Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-01-31
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IN MISSOURI

Watch YOU grocer's window. Be
sure he has signed the retail grocer's
pledge" This Is the request OF +. B.
MumfOrd, federal fuel administrator
for Missouri. Returns show that 1850
retail grocers in Missouri have pledged
themselves to give customers fair and
moderate prices.
Homer McMannis and Marvin Nc
Mannis, brothers, OF Nevada, who were
convicted in the federal court at Jop-
lin of failing to register for the ma
tional army. have been sentenced by
Judge Arba s. VanValkenburgh' to
serve one year in the federal prison
at L~eavenw0rth, kas.. and each fined
$500.
DIR. Edmund A. Eneler, 61 years old.
treasurer of Washington University
and secretary of the Washington Uni
versity Corporation, is dead of heart
disease, He contributed largely to
scientific publications.
Coal dealers from all parts Of Mis-
souri, met recently at St. Louis to
form a state organization TO q "copper"
ate with the state fuel administrator
in supplying fuel to all sections of the
state. The state organization will
conduct a campaign to educate con
sumers in methods of economy in the
use of fuel.
Lon V. McCorkle, a farmer, r. years
Old. who served through the Civil war
under Quantrell, and who a also a
cousin OF Jim and Cole Younger, Is
acah at fayette, after a short illness.
Afford T. Ford, So years old, is dead
! 1900 he was a commission salesman
J .or the Union Pacific Stock Yards in
i. st. Louis.
t In 1917, 35.0G8, coo gallons Of kero.
sene and Ct .3l3,G50 gallons OF gasoline
t we're sold in Missouri, according to
he state oil inspectors report. The
inspection fees aggregated S2i3,711.9G,
Western Missouri will be ready fol
he second draft call by February 10
= ...n,,t;,,. .yfE;ps.1, ~, ;n evitu nf thr
iact that hundreds Of appeals, sent
: IL from rural counties, will delay the
formation OF large reserves of Glass
. men. Some Kansas City divisions
will be ready TO begin physical eX
' aminations before the end of mex
week. The district board reports tina
: appeals are now coming in with fuilel
iata, making more rapid decision pos
a sible.
II A ring and tie pin, valued at 100
are missing from the effects of job
.. ". Jewell. Both were worn by Jewel
when he called at the Funston banF
It is believed. Efforts to locate tn
g Iewelry have been futile.
e. Samuel X. Billiard, for many year
1t superintendent for the Missouri, kar
,as & Texas Railroad. is dead at hi
v acme in Los Angeles, Cal. He wa
e IS years old.
h B. r. Burton, county clerk of Der
L. on County, is dead at his home nea
id Racket. Mr.. Burton had been IL
he more than a year.
he George II. Carson. aged 81, died a
s. Columbia recently. He was said {
$. De the last of the survivors OF Don
TX Jhan's expedition to Mexico. He wa
in a~McbheW of the frontierSman, Is
Ne Carson, aud a granddaughter Of DAME
H. Boone. He died at the home of Mr.
IN II. \. Collier. The body was taken I
Sc T'ayette for b}siaI. Carson was Dor
" il Howard County and VAS 10 yea,
u, Did when he joined l)oniphan's exp
re iitiCn,
X.
Representatives from the variol
H. owns of Carroll County met at Ca
he .ol!ton recently and organized Ii
az CARROLL County Home Guards.
nd Henry II. Loudcnhack, foXlder ar
". i~irector of the l%.oudenback School
lie. Music at Atchison, kas, has been a
AZ pointed director OF music at Christie
m. College" Columbia. lie began his ne
tie iuties at once.
-" Produce sold in 1917 by Mrs. r.
ter Dunlap, a Galway county farmer
wife, from three hundred hel
amounted to $l,0S2. Each hen la
NJ. IN average OF one hundred and for
,,a Eggs in the twelve morihs. .
Jesse Prunty and II. Il. Funk
Perry, H., were sentenced to twen'
i've years In prison by n jury in d
". circuit court at Mexico. They we
charged with robbing the bank
~ Farber, November II last.
IA James Sloan. a pioneer hotel nj
lrd At Excelsior Springs, Is dead at t
he lge Of 80. He operated a hack II
o Liberty before the railroad car
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