Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-04-26
HAPPENINGS
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IN MISSOURI

IN H1SSVV
County Superintendent c. ". &c
rroskey has advised teachers OF all
rural schools in Greene county to Per-
nit boys TO take their examinations at
once that they may be available fer
farm work.
Harry Harris. a laborer, was fined
30 and costs and sentenced To serve
thirty DAYS in the Jasper county Jail
recently upon being found guilty in a
Justice court Of a charge Of insulting
the American flag.
c. H. Wortz. head OF a company
owning and operating biscuit plants
in st. Joseph and Fort Smith. Ark.
has rendered the government the EN-
tire use OF both Of them for any pur-
pose 1t desires.
Fifty members of the Central Mis-
souri, Fox Hunters Club met in Sc
dalia and decided to hold their an
nual meeting at Arrow Rock, Saline
county. beginning Monday. May IS,
and continuing the entire week.
Ffty-six sticks of dynamite were
found recently neal a Wabash railroad
bridge at the east entrance OF Forest
Park, in ST. Louis. The police made
! the matter public.
Charles ". Tuck, a Missouri Pacific
engineer, who was stricken with par
alysis last January is dead in Sedalia.
He was As years old. His wife and
two children survive him,
Mrs. James r. Walker. 81 years old.
one Of the oldest residents Of Greene
County. is dead. She had been mar
ried sixty.three years. Her husband.
who still survives, was deputy venue
collector for many years.
The University Of Missouri has ar
ranged with Maj. Charles Castle and
Capt. J. c. King, United States army
officers stationed here, to give mill
tary instruction to all upper classmen
as well as the first-year men.
Mrs. Mary Warren. whose husband,
Andrew L. Warren. reappeared sud
denly three weeks ago, after an alb
sence of ten years and only a few
days after an order Of the circuit
court had declared him to be legally
dead, has been ordered to restore to
the Order Of Railway Conductors the
: insurance she collected on her hus-
' bands life. Mrs, Warren's counsel.
who got one-half the Judgment as at
: torneys' fees. were made defendants
In the order made by Judge Arch
: Johnson In the circuit court Ut Spring
field.
!. Mrs. James B. Mockhee. supervisor
Of city gardening, reports more thar
five hundred vacant lots given and as
= signed for vegetable raising in th'
7 city. There is a demand for ever;
available unoccupied foot OF ground il
- Sedalia.
~ A patriotic demonstration was he'll
Mt at Poplar Bluff recently in which ST,
r. thousand clerks. business men, fat
81 tory employees, school children, farm
~ ers and residents Joined. PRACTICAL
III every factory and business hous
y, closed for two hours.
nd .
y" Because OF the war and delay
~ getting the materials from the Orier
for the made in Japan" banque
journalism week a, the University {
- Missouri has been postponed CT
week. 1t will be held May II to l
The Sedalia Chamber Of Conimert
=. has appointed a committee TO rails
$50 900 to stock the farms of pett
~ county with pure blooded HolSte'
- cows. in the interest Of more milk ar
~ cream for the home supply,
n. F. f. Lewis. who WINS 100 acres
land in Howell county, offers to d
,ls nate free all or part Of the land
-. the government to be used for al
purpose whatever. Or. It ID availat
TO responsible persons who agree
~ employ the land continuously in I
production Of foodstuffs. The offer
for the period Of the wal.
George Z. Hsckmann. state audit
today was acquitted Of the charge
fraud in office. based on alleged dee
~ while he was county clerk OF War;
~ county.
As a westbound Chicago & Alt
train was passing through the weste
part Of Marshall someone threw
stone through a window into q pass
ger coach. The stone struck a won
on the arm, inylicting slight injuries
John Taubman, 70 years old. is d.
at his home in Lexington. Mr.. Ia
.-m. man had beel a resident OF that
for many years. He was city marsl
.;s., ..,i,Scr aod <voocOror mAyOr.