
8 r. H. sampson, IS years old,
y wealthy retired farmer, COMMITTEE
suicide at Springfield by shooting hin
self through the heart. Ill health TO
more than a year is believed respons
BILE for his action.
Mrs. L. A. Gilman, "a years old, tn
oldest white woman in Sallaway cour
ty, is dead at Fulton. She had spen
virtually her entire life in that cour
ty. She was the widow of DR.. Wi
D liam Gilman, a pioneer physician.
e At the special election at Maryvill
to vote on the commission form {
municipal government the propos
ton was defeated.
Delegates to the Progressive stat
convention at Kansas City indorse
g nationwide prohibition by a vote {
532 to 1874, reiterated the principle
g of the 1912 platform and declared
favor of complete tickets from natiol
y al down to county with Colonel Roos,
d welt as the presidential nomine
7
Lafayette Chandler, IS years oil
the negro who shot and dangerousl
wounded Sheriff John H. Dieker
u st. Charles county recently, was late
y trapped in a barn seven miles fro
~ st. Charles and slain by a posse
more than 500 men and boys.
r. W. Wenzlick of st. Louis, Arthl
v. Boand Of Kansas City and Fran
L. Mcclure of Fulton, representa-
Westminster college, won the sta
g. championship in the i~nter-collegiai
debating by defeating Park college
Parkville.
IT Jackson county's first courthouse,
log structure, built in 1927, and so
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