Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-01-10
HAPPENINGS
tie tOeek
IN MISSOURI

Council OF Defense was notified that
Superintendent OF Public instruction
Lampkin has revoked the life teach
er's certificate OF ]. A. Lind. a rural
teacher Of that county. who had .
hearing before the state superinten.
dent ON charges of d~isloyalty. Lind
has been teaching under tbs life Ger.
tificate since 1886 and for a number Of
years was q member of the high
school faculty at MOberiy. but more
recently he has been employed in the
rural schools of Linn county. He is
not a German, but is a native Ameri.
ran Of Swedish ancestry.
Irwin H. Shaw, a former student Of
the University of Missouri. who went
to France with the first squad Of
American ayiators. died of ptomaine
poison on November 20. according to
. recent telegram from the adjutant
general at Washington. Mr.. Shaw
went into the aviation service from
Ava, Mo. He was In the signal SIR.
vice In France.
Wallace Crossley, federal fuel i'd.
ministrator for Missouri. who was in
Kansas City recently comforting with
local coal dealers, made the statement
that the general fuel situation In Mis-.
souri, Is fairly good. Most OF the dis
tress orders, he said. have been quick
ly handed. Mr.. Crossley is Of the
opinion that the taking over Of the
railroads will materially help the stu.
alton.
The county court has designated
January "a as the date for holding a
special election In Buchanan county
for the purpose Of voting on a promo,
sition to issue bonds to the amount q
2 million dollars for the building and
improvement Of roads in the county.
A carelessly dropped match, which
fell into inflammable sweeping com.
pound, caused a fire in the Wabash
Depot at Chillicothe which destroyed
the building. A fire hydrant neal the
station was frozen.
Although she is u years old. Mrs.
NJ. c. Baker, nea Fulton, has knitted
%fifty.seven garments for soldiers since
last summer. She also knitted In the
Civil War.
George H, Daniel. 40 years old, is
dead at Springfield. He was clerk Of
the Springfield Court of Appeals and
for the last four years has been sec
rotary of the state bar association.
Mrs. John Jay Rice. Ga years Old.
who was born at independence and
was the wife Of the dean of Westmln-
ster College, is dead at Fulton.
AS a result to the findings of a
Fulton abstracter employed by r. NJ.
Crump, assessor of Galloway county,
to unearth hidden notes and mort.
cages held on Galloway county per.
son by outsiders 1t was revealed that
Jackson county has fully $150,00o
earning interest here, a large part Of
which has been hidden from the as.
SCISSOR. Audrain county had $4,000
lent in Galloway that also will be
taxed this year for the first time and
other counties have equally large
amounts.
Charles Meyer, captain of a St.
Louis salvage company, and William
Belrose. a member OF the company,
were killed when the salvage wagon
on which they were riding was struck
by an automobile. The two men were
responding to a fire alarm.
Claude Piersol, convicted of kidnap-
ing baby Lloyd Keet, has confessed.
The Keet baby, he said, was poisoned
by laudanum, administered to quiet it.
A movement has been launched 10
unite all women's clubs and civil or
CARNATIONS Of the state In an appeal
to the War Department to return Mis-
souri's soldiers from Fort Riley and
Fort Sill to a Missouri encampment
where they will receive proper care.
The government will also be request
ed to send NO pore Missouri mel to
those camps.
Farm cheesemaking offers oppor.
tunity for saving large quantities Of
food which otherwise would 80 to
waste. A surplus Of milk Is produced
on practically every farm. This sur
plus Is usually fed to hogs. In view
Of the meat shortage. milk makes an
expensive feed for hogs. when It
could be made Into cheese which IL
meat substitute.
Icilious Archibald Bryan, So years
old. great,great.grandson Of Daniel
Boone, and father Of H. NJ. Bryan, dis
trict manager Of the Bell Telephone
Company 1t Sedalia, died recently,
His mother, Elizabeth Galway. .
daughter Of Jemima Boone, WAS oncs
carried away by the Indians.
Three brothers. Charles, z, Leonard,
II, and Otto. II. sons Of Mr.. and Mr..
John Sharpe, were drowned In the
Missouri River, neal Watson. while
skating. Other boys near by were I'M
able to save the brothers when the ice
broke.