Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-09-20
HAPPENINGS
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IN MISSOURI

IN MISSOURI
The Rev. c. J. Buck Of ArlingtQA.
Mimi, was arrested by Sheriff Tai
bott at MAYHEM and taken TO Lexing-
ton. He is charged with . speech
against the United States and favor.
ing Germany In the war.
Mystery surrounds the death Of
William w. S;eely, IS years old. OF
Ash Grove. whose body was disco,-
cred recently in Sinking creek. a half
mile south Of Everton. Steely had
drowned in ten inches Of water.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars has been earned by self-support-
ing students Of the Missouri uniyer-
sity in the last eighteen years through
the help of the Y. NJ. c. A. employ.
ment bureau.
On the eve of the sixty-sixth ami
versary of the government land office
in Springfield plans to abolish it are
being made and within a few weeks
the office will be closed. j. II. Bowen,
for many years register, was not re-
appointed and G. A. Leavitt of the
Washington land office has taken
charge.
Private Archibald F. Reynolds, Com
pany +. First Infantry. was taken to
the state hospital for the insane at Ne
vada, violently %deranged. The mar
had shown no symptoms OF insanity
previously. his companions say, but
became unbalanced during the night.
A special election has been called
In st. Clair county for October 9 to
pass upon the question of compromis-
ing the old railroad bond indebted
ness. Judgments in the federal courts
against the county total $550,O00.
Professor A. p. Steele, dean Of the
Kirksville Normal school for several
years and one of the best known edu-
Gators in Missouri, died recently at
Kirksville Of heart disease.
Amelia Hilton, 3 years old. was IA
tally burned at Crane the other day
while playing with a box of matches.
The quarantine on the medical de-
tachment Of the Fourth Regiment
from Louisiana, Mo-, placed with the
discovery OF what was believed by
physicians to be a case of spinal men
nights in the camp, was lifted after a
consultation Of the medical staff Of
the camp. The case proved under mi.
%croscopical examination to DO not
meningitis, only a reaction from anti
typhoid serum, which had been inject
ed in the afflicted man two days be-
fore. The symptoms Of meningitis
and the anti-typhoid reaction, it was
said, are nearly identical.
Secretary Bylander of the Missouri
State Fair has been advised that Mrs.
Fred y, Gardner, wife of the governor
of Missouri. will leave the state Of
California September Is, and will rep.
resent Missouri at the historical pa
geant to be given at the fair in Sc
dalia Monday night. September -.
Euily two thousand people will take
part in the pageant.
Men who f%raudulently pretended to
represent the st. Louis Woinen's cen.
trail committee On food conservation,
or the United States food survey, have
obtained considerable quantities Of
canned food and preserves from st.
Louis housewives.
One Of the largest single apple deals
ever contaminated in the Ozark fruit
eeglon was closed when NJ. w. Cald-
well, q broker of Topeka. kas.. pur-
chased $4,000 barrels OF applies In or
chids between Springfield and Aurora,
paying an average price OF 81 per bar
rel.
r. NJ. knight, So years old secretary
of the joint protective board Of the
Brotherhood Of Railway Carmen Of
America, Of the Frisco system. died
suddenly in 4 hotel at Springfield re-
Gently. His home wa. at Sapulpa, OK.
1t cost John Bilyeu, youthful feudist,
$500 to shoot Guy Hilton. July 10. A
jury in Christian County recently
found Bilyeu guilty of the charge Of
~felonious assault.
John d. Dirck. retired Pettis County
farmer who was born in Ohio seventy
tive years ago, is dead of paralysis,
near Sedulia.
The first twelve soldiers from Saline
county were given a reception by citi-
zens OF Marshall on the eve Of their
departure for Camp Funston. The
ministers alliance presented each boy
with a Bible.
Mrs. Virginia Best. rs years old, wild.