Iron County register., 1899-08-17

the Southeast So there will be ne
game OF ball at Bismarck next Sunday
Harrington plays the baby act, sneak
and backs out, and retires from tn
field whining and moaning in loud AM
mournful tones Poor old Pennington
Flunkedi
The annual meeting of Franklil
Baptist Association will be held a
Glover. Mo-, August 23d to 26th, 1899
While the association is in session tn,
l. M & s R. r. has ordered train
Nos 81 and 50 TO stop at Glover, anC
made q rate of one and one-third fart
from all points in Missouri, and date.
of sales of tickets are August Path
25th and 26thi final return limit Au
gust 26th.
A ''Unifying and Refunding Mort
gsge, given by the ST. Louis, Iror
Mountain & Southern Railroad Compa.
ny to Metropolitan Trust Company Of
New York and Robert r Hutchinson
was fled for record with Recorder
Huff last week. The mortgage Is Civ
en- to secure forty million dollars. sc
year, four per cent, bonds. The reve,
nue. stamps on the document amounted
to S20, 200.
The Lawn Social. announced for
next week by the Ladies' Guild OF St.
Paul's church will be held, by the kind
permission of the county authorities,
In the courthouse yard on Monday eve
ming, 21st, weather permitting. Be-
sides the usual ice cream there will be
. special stall for very superior can
dies, and a novelty in the shape of a
fruit tree. Ice cream will be on sale
from five o'clock.
Tom Caldwell, the negro who was
hurt by the fast mail train at Tip Top
a couple of weeks since, was shipped
TO his home in Little Rock last Friday.
He was in no wise grateful for the at
tention shown him, and the parties
who had taken the trouble to look after
bis wants doubtless breathed sigh of
relief on getting rid of him. Rev.
Britain had little trouble in securing
sufficient funds to buy his ticket.
Cards of invitation will be issued this
week by Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Whitworth
Arcadia, TO the marriage of their
daughter, Flora Mae, and Mr.. George
W. Kinks, Fort Hill Church. Wednes-
day, August 2Sd, 1899, at $50 o'clock
A. II. The REGISTER, in advance. ten
ders congratulations to the bridegroom
and best wishes to the bride-one of
the Valleys fairest flowers. May
health, wealth and happiness be theirs!
Work at the lead mine near Tom
Sauk is being rapidly pushed and
everything indicates that this will
prove to be profitable mine Ore is
being thrown out in quantities and
people who visit there are 80 interest
ed that the best specimens are carried
Of as rapidly SIS they are thrown out.
This is an old mine and shows that
there has been work done in the same
shaft some years ago.-CegtTeUitte Re
former.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Olson have issu-
ed cards Of invitation to the marriage
of their daughter, Josie, and Mr.. j. NJ.
Hawkins, which will occur at the resi-
nence in Graniteville this evening al
eight o'clock. Prof. Hawkins and the
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fortunate as to win for bride richly
merit all the good things this world
can bestow, and the REGISTER is sincere
in the hope that every happiness may
come to themi
A party of twelve took supper at
Iron Mouatain lake Tuesday evening.
All report a most enjoyable time. The
chief amusements of the evening being
rowing and buggy-riding-not men
tioning the '.big FIVE" who walked
around the lake. Those who had the
pleasure of attending were: Misses
Mary Steel, Nettie O'Neal, Maud Ed
gar. Mamie Brown, Msybelle Reyburn
and Lottie Prince and Messrs. Louis
Delano, Warren Prince, Chester
Prince, James Gsrret, Sanford An
drews and Willie Edgar. The return
trip was made in safety, notwithstand-
ing the lost arm, between Iron Noun
tain and Middlebrook.
Division No. ?, of the Supreme
Court Thursday, in an opinion by
Judge Burgess, affirmed the judgment
of the Reynolds County Circuit Court
which gave judgment for the respon-
dent in the case of Dobbins vs.. Reed,
for which the relator sought to secure
damages against the assessor of the
county, Reed, because he raised the
valuation fixed by the respondent in
the list which he made for the asses
sor. The court holds that the law
gives the assessor the authority TO as
sess property at its actual value, and
that he was not bound in any way by
the list furnished by the relator unless
this placed the proper value on the
property. This is an important deci-
City Press.
Messrs. Lopez, Denver, PIckel and
johnson spent several days of last week
on the St. Francis river fishing. They
had q royal good time and enjoyed the
outing immensely. And they were
successful in securing q fine lot of fish,
bringing home with them q half dozen
or more eight and ten-pound cat fish
and redhorse. The editors table was
not overlooked and the fish were truly
delicious. The boys want US to tell of
the cruel fate that befell some of Ben's
wearing apparel, but we won't do it; it
isn't fair, when fellow hangs some of
his clothes .'on q limb to dry" and
then goes to the spring for water, for
the rest of the crowd, while he's goue,
to riddle the aforesaid pair ONO, we
mean, unmentionable garment with 8
half dozen loads of fine shot And he
so far from home, '.'mid the bears and
the wild cats, and sich like" Ii was