Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-12-20

cry road district to vote 345.000 bonds
for . rock road resulted In q large
majority in favor Of the bond issue.
The state gives q like amount and
when the road In this district Ii ON
pleted there will be q continuous rock
road from Jefferson City to Louisiana
The vote was 445 for to Is against.
Mrs. Shields r. Smith. wife Of the
manager Of q telephone company. has
been selected by Mayor J. l.. Babcock
rs Sedalia's first and chief m re-
cruitins officer. Her appointment as
naval recruiter was ratified by Lieu
tenant Commander Brooks Of St
Louis.
The executive committee Of the Mis-.
souri, State Press Association met the
other day at Kansas City and made
plans for the midwinter meeting.
which ia to be held January Is in st.
Louis. At the st. Louis meeting the
committee appointed last summer to
consider an association buying plan
will make its report.
Frank ]. Dean Of Kansas City has
been appointed food administrator for
Kansas City and Jackson county by
F. B. Mumford, state food admins
traitor.
S. L. Smith, who has q black silver
fox farm at Mexico, sold q pair OF
foxes to a Michigan resident recently
for $4,000. This is the sum he paid
for the first pair he bought, and which
head his farm.
Edward r. Woods, a retired bache-
lor farmer, who was born in Pettis
county, died at a hospital in Sedalia
recently. He was 6S years old. One
sister survives.
} George Braithwaite, 16 years old, a
0 newspaper carrier, was fatally injured
when a buggy in which he was riding
! was struck by a motor car driven by
: Frank Cellars, chief Of the Joplin fire
; department.
An insane patient who had escaped
from a local hospital placed the push
: car on the Wabash track near Macon
recently, A passenger train struck
: the car, but no one was injured. The
. patient had been missing from the
. hospital. He admitted placing the car
on the track and said he was planning
y for a 10y ride" when the train ap
' peared.
> A motor transportation company tt
. haul wood to Springfield has been or
= ganized in an attempt to relieve thu
- fuel shortage there. A large truck ha'
~ been ordered from Kansas City ant
" on its first trip will bring in fou'
cords Of wood.
- William ]. Taylor, is years old, o
y Buhl, Idaho, blew out the gas in hi
- room in a hotel at Springfield an
y, retired. He was found dead the mex
:. morning. His brother, V. L. Taylor
wife and infant, had a narrow cscap
~ in all adjoining room.
=. William Schroeder Of Concordia. 4
"a years old, shot the top of his head OF
n in a coal shed while Respondent tn
=. other morning. His widow survives
. E. W. Stephens, president Of the Oh
q. Trails Association, has received wor
that the citizens living between Fu
-" ton and the Mineola hills special roa
district had voted $4,000 in bonds ft
building a permanent hard surface
Ne road for a section of the Old Trai'
=. route. The result of the election wa
" 231 for the bond issue and thre
~. against 1t. This assures the buildir
~ of hard surfaced road from Columb
to beyond the Mineola hills.
John Caps, a Missouri Pacif
Is. roundhouse employe. was instant
Nd killed in the railroad yards at N
M vada recently. He was at work In
cinder pit when an engine back'
,r. over him.
In
Is. A charge Of first degree murd
,e. has been filed against Alfred Coble
Is. Mountain Grove. slayer Of DR.. 8.
IL, Johnson, who died as result Of woun
to inflicted by Coble with an Ak In
he s~anItarium at Springfield.
nd
nm The old Hanks cotton gin at Coz
ing, with about thirty bales OF cote
ar. was burned the other night. The 10
10 IL estimated at $4,000. 1t is believ
ar. that the fire was the work Of an
cendiary.
The .
aus The officials Of the federal food
lau ministration have requested a defln
increase in pork production for e.
j." state. The request is based on Az,
"' able supply Of feed and upon oti
conditions which will determine pro
able production. Missouri has be
xsked to increase production so
~ cent.
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