Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-28

gan in Belleyiew. No., Monday, June
18th, 1900. Mrs. Margaret Jane Rey-
burn, relict of the late Samuel A. Rey-
burn, aged IS years, IL months and
5 days. The remains were inferred at
Caledonia the following day. To the
bereaved family the REGISTER tenders
assurance of profound sympathy.
We have been shown some specimens
of copper ores from the newly opened
mines at the Shut-In, in Iron County,
by Mr.. w. A. Ryan, who procured
them during a recent visit to lronton.
The ore seems to contain fair per-
centage of copper, and it is said pay
ing mine win be developed in the To-
cality before long--Potosi Journal.
Miss Lulu Gillian wants the ladies
to know that her stock of summer mil
linery is most Complete. and she urges
all who want anything in that lire to
call and see her elegant display before
making purchase elsewhere. As the
season is near it's close the prices will
be found very reasonable indeed Now
is the time to get the best millinery al
a bargain.
One of the features of the 4th Of
July celebration in Ironton will be a
bicycle parade. All wheelmen are
urged to take part and viii please re-
port at ouce to DR.. r. w. Gay who
has this feature in charge. Bicyclists
without wheels who wish 10 be in the
parade should communicate with him
at once and an effort will be made to
furnish all such with wheels. Do not
delay, though, as the time is short.
A. II. Greason and daughter. Lucille,
left last week for Pennsylvania, to Wis
it relatives Mr.. Greason was raised
in the Cumberlan Valley. not far from
Harrisburg, Pa, and this will be the
first visit to the place of his boyhood
for over thirty years He expects to
leave Miss Lucille with relatives, while
he goes to Philadelphia to witness the
proceedings of the National Republi-
can Convention.-PopIar Btstg Repatb-
itcd7g.
Justice Fairchild recently issued a
warrant against Henry Current of Ro-
selle charging him with seduction.
The prosecuting witness is Annie Stoli,
about sixteen years of age who lives
with her parents on the gravel road
about seven miles from Ironton. Cur
rent is a man about thirty-ive years of
age, married, but he and his wife have
not been living together for some time.
About the time the warrant was issued
Current left for parts unknown and the
officers have not yet succeeded in To-
eating him.
Mrs. Mary Lewis. from Arkansas,
who has been visiting her brother,
r. B. Clay, of this county. will leave
Shortly for a visit with relatives in Iron
county, Mo-, and will be accompanied
by Mr.. Clay who will spend several
weeks there. Mr.. Clay is a delegate
from this county to the Democratic
state Convention at Springfield, which
will meet the 26th of this month. He
has not decided whether he will make
the trip to Missouri before that time or
Immediately after the convention
Fairfield (IllS Sun.
An exchange is authority for the
statement that "'under a new law passed
by Congress. after June, 1908. the per-
son who gets the contract for carrying
the mail will have to reside along the
route. This law will do away with all
the large mail contracts and will give
the person carrying the mail chance
to deal direct with the government
IF there ever was an outrage perpe-
trated on the people 1T was the Star
Route contractors. Fortunes have been
made at the expense of the poor unfor-
tupate, who did the work while the
contractors did nothing"
Bishop Hennessy of Wichita, Kan
sas. was a most welcome caller at the
REGISTER Office on Friday OF last week.
Twenty years ago Bishop Hennessey
was pastor in charge at the Ursuiine
Academy in Arcadia and among the
older residents of the Valley he has
many friends who are always pleased
to see him. Time has dealt NEST kind
ly with our reverend friend, and he
looks hut little older than he did in
the days when he lived here. Bishop
Hennessey has attained honor and dis
tiuction in the exalted position he now
fills, but for all that, from word or
two he let fall, we judge he not in
frequently signs for the peace and
quiet of the old days in our lovely
Valley!
A preacher once said: Editors dare
not tell the truth. If you did you
would not live. Your newspaper
would be big failure" The editor
replied: You are right. And the
minister who would at ell times tell
the truth about his members. alive or
dead, will not occupy the pulpit more
than one Sunday, and he will find it
necessary to leave town in a hurry.
The pFsss and the pulpit go hand in
hand with the vhitewash brushes and
kind words. magniiyiug little virtues
| into big ones. The press, the pulpit
and the gravestones are the great saint
makexs.r The minister went away
looking very thoughtful. while the
editor turned to his work. telling the
surprising beauty of the bride, while
in fact she was as ugly as mud fence.
The hall of the Modern Woodmeu
camp at Ipswich, S. d. is situated
over an opera house. Recently the
opera house was wrecked by gas ex-
| plosion. ana candidate was being
| adopted. The degree team was just
in the Ra.dale of the ceremony. when
there was iesrfGl noise, and the floor
was raised about six iGst, While the