Iron County register., 1898-12-22

i List of letters remaining IN the Post
Office at Ironton, Mo-, for the week
ending Dec. 10Th, 1895 If not called
for within two weeks, they will be
sent to the Dead Letter Office:
Abitee Miss Joce Short OJ
i Persons claiming the above will
please say advertised" and give date
of this list. j. n. BISHOP, P. NJ.
County Court has been in session the
past ten days rounding up its work for
the four years, and examining the
books and accounts of the various Off
GERS OF the county. In the examination
the court found everything correct, ex-
cepting in some instances the county
clerk had failed to turn over to the
treasurer various sums which had been
paid him as interest and principal on
school fund bonds. The court practi
cally concluded its labors in this be-
half Wednesday, and the sums found
certainly due were Immediately paid
over by Mr.. Fletcher. The sum total
we have not learned. as the court re-
fuses to tell, but $1,000 has been turned
| Fletcher assures the court shall be
promptly paid, and that no fund shall
| lose cent. The work of the court.
covering so long period, has necessa-
rily been tedious and slow, but it has
been thorough. All the particulars
will be given the public as soon as the
court shall see fit to impart the full
result of its researches.
1t seems that Sheriff O'Neal has a
poet or rhymer in the county bastile.
j. Ii. Max of Wayne county in Jail
here charged with the murder of Cash
ier Withers at Piedmont in September.
1897, published the following lines in
the last issue of the Greenville San:
Counterfeiting is no disgrace
Providin' you have Hiding Place;
But when you fail TO cover your trail
You're sure to land in the St. Louis Jail.
There you will remain till the court sets
To live water and hornets nests;
They call it pork, gravy, fried chick;
But call it stump water, not very thick.
You go to Judge Adams to have your t1iaI, |
And he may meet you with glad smile,
But if you don't look with pleasant face,
AOa Will AGAAu III SdIC-hGCplitS
place"
Thus turned over to Sheriff O'Nea1
You are sure of having one square meal,
As he has fed them from "Arkansaw''
Where they are raised on corn bread and
"slaw."
l wish you could see them, ere you die
How they do 'gobble' cake, chicken and pieI
They grab it and roll it from jaw to jaw,
And swear its the best they ever saw!
Now Sheriff O'Neal's pleasant man,
He does for US boys, all that he can;
He gives US plenty of water and wood,
And says to US boys: ''Now wont you be
good?"
1t will be remembered that a bill
was introduced in the last Legislature
providing for the location of an insane
asylum in Southeast Missouri, but the
measure failed to pass. Senator Drum
of Bollinger county will introduce a
similar bill during the coming session
and hopes to see it become a law. Mr..
Drum favors the location of the asy-
lum in Arcadia Valley. In reference
thereto the following Is taken from
recent issue of the Globe Democrat:
IAN effort to secure the establishment
of another asylum in Missouri will be
made at the approaching session of the
Legislature. Southeast Missouri, which
has been overlooked in the location of
state institutions heretofore, will make
a strong bid for the new asylum, with
8 good prospect of success. There are
at present four asylums of this charac-
ter in the state, including the St. Louis
institution, and every section of the
State is provided for except the South I
east. The asylums at Fulon, St. Joseph {
aud Nevada are now said to be crowded
TO their utmost capacity, and the es-
of new institution or the |
of those already in exis- '
tence is regarded as only question of {
time. The joint committee of the
House and Senate appointed by Gov.
stephens to report upon the condition i
Wednesday. This committee. which {
s composed of Senator .Drl m and Rep
Pettijohn and Bohart, will {
probably include in it's rep Port recon-
nendation for another insa ane asylum. s
Our report will show the necessity for t
An asylum in Southeast Missouri said /
Senator Drum, land | think it will be
AT present the people of |
hat section must take their afflicted a
distance of several hundred miles in /
order to place them in an asylum.
There are sixteen public institutions 8
n the State, and, if the two in Phelps
county are excepted, but one of these, s
he normal school at Cape Girardeau, :
IS located in the Southeast. The new a
asylum should be established in the
0zarks somewhere on the Iron Noun t
ain road have in mind a number I
Of good locations, such as Ironton or
Arcadia, where land could be bought
cheap, and where some of the most
1ealthful and picturesqe sites in the
State could be found. The location !
would probably be decided by allowing
each town within certain district to
Did for it, Senator Drum introduced G
1 bill for new asylum in the last Gen
eral Assembly, but it was defeated in
The House"