Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-10-11
HAPPENINGS
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IN MISSOURI

l.. NJ. tanning. q farm labOrer from
st. Clair county. has been arrested
in Sedalia charged with shooting X. +.
Drake. a banker at Warsaw. after call.
ing him from his home at midnight.
tanning asked IL Drake had died and
when assured he would recover. said
he would have returned after him II
he had not been arrested. He said
Drake once insulted him. Lanning 10
in Jail at Warsaw.
Jonathan Fairbanks. 80 years old.
who was head Of the Springfield
schols forty years. was buried recently
at a public funeral in which five thou
sand pupils took part. A memorial
fund to erect a shaft in appreciation
OF the educators services has been
started.
John W. Jewell. q former student OF
the school of journalism and associ-
ated with his father in the publication
of the Springfield, Mo-, Leader. has
been chosen to publish the newspaper
to be issued under the supervision of
| the Y. NJ. c. A., for the soldiers at
Camp Funston.
Prof. Jonathan Fairbanks, SO years
old, said to have been the Oldest &C.
tive head of a city school system in
Missouri. died at his home in Spring
field. He was elected superintendent
Of the Springfield schools in 1875. He
served n term as mayor of the
city. One of the innovations he intro
duced in the schools was a half holi.
day for the pupils on at least one cir
Gus day each year.
Charles A. Robinson, acting mayor
and commissioner OF revenue, OF Jop-
lin, was defeated by G.. S. Poole, a
jeweler. in an election to name a sue
cessor to Hugh McIndoe, who was re-
called from office in a special election.
August II.
Arrived and well" was the brief
dispatch received by James A. Vance
Of Smithville from his son, Lieut.. J. ID.
Vance, veterinary reserve corps, who
is now Somewhere in France" Lieu.
tenant Vance was commissioned in
August and sailed for France recently.
William Penn Duvall, n of But
ler's oldest and best known residents,
is dead. He was born in Highland
county, Ohio, October Is, 1887.
The Palace hotel, the only hostelry
in Fulton, was sold recently to w. b.
Chambers of Kansas City.
Wiley O. Cox, formerly Of Kansas
City, who is deputy collector Of inter.
nal eyenue for the Northwest Mis-
souri, District, has resigned and will
engage in business at st. Joseph. Col
!, lector L. M. Harder has not announced
the appointment OF Cox's successor.
!. A shotgun's recoil caused the death
of Tom Wallace. Mr.. Wallace, a mar
. nearly 80 years old, went out in his
: yard a few days ago to shoot a 0
| The gun accidentally discharged, caus
. ing the butt of the weapon to strike
, him in the lower part of the abdomen
John B. Talbot, who prior to the
Civil War owned steamboats, plying
the Mississippi and Missouri rivers
and for the last fifty years was en-
gagged in the hotel business at st
Joseph, is dead. He was IS year:
old.
Several Buchanan county farmer1
are harvesting the first crop OF heml
raised there in years. 1t is to be uset
for rope cordage and binding twin
because Of a shortage Of sisal IN TIL
country resulting from the lack o
l. ships to transport 1t from Contra
America and the Philippine Islands.
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l. Linn county farmers recently FOte'
b. to employ an agricultural agent. ]
suitable farm adviser will be obtaine
in the next ten days probably, accort
ing to T. H. Ross, state agent leader
l..
The State Council Of National D'
Tense met at Sedalia recently. Mr.
D. B. F. Bush, wife Of the president
the Missouri Pacific Railway, sat wit
the council. the first time a woma
ever met with the body. Resolution
le were adopted and a wire sent to A.
O. Illustrator Garfield, In which he W.
J, requested to give Frank A. McAli
> ter, attorney general of Missouri. q
~ immediate hearing on the evidence r
lating to the price Of coal produce
at the mines.
Mrs. Benjamin Pontius, 80 yea,
old, wife Of a farmer living at Plea
ant Gap, twelve miles east Of Rio
Hill, was killed when she stumble
and fell into a cellar at her home.
j. 8. Chandler, q stockman from c
lumbia, was run over and instant
: killed by a freight train at the sto'
!. yards In Windsor the other mornin
J.
Silk shirts and pinchback sto
. clothes have been barred by Sprin
field high school youths who ma
adopted khaki uniforms for schd
wear. Military drill at the schC