Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-06-25
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l OOiAOt9O OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ercises at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon.
For Sale-A Pool Table with all the
Billiard Fixtures. Very low. Apply
at this Office.
! We print this week a letter from
Hon. w. Fl. Webb descriptive of the
storm on Cedar Creek. and join with
him in urging that the county court
make special appropriation for the
use of the road districts affected. The
roads therein are practically destroyed,
and the taxpayers of the county, we
are sure, will justify liberal expendi-
! lures in that behalf.
| Presbyterian services and subjects
for next Sabbath, June, %: Subject
| for morning service, The tasks faith
will accomplish" Text, Luke IL; 6.
Subject for evening services, ..Nebu-
chadnezzar's Dream and its meaning. y
Text, Daniel 2:31-35. Services al
Graniteville, 3, P NJ. All who do not
| attend services elsewhere are cordial
ly invited to attend these services.
GEO. H. Duty, Pastor.
A year ago the REGISTER premature
ly announced the graduation of Mr..
d. II. Mckenzie from the Kentucky
School of Medicine. Now we are glad
to know that that we anticipated has
! occurred. DR.. Mckenzie was a mem
Der Of the Graduating Glass of 1896,
receiving the final honors OF the school
on the 10th inst. He has returned
home and is at present resident in Sa
bula. We wish him the utmost success
in his profession.
The proceedings of last Saturdays
Republican County Convention are
published in this paper. A full ticket
was nominated, headed by Mr.. w. V.
Webb for Representative. A resolu-
ton endorsing the gold and other
planks of the ST. Louis platform was
adopted. If the National Convention
had declared for diamond standard
it would have been endorsed, all the
same. The discipline of the party is
perfect.
j. 2. McCarver and Chas. Williams,
both boarding at the Hotel du Neil,
had a slight scrap last Monday at
meal-time. Williams showed Mac to
one side when the coffee was being
handed in. The latter objected to be-
ing .'mishandled by Niger" and
short but warm skirmish ensued. Of
course the jailer interfered and quelled
the war before any damage was done.
He's always meddling. Mr.. McCarver
insists that if his coIored antagonist
had given him little time be (Mac)
would have done him, the said Will
liams, up to the queens taste. And
we have no doubt he would.
A curious thing happened to A. j.
Newton's team while he was cutting
wheat last week. He had three horses
hitched abreast to his reaper, and
while driving along all at once the
middle horse dropped out OF sight all
but his ears. AS quickly as possible
the other horses were cut loose from
the machine and work commenced to
get the horse. 1t took six men with a
scraper, mattocks, picks and shovels
one half day TO get it out. 1t proved
to be an underground cavern, and the
ground being very wet and passing
over where the crust was the thinnest,
the weight OF the horse broke through.
Mr.. n. says as soon as convenient he
will make thorough examination of
the cave.-Reynolds Outlook.
The Centerville Retormer chronicles
a recent curious occurrence: between
twelve and two o'clock Wednesday the
big spring in Centreville, and the one
about $50 yards above, gave evidence
of internal disorder that was never
Witnessed before; instead of sending
forth their usual volumes of clear, cold,
sparkling waters, for at least an hour
they spouted forth streams of as filthy
looking muddy water as one nearly
ever sees even from a city's sewers.
But at the end of an hour the offal in
the course of the springs was all
thrown off and again the crystal fluid
flowed ON it's wOnted course, none
abated nor increased in volume. The
strange freak of course is attributed to
caving in of the earth somewhere"
When the next issue of the REGIS
TER is published the primary will have
decided the fates of the various con-
testing candidates. Five of the Of
fees are uncontested. The candidates
for Sheriff, Presiding Judge of the
County Court, Judge of the Western
District, Treasurer, and Prosecuting
Attorney, have had an easy-going time
of it. to the envy of their less fortunate
companions. These latter have had
to go out aud bear the heat and burden
of the day. doing their utmost to sue
cessfully fan the flies from off their
several competitors, and lying awake
at nights calculating how this precinct
would Offset that in the general wind
up. Competition is said to be the life
of trade, but it's death to the candi-
dates peace of mind.
We learn of a singularly destructive
stroke of lightning near Brunot one
day last week-considering its oppor-
tunities. DR.. Farr and Charley Stew
| enson had put up recently string of
fence made of boards and two strands
of barbed wire on top. 1t was full
quarter of mile long, with the posts
about seven feet apart. The lightning
struck tree standing about the centre
of the line, and, jumping thence to the
| wire. divided, one moiety of the cleo
| trio fluid running to one end of the
| doomed fence and the other taking in
| the opposite section. Root and branch
| work was made of it, for the fence was
| torn into pieces-the wire melted, the