Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-02
HAPPENINGS
of the sOeek
IN MISSOURI

the salary of the farm agent has been
paid by public subscription, the other
half of the salary being paid by the
county court This year the mainten-
ance fund was not raised and the
court refused to make an appropria-
ton. NJ. E. Gougler, the present farm
agent. will go to Wilson county, Kas.,
as farm adviser.
The establishment of a chair of mer-
chandising and craftsmanship at the
University of Missouri was recon.
mended in a resolution adopted by the
Missouri Retail Hardware Dealers AS
ISOLATION in annual convention at st.
Louis.
Larry A. Ginter, 81 years old, an in,
surance man, was found dead at the
home of his mother, Mrs. NJ. A. Ginter
of Sedalia, by neighbors the other
afternoon, death having resulted from
as~phyxiation. 1T is believed death oc'
Cured two days before.
Liberty has voted $780, 900 worth Of
bonds to extend it's sewer system to
the Missouri river, three miles away,
There were only six votes against the
proposition.
The Missouri Benefit District Road
Law, involving the constitutionality Of
more than seventy road districts in
Missouri, and which, it is said, will
unlock permanent road improvement
in the state, was upheld the other day
by the supreme court as constitutional
The ase was that of the Kansas City
Liberty Boulevard Road District
Bonds voted by this district to built
are now upheld as legal.
Ben Hook, So years old, known as
the watermelon king of Galloway
county, died at Fulton the other night
He was a brother of Mrs. John O'Don
nell and Mrs. Patrick O'Donnell of st
Louis.
Mayor J. E. Lightfoot of Ash Grove
one of the most active Republicans il
Greene county, died recently after
short illness from acute heart disease
He was president of the Ash Grow
Mining company. He was "a year.
old.
Earl Hagerty, son of William Hager
ty, a farmer near Alexandria, is being
held for $4,000 ransom by Mexican
bandits in the state of Sonora, accord
ing to an unsigned communication re
ceived by the father recently.
Robert Fritz, a veteran employee o
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Raj
way car shops at Sedalia, who was hi
by a train February Z, is dead at tn
company'sI hospital there. He was 6
years old.
DR.. William A. McCallister, 81 year
old, is dead at his home in Centralia
He had practiced medicine there TO
forty years. For a number Of year
he was local surgeon for the Wabasl
Railway Company.
Judge Robert F. Walker of the ST
preme court of Missouri underwent
sever operation at the Deaconess hos
pital in st. Louis recently.
The Buck Prairie special road dis
trict near Marionville has voted $40
900 bonds for road building by a vot
of $40 "for" to Al against"
A falling hay prong killed Martil
Abbott, a pioneer farmer of Linn coun
ty, when a rope broke in n of hi
hay barns the other day.
Frank Reed, 20 years old, is deaf
of a wound received while hunting
near H%oustonia, Pettis county. 1t il
not definitely known how the shooting
occurred. The only witness was
small son of the victim.
With the price of zinc ore steadil,
climbing, mine operators believe tn,
record of last summer, when sales a.
high as $1S7.50 were made, will b,
surpassed.
/. A. Barth of Columbia was elected
president of the Missouri Retail Cloth
iers' Association and St. Louis was sc
lected for the 1917 convention at tn,
fifth annual meeting of the association
which closed in st, Louis recently.
al old well under the Martin 4
norton stores exploded recently
wrecking both buildings. The explo
sion was caused from gas in the well
either from the natural gas mains o
from a gasoline tank.
T. K. Irwin, rs, millionaire min,
owner and the builder of the electri
line between Joplin and Pittsbure
Kas., is dead at his home in Carthage
At an enthusiastic good roads meet
ing, Carroll county was organized a
a branch of the Missouri Central High
way Association. j. w. Higginbotton
of Carrollton was elected presiden
and o. G. Swinney of Hale, secretary
treasurer.
T. E. Quisenberry, director for tn
Missouri poultry experiment station a
Mountain Grove, announced recent.
he had resigned to devote his time t.
the affairs of the American School o
Poultry Husbandry, of which he /
president.
A nolitical row amonr Governor Ms