Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-01

l that the water is up along the tracl
= the entire distance. ard is some in
> stances the rails are covered two o
: three inches. This occasions the de
lay in the train reaching here.
; Ed. Lewey, the mail carrier from
this place to Edge Hill, brought as tn,
following note, on last Friday from tn
| Postmaster at Edge Hill: lone da,
last week a man by the name of Mar
tin killed his wife. He drove a mai
in her head and stabbed her near thu
heart. He then put cotton in the
wound. The family lived on DRY
Creek near Sligo Mo-. after the killing
he buried her in the yard. People
learned of the affair and the country
is full of men looking for the murder
err. They suppose he was making his
way South. Reynolds Outlook.
The Sheriff Tuesday morning ar.
rested Mason Hull, boy abount seven
teen years of age who lives with his
parents at Pilot Knob. Young Hull is
wanted in Waseca, Minnesota, where
he is charged with having stolen $145
from a farmer with whom he lived
some two or three months ago. The
Minnesota authorities will come here
| for the prisoner. Sheriff O'Neal has
been on the lookout for Hull several
weeks but the boy kept away from home.
Last Monday however, he returned and
the boys father came down to Irontou
and told the Sheriff the boy was ready
to surrender. Sheriff O'Neal received
| fa1a he -
Wednesday morning saying he would
come after the prisoner.
An enterprising citizen, whose wife
is very fond of flowers and an euthusi-
asst over gardens, hands US the follow
ing local item: sit is the general
opinion of medical men that nothing is
so beneficial to women as the exercise
of destroying the weeds and looking
after the the tender plants that grow
| in the garden. 1t brings the roses to
their cheeks and thereby adds greatly
| to their beauty; besides study OF the
vegetable kingdom adds much to their
knowledge. 1t has a contrary effect
| on men. The violent exercise skaters
nerve centers to such an extent that
they are unfi: for business for q whole
day afterward, and are in consequence
sometimes unable to make money to
buy fall hats for their wives"
Says an exchange: lone great trouble
of Americans is that they know exact
Iy how to manage the affairs OF their
fellows. The old maid proffers her
sister advice upon the management OF
her husband, and an old bachelor can
give father pointers as to the rear
ing of his boys. The man who would
starve but for the industry and frugal
ity of his wife, feels competent to man
age the finances of his country, and
people who can not be entrusted to
drive ducks to water will explain to
our wisest how to get to heaven. The
man who could not turn hand organ
if it were fastened to him, can tell you
just how to run your business. And
the man who can't run anything else
on earth generally knows how to run a
newspaper"
The |. o. o. F. association of South
east Missouri will meet in Poplar Bluff
on Tuesday. April 81, to celebrate the
der. Special trains will be run from
De Soto, De Lassus, Charleston, Ken
nett, Maiden and intermediate points.
A large number OF the best people OF
Missouri will on this occasion enter
the gates of our hospitable city. We
must do our prettiest to entertain them
from the standpoint OF sociability and
pride and from a knowledge also that
anything short of this duty would be
detrimental to the welfare of our beau
tiful and progressive little city. The
program so far as proposed already in
cludes some splendid entertainment,
with music, dancing, theatrical mock
initiation, etc.-PoplGr Bluff RepUbtt-
cdn.
Here is a story taken from late is
sue of the Poplar Bluff Daily Herald.
We're very much inclined to doubt the
truthfulness of the incident therein re-
lated, but the story is possibly worth
reproduction anyway: "Up in Ironton
there lives class of people who are
religiously inclined, and the ministers
in that city fare better than ministers
generally do. A rather amusing incl
dent occurred there not long since. A
good lady was the happy mother of
two interesting daughters. large one
and a small one. The little one aged |
about six. and the older one, prepos- |
sessing girl, had seen about eighteen |
summers and as many tough winters. |
For short, we will call the little one |
Mabel aud the young lady Mary. At
any rate, the young minister was there |
on visit, after services, one Sunday, |
and the good old mother was preparing |
dinner. Unfortunately for the mother, |
she was near-sighted, and leaving her
glasses in the kitchen had entered the |
parlor occupied by the minister and |
her two daughters. and not being able /
to discern objects, addressed Mabel /
thusly: Get up and let Mary have |
your seat, Mabel Mary was standing
by the center table and Mabel was sit
ting on the young preachers lap. The
young preachers face played hide aud
seek with all the colors of the rainbow,
while Mary rushed out of the room and
was heard to remark. Mother will be
the death of me yet The mother now
wears her glasses on all occasions, in
order to prevent any more such fatal
blunders."
Annapolis News.
Ed. RegiSter-News of a startling