Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-09-13
HAPPENINCS
oftAs epsek
IN MISSOURI

The young men Who were selected
a. members Of the national army from
johnson county and those who v0lun.
teered we're feted by the entire popu-
lation Of Warrensburg IN the campus
Of the normal school. Several thou
sand people gathered to bid the boys
goodbye. The young soldiers were ad-
dressed by Lieutenant Governor Cross
Icy. r. l.. Willibrand Of Springfield
and President Hendricks Of the nor
mai, and the club women Of Warrens.
burg spread a dinner for the depart
ing soldiers in the library rooms Of
the normal.
Louis l.. Hayes. wealthy society
man, who returned to st. Louis last
August from France. after receiving
an injury to his right knee which rem.
dered him unfit for further service
with the American ambulance corps
was found dead in bed at his home
recently. Death was attributed to
heart disease.
Lester Denwiddie. % years old. was
caught in a belt he was putting on an
engine at the home of his father. r. +,
Denwiddie, south of the Missouri Pa.
cific shops at Sedalia, and whirled to
his death.
John c. Kelley, forty-two years a
resident Of Carroll county. is dead at
his home at Bogard at the age OF II,
Four children survive.
The Rev. Thompson Penn, rs years
old. died suddenly at Monroe City re
Gently. He had been a member o.
the Missouri NJ. f. conference more
than fifty years. He left a widow
two daughters and two n
John G. Harper. a Civil War veteran
and a lifelong resident OF Carol
county, is dead at his home near Car
rollton. He was rs years old.
Saline county is to represent Mis-
souri, in the war emergency food sur
vey, which will take stock on the foot
supply now on hand. Only n coun
ty in a state was selected by the De
partment of Agriculture.
Tom Dale, a travelling man, wa!
killed at Lockwood the other da!
when his motor car bit a bicycle ant
turned a somersault.
Springfield will have six companies
OF home guards. Officers for five q
the companies have been elected ant
the organization of the sixth Is yet I,
be perfected. About 450 men hav'
Joined, including business and profes
sional men.
Dean Walter Miller and DR.. ]. A
Gibson, assistant professor Of chem
istry of the Missouri university. vii
go to France early in September 70
Y. NJ. c. A. work among the soldier
Of the United States. Or. Gibson
in Chicago comforting with the wa
board of the Y. NJ. G.. A.
A split switch overturned two car
filled with Missouri Pacific shopme
going to work the other morning an
Jack Short, a blacksmith's helper, wa
killed. More than twenty men wer
injured.
The Rev. Ray Bell, an evangelis
noted in Illinois and Missouri resi(
ing at Wellsyil'e, is stricken with p;
r~alysis. Attending physicians say
he RECEIVERS at all he will never b
able to take up active work again.
DR.. A. Ross Hill, president Of th
Missouri State university. has r.
ceived a telegram tuom the war d.
partment. announcing that Capital
Walter M. Craigie had been appoin
ed commandant of the university mil
tary department for 1918.
Announcement was made recent
that a legal detection had been foun
in the $4,000, 900 bond ordinant
which was to be submitted to II
voters of st, Louis on November
and that the election would not
held at that time. f.
Charles I. Hardwick Of Wakenda
dead at Carrollton from injuries r
ceived in an accident In which a w
bash freight train cut off both leg
He was so years old.