Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-09-27

sheriff that while driving along the
road near his home. he found a sack
road near his home. he found a sack Of
o living on the road. Apparently
there was about $1,000 in currency and
coin In the bag. As he was looking
into the sack, two men drove up and
said: THAT sack belongs to Us. Here
is 50 cents for finding it." Boshert
gave up the sack and took the 80 cents.
The sheriff thinks the sack of money
may have been dropped by the auto
mobile bandits who raided sullivan.
An oil bomb invented by DIR. G. o.
Davidson Of Columbia has been &C.
ceptel BY the United States govern
ment for use in Europe. according to
word received at Columbia from
Speaker Champ Clark ut Washington.
The bomb will throw burning oil for
more than O~ne-quarter OF a mile. 1t
has been used already by the Italians
against the Austrians at Tricst. ac-
cording to its inventor. Mr.. Davidson
saws that each bomb of the type he
has invented will cost about $1S.
Twenty women and girls went to
work in the Chicago, Burlington Il
Quincy Railroad shops AT st. Joseph
recently in places vacated by men
summoned to military duty. The wo-
men all wear overalls and jumpers.
Dee Best, IS years old. a widely
known farmer who lived near Smith
vile, was killed the other night when
he was struck by a n%orthbound @. O.
4 Il. C. train on the Burlington rail-
road. He is survived by his widow.
Owen Owen, 10 years old, city mar
shall of Lexington, died recently OF
heart disease. His widow and two
children survive.
Charles A. Robinson, acting mayor,
and c. s. Poole, a jeweler, were noni-
mated in a primary election IN Joplin
to make the race for mayor September
% to succeed Hugh McIndoe. who was
recalled from office recently.
-Four automobile bandits, who had
held up several persons in St. Louis,
were halted by q POLICEMAN and three
Of them surrendered. One escaped.
One of the men arrested said the
party had participated In four hold0ps.
Dean Walter Williams announced
recently that he had declined an in
vitation received some time ago from
an English committee to deliver a
series of lectures in England on Amer,
lea in the War"
Robert Tracy, a veteran Missouri
and Kansas newspaper man, is dead
at st. Joseph. n years old. He was
Ii brother of the late Capt. Frank
Tracy, who published the old st, JOS
eph Herald nearly half d century ago.
President WILSON has established az
the University of Missouri an infantry
unit OF the senior division of the re"
serve officers training corps, accord
Ing to a report of the war department,
issued by General Bliss, acting chief
Of staff. Upon completion of the aid
vance work at the university. students
will be eligible for appointment in the
officers reserve corps and as provl.
sional second li%eutenants in the regu-
lar army. The cadets will be fur
nished uniforms by the government in
addition to other equipment already
provided. Officers of the corps will
receive a compensation Of 50 Il month,
As a result of loss Of men employees
by the army draft, the Chicago. Bur
lington e Quincy Railroad is adVortis'
ing in the st. Joseph newspapers for
women to fill mems positions in the
r%oundhouse and repair yards.
As a result of disclosures in connec
ton with the draft examinations al
st. Joseph, the United States district
attorney has directed tina. every mar
rejected by the local exemption boards
on the grounds of physical disability
be re-examined by the district beard.
NJ. l.. Golladay, head of the Holder
Home Telephone Company, was in
jured the other afternoon at his farm
Hillcroft. north Of town. While super
j, intending the installation Of a ligh
!, and water plant at the farm his lief
leg was caught in the belt Of a gaso
line engine. Both bones OF the ankl'
were broken so badly that amputatio,
will be necessary.
. Northeast Missouri farmers believe
in finding out how the other fellow
does It. The Northeast Missouri Farm
ers' Association has arranged a ida,
motor trip into Iowa to gain new
ideas on farming. The party Of on
q hundred or more will leave Hanniba
, Sunday. September 30, and will yisi
2 communities surrounding Iowa City
: Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, Cedar Falls
Waverly and Iowa Falls.
II was the provcrbial fatted calf re
n versed for the Galloway drafted me-
n at Fulton recently, In the form q
barbecued sheep. Governor Gardne
4 was present In the afternoon an
d spoke to q crowd Of 1000 people o.
american Patriotism"