Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-05-17
HAPPENINGS
fhe eVeek
IN MISSOURI

Typographical Union No. so of Kan.
eas City, al a meeting in the Labor
Temple recently. instructed a. A
Duke, secretary-treasurer, To purchase
forthwith 5000 worth of liberty loan
bonds from the United States Treas.
urer. II was also reported at this
meeting that Over 80 OF their members
have volunteered their services ioi
their country.
The Rev. c. ". Collect, IS years old,
a s~uperanuated Methodist minister
and member Of the Missouri confer.
ence for fifty-eight years. is dead II
Fulton. He is survived by his wife.
to whom he married fifty-three years
ago, and several sons and daughters,
including l.. L.. Collett, former county
treasurer.
Mrs. Mary f. Roberts. IS years old,
who lived to see the fifth generation
in two branches of her children, is
dead at her home in Montgomery Mrs.
llUUcItS INNSitis pStoh" a. Si'h' S''hl-
grandmother for the fifty-fourth time.
While in a small canoe by himself,
Robert Beasley, ~14.year-old son OF 4. P.
Beasley. postmaster at Eldon. fell into
the water and was drowned in The
Rock Island railroad pond there,
A big patriotic demonstration wac
staged at Nevada the other day, Il pa
rade of six blocks long being 4 tea-
ture including the machine gun CON.
pany, a local military organization.
=
A telegram received by the board Of
trustees of Drury college from lr
Thomas w. Natal, dean of Oliset col
lege, Oliyet, Mich. announced his ar
ceptance Of the offer Ia become pIesi,
dent Of prury.
Lewis johnson. a business man Of
Aullville, five miles south of Higgins
Vile, was burned to death in his store
recently as Il result of starting a fire
with gasoline.
John Oliver Harrison, 81 years Old,
Of Morgan county, is dead In Seda!ia.
Two brothers and four sisters survive
John Steele, one of the wealthiest
citizens and an old soldier, was buried
at Butler. recently. Mr.. Steele had
lust returned from Miami. Fla, where
, he was spending the winter when ne
was taken i'll. He was a veteran OF the
Civil War. having served with the
Fourth Iowa Cavalry.
Acting upon orders from Judge Arch
, Johnson of. the criminal court, Sheriff
viii Webb began swearing in a largo
d. force Of deputy sheriffs, whose WORK
will be confined to arrest}nE persons
, charged with dynamiting and shoot.
ing into street cars during the strike
a of motormen and conductors.
Scores Of canning factories In the
OZarks will be closed this summer and
a fan because of a serious shortage Ut
a tin cans as the result OF the war, t..
q A. Cockefair, Greene county farm
agent, has advised housewives TO save
all glass containers used last year,
a Despite the can shortage, however,
y more tomatoes. cabbage. cucuWbers
and beans have been planted this year
than In the last t~wenty-tears. One
large seed house is selling ten thou
sand tomato plants and a number OF
' farmers have bought fifty bushels CT
: beans each for seed.
' Governor Gardner is endcayorinE 10
- make arrangements with 81. LOUIS
-. banks to handle loans to hundreds u
" small farmers throughout the state,
who have appealed to the governor Iof
-, money with which to carry on their
:, agricultural development until aftef
~, the crop can be grown and marketed.
Mrs. Lucy J. Bennett, Is years Old
is dead at her home in Brookfiela as
u result Of kindling a fire in a cooh'
" stove with kesosene. llc daughter
to Ida, was seriously burned at the same
,h time.
TO
'h Stepping into a land OF Nippoh"se
W dreams, with the blossoms OF the chef-
~, the wisteria, and the ever preseht
&c. chrysanthemum, all direct from ia.
III pan; that will be the experience Oh
Fs' the newspapermen Of Missouri, and OF
W the distinguished writer's and men III
public life of the United States, wheh
le' they enter the banquet hall on the
'es night OF May Is to attend the Made
i~n.Japan" banquet, which will c'oss
the annual journalism Week or the
I'D School OF Journalism Of the UnlVer'
sity Of Missouri. Never has any GU!
w in the United States planned a fes'
~. tiyity SO unique.
~. st. Louis members Of the Hotel anu
Restaurant Keepers. Association nave
y. pledged themselves to observe the RUE
A. Of one meatless day each week. fi''
w day wal the day selected. anu Inc
,nt regulation will be put In force at once
e." ,,,dve
Edward Chesser, nephew OF Juus.
Duvall Of Mountain Glove, was Rl''e"
cts In an auto accident at Newark hfh'
In the other afternoon.
to 10, NJ
II. s. Hopkins, rs years old, one ~