Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-05-10

Doggett OF Crane. vice president. ana
W. Z. Cundiff Of Springfield. sscre.
tary.
Mrs. Madeline Bush. 60 years old
the mother Of Professor Ernest 3
Bush, superintendent of the WelIs,o,
public schools. and of Professor ] n
Bush. city school superintendent Of
Fulton. died suddenly at Fulton Of
apOplexy.
Helen Ralph. daughter Of John
Ralph. was accidentally shot and
killed at Sikeston by her brother, 3
years old. Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph We're
in al adjoining room. The boy aimed
the gun at his sister. not knowing il
was loaded. and pulled the trigger,
B. c. DrummOnd, postmaster OF
Lexington. and for the past twelve
years editor OF the Lexington News
has sold his newspaper plant to
James B. Slater of Kansas City. Mr.
Drummond will devote his entire time
to the p~ostoffice.
Greene county farmers In cnnvcn-
ton at Springfield adopted resolutions
calling upon the Missouri members Of
congress to support a movement 10
prohibit the manufacture of alcoholic
beverages for the period of the war
and for a year after peace comes.
Government control of all grain ole,
vators and food storage houses also
was advocated.
Many farmers in Northeastern Mis-
souri, are without seed for planting
and are too proud to ask for leans 10
buy seed, 1t is reported. There has
been a shortage Of crops several years
and many of the small farmers h We
practically nothing with which To feed
their stock.
More than two thousand dairy cattls
have been placed in twenty-six onGa.
ties since last fall, the result of a dairy
development campaign conducted ~
Northeast Missouri Industrial and AZ.
ricultural Association. according to a
report made by ]. H. Wood of Shel.
bina, president, at the second annual
rnnvQpflnn nf yto acenrfu t,p IL, IItts
nibal. He also announced that y, j.,
Troaper Of Minnesota had been on
gagged as dairy expert BY the assocta.
ton.
Carlos s. Greeley Of St. Louis, rep
resentative of T.. II. Rollins A. SGls,
New York brokers, has given up Ata
10000 a year position to fight for tts
Uncle Sam at SIS a month. He viii
go to San Francisco to serve in tie
coast patrol.
The 7-year,old son of Arthur Drula-
ley was fatally injured when run over
by Il train at Mountain Grove. Botl
his legs were severed. The boy was
trying to hop the train.
Mrs. Agnes Yeater, charged with
poisoning her husband. j. L., Yeatcr.
who died December 6, 1915, has been
acquitted at Albany on the first baliot.
Anderson Craig, attorney and eX-
state senator, is dead at his home III
Maryville. aged &C years. His widow
and two children survive him,
Mrs. G. T. Patterson. wife Of the
superintendent Of the Missouri state
poultry station Of this place. died here
this afternoon.
John Polk, so years old, was burned
to death when trapped in his room
after lightning had set fire to the
residence at Bendavis, in Wright
County. His wife, rescued through a
window. was dangerously burned.
Mcila Temple Of the Mystic Shrine
of St. Joseph has Cancelled its plans
for the annual pilgrimage to the I'M
perial council and instead will devote
the $1,000 which would have been
spent In that way to American war re-
lief work.
Binder the direction Of the extension
division Of the college II agriculture,
the farmers modified in practically
every school district in the state.
Every farmer in the state who has a
telephone was called from his county
seat and urged to attend. Through
special arrangements with the POST
office Department circulars telling OF
the meetings were placed ip every
rural mail box. The meetings were
scheduled to begin at the same hon
and a definite plan Of organization 10
increase the food production was
followed.
The proposition to bond the Nine
ola Hills district Of the Old Trail route
to build q hard surface road carried
by a vote Of I to l at a special cleo
tion held the other day.
That there IL no shortage In the
funds Of the Finley Building and Loan
Association Of Ozark, Mo-, and that IN
stead the association Is indebted to the
defendant. was the testimony Of SOLO
mon n. BrunRon. state senator fronl