Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-04-27

! For Sale-Two open buggies, one
top buggy; all second handed. Also
one O1ae-horse wagon, neao
E. c. TUAL.
The editor is in receipt of an invita-.
ton from Charles Poplin Harviell to
attend the commencement exercises OF
the st. Louis Medical College, which
will be held in the Fourteenth Street
Theatre, Thursday, April 9th. Our
young friend is a member of the grad
uating class and will on that occasion
receive his diploma. Here's a health
to DIR. Chas. P. Harviell. May sue
cess and glory attend his professional
career.
A new time card will go into effect
on the railroad May 9TH. The most
important change is in the time of No.
81, the south-bound day train which
now reaches here at TWO o'clock in the
afternoon. Under the proposed sched-
ule this train will not leave ST. Louis
until 2:30 P. NJ. arriving here about
six o'clock. The south-bound local, it
is also stated. will not get here until
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The gross receipts from the two en-
tertainments given on the 18th AMI
21st inst, for benefit of public school
library. were 5000. The expenses
were, $64.S7. Net receipts, $25.93.
The outlay in s'In White Robes" was
heavy, owing to costumes, new scene
ry, etc., amounting to $5592. For the
second entertainment only $9.O5 was
expended. The net amount. $25.S3,
has been placed IN the bank, to the
credit of the library fund.
The reproduction of 'In White
Robes" at the Academy of Music Tues
day evening was all that could be de-
| sired. Some addition and changes
had been made in the programme that
caused the audience to declare the en-
tertainment decided Improvement On
the production of a week previous.
The attorneys and visitors in attend
ance on court were there and charac-
terized the effort as highly creditable
and most meritorious. They all agreed
that there were few towns in the
southeast that could make so desirable
a showing.
Sheriff Merrell and deputy of Ripley
county arrived in Ironton Wednesday
noon having in charge Samuel Robin
son and Wylie Dodd. Both prisoners
were sentenced to the penitentiary at
the late term of the Ripley Court, but
owing to the quarantine regulations
now in force at the State penitentiary
they cannot at present be taken to that
institution, and as Ripley county has
no Jail, the Judge ordered them to be
| incarcerated here until the quarantine
is raised in the penitentiarv. Robin
son was convicted of murder in the
second degree and has a sentence of
| ten years; Dodd was convicted of man
slaughter and has three years to serve.
Judge r. S. Thurman, late of Cali
| fornia, has arrived in Ironton and pur-
poses opening training school here.
| His advertisement is published in this
| issue of the REGISTER. 1t is the inten-
ton to open the school in the fall, but
| in the meantime Mr.. Thurman will
| give private instruction to all who de-
sire. He has leased the rooms in the
second story of the building formerly
| occupied by Gross & TollesOn, where
| he can be found at all times. Mr..
| Thurman comes to Ironton highly
recommended by Ex-Gov. Stone, Hon.
| NJ. l.. Clardy, Norman j. Coleman,
| Judge Green, Hons. James Jordan. ex-
Superintendent Public Instruction of
| Arkansas, F. NJ. Campbell ex-Superin
| tendent Public Instruction Of Califor-
MIA and other distinguished educators.
At the G.. E. business meeting held
April 9TH the following officers and COM
mittees were selected: John Russell,
| President; q. II. Broadwell, Vice
President; Miss Alice Gay. Recording
| Secretary; Mrs. G. r. Gay, Treasurer;
Lookout Committee-R. E. Wilkinson,
Chairman, Miss Alice Gay and H. Mel
hado; Prayermeeting COmmittee-Mrs.
| Carrie Markham, Chairman. Mrs. Fred
Kindell and Fred Russell: Social Com
mittee-Miss Ruth Gay, Chairman,
| Miss Pearl Sherman, Oscar Hill, Ed
ward Curtis and Eben Russell; Relief
| Committee-Mrs. Fred kindell, Chair
man, Mrs. r. w. Gay and VIM. Curtis;
| Flower Committee - Fred Russell,
Chairman, Misses Sarah Russell and
| Mabel Peck; Literature Committee
| MISS Eva L urhISS, cudlfudus MISS N0G-
tie O'NeaI and Bert Peck; Junior Sup
erintendent, Mrs. Carrie Markham.
The prospecting being done by the
Missouri Manganese Mining Company,
under the supervision of Mr.. Thos.
Beard on the mines south of town has
| developed an abundance of manganese
ore. The ore so far discovered is
said to be of very fine quality, but Is
soft and crumbles very easily, while
the blast furnaces of to-day are adapt
ed only to hard ore. A trial is going
to be made for the purpose of ascer-
tanning if the soft ore can be compress
| ed into chunks. If the experiment
| proves a success quite a number of men
will likely be put to work in the mines
| in the near future, as there is grow
ing demand for manganese at good
prices. A shipment of the ore will
| likely be made to st. Louis in the
course of few days for the purpose of
trying the plan of COMPRISING the ore.
The company doing the prospecting is
composed of some of the most promi-
nent business men in St. Louis who
have sufficient capital to successfully
carry on the work.
Circuit Court convened on Monday
afternoon. Judge bearing at once de-
| livered the charge to the grand jury
appointing d. Y. Jones of Arcadia