Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-01-16
Among the Brethren.

Inc Stc. MARY 1FOyftoS Has
publication. Cause: lack of patron
age. The Perry County San will COM
plcte it's subscription list.
We take from the Doniphan Pros
pect-NeUs:
The informal reception at the Ire
land House last Friday evening com
plimentary to MIR. and Mrs. j. w.
Clarkson, upon the first anniversary oil
their marriage, was a pleasant affair
indeed. May they live to welcome
many returns of the happy occasion"
The Slogan is the name of a Repub-
lican paper just started at Maiden,
Dunklin county.
The Salem Monitor felicitates itself
in that it is comfortably fixed in its
own quarters and has no rent to pay,
no moving day, nor aught to steal its
rest away.
Fredericktown NeUs: "The NeaCS
is informed that Mr.. Kidd, father of
the young man who was run over by
an engine on the Iron Mountain road
in his..city on Friday, the q of De GEM
Der, has decided to investigate the
matter and to that end will have the
remains exhumed and has engaged
DIR. Norwine of Bonne Terre. to make
a thorough examination of the body to
determine whether any marks of vio-
lence other than those made by the
engine, can be found. Mr.. Kidd is
justly indignant at the slip shod way
the coroner conducted the inquest, if
inquest it could be called"
The Ste. Genevieve Creamery greets
the New Year with a deficit of $3.50.
The Herald intimates that the stock
holders don't conduct matters accord
ing to Hoyle-in fact, it has heard
that sat the annual meeting last Sat
urday the commonest parliamentary
rules were neglected in remarkably
conspicuous manner. In a possible
law suit such neglect might have the
gravest consequences"
j. F. Mitchim now owns and runs
the De Soto Press, and is making a
straightout Democratic free silver pa
per of it.
Judge Green was last week re-elect-
ed President Of the Judges Association
of Missouri-a marked compliment.
Mrs. Self, an old lady of Irondale,
Mo-, and her 16yearold daughter at
tempted to walk across the railroad
bridge over the Big river and were
caught by freight train and thrown
80 feet down an embankment. Mrs.
Self died from her injuries in a few
minutes, but the daughter will re-
cover.
The Facts says: 1.-The city of De
Soto is now nearer out of debt than it
has been for years, Notwithstanding
the fact that we have paid off $4,000
smallpox BILL"
The Scott County Neacsboy tells how
temptation besets the country Journal
ist, and seeks to wean him from the
path of innocence, integrity and virtue:
The Wall Street crowd is trying to
work him. Nearly every week we
are in receipt of letters, pamphlets and
circulars in which these sharks pro-
pose to almost pay the running ex-
penses of the office if we allow them
to advocate their sound money views
our columns. The even 60 so
far as to offer to furnish illustrations
and supplements free of charge"
The New Madrid South Hissouraan
is publishing extracts from the Mis-
souri Gazette issued at St. Louis in 1908.
We make room for one of the shorter
items which shows how in the art
less days of long ago the white brother
made his common enemies work peace
and safety for himself:
The Osages have lately committed
30 many outrages on the frontiers,
that the government have permitted
the Delawares, Shawanes, Kickapoos,
&C., &C., to go to war with them. We
from some of the chiefs of
the latter, that they will be able to
bring 5000 warriors into the plains. |
1t is probable the Osages will get the
Panies to join them; as the invaders
must march into the plains, and as the
Osages and Panies fight On horseback,
there is no doubt of warm and i'm |
portant campaign"
The jackson Comet comes to US this |
week with the outside pages a virgin |
white. The s'patent" side must have
failed to connect. But the editor finos |
room on the inside pages to charge |
the Cash-Book and the Gazette with the
yrossest Ignorance on the bond issue |
and the decentralization of silver"
Which is hard on the brethren.
Equally applicable to Ironton is the
from the Fredericktown
Democrat:
Santa Claus neglected to hang buck
saws on the striped hose of several of
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