Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-13
Annapolis News.

Ed. RegiSter-W. II. Simpson is the
proud father of bouncing baby boy
born last Monday. Mr.. Simpson says
it's another Republican.
John FOWL is in town visiting home
folks; he looks natural and appears to
be in good spirits.
Fritz Warnke borrowed a Winchester
rifle the other day and with it present
ed at the breast of August Lott threat
ened to do him up. Lott caught the
gun and struck Warnke with a horse
shoe which he had in his hand, and
then ensued a rough and tumble fight.
Warnke plead guilty to assault and
was fined 50 and costs in the Mayors
court. There is a standing feud be-
tween Wanke and Lott caused by jeal-
ousy.
d. A. johnson and Frank Smith went
to ST. Louis last week.
Quite a number of the citizens of the
village went to Ironton Saturday.
Mrs. Eustice Rockwell returned home
from her visit 20 her sick father last
week. Her father is somewhat imprOv-
ed in health.
John McManus was in town last
week. He has been to the railroad
hospital.
Rev. Mills of the M. E. church was
in town last week; he started on his
way to Colorado, where he hopes to
have his shattered health restored.
He leaves many friends behind him
here and no enemies.
Will Warren and wife are visiting
his mother, Mrs. j. j. Francis. Will
married since he left here, but he looks
quite natural.
Did you ever help to clean an old
well, Mr.. Editor? No? Then you have
missed a valuable experience. We
had that experience last week; after
trying for more than two months to
hire some one to do the work we found
two young stout fellows who promised
to do it the next day. Well, they
came and brought pump with them,
but, as the well was under roof, they
tore off couple of weather-boards and
tried to get the pump in, but no go.
After about two hours vain endeavor
they laid the pump down in the yard
and went off, and that was the way we
found things when we came in from
work that evening. We hunted one of
the boys up after supper and he inform
ed us that, failing to get the pump in,
they drawed with bucket for about
two hours and being unable to lower
the water they gave it up as bad job.
Well, we got him to promise to clean
out the well if we would draw out the
water, so the next morning, with the
assistance of Mrs. murphy" we turn
ed to and drew out the water in about
two hours, and then our helper came
and went down and loaded the bucket.
while we did the drawing. and this is
what we brought to light: One brass
kettle, one joint of stovepipe, one barn
door hinge, two dinner buckets, five
glass tumblers, eight tin dippers, be-
sides various other buckets and pans
too numerous to mention. some scrap
iron and few sticks of wood. Then
the next job was to make a curb with a
lid to keep the we'll from being used as
a repository for odds and ends. After
a sufficient amount OF lum-
Der and nails, we sawed the boards to
the proper length, and began mailing
them together. When the curb was
about done the hammer flew off and lit
on the thumb of our left hand that hap
pened to be laying around in the way,
split the nail and knocked the skin off,
and geewhiz! after flying around like a
OF wood-peckers and talk
ing to the hammer like the Savior did
to the barren fig tree, we subsidized and
finished the curb very much subdued.