Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-01-24
AAPPEMNCS
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IN MISSOURI

Uel W. Lambkin. Missouri sts3o 80.
p~oglntondent of schools, held q meet
Ing In the board OF education offices
at Kansas City recently which ~
attended by superintendents OF schools
from Carthage. Hannibal. st. Joseph.
Springfield. st. Louis. Joplin and So
dalia. The meeting was for the pur.
pose OF making plans for vocational
instruction of drafted men in lines Of
trade n which they have had expert.
ence.
Three lei are dead and q fourth
is not expected to recover as . result
Of their falling two hundred feet to
the bottom OF q shaft Of the Mahut.
ska mine near Picher, Ok. the other
night. The dead are Herbert Crow.
ley, Jacob Clancy and Perry Bruton.
Louis Davis is in a hospital at Joplin.
All lived in Pitcher. The four were
being lowered into the mine In q tub
when the brake on the hoist failed to
work.
Every pound of coal in Missouri is
under the full control of Wallace
Crossley, state fuel administrator, &C.
cording to word received by him from
Federal Fuel Administrator Garfield.
He has been vested with absolute au-
thority to confiscate or consign this
commodity as he deems necessary.
and the order contemplates the posi-.
bility of furnishing relief to any com
nunity in the state that faces . coal
bnine.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Fl. Kavanaugh
celebrated their fiftieth wedding an.
%niversary at Versailles recently. They
were married in Morgan County and
have lived there ever since. Five chill.
dren are living.
Because Hollands Island is cut of
from communication William Ethridge
Parks of that place walked sixty miles,
most OF the way over Ice fields, to fill
out his QUESTIONABLE at Cambridge.
Barton BELLS, 81 years old, a resi-
dent of Missouri since 1874, died re
Gently at his home near Bean Lake
He was aMn in Kentucky, and mar
ried Miss Lucinda Jane Brown in Mis-
souri, in 1858.
Mrs. Sarah Angie Durham, 70 years
old, the wife of the Rev. w. II. Burn
ham, dean Of the Baptist ministry o
Galloway county and a student of viii
liam Jewell college sixty years ago, II
dead.
The Valley Park bank at Vale.
Park, heal St. Louis, has been close
by State Bank Commissioner Eaton
7 who said he had not investigated it
affairs closely enough to make a def
mite statement as to its condition.
Claude Piersol. under sentence t
the penitentiary for the kidnapping o
. Lloyd Keet, and Taylor Adams, who
awaiting trial for alleged complicit
in the crime, have been confined t
inner cells of the Webster county jai
, at Marshfield and many of their priv.
.eges taken from them. According t
. Sheriff Mackey, he overheard Piersc
and Adams plotting to make their ..
cape. He said he heard Adams as
Piersol the best means to effect a jat
delivery and Piersol suggested I
Adams that Adams knock the sherii
down with a club.
q This first levee OF any size built i
Galloway county to protect low land
from Missouri river floods was finisl
q ed at a cost of $4,000. 1t is know
y rs ReveauX Drainage District aud pr
tects $40 acres Of land. The cost wa
v $1l,62 an acre and the bill was pal
d BY property owners directly.
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A course for retired teachers VIII
are needed to fill vacancies caused b
a army enlistments has opened at III
g State Normal School in Springfield
d President W. T. Darlington has ha
!. more calls for teachers both In pr
2 mary and secondary grades than II
school can fill.
The Landmark at Platte City, or
n Of the Oldest country papers in M
g souri,, has been sold to Max Jone
It The purchaser has been with the p
n per as an employee for twenty.sevt
q years. The Landmark was establisht
2 In 1866.
~ c. 3. Smith. a widely known farm,
~ of nea Poplar Bluff. is dead Of hea
disease. Mr.. Smith owned sever
=, thousand acres of land in that sectit
and for many years al secretary
r. G. Dun 4 Co. of st. Louis.
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Thomas Bailey, % years old, U