Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-06-21
HAPPENlNCS
the eveek
IN MISSOURI

promises q yield Of only about 10000
900 bushels. prospects for all Missouri
crops are fair. according to the month
y crop report issued by ". L. Nelson.
assistant secretary Of the state board
Of agriculture.
st. Joseph gets the state convention
of the Missouri Christian Missionary
Society for 1918. The Rev. a. W.
Kokendorffer of Sedalia was elected
president of the state organization for
1918. Other officers are: Vice-presi-
dent, E. F. Leake. Independence; re-
cording secretaries, II. A. Browning.
La Plata. and w. C. Gibbs. Columbia:
railroad secretary, Ernest +. Elliott,
Kansas City; corresponding secretary.
II. b. Briney. Kansas City.
Jesse Miller. 70 years old. was in.
stantly killed when his team ran away
In a cornfield where he was working
on a farm southwest of Lamonte re.
Gently.
Trouble broke out anew at the
Brown shoe factory the other morning
when strikers attempted to prevent
%non.union workers from entering the
plant. A woman striker was stabbed.
Further trouble was anticipated.
The Rev. George Campbell of Hanni-
bal was elected president of the State
Ministerial Association OF the Chris
tian Church at the close OF the final
session of associations two days con-
vention at Mexico. Other officers
elected were James Williams of Jop-
lin, vice president, and +. u. Hull OF
St. Joseph, secretary treasurer. These
men, with 3. A. Abbott OF st. Louis
and w. w. White of Boonville, COM
pose the executive committee Of the
) organization.
, "Bennie" Ellis, IL years cid, in jump
ing from a Missouri Pacific freight
train at Rich Hill was caught beneath
g the wheels and fatally injured. lie
3 lived only a few hours.
q The Fulton commercial club decided
II unanimously not TO hold a fall street
X fair and home coming. 1t bough
Liberty bonds with the $50 remaining
$ in the fair fund from last year,
le Prof. Martin w. Schmidt. of the fac
~ ulty of ST. Louis University, was ano
" three times in the head by a highway
IL nrrr- the other night. His condition
is critical.
II An electric storm in Butler count.
:. recently destroyed considerable prof.
erty. The large tent erected for Tn
Scovil!e %evangelistic meeting in Poi
lar Bluff was torn down and paTtl
Wa destroyed.
E, George c. Howenstein, "A, forme
inn mayor of Carthage and a veteran {
:, the Civil war, died in that city {
,nt heart trouble. He vas a pioneer res
dent of Southwest Missouri, havir
settled there shortly after the end
the war.
-. Harry Price, 2s years old. Of c
MARCO, Ill.,, was killed near Mexico I
a. an eastbound Wabash train. Prit
,- was assistant foreman of a constru
,or ton crew for the Western Union lie
ate graph Company.
The fast Wabaah train from kans'
City to st. Louis was wrecked by
lid. broken rail near Montgomery recei
~. Several persons were injure
q Six coaches left the track.
den
,rty Edward Wilson. a farmer of ne
IL McAllister, was found dead near
cen ford On Blackwater. His horse "
found dead near by, There were
has marks of violence on Wilson's boz
as and the cause of death is a mystic
bic
son BABY Lloyd Keet, whose life was
toll exacted by %abductors. was bur
at Springfield recently. Thousands
Springfield citizens were at st. Pal
ton Methodist Episcopal church, where
this services were held, and In the cort'
ion. that followed the little white cas-
the to the Maple Park cemetery.
!, in The proposition to vote 100000
vice. permanent roads in Scott county '
269,- defeated at the polls recently by alb
mp. two hundred votes This is the +
49, election in the state under the Ha'
ton. law.
),975
A proposal to issue s225,o0o w
Of bonds to repair the municipal c
trio light plant and another to aW
con. A private corporation now operating
el OF Joplin, a 5.year contract to furl
told power to the city were defeated !
petit special election there recently.
! the
COM A dozen work,ouso prisoners v
hem. injured in st. Louis In a riot that
and ean, the guards said. when a nj
and 4 white man started a qua
the Two fire departments were called
and quieted the rioters.
j. -, Despondent because the bad We
4, 90. er kept him out Of his fields, !
~ Crockett, IS years old, hanged
ittee, sell near 'a'is
WITH, The will Of James ]. Butler, FOL
iquor CONGRESSMAN and son Of Edward