Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-08-16
HAPPENlNCS
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IN MISSOURI

Two Boone County children lost
their lives At Columbia recently. Car
rie Frances Forbis. the sIyear-old
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin
FOrbis. "a playing ut the gate On her
fathers farm near Columbia when a
horse. blinded with pinkeye. a
through the gate. The child was
knocked down and crushed to death.
Murray Jones. II years old. an or.
phan. was drowned while bathing
with neighbor girls in Pierce Creek
northwest Of Columbia. She lived on
the farm Of her uncle. Louis Jones.
The road bond issue for 4 million
dollars in Scott County carried BY .
safe majority. II Is proposed TO build
about two hundred and thirty miles
of hard roads with the money. Bonds
will be voted soon in Mississippi
County and New Madrid County has
already voted money for roads which
insures hard roads over the entire
Southeast Missouri.
The West End bank. at University
City, a suburb Of st. Louis. was robbed
of $3.50 by an unmasked bandit. He
pointed a revolver through the win
dow Of the assistant cashier and COM
manded him to hand over the ten and
twenty.dOllar bills. The rObber es.
capped.
Mrs. George HICKEY, IS, wife Of .
farmer residing near Metz. ten miles
southwest of Rich Hill, died recently
| while in the office Of y Rich Hill ply.
stefan.
Crop conditions in Daviess county
continue excellent. The biggest crop
Of oats in the history of the county
has just been harvested. The yield
averaged around sixty bushels. quail
ity fine and the acreage largest ever
grown. The wheat crop was excel
lent, but not large. A big hay crop
OF fine quality is now being harvested.
Local showers and intensive cultiva.
ton give a fine outlook for corn. Some
sections need rain. but the crop Is not
seriously impaired. B~uckwheat, mil.
let and other late planted crops are
doing fine.
Luther Buster, % years old, a wide
ly known farmer living near Callao,
Macon c%ount:, was struck by q motor
Goodson and died as a result of his
injuries.
The officials OF the Missouri State
Fair Association have written to
Theodore Roosevelt urging him to
come to Setlalia Monday, October ..
to deliver an address at the sixteenth
annual state fair on Patriotism Day.
T., w. Lamkin, state superintendent
'of schools. delivered the address at
the graduating exercises of the Spring
field State Normal school recently.
Certificates and diplomas were award.
cd to nearly 800 students.
st. Louis brewers recently said q
thousand saloons in Missouri would
go out Of business If a tax OF $3.50 is
placed on beer as planned by the sen
ate finance committee.
Rock road building In Clay county
Is delayed BY points concerning the
IA million dollar bond issue still be-
fore the supreme court, but thu Clay
county court is getting state aid in
permanent road work. The Liberty
and Kansas City road will be widened
to thirty-two feet and graded from
Liberty to Winnwood under specified.
tons that will meet requirements for
state aid. There will be only one
hill between Kansas City and Liberty
having a grade of more than 5 per
cent.
Corn replanted on overlooked bot.
tom lands in the Charlton Valley Is
good. J. G. Yutz, a farmer zeal Cal.
lao, had thirty acres Of corr destroyed
by the flood. He was unable to re.
plant until July l. His corn now ia
more than twenty-four inches high.
Its growth has been more than an inch
a day. Lowland farmers are conf
dent they will raise AZ good crops az
though floods had not drowned them
out. The losses. which had been esti
mated at thousands, will nearly all be
made good by the development Of re-
planted fields.
DR.. d. +. Menefee, o Of Mont
gOmery county, received Il telegram
notifying him to report at Fort Riley
August 10. having been selected al
surgeon with the rank OF lieutenan,
in the United States army.
Even in strong German communi
ties. breweries are finding It hard tC
make things go, and the old Kr0pI
Brewery at Hermann Is no more. Car
penters have bought the old site
which included thirty building lots
for $4,000.
Prof. Abner Jones Of the University
Of Missouri, Is dead ut Columbia, fol