Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-02-07
HAPPENINGS
Of tie tveek
IN MISSOURI

dollars In bonds TO De used IN con
structing hard surfaced roads under
the HAYES Good Roads Law. The
vote in st. Joseph was 1850 for the
bonds to 1.026 against them. and In
the county outside the city the totals
were 2,238 for the bonds and 4l6
against them.
Edward Perine, IS years odd, wa
killed by a ledge Of slate weighing Q
ton falling on him the other afternoon
in a coal mine three miles east OF
Columbia.
James Monroe Manley. the 2l-year.
old son of G. G. Manley, a Pettis
County farmer. is dead of pneumonia
ut Fort Sill. Ok. He enlisted In Sa-
dalia last August in Company D.
14Oth Infantry.
Fire Of unknown origin totally de.
stroyed the PIERCE City High School
recently, entailing a loss of more than
$4,000. The fire was discovered about
Z O'Clock. and firemen who arrived on
the scene Immediately afterward were
helpless because Of a frozen water
plug.
Brig. Gen. Samuel Woodson Price,
veteran of the Civil War, is dead at
the home of his son, Robert c. Price,
in st. Louis, after an illness of five
months, due to arterio s%clerosis. Gen
eral Price was SO years old. He was
blinded in the battle Of kenesaw
Mountain.
Fire destroyed the printers shop
and the planning mill of Conception
I Abbey the other day. Students OF
Conception College helped save many
instruments, machines and tools. In
surance covers the greater part of the
loss.
Robert Darr, So years old, died at
Carrollton the other morning after a
brief illness. He was a Mason sixty
four years.
Dean Eldon r. James of the school
of law, University of Missouri, an,
nonnced he had accepted the position
Of legal adviser to the Siamese gov.
eminent. He has been granted a
leave OF absence from the university
for n year. While his contract with
Siam calls for only one years services.
it is probable he will remain there
much longer. He and Mrs. James will
sail for Siam early in March and he
will begin his duties there about April
Is.
Taylor Adams and his son, Cletus
Adams, charged with kidnapping Baby
Lloyd Keet and also with conspiring
to abduct c. A. Clement, a Springfield
jeweler, entered pleas Of guilty TO the
latter charge before Judge G. II,
Skinker in the circuit court at Marsh
field. Taylor Adams was sentenced
to fifteen years in the penitentiary
and Cletus Adams to ten years.
James flasher, a packing house
workman of st. Joseph, slashed his
wife's throat with a razor and then
cut his WI throat, following a quar-
rel. Both are dead. -Four small chill
dren are orphaned by the deed.
Captain W. II. Feagans. 70 years
old, an old resident Of Macon County
is dead at Macon. He was a Civil War
veteran and engrossing clerk of the
state senate for many years.
Prof. Clyde NJ. Hall. former instruc.
tor Of the Springfield Normal School,
has been elected president to succeed
w. T. Darlington. This action was
taken at a meeting of the board oil
trustees several days ago, but it was
not made public until now.
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Mrs. Mary Martin, a former artist
of note at Springfield, was found froz
en- to death in her home recently. She
was G5 years old and had refused to
be cared for by neighbors.
Thomas l.. Gillespie, q veteran OF
the Cviil War, died at u Chillicothe
factory, where ne had gone to take
his son.in.law's dinner. He was u
years old and had been u resident Of
the city thirty-five years.
Announcement was made recently
that r. b. Llley had resigned as gen
eral manager Of the st. Louis Repub'
lie. NJ. p. Linn, advertising manager
OF the Republic, succeeds Mr.. Lilley.
Miss Bernice Jennings. II years old,
graduate Of the Frisco training school
at Springfield, has been placed in
charge of the Aurora station as tele'
graph operator and ticket cashier.
William Walton, about 20 years Of
age, died suddenly the other day In
q physicians office at Moberly. Mr.,
Walton resided in Higbee, and was q
coal dealer.