Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-08-30
HAPPENINGS
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IN MISSOURI

IN MLSSOVM
fians 10 fight the draft were made
ut Springfield when a branch OF the
Peoples Council Of America for
Peace and Democracy" was Organized
The meeting was held in the office of.
Caleb IApscomb. a grain dealer. He
refused to give the names of ,hos.
IN attended. John Plotkin. ma.
tional organizer" came 10 assis, il,
the organization.
Hundreds Of residents attended the
military funeral at Poplar Bluff for
Sergt. II. f. Treece of COMPANY n
Fifth Missouri Regiment who was
killed by lightning while in his tent
AT training camp at Nevada. The Ia,
cal company Of home guards and Ciyii
Wal veterans had charge of the sery.
ices.
Clayton +. Potter and his son. Raw
Potter OF Excelsior Springs, are both
In Company II. Third Missouri Resi.
ment.. So far as the members OF this
company can learn this is the only
instance of a father and son serving
their country in the same company.
J. N. Morrison, a rural mail carrier
Of Pleasant Hill, died the other after
noon at the home of II. f. Stitt while
attending the funeral of Mrs. Stitt.
Harry J. Cantwell of st. Louis, for.
mer mining king, is dead at Hot
Springs. Ark. He was one Of the first
men to make a fortune in the lead
belt Of southeastern Missouri, and at
one time was head Of the st. Joseph
lead Company.
A big meeting Of road enthusiasts,
attended by men from Doonville and
Fulton, was held at Columbia recent
ly. 1t is planned to get the three
towns mentioned interested in i'm
proving the Boone.Callaway county
section Of the Old Trails Highway.
The First Presbyterian church OF
Marshall has called as pastor. Rev.
y. X. Ferguson, pastor of the Excel
sior Springs Presbyterian church.
DR.. J. E. ConnelI. SO years old, for
many years a prominent physician at
Marshall. is dead of blood poisoning.
Testimony that coal could be sold
to the city Of st. Louis at a profit at
$3.50 a ton was given at the inquiry
into the Missouri coal trade by +. w.
Kleine, president of the newly orga-
nized st. Clair Coal Mining Company.
He said the company recently had
made a contract to furnish the city
good standard coal at $3.50. Mr..
Kleine said the st. Clair Coal Mining
Company was organized specifically
to sell coal to the city.
~ piASO VI ho6o at iNultSAo 'tts
recently was nearly double that of a
year ago. and almost three times that
of two years ago. a prime load re.
ceived at the Fowler Packing Com
pany's yards on consignment from the
country brought $50 a 100 pounds.
Charles Anderson, Attire West, Ju-
Illus Handcart and Emile Hubert.
miners, were seriously injured at the
F%lexsensar coal mines, a few miles.
south Of Rich Hill, when the cage On
which they were descending dropped
forty feet.
J. w. Kaufman. wealthy farmer and
stockman and representative in the
legislature from Morgan county from
1914 to 1916, is dead at Versailles.
John knoppIe. a ~51-year-old bache-
lor and financial secretary of the In
%ternational Association of Machinists,
is dead Ut Sedalia. He was born at
Springfield, Ill.,, but had lived here
since 1890.
General Thomas G.. Love of Spring
field, commanding the Missouri d.
vision, United States Confederate
Veterans, has announced October IL
and 13 as the dates of the annual state
reunion, which will be held this year
at West Plains.
A terrific electrical storm, accom-
panied by q very heavy rainfall. swept
over southeast Missouri recently, do
ing much damage to the crops and
other property. Telephone and tele-
graph service was paralyzed for sew
eral bours.
David Francis Weeks. 20 years old,
q brother Of Assistant Prosecuting
Attorney Maurice Weeks, and son Of
the late Samuel Weeks, former state
senator, IL dead at Fulton.
Edward Jones, 70 years old. a we'll
known Pettis county farmer, Is dead
at his home neal LOngwood.
J. J. Sheridan. VINO with the late
Alvah P. Clayton. founded m Of the
big paper jobbing houses Of the West
at st. Joseph, a number Of years ago.
is dead after q long illness.
The Rev. J. b. Weldon, known a.
the Fighting Parson." has resigned
as pastor Of the Christian Church at
RQOnXille to accent an anpOintment