Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-14

On the first page OF this paper is an arti
Gle taken from the Republic, headed, SO.
Private Home Market" Since it was print
ed the De Soto Gazette, Bro. Flynn, editor
says it does the Crystal Glass Company in
| justice, in that the ad. from which the price
are taken had not been revised for seyera
selling as cheaply as anybody. II is bu
fair to state that this is reasonable expla
nation. We know that while the St. Loui
Ore and Steel Company partly under tn
| same management-ran its store here. il
goods were as good, and its prices as low
as those OF other stores. Yet the article al
| luded to may point moral, since the pres
ent condition of things makes it possible TO
employers to gouge under the pluck m
| SYSTEM: and some of them take all the ad
vantage gwen them by vicious and ADVENT
| tious legislation.
The Council had rather spirited meetin
Monday afternoon. Messrs. Collins ant
Baldwin, both members of the Street Com
mittee, presented bills aggregating $50 TO
hauling gravel. The Marshal objected to thu
allowing of the bills, claiming that the team
sters did not haul as much as they charged
for by three cubic feet on each load. Or
this statement by the Marshal the Council
refused to pay the bills entire. but agreed t
allow them in part, and then if the teamster:
could pre- uce witnesses to show that they
had hauled full cubic yard at each load tC
give them the difference hereafter. This
proposition was accepted by Mr.. Collins, but
poll yrin Z; H.; l.;
over. The difference in the amount claimed
in both bills and the sum the Council agreed
to pay is about $40. 4 resolution was also
passed instructing the Street Committee not
to spend more than $40 on any one piece of
work without first obtaining leave and ad-
vice from the Council.
About year ago Mr.. A. NJ. Wickline, who
formerly owned the Lott farm, a couple of
miles southeast of town, sold his property
i'll this section and moved to a point near
Arkansas City, Kansas. Nothing in partic-
ular has been heard from him for some
time and telegram which appeared in last
Wednesdays Star Sayings has occasioned
considerable comment among the acquaint-
auces of Mr.. Wickline who fear that the Mrs.
Wickline there referred to is the wife of the
former resident of this vicinity. Following
is the telegram in full as it appears in the
Sayings:
ARKANSAS CITY, Kas., May 6.-Last night
- farmers met in the Spring Lick school
house determined to ferret out the scoun
drels who Drutally attacked Mrs. Wickline
on SUNDAY evening. y Vigilance Committee
was formed, and two men believed to have
the crime are under close sur
veilance.
Mrs Wickline is not expected to live. Her
skull is fractured, and this and the other in
juries she has sustained have kept her I'M
nearly all of the time. The farm
ers are aroused and are determined to take
justice into their own hands.
ID. VI. Lee, of Lestervile, Reynolds county,
quite well known to fame as "a Doctor of
and Divinity as well as an adept
in several other professions, went up to
Graniteville last week on visit to his son,
and while there proceeded to take on an al
cohol booze. When the demon drink got
full possession of him, he proceeded to make
things lively and drove his newly married
wife from the house. She came down to
Ironton Saturday and swore out a warrant
charging her liege lord with disturbing the
peace. Constable Baldwin quickly repaired
to Granitevile, where, after a little search,
be found the old man lying in table yard,
fast asleep, with quart bottle of ale hol
within his reach. The constable awahrue
he lido ctor," and got him in the wagon,
Dut not without considerable protest on the
part of the drunken man, who divided his
ime in cursing the officer of the law and
vengeance on the "woman from
illinois," who had come over here to get his
estate. Ironton was reached without seri-
,us mishap, however, and Lee was placed
n Jail where he soon became sound asleep.
Next morning he awoke with a parched
throat, scorching fever and swollen head,
and it was while in this condition that he
ndited the following pathetic and original
ines to Sheriff Fisher:
Mine eyes [ so seldom can close,
By sorrow forbidden to sleep,
Soon will be sealed i'll eternal repoSe,
And surely will then cease to weep.
/ am treated wrongfully. | am just
man. | am an honest man. | am truth
ful man. never bother any mans business,
out "do unto all men, as | would wish them
10 do unto me-" This is nv religion. All
my neighbors will say all of this for me. [
,m poor man, and an old man, not able
20 work; | have no companion, thought L
was getting one, but have been awfu.lv
fooled. | am DIR. ID. NJ. Lee. But | board
1t home! Please, my dear friend, give Inc
ny alcohol, to stimulate my feelings over
my troubles, and you will find me, all the
way, behaving myself like a Christian gen
leman. | have the money to pay all eX
)enses, and believe YOU are gentleman
to grant this reasonable request.
ID. NJ. LEE.
OF course Mr.. Fisher couldn't resist such
IN appeal as this. Who could? And he
provided the DR.. with a little of the ''need
ul." Monday morning, the prosecuting
attorney having received word that the
State witness had skipped out and would
lot he on hand to testify, the "oId man"
vas allowed to plead guilty, receive light
sentence and proceed on his way to Reynolds
county, more alcohol and good time.
Look out for the new stock of Summer
foods at Lopez's. Mrs. Lopez is now in
he city buying.
Personal.
Mr.. l. II Johnson of Rprk1ev Kentucky