Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-03-27
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Who wants to vote for roadoverseer, any
how?-we mean, inside of the corporations.
There will be services at the Ironton N
Z. Church, next Sunday at IL A. NJ, and al
1:30 p. NJ. All are invited.
NJ. J. Crews, Graniteville, Mo-, still con-
tinues to unload his entire stock of shoes
for less than manufacturing prices.
Once more the buds are swelling and the
bees are slipping the sweets from open flow
ers. Shall there come another killing frost
County Court met last Monday, as per
notice, and settled with the Collector, the
footlngs of whose figures are given else
where.
The railroad Is very busy just now, haul
ing more freight than usual. For six
months, or more, there has been no such
rush as is now whooping up the boys.
Capt. W. III. Byers went to Philadelphia
last week in response to Il telegram announc-
ing the death of a brother-in-law. The
Captain will probably return home this
week,
Work is very dull at Pilot Knob at pres
ent; less then half time is all the workmen
Ihe future are brighter than the present out
look Indicates.
W. III. Reese, Esq, is in the City this week,
in attendance on the L. 5. Court petit
Juror. The exigencies of Government will
probably detain him in the Future Great
for two or three weeks.
We regret to hear, from letter written
m nf piti Inv Ar
at Townsville, Ga, that Mrs. p. is not i'm
proving in health, as was hoped. They will
probably return to ST. Louis in a short time.
Sci. TuaI, of Arcadia, has been very sick
first, from the grippe, and then from some
of the complications which so frequently
follow the attack of that disease. His friends
will be glad to hear that he Is now GONZALES
cent.
Our old friend, 'U-ncle" Geo. S. Evans,
returned to home and friends i'll this section
last Sunday. All are glad to greet him once
more. He has been sojourning III SteelyilIe
for a year past. He will be with us for sew
eral weeks.
At his settlement with the County Court
Hast Monday, Collector Buford returned de-
Einquent only SI61.91 taxes on real estate,
and S990S on personal property. This is
one Of the closest collections ever made =
971s per cent of all the taxes.
The Iron Mountain Cornet Band will give
an Easter Ball at Schaper's Hall, Monday
evening, April 9Th. All their friends may
feel assured that good time awaits those
who are invited and attend. The Invitations
will be issued this week. Admission, one
dollar.
Squire Jno. b. Hampton, Annapolis, was
in Ironton Tuesday in attendance upon the
county court. He reports high water and
lots of rain down there, but that the damage
done might have been much greater. All
the people down his way are peaceable, and
NEARLY ali tariff reformers.
Thos. B. Prnitt, city marshal, is congrat-
uiating himself, and his friends are congrat-
ulating him, upon the advent of little girl
into his household, which event occurred
last Thursday night. But probably the
proudest of the whole "freundschaft" is
Aunt Allie. Mother and babe are well.
The county court was in session yester-
dav (Tuesday) sitting court de luRdticO
ino1tirendO in the cases of Airs. Jacob Wells,
of Annapolis, and Mrs. Frank Meacy, of Ar
.csdia Township. After a careful hearing
both the defendants were adjudged insane,
and will be consigned to the asylum at Full
ton as soon as the necessary arrangements
can be made.
Payday at Pilot Knob on Saturday last;
but then pay day now is hardly noticeable.
1t is not like days of yore, when the Ore Il
Steel Company paid out over $4,000 each
month 20 their employees. Those days may
come again when the Company sink shafts
on some of the diamond drill holes, which
certainly have something besides porphyry
rock in them.
On Monday before Squire Dinger. was fin
ished the preliminary hearing of Robert
williams, colored, charged with assault
vpon Amanda Vandergriff. white, with in
tent to rape. DEPENDENT was held to await
action of the Grand Jury, and bond fixed at
5000. Unable 10 fill the bond, be was re-
manded to Jail. Edgar and Walker repre-
scented defendant.
The preparations for the ore washing at
Pilot Knob are progressing very nicely In
ease the Company is not delayed in waiting
for the machinery, everything Wiz be TN
gshsd and in working order within two
weeks. The water supply will be taken
from the air shaft at the old mine. The
pipes are already laid to where the hydrau-
lie washing will bs put in operation.
Al Piedmont last week Judge Thomas de-
cided that the Wood Local Option ssy was
not in force in Wayne county. He based the
decision upon the fact that the county court
OF that county had failed to make and enter
any order of record after the election show
ing its adoption and ordering the publication
of such order The order made read that
Snow at this Gsy the court orders the clerk
to publish the local option law in the Green
willie Journal for four weeks \ very good
order. what there was of it; but II didn't
cover the case.
At the last September term of the wayne
county circuit court, the Prosecuting Attor-
ney and Grand Jury being satisfied that the
focal option law was not in force, seyerai IN
dietments were found under the Downing
saw for abe illegal sale of whiskey. Last
week those eases were tried, and though the
state proved the sale of what ''looked like
whiskey, smelt like whiskey, tasted Ike