Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-29

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them back in Ironton. Doubtless they
concluded to defer their trip south
ward until cooler weather.
DIR. j.. d. Nifong of st. Louis writes
the REGISTER that he has recently
moved his Office into the new Mermod-
Jaccard Building, Broadway & Locust
street. The DR.. wants his Iron county
friends to know that the latch string
hangs on the outside and he will be
pleased to have them call at any time.
Room 724.
t. r. Countryman, mining engineer
and Q. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor at
Cripple Creek, Colorado, in company
with Miss Alma Jaquith of Pilot Knob,
paid the editor a pleasant call Tues
day evening. Many years ago Mr.
Countryman was employed as a civil
engineer at Pilot Knob, and will be
we'll remembered by the older resi-
dents.
Collector O'Neal has filed with the
abstractor list of one hundred aud
fifty tracts of real estate on which suit
will at once be instituted to enforce
lien for back taxes. Collector O'Neal
is determined to clear the delinquent
tax book, and people who are in ar
rears may expect to be notified that
suit has been commenced against them
in the very near future.
Mr.. Henry Farmhouse this week re-
ceived word that his son, DR.. f. L.
Farmhouse, who lives at Mount Ster-
ling, Iowa, had the misfortune recent
ly to break one of his limbs. The DR..
was breaking colt to a buggy, the
animal started to run and in jumping
to the ground, the DR.. fractured his
leg. He is getting along very we'll,
however, and hopes are entertained
for an early recovery.
Miss Gillian, the fashionable and
up-to-date milliner. desires the REGIS
TER to tell those ladies who have not
yet purchased the hat or bonnet they
expect to wear on the glorious 4th of
July, that she has in her large and
well-selected stock just exactly what
will please them. And the prices will
be be found very, very reasonable, in
deed. Miss Gillian cordially urges the
ladies in search of millinery to call,
and is confident they will not go away
dissatisfied.
j. A. Stafford, the livery man from
Pilot Knob, had a horse killed by
lightning during the storm about noon
Wednesday. Mr.. Stafford had driven
to the range with load of feedstuff.
While he was there the skies which
had indeed been fair as day in June,
quickly clouded and storm came on;
of a sudden there was sharp flash of
lightning, and both of Mr.. Statford's
horses fell to the ground; in a moment
one of them was on his feet again, evil
IDENTIFY not badly injured, but the other
never moved after falling and was
apparently instantly killed.
Mr.. Louis Miller. the contractor, has
the contract for the erection of three
brick structures in the city of Farming
ton and will carry on the work on all
at the same time. He has the contract
for the building on Miss Vollath's cor
ner, building for Mr.. Conrad Mark
ert and the brick work on the Farm
ington realty company on the Lorerz
corner. Mr.. Miller, it will be remem-
bered, bought beautiful building on
the lot just west of the fine residence
owned by DR.. F. l.. Keith on which he
will probably erect fine residence be-
fore the year closes. Our people ex-
tend Mr.. Miller a cordial welcome to
our beautiful little city of schools and
churches. -Fdrm,ngton NeaOS.
DR.. Gay received a telegram Tues
day evening announcing the death of
Mrs. DR.. L. M. Petit at Greenville that
day. The following account of Mrs.
Petit's death was telegraphed from
Greenville to Wednesdays Globe Dem
ocrat: MRS. Alice Petit, wife of DR..
Lee NJ. Petit, living one mile from this
city, was burned to death to-day. She
was starting fire in the cook stove
and poured oil on the fuel. The blaze
leaped from the stove and ignited her
clothing. After valnly trying to ex-
tinguish the flames she ran to near
by lot and plunged into the pond that
is there. A neighbor saved her from
drowning. She had been so badly
burned, however, that she died at 5
o'clock this afternoon
Fredericktown Democrat: sDuring
the month of May, this year, the city
of Fredericktown might have cele-
brated the centenary Of its foundation.
1t was on the 9TH day of May, 1779,
that the thirteen original settlers of
old St. Michael's addressed a petition
to Zenon Trudeau, the Spanish gov
ernoI of Western Illinois, asking for q
grant of 5000 arpents OF land between
the Saline and Castor creeks. The
governors answer is dated st. Luis
de Illinois q II de Majo, 1799.' 1t
states that the petitioners merit the
| favor of the concession, and orders
Don Antonio Soulard, the royal sur
yeyor of the district. to put them iI
possession of the land as requested.
These facts are taken from the otlgi-
nal documents in French and Spanish,
now preserved in the archives of St.
Michael's church."
| The REGISTER reads with unfeigned
surprise the following item published
in the last issue of the Salem Monitor:
'Press Riley just home from Iron
county reports several cases of small
pox and five deaths at the Granite
| quarries, and two cases are reported
on Sinking in this county. He was
exposed to the disease while in Iron
county" We don't know who Press
Riley is but when he says there have
been Ave deaths from smallpox at the
granite quarries, he has either been
imposed upon by some local joker,
| or nivas avidance of q wnnderfnllu fer.