Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-02-22
HAPPENINGS
ofshe tvsek
IN MISSOURI

been appointed for Thomas w. Gun
bingham, aged banker. who was
brought from Chicago recently and
since has been held by the sheriff
at Joplin pending a sanity hearing.
A deed of trust conveying all his
property TO the trustee was signed
by Cunningham and agreed to by his
attorneys and the citizens who Or
ganized to prevent tho dissipation of
Cunningham's estate. The insanity
proceedings will be withdrawn.
The soda water business must be
brought to a high state of perfection,
because it is 500 to take the place
OF the saloon Of Missouri, according
TO delegates at the tenth annual con-
venlion OF the Missouri Bottlers' as.
ISOLATION in Springfield.
An inspection Of strawberry fields
IN the Ozark region indicates a great
ly decreased production the coming
season, the leading fruit growers say
The u is the damage resulting
from the prolonged drouth last sum-
mer, which burned out the fields, and
the unusually cold weather Of the
present winter.
The ordinance calling a special ele..
ton In Springfield on February 20 for
the purpose Of voting on a proposal
to issue bonds for the construction Of
a municipal lighting plant was held IL.
legal by Circuit Judge Kirby.
r. L. Hixon, a merchant, commit
ted suicide recently. His body was
found suspended from a rafter in his
barn. He vas so years old. H.
health is believed 10 have been the
cause.
The old college building of the Ur-
suline convent at Arcadia was de-
stroyed by fire recently. No one was
injured. Fifty or sixty students who
had rooms on the upper floors were
at their classes on the first floor
when the fire was discovered.
While walking along the railroad
tracks near Burnhaln, a station on the
Frisco south of Springfield, Mrs, Sarah
Huestes. so years old. was struck by
a passenger train and killed. A daugh.
ter, who accompanied her, narrowly
escaped.
Six men were found dead in theil
rooms at 81. Joseph recently, asphyxi
ated by gas from small heating stoves
which went out while they slept.
A general rush of German-Araericar
people for naturalization, which besar
soon after the announcement of q
break in diplomatic relations between
this country aud Germany, mounted t,
such proportions at st. Louis that /!
was found necessary 10 add five mel
TO the corps Of clerks at the natural
i2ation bureau, There were eighty
eight applications during the day
many q the people standing in lin;
for hours awaiting tlair turns. Q
the applicants, SO per cent were Ger
mans and 80 per cent .Austrians
Macon and Macon county have in
doraed the movement to raise $1,000
In northeast Missouri Cor the develop
ment of the dairy industry. Il. a
Guthrie. president OF the Macon Com
mercial club. announced that section
would 10 its part. +, ", Merrill. dair,
expert, spoke at a meeting Of farmer
and business men. He said the dair.
industry would restore the fertility q
the soil and make the farmers lender
of money instead OF borrowers.
Attacked by a wildcat while hunt
ing opossums south of Marshall, Lev,
Bellinesly, an old fox hunter. killet
the animal with an AK. The cata
mount was freed by the dogs an
routed two of them while the possur
hunters were attempting to dislodg
it with poles. The animal weighe
fifty pounds.
The last legal step toward levelini
the Mineola hills. which have bee
the bone of contention since the eros
state highway was established, wa
taken recently by the Montgomer
county court when a ~sixty-foot RICH
I, of way was purchased from r
, Brown, a farmer. Work Of reaucin
the hills will begin early in the sprin
and the grade will be cut 5 per cen
The hills were the only really ba
stretch in the highway between S
Louis and Kansas City.
: Fire, swept by a 52-mile gale, cause
damage estimated at half q millio
dollars and threatened to wipe out til
business district east Of Broadway
the Mississippi river at st. Louis r
: Gently.
Henry Ratclif. 40 years old, va
killed recently by an electric shoe
received at the C%entralia laundry ,
!. carrying a gas pipe. the end OF whic
! touched q live wire.
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Charles c. Atkins, q member Of N
johnson County court. died OF pne
monia recently at his home In Ros
hvi townshin. .Judya Atkins was