Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-02-17

the American, Adams and Wells Far
go Express companies, restraining
them from carrying liquor in Daviess
county.
With a plurality of two votes out
of 459 the Billings, Christian county,
special road district recently voted to
issue $40,0 900 rock road bonds. With
the money to be thus obtained will
be constructed a link in the Spring
%field-Joplin highway.
Thomas Hoffman, an old Confeder-
ate soldier who served under Francis
M. Cockrell, was found dead in his
bed in Montgomery at the home of his
sister, Mrs. G. w. Bosley. Mr.. Hoff-
man was a retired merchant. He
leaves a wife and two children.
,Rolla was selected as the meeting
place for the annual gathering Of the
Ozark Press Association by the eXecu-
tive committee of the organization,
which met in Springfield recently.
The meeting will be held June 25
and 26.
The second wolf drive of the win
ter was held seven miles west of Car
thage recently. More than $50 men
participated and one wolf and $50 rab-
bits were killed. The rabbits were
turned over to the charity union for
distribution among the poor.
DR.. N. D. Davis, a veterinary sur
geon of Bolivar is dead at Springfield
from injuries suffered in a leap from
a third story window of a hospital
after an attack of poisoning. DR.. Da-
Wis was a wealthy stockman.
Mrs. Eliza Patterson, 70 years old,
was fatally burned at Carthage when
the flames from an open gas stove
ignited her dress. She was alone at
the time.
Missouri university will receive
$65,000 as it's collateral inheritance
tax from the 81, 800, 900 estate Of Mrs.
Eliza Mcmillan. This was determined
at a conference at St. Louis in the
office of Edwin W. Lee, who was
appointed by the probate court to ap-
praise the estate, between Mr.. Lee
and W. K. Bixby, administrator, and
lawyers representing the state uni
versity and the state auditors office.
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The two saloons of Maryville were
voted out of business by a majority
of 702 in a recent local option cleo
ton. The vote was: "Drys," 1914;
"wets," 1872. The liquor forces rec.
ognized their defeat at noon and in
the afternoon only 100 votes were
polled. The Fourth ward, where most
of the voters are laborers, gave a
dry majority of 200. In the cleo
ton four years ago this ward went
wet" by 1855 and swung the election
for the liquor interests by a major
ity of SIS. In 1907 the city voted wet
by 1893. An annual license Of 5000
has been paid by the two saloons
there.
Oscar A. Buhlig, whose wife was
burned to 'death at Sedalia January
9, when she poured the contents Of
an oil can upon a fire, has asked E
P. Carl, a grocer, to pay him $4,000
damages. He charges in a suit that
the defendant sold his wife gasoline
instead of oil.
Several hundred st. Joseph Repub
licans have signed petitions pledgine
support to G. d. Morris, publisher o.
the st. Joseph Gazette, for the Re
publican nomination for governor.
BY the turning over of a caboost
at Brander G. R. Duskey, a freight
conductor on the Rock Island railroad
who lived at Eldon, "a killed re
Gently.
DR.. Henry Williams, 81 years old
is dead at Odessa of apoplexy. He wa
a physician there thirty-two years.
Samuel s. Allen, 81 years old, pic
neer merchant of st. Joseph and ONT
of the last of the upper Missouri rive
steamboat pilots of a%nte-bellum days
died at his home there recently.
In an attempt to dodge an incom
ing freight from Kansas City at Nc
berly,' two sons of Joseph Myers,
lightning rod agent residing nea
Kimberly, stepped in front of anothe
train and were killed. The boys wer
8 and II years old.
An appeal to the farmers in tn
Ozarks to throw out food for the quai
has been issued by John Fl. Brewer
secretary of the Ozark Fish and Gam
Protective Association. Unless foo,
is put out for them great numbers Q
the birds will starve.
Mrs. ]. r. Hamlin, mother Of Cor
gresham o. T. Hamlin of the Seventa
district, is dead at Springfield. Sh
wa, 81 years old, as is her husband
Rec. J. R. Hamlin, who survives. RI
Gently they celebrated their sixty
seventh wedding anniversary.
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Raymond Berry Of Robinson, III
n of several hundred linemen VIII
braved the flood waters and ice co,
cred poles to repair telephone lines