Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-27
Among Our Nelghbors.

/ aTk are luuS CuIOAlSICO ~ VIZ
willie Sun. Is he the same Hunt o.
unsavory reputation known 40 other
| communities for years as bunho-steer'
or. confidence man. and general blk:
! If so. it isn't his first venture in the
matrimonial money-making line:
As was announced in the san week
! before last, Mrs. Ellen Miller. of
/ GreenviIle, was married to Mr.. Hunt,
of ST. Louis. on Sunday, April 20, al
Poplar Bluff. They arrived In Green
Vile on Monday following the we'd
ding, and preparations were made to
20 TO St Louis. where Hunt claimed
be had a position in a business house.
They arrived in ST. Louis on Thursday,
and occupied a suite of rooms which
Hunt rented. Friday. Hunt spent the
day with his wife about the city, and
prevailed upon her to let him deposit
her money, 5000, in a bank for safe
keeping. Saturday he left home to
return to work at his position, so he
told her. but when he failed to return
that night the wife made a search for
him, the result of which was that she
had been duped by slick-tongued ras-
cal. who had married her for what
money she had, and securing that he
departed to parts unknown TO make
new conquests. Mrs. Miller, Tor Hunt)
returned to Greenville Wednesday of
last week, a wiser, a sadder, and a
several hundred dollars poorer woman
than she was before her meeting with
Hunt.
This paragraph from the frederick
town NelCs doesn't seem to bear out
the prosperity insistences of the thick
and-thin shouters:
If reports are true there will be a
general shake up at Mine La Motto on
the first of the month. 1t is reported
that several changes will be made out
there. The men that have been there
for the past ten or twenty years are
experienced and capable aud have al
ways given satisfaction, but the new
management appears to want to run
things on the penny in the slot plan,
in other words reduce expenses by do
ing away with the services of good
OF course the new men may be all
right and in course of time may at
tain a certain degree OF proficiency.
but of one thing we are sure, no set OF
men will ever be able to give more
general satisfaction than the gentle
men who have been conducting the
business of the Mine La Motto compa-
ny in the past.
The Cabool Ne1Cs is wooing elusive
Prosperity through an offer to visit all
new subscribers, as we'll as those in
arrears who will pay up before July
1st. at the low and easy rate of fifty
cents year. The old paid up In ad-
vance subscribers will, we take it, slide
along at the normal dollar rate. This
seems to be a case where virtue is not
its own reward.
The Corning ARK. Courier: Dough
McMullin tried to get in his gun play
on Editor Smithee, of the Gazette. last
Friday. The railroad lobby followers
were all ready and willing to go on
/ the would-be murderer's bond. We
| shall now watch and see whether Lit
tie Rock authorities will prosecute a
state senator as vigorously as they
would common tramp"
Says the jefferson Democrat: The
published docket of the present term
of Circuit Court indicated good state
of morals in the county. but the result
of the grand jury's work does not show
up so favorably. They found eviden,
ces of burglary, larceny, felonious as
saults. forgery and attempted rape.
showing that there are some bad peo-
! pie here yet"
Ste. Genevieve county pays over
/ $1,000 a year for the care of her insane.
The Democrat gives a half-column
I kick at the enormous admission
| charge" to the closing exercises Of the
! Salem public schools, and wants to
know. in small caps. ''where is that
money going?" 1t further takes ex,
ception to the lack of a complimentary
! list: I'VE understand that even the
School board and all those who kindly
assisted the graduates in the exercises
/ had to buy and pay for their tickets
/ II seems like the graduates are mighty
deficient in manners. Their training
/ in that line must have been sadly neg.
/ lected. School directors and trustees
of colleges are always given compli
mentary tickets to all exercises and en-,
tertainments given by the School OF
/ College on whose board they are. And
it is needless to say that ali who assist
in any programme are always furnish,
ed omplimeniaries. We are also in,
/ formed that Miss Smith, who has beer
a teacher in the High School the pas
year, had to pay to see her own pupils
graduate" Although modesty pre-,
vents the Democrat from saying so. we
sincerely trust that this lack of man
ners did not so far possess those in
authority as to preclude the editor
from free admission to the show. But
there's no telling; when manners
are absent the newspaper man is almost
sure to keen them compauy