Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-06-24

f Through a mutual acquaintance we
t learn that Mr.. Fred. Cureton is now al
Great Falls, Montana, and it is prob
able he will make his home In the Far
West. We hear, also, that he Is an
applicant for position in the schools
at Great Falls, and hope he may be
successful. Fred. is graduate OF the
Cape Normal School, having finished
his course there with distinguished
honor. He subsequently, taught with
success in the public schools of this
State. The REGISTER thinks he has
future of usefulness, and says so with
pleasure.
The old maids of Ironton will meet
in convention June %. The enter
tainment will be something after the
style of the one given by our own old
maids q short time since. The REGIS
TER of that city asks all to ''come and
see the old maids in their stylish cos
| tunes. and, what is better, hear their
experiences. We can assure you,
Brother AXE, if your old maids give
you an entertainment anything like
the one ours gave us it will be worth
| going to see. Several of our bachelors
| have not got exactly right yet, and If
you mention old maid to him he will
take to the woods.-P0plar Bluff Her
| aid.
The following, taken from the Occur
d'Alene idaho Press, records the
death of the last member of the fam
1t, n tho editor OF
this paper. The father and mother
died III Missouri over twenty years
ago, and the children, five in number,
afterward removed to the Far West,
whose mould now euclOses their re-
mains. With this passing tribute to
him on on whom the final portal has
just closed, vanishes forever-except
in the hearts of the few who cherish
their memory-a once happy house
hold: ''On Sunday last after suffering
for some time from consumption Alex
ander AXE died at the home of Vine
yard Wells on the shore of Hayden
lake, aged about q years. He is the
last of large family to succumb to
the disease, the only known relative
living being an uncle, Z. d. AXE, who
is publisher of a newspaper at Ironton.
Mo. Deceased was well liked in the
community, being strictly honest in
his dealings, true to his friends and
ever ready to assist one In need. He
strove to make an honest living until
disease wasted his strength, when he
calmly folded his hands to die. Dur
ing his few years residence in the
Hayden lake neighborhOod his sterling
manhood and friendly nature won him
many friends who followed his remains
to their last resting place in the city
cemetery. c. B. King, James Casey
and others ministered to his last wants
with the kindness and sympathy of
brothers. Rev. Hodgson conducted
the funeral service"
The Valley was visited by very
destructive wind, hail and rain storm
last Saturday evening. The day was
d very warm one, and the rays of the
sun beamed down with exceeding heat
and fervor. In the afternoon the sky
clouded and the hot glare of the sun
gave way to the close, sitting air that
precedes a summer storm. The clouds, !
at first scattering, as evening drew |
nigh gathered in the east and told of |
a terrible storm in that direction. But |
little attention was paid thereto, how |
ever, as local weather observers say
our storms seldom come from the east. |
When they do, though, they are I'M
usually severe. The clouds began to |
move toward the north and it soon be- |
came apparent that the storm center |
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lightning which few moments before |
were confined to the east now darted |
clear across the sky, the slow. muffled |
rumbling of thunder gave way to loud |
and frequent peals, seemingly shaking |
the very earth. The clouds grew |
dense and, although it was not yet six |
o'clock, the darkness of night was at |
hand. Every moment, the lightning |
flashed brighter, the thunder roared |
louder, and the wind which had until |
now been as a summer breeze began to |
blow steady and increasing gale. In |
a moment the storm ragged in all its |
fury, the wind blew a hurricane, the |
rain came down in torrents and then |
the hail began to fall. The wind was
terrific, the largest trees groaned and |
writhed under the continued gales and |
many gave way under the awful strain. |
The fall of rain was not in drops but |
in sheets and in very few minutes |
water was rushing everywhere in |
maddened whirls, the natural drainage |
being wholly insufficient to carry off |
the unusually heavy rainfall. The |
streets and roads were rivers and the |
fields and lawns like lakes. The hail |
was furious; it tore the leaves from |
the trees and stripped and bruised the |
growing vegetation. Its mission was |
destruction and with merciIess fury |
the frozen pellets came down. Not a |
tree, not a shrub nor plant but suffered |
from its fierceness. The storm lasted |
about twenty minutes, and in that time |
Mr.. Delauo says the rainfall was 2.O4 |
inches-a precipitation without par
allel in the history of the Valley. The
hail. where it was protected aud not |
swept away by the water, was several |
inches deep and afforred ice without
money and without price in the mid
die of the heated term. The damage
wrought by the storm throughout the
Valley was considerable. Trees were [
blown down by the score, guttering
aud spouting torn from the roofs and
sides of the houses, comparatively few
premises escaping the fury of the wind.
while the ripeuing grain in several
fields was blown TO the ground. The