Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-08-24
HAPPENINGS
of fbe sOeek
IN MISSOURI

/ of the sOeek II
IN MISSOURI
The birds in the poultry plant At
California are real high fliers. They
have one convenience that no mon
arch could have enjoyed fifty years
ago. That convenience is electric
fans. Electric fans and running water
have been installed in the large feed
ing station Of the A. B. Cole & Sons
plant there. Under the spray of a
fountain in the feeding station is the
favorite haunt Of the ducks and geese.
The management has found the fans
and water of economic value. as 1t
saves the lives of many fowls and
makes them fatten faster in the hot
weather.
Five minutes after he had been
elected chairman of the Republican
congressional committee of the Fourth
district in session at st. Joseph. VIII
liam H. Kueker of st. Joseph was
notified that his brother-in-law, Boone
Smith, had been run down and killed
by a passenger train near Agency.
Prof. Frank Lee Martin Of the
school of journalism and his family
have returned from Toxic, Japan,
where Professor Martin has been on
a years leave of absence. While in
Japan Mr.. Martin was on the editorial
staff of the Japan Advertiser, an
American newspaper published in To-
kio. Professor Martin left here May
10, 1915.
AL Mcdonald, engineer Of freight
train No. IA, on the Burlington, was
killed recently when the engine and
ten cars slid off a dump near Monroe
City. Eugene McKiddy, the forward
brakeman, was buried under the en-
CINE. The fireman escaped.
Five hundred families were made
homeless at Hannibal recently and
hundreds of acres of land flooded by
a sudden rise in Deer creek which
flows throughout the heart of the city.
The flood was due to a four-inch rain
The body of Don Kelly, 8 years old,
son of a miner, was found at the bot
tom of a shaft ITS feet deep at Car
terville. He had been missing for
several days and officials have been
unable to learn how he happened tc
be in the shaft. He left home to hum
rabbits in a nearby wood, taking two
dogs with him. Later the dogs were
discovered alive in another shaft
Two boys, who have admitted to the
authorities that they threw the dog:
in the shaft, are being held for inyes
| tigation.
A 7.3-inch rain fell at Monroe Cit.
the other night. This is the heavies
rain remembered by citizens there
Several houses and stores were flood
ed and much damage done.
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The second annual reunion of tn
Webb family was held at Webb
Park, a half mile west of Oak Grove
recently. Several hundred people a
tended. Those present were descend
ants of Thomas and Margaret Web
who came from Tennessee in 1885 an
settled upon a 1,300-acre farm nea
Oak Grove. The two-story log hous
where they reared their thirteen chi
dren still stands.
Lillian Glenn, 6 years old, wa
e killed neal Sedalia as she sat nea
IS her half brother, Roy Richards, 1
r and watched him load a shotgun pr
a paratory to going squirrel huntin
u The parents of the girl, Mr.. and Mr.
H. L. Richards, farmers living mort
E. of there, were shopping at the time.
e.
d T. J. Means, a banker of Dearbor
N is in a critical condition at his hon
IL as a result of being kicked by a col
He is 76 years old.
n =
Albert D. Nortoni has resigned
10 Judge of the st. Louis Court of A
u peals to accept a place on the N
tional Democratic campaign comm
= tee. Judge Nortoni was a Progressi'
a and four years ago was the Progre
a. sive candidate for governor of M
'e souri,. Judge Nortoni, over long d
b.. lance telephone, let it be known tn
y he has resigned from the bench
better devote himself to the respon
40 bilities of the campaign. He plans
practice law after the election, eth
in st. Louis or Kansas City.
" The safe in the office of the Be
10 gerly Milling Company at Odessa W
blown open the other morning, :
the robbers got only a small amou
90 Of money.
George Clark, a coal miner, 35, m
- ried, was fatally injured at Bey.
when caught under a fall of rock.
-. died in an ambulance.
IA
,ee Thomas Hall, the 16-year-old son
George Hall, a farmer, was killed
's other night when his buggy "
struck by a Chicago & Alton freii
train at a crossing near Blue Sprin
p The price of zinc ore slumped
more on the Joplin market, max
the offering for high grades $65. !
IL range is down to $45. AS a result
the steady decline, many of the m