Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-07-12
HAPPENINGS
Of tie tveek
IN

Gently IN a slough near ms while
swimming. His bcdy vas recovered.
He was 2S years ole.
DIR. W. s. Woods. retired Kansas
City banker and several times a mil
lionaire. died recently at the Elms
hotel in Excelsior Springs. He suf-
fered an attack of paralysis while at
the office OF Craven & Moore. his Ex-
celsior Springs lawyers. and was taken
to the hotel.
Corn is making splendid growth
everywhere in Missouri, the weekly
weather and crop bulletin says. Fields
are clean and well cultivated.
Six cousins OF he same surname
and ali young farmers from the yicin-
ity of Pattonsburg have applied at the
st. Joseph recruiting station for en-
listment in the United States navy.
At conference at Washington, d. c..
between George W. Arnold, president.
and +. G. Bylander, secretary of the
Missouri State Fair. Herbert Hoover
food dictator, representatives Of the
War and Navy Departments and the
Department of Justice, the govern
ment agreed not to take over the Mis-.
souri, State Fair grounds for an avn
ot;np cornu troipipr namp until aftpr
the closing of the state fair on Sep
tember 20, and also determined to
have the War and Navy Departments
and the Food Conservation Depart
ment make extensive demonstrations
at the state fair this fall.
Two hundred and ten gallons 9.
whisky and one hundred gallons OF
grain alcohol were taken from a
freight car at Camden the other night
by the sheriff of Ray county. At the
same time Il man giving his name as
Claude G. Upton WAS arrested and Ii
being held.
Arthur Warren. mail carrier hetweeE
Sycamore, Ozark county, and Yves
Plains, was instantly killed by light
ming during a storm recently. Ei'
team also vas killed.
Late-planted corn, if a very earl,
maturing variety Of Northern grow
seed, is, on the average Missouri farm
the best emergency crop, comblnint
: the largest number Of chances ia
both food for man and feed for an
mails. II YOU have a silo. all the be
s ter as to forage. The later the froS
tof course) the better the catch Gro
3 Of any sort.
T. /. e. Dunlap of Kansas City, a men
Il Der of the Missouri Council of u
I" Tense, has arranged t. make a trip
> Washington, y. G., for the purpose
~ offering to the Secretary of War,
= behalf of state authorities, for an aN
alton training school, The free use
= the state fair buildings at Sedalia.
'c
" John s. Currell. rs years old is dee
:, at his home south Of EXcelsi'
~, Springs. He was a native Missouria
.. born at Fayette in 1889. and had live
:, here several years. Three daugllte
=. survive.
|! The stockman, after July | and
u late as August ], can put q portl'
of his catch acreage in sorghum
IL. Early Amber being mighty fine. TT
III is a standard early maturing varie'
y. sowing fifty to q hundred pounds
VI the acre for hay crop, There a
many other sorghums ranging fro
~ amber to kafir, milo, feterita. and 5
~ dan grass. of varying value on NJ
souri, soils. THIS is no time to expe
nent, so 1t is unnecessary to disct
-, new or novel crops.
y" Peter r. Myers, 81 years old.
.r travelling salesman and resident
-, Sedalia for forty-five years is de
ss The widow and one son survive.
"h A campaign to vote $4,000 in DO
'N' with which to build a system Of 8
day.in-the.year roads for Mississi
my county has been launched, the elect
e'p having been set for July rs.
ne,
Ito San, Early Black Dwarf. {
~ some other early varieties Of soybea
w have made splendid crops Of hay
:" the first quality, rich in feeding va
planted after July 4, when frost ca
late.
Southwest Missouri will ship alb
215 carloads Of Alberta peaches II
... the K%oshkonong, Brandsville and
,as er districts. according to estims
~" of farm agents Of the Frisco railrt
."a The. movement Of the crop will g
about August l. w. H. DIN. su
.nss visor Of farm marketing. estiml
nv, that 2.055 cars Of w%aternelons will
no shipped from southeast Missouri.
N. from Arkansas and three hume
from Oklahoma. Rain Is needed
ady crops.
to Mrs. Frank Reynolds, 81 years
hich wife Of a Burlington Railroad g
neer. plunged eighteen feet to the
the tom Of a ravinc near Hannibal
was killed. She was attempting
cross q creek 0n'a tree which
fallen over II.
eye. Jesse Mari. a pioneer farmer Of
line county, IL dead ut his home I