Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-04-05

10 the persons whose fertile brain
conceived the idea and whose fin
Italian hands shaped the movement Q
putting straight" ticket in the feel
We suggest
No boss, no clown
Shall run this town.
To Mrs. J. FL. Jones, Miss Julia An
drews. Messrs. Francisco, Mayer
Daugherty, and other outsiders, - VIII,
gave their kind assistance to the Min
strel Show, the Band Boys desire t.
return their thanks. May they all liv,
long and prosper!
The vote at the school election wa
pretty full, resulting as follows: Fo
Directors Marshall, 142; Gay, 126
No contest. For renting school build
ing, &c; against. 62. Length of schoo
term-eight months, 79; nine months
61' ten months, 10.
The stockholders OF the Academy @
Music held their annual meeting Mon
day. The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Presi
dent. i. r. Goulding; Vice-President
+. Rodach; Treasurer, A. Roehry
Secretary aud Manager, j. Grand
homme.
Mrs H Langdon Jones has recently
Instituted suit in the St. Louis courts
for divorce against her husband. r.
II. Jones. Both plaintiff and defend,
ant and their attorneys were here
Monday and Tuesday taking deposit
lions. The case will come up in the
st. Louis courts in about two weeks.
| MARCH Maximum tenn
perature, 50 degrees; minimum tenn
| perature, 6 degrees Mean tempera-
turre, AZ. Mean maximum tempera-
ture. So. 3: mean minimum temperature,
28.7. Total precipitation. $50 inches.
Snowfall for month. inch.
W. h. DELANo, Observer.
County School Commissioner Haw-
kins will inaugurate a training school
for teachers at the school house in
Ironton on Monday, April 23d, and
continue for six weeks when the regu-
lar institute will be held. Teachers
should avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity offered to review in the lmpor-
tant branches.
La Plant and johnson, the two young
men from Madison county who sold
the stolen hogs to Alex Fletcher IN
Arcadia, were arrested in Dunklin
county last week and brought back to
Fredericktown. The father of one of
the young men, La Plant, returned the
S25 that had been paid his boy. john
son, the other offender, pleaded guilty
and was given a sentence in Jail.
The business meeting of the Chris
tan Endeavor society of the Presby
terrain church is postponed to Friday
night. April 9th, 7:S0. The meeting
will be held in the church instead OF at
the home of Mr.. Geo. Gay as previous
" announced. All the members are
urged to be present as officers are to
be elected for the ensuing term. The
8 o'clock.
1t is not Republican or a Demo-
cratic victory, but it is such result
that all men who contributed to it may
be satisfied with the votes they cast
last Tuesday. The REGISTER congrat-
ulates them and acknowledges with
pleasure the obligations of all classes
to them, regardless of party. They
simply preferred the best interests of
the town to the rancor and prejudice
of faction, and good results are sure
to follow.
The "heelers" for the straight tick
ct had three kegs of free beer Ion tap"
Monday evening. The average vote
received by the ''nominees" was less
than seventy. In three kegs of beer
there are about $50 glasses. Say ev-
cry voter for the straight ticket got
his share-and, of course. a number
didn't touch it-that would be an av-
erage of over ten glasses of beer for
each vote. Beer wasn't a drawing
card in Tuesdays election.
Work will be begun in a few days
on a large saw and planning mill which
will be erected here by I. P. Russell
of Marquand. The mill will be To-
Gated on the company's land back of
the coal shutes. The enterprise is said
to be backed by ample capital and will
certainly be a great gain to De Soto.
Mr. Russell is leading aud substan
tial citizen of Marquand of whom the
people and press of that section of the
country speak very highly.-De Soto
Press.
Miss Lulu Gillian has just returned
from St Louis where she spent several
weeks acquiring all the late ideas in
spring and summer millinery, and Sc
lecting her stock for the season. The
assortment is complete and Miss Gill
lam wishes to inform her patrons and
the public generally that she is better
prepared to serve them now than ever
before. She insists that the ladies give
her a call before buying their spring
millinery. Date of opening announced
later.
DIED-April 4, at 9 o'clock A. NJ.
Mrs. P j. Laughlin. She was born in
Trigg county, Kentucky, in 1888. She
had not been well for over , years,
and the last six months has been con-
fined to her bed frequently, but only
for day or two and she would be up
again On March 25th she was taken
for the last time and at o'clock, April
4th, peacefully and calmly passed away.
She leaves two children-One son,
Milton, who resides at IrontOn. and
Ella, who is Mrs. Il. K. Williams, of
Poplar Bluff, Mo. A sister, Mrs. En-
ma Houser, of St. Louis and four grand
children. A Son.
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