Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-10-11
MISSOURI cuLlINGs.

a uniformed football team has been
organized at Slater.
Festus is to have bottle factory. the
plant to cost 5000.
A bicycle meet is proposed at Dexter
some time this fall.
Pike Moore and Miss Russell A. Curd
were married at Palmyra.
Bicycles and electric railways are not
adding to the price of horses.
Tabernacle meetings are being held
| IN Albany with much success.
Theodore Emerson and Miss Lulu
James were married at Hannibal.
Albert l.. Phillips and Miss Polly
Oldham were married at Hannibal.
Wheat feeding to hogs is turning out
| very profitable to Missouri farmers.
The wheat crop is pretty well sown,
especially in the southern part of the
| state.
The clay near PIERCE City can be
turned into aluminium at small ex-
pense.
Fred Bishop, an 11-year-old boy of st.
Charles, was run over and severely in
| jured.
DIR. Charles E. PEPPER and Miss Vir-
ginia Emison were married at Mar
shall.
r. 3. Andrews and Miss Emma Pill
| ty, of Cape Girardeau, were married re-
Gently.
| Miss Minnie Ramsey committed sui
| eide at Belmont by shooting with d
| shotgun.
j. J. Summers, of Audrain, has rifle
| which was used to kill Indians seventy
years ago.
| One hundred and fifty natives of Ken
| lucky registered at Lamar on Ken
| lucky Day
| A crazy man is said to be roaming
| about Saline county frightening women
and children.
| c. W. Volkenning and Miss Cinderella
| Lester. Of Hannibal, were married the
| other evening.
| j. c. Wilson and Lucien Hubbard,
| counterfeiters, have been held for trial
| at Poplar Bluff.
William Richardson. aged 20, and
| Miss Julia Painter, aged 46. were mar
ried at Versailles.
Claude Hornbeck rode on a bicycle
| from Willard to La Plata. s miles, in
| thirty-twO minutes.
| Mrs. Tilberry, of Union Grove. Cen
| try county. was thrown from a buggy
and severely bruised.
| a soldiers reunion, comprising the
| blue and the gray. will be held at Cen
| ter October IS and 10.
| Judge J. D. Thompson. aged 50, died
to4 do Of Ho
a prominent odd fellow.
The new creamery at New Hamburg,
Scott county, sold it's first pound of
butter at auction for $3.50.
Abner S. Smith. eX-member of the
| legislature. has been elected state
| lecturer of the Triple Alliance.
| "Evangel" chapel car No. 1 of the
American Baptist association is travel
| ling over the Missouri railroads.
The Missouri state missionary con-
vention of the Christian church was
| held at Columbia October to II.
| Mrs. David Hendricks barn, in Cald-
| we'll county, was struck by lightning
and consumed, with it's contents.
| Mrs. Cook, the first white child born
in Pike county, was present at the old
settlers reunion at Bowling Green.
| Some young ladies of Mexico have
| formed mutual improvement club to
work in literature and embroidering.
A 4-foot vein of coal was struck by a
| mining company at Mount Sierra, east
| of Warrensburg. 1t was found at a
depth of los feet.
Nearly sixty ex-confeaerates met at
| 70 ~ nd ho1 q,
| basket picnic, under the auspices of
| Jasper county ex-confederates.
A cyclone swept over Hopkins, Noda-
| way county about fifteen years ago,
and ever since then good number OF
| storm caves have been maintained.
w. n. Baush, of Charleston, has be-
| gun proceedings to obtain possession
| of his 5-year-old daughter, who was
adopted by w. Il. Cue two years ago.
| A three days session of foreign mis-
| sionary conference. under the auspices
| of the synod of Missouri, was held at
| Sedalia Returned missionaries related
their experience.
Fred Jones, one of the suspected
| highwayman who has been holding up
| persons near Lake SOutFdTy, III Tile %.
Joseph neighborhood.
| The local creditors of Steele & Walker,
ST. Joseph grocers, have accepted a
proposition to pay fifty cents on the
dollar. Judge Lazarus has gone east
| to present the offer to the eastern cred
itors.
Silas Boyd, aged 80, a farmer living
| miles south Of Louisiana. during a
moment of dependency, occasioned
from long attack of malaria, slashed
his throat with a razor. Death fol
lowed in a few hours.
At the synodical conference of the
Presbyterian church, held at Macon
Mrs. J. A. Allen, of st. Louis; Miss
Lulu Collins, of Louisiana. and Mrs
Richardson, of Moberly, were among
the leading workers in the daily SEES
sions.
A second attempt was made the 9th.
er night to rob Leland McElroy. an old
farmer, near Rensselaer,. Rails county
and assaulted both him and his daugh
tiers. but did not succeed in securing
any money, although they threatened
all with death. The old man escaped
| from the house and wandered about
the neighborhood in a half-demented
condition for several hours. The rob
bers said they were neighbors. Some
| years ago McElroy was robbed of some
| $4,000 by masked robbers. Franl
Whit ecotton and Morgan Maddox were
arrested on suspicion. Maddox was re
Gently acquitted of the charge.