Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-09-06
HAPPENINGS
Of tie tOeek
IN MISSOURI

IN MISSOURI
A meeting Of farmers of Boone
county. recently, called by the county
council OF defense. was attended by
farmers from all sections. The meet
ing disclosed that 80 FER CEN Of the
farmers present had determined to in.
crease their wheat acreage next year.
A census of he meeting was taken.
which revealed all those who will in.
crease their acreage from 25 to 50 per
cent. A. J. Estes Of Columbia said he
raised seventy acres of wheat last
year and that he had planned to break
ground for 500 acres for the 1918 crop.
Many farmers in this county will add
a crop Of rye to their farm produc.
lions. Tie meeting was conducted by
II. +. Cbilders Of the farm extension
department of the state university.
The other night the following q
cabled to Gen. J. j. Pershing, who was
born and reared only a few miles from
he camp grounds OF the Meadville
C%hautauqua: "Pershing, Somewhere
In FraEce:-Your Linn county, Mis-.
souri,, friends back home. assembled
thousands strong at the Meadville
Chautauqua to observe Pershing Day,
send you hearty greetings and best
wishes" To pay for the cablegram a
hat collection Of nickels was asked
for. 1t amounted to $50. The money
not used was given to the Red Cross.
BY agreement Of attorneys for the
state and the defense the trial OF Inc
seven persons arrested in connection
with the kidnapping of Baby Lloyd
Keet and the attempted abduction OF
c. A. Clements in Springfield, was
postponed from September "a to Octo.
Dor 8. The state asked for more time
in which to prepare for the trial. 1t
was made known definitely by the
prisoners counsel that nc further ef-
forts would be made to obtain their
release on bail, and they will continue
to be held in the Webster county jail
at Mansfield until their trial there.
T~hirty-five young business women
of Springfield, all members Of The
honor guards, had their first war drill
recently. The company expects to get
thirty-Iive more recruits. Coach A, ".
Briggs, physical director of the nor
.~l ,xL,,l nopJ,,nfnl tina 1riI1 Tho
company was organized a short time
ago with the idea Of putting its meni-
bers in physical trim to assume mems
positions vacated because OF the war.
The Rev. Ray Bell, an evangelist
noted in Illinois and Missouri resid.
Ing at Wellsvillc, is stricken with pa.
ralysis. Attending physicians say it
he RECEIVERS at all he will never be
able to take up active work again.
Leather Clatterbuck, who register.
! ed and failed I report, appeared be-
! fore the beard at Fulton. passed and
: did not claim exemption. Nine more
of the first cal! still remain unre.
. ported.
Poor lights on their motor car
caused an accident near Cole Camp
+ recently, when f. c. Jones. As years
old, a farmland, was almost instantly
killed, and W, r. Morris, driver OF
v the car, suffered a broken collarbone.
g Dean Walter Williams of the Mis-
souri, University School of Journalism
II has been invited to deliver a series OF
addresses in the cities of Great Bril-
tain upon America and the War
Louis Boldridge was killed and Tom
Boldridge. Bud Hutchinson and John
u Longdon badly injured the other night
In a motor car spill six miles-~ast OF
Lexington.
Martin v. Grill, city assessor, is
ID dead at his home in Chillicothe. He
was one of the old settlers Of Living
ston county.
Prof. G. w. Knapp has resigned the
IN chair of sociology at Westminster col
ty lege at Fulton and accepted a simila'
IS. position in McAlester college, st. Paul
or MINI. He had been on the local fac
as ulty five years.
is Charles |. Hardwick Of Wakenda |,
IN dead at Carrollton from injuries re-
Id ceived in an accident in which a Wa
n. bash freight train cut off both legs
He was 50 years old.
IL Warner Hilkey Of st. Louis is plain
tiff in a suit filed for the heavies
damages for personal injuries eve
IN asked in the Polk county circuit court
He asks $150,00o from the Frisco raj
er road for the loss of both his legs I
-, the yarls of the company in st. Loui
nix on May IL, last.
Tia Alvin Creasman, aged 10 years. !
by lead at his parents home In Centra
Ia from injuries received from jumI
ne Ing from q moving train.
el.
'63 The tower Of the Osceola Waite
ar Company collapsed the other day. shu'
ting off the towns water supply.
At TIE instance Of the MissouI
W State Fair Board the Missouri Pacifi
wv md the Missouri, Kansas & Texa