Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26
Annapolis News.

Ed. Regtster-W. r. Edgar and j.
| b. Walker were in town Monday OF
last week on legal business.
Thos. Dempsy of Sabula is the proud
father of a new baby girl. All parties
doing we'll.
Mrs. Wallace Keathly was in town
Thursday.
Mrs. Night of Crane Pond was in
town. the guest of Mrs. d. A. johnson,
| a short time during the past week.
Jesse McGlothlin and Marion Lewis
each has very sore fingers, but from
different causes. Jesse mashed his
finger. while Marion is the victim of a
bone fellon.
VIM. Landers of Sabula also has a
very sore hand. While making a
wedge he cut his thumb nearly off
with an ak.
John Alcorn, the road supervisor of
this district, made an attempt last
Wednesday to open the fence at the
place where the new road is laid out
to cross the railroad. about mile south
of Sabula. He was met by the section
men and ordered to stop(they having Or
ders to prevent any interference on the
part of the county road authorities).
This attempt and prevention being
deemed necessary to throw the mat
ter into the courts.
am requested to say that there will
be a gathering at the grave yard on
the first of May. for the purpose of
clearing off the grounds that was be-
gun last year. All parties are request
ed to bring dinner and stay all day and
make the occasion one of pleasure as
we'll as one of duty and labor of love.
If the weather should be inclement on
the first, then come on the second of
May.
A telegram Thursday from Leeper
announced the death of VIM. Francis,
who lived near Cottonville, little sta
ton on Clarkson's lumber road. Mr..
Francis being a member of Granite
Lodge. /. o. D. F., meeting was call
ed and j. S. Benson and your cores
spondent were delegated to go down and
take charge of the corpse, and (that
being the desire of the widow, to
bring it to Annapolis for interment.
Accordingly, we boarded No. SO at
2:35 Friday morning, and at about 4:30
arrived at Leeper, where, after taking
a hasty breakfast, (hasty because we
had to wait until nearly train time for
it, we boarded the log train and start
ed for Cottonville. Seymour Malcolm
was the conductor. Mr.. Malcolm is
we'll known along the line of this road,
being an old l. NJ, brakeman. We al
so found an old resident of Annapolis
-, ~ of Eofa
ing in the capacity of brakeman on
the log train. We were shown the
greatest courtesy by the people of the
Clarkson r. R., from the general man
ager down-but more of this later.
We will follow the little train as it
danced along over the ties on its
way to the logging camp. The way
lay over long trestle, thence up long,
pleasant valley bedecked with beautiful
fields of fertile soil land the pleasant and
commodious. farm houses bespoke the
wealth and prosperity of the inhabi-
tants. That little valley is called
Valley. A beautiful
name, but not more beautiful than the
valley itself. At the head of this
valley the road ascends the hill.
At the top of the hill there is switch,
which they have named Tip-Top; there
is complete horse shoe curve there,
making the pame the more appropriate,
as it in that respect resembles the
curve on the l. Nj. r. X. just south of
Tip-Top. The engines on this road
burn pine knots, many cords OF which
are piled along the road. After we
passed Tip-Top we descended into
another beautiful valley, which Mr..
Malcolm informed US was called
Webb's Valley.
After winding and turning from one
beautiful scene to another. we at last
reached Cottonville. There we met
the smiling face of Joseph Sutton. who
is doing the smithing for the company
at that place. There we learned that,
owing to the river being so high. teams
could not cross to Piedmont. No coffin
had been secured for the corpse. Here
Mr.. Benson turned back to Leeper to
secure coffin, and Joseph Sutton and
yonr correspondent went on up the
branch toward GAINESVILLE to the late
residence of VIM. Francis. On our
way up from Cottonville we met Mr..
Stone. the general foreman OF that
part of the works. He has a pleasant
face and kind voice, which he is not
averse to using upon all occasions.
Here we found more beautiful farms,
and what is more valuable in any coun-
try, we found pleasant faces OF both
ladies and gentlemen. The afternoon
train brought the coffin. and MIR.
Clarkson gave orders to hold the train
until the funeral party were ready to
go. Which, however, was, owing to
good luck, only few minutes. A Mr..
Jordan was conductor on this train, and
a colored man at the throttle. And a
more gentlemanly crew we have new
er met.
MIR. Clarkson himself boarded the
train at Cottonville on the return trip,
and the utmost kindness and regard
was shown US. Aud one fact l want
to make special mention OF, and that
is, that Mr. Clarkson, who is General
Manager of the Leeper Railroad and
Saw Mill Company, went in person to
the Iron Mountain depot to make sure
that there should be no trouble in Sc
curing transportation for the corpse,
(there is no night Office at Leeper,) and
then took us up to his house for sup
per. While at Leeper we visited the
saw mill, which is a monument to hu
man ingenuity. 1t is said to have
capacity of 100000 feet Of lumber
daily. and employees in all little over
two hundred men.