Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-03-29

4 sAIby years dGO q part owner OF the
REGISTER, is visiting old friends here
this week. Mr.. Miller has a son in
the employe of the Schneider Granite
Company at Graniteville.
A bridge and building crew consist
ing OF Levi George, foreman. Little
Rock. Ark; M. S. Ziegler. E. B. Zieg-
Ter, II. Lamb. G. L. Webster, Pied
mont. Mo-; and r. E. Purkiss, Iron
ton. have commenced work on Arcadia
depot.
Our young friend, Golf Whitworth,
has resigned his position at Hogan and
returned to Ironton where he will be
employed in future as deputy IN the
circuit clerks Office. Golf is an eff
Gent young man and will make a
model deputy.
The band boys give minstrel enter
tainment tomorrow evening at the
Academy of Music. They assure the
public that the room will be in com
Portable trim, the songs popular, and
the jokes old and time-tried They ex-
tend cordial invitation to all their
friends to attend-first investing a
quarter of a dollar with the ticket-sel-
Ter, merely as matter of form.
Work has been commenced in shaft
on the north side of Knob hill 1t is
intended to go to a depth of three
hundred feet. Mr.. j. E. Craine. who
many years ago was employed at the
Knob, has returned and will superin-
tend the construction of the washer
which will be put in at once. The Of
| fee building is being repaired, and all
| indications are that it is intended to
| work quite force of men during the
| summer.
The Nashville Students held forth
at the Academy of Music Saturday
| night. There was time when this
organization put up a good show but
that was in the .'happy days OF yore. "
The performance Saturday was bum,
very bum-lacking both wit and orig
| inality, and common in every respect.
And we judge they have been getting
just about what they deserved. Their
general appearance, on the stage and
in street garb, doesn't indicate that
prosperity has been coming their way
in chunks this season.
Mr. J. NJ. Morris of Des Are had
business in Ironton Monday, and while
here had talk with the county court
| relative to what he terms the unfair
and unequal personal assessment in the
county. Mr.. Morris returns personal
property in excess of $11 200, while,
he says, there are other people in the
south end and other portions of the
county, who have just as much taxable
property as he has, and do not return
one-fourth that amount to the assessor.
Mr.. Morris thinks there ought to be a
remedy for this evil; and we agree
with him.
Charles Crotzer, a barber, who now
lives in ST. Louis, once made his home
in Ironton and is we'll known here.
The following is taken from Saturdays
Post Dispatch: CHARLES Crotzer is a
barber in hard luck. He has lost his
most important asse:. He can't talk.
He lost his power of speech while
talking to customer Friday afternoon.
Before his strange affection came upon
him, he was as voluble as BARRIERS
usually are and had a choice assoru-
ment of monologues on the weather,
the war in South Africa and the Porto
Rican tariff. His case is a puzzle to
the City Hospital physicians. They
agree that be is suffering from Alpha
STA, but his is one of the few instances
in which the disease developed sudden
ly and without previous warning. 1t
usually comes on gradually. The pa
tient finds difficulty in pronouncing
certain words and sometimes employs
others which are entirely different
from those intended to express his
idea. Crotzer showed none of the
usual premonitory symptoms. The
only words he can now utter are yes
and no. Though he understands ey-
erything said to him, he cannot reply
except in these monosyllables. He is
also unable to write, though he was a
good penman until Friday afternoon.
The Aetna Loan Company of st.
Louis has gone the way of all the
building and loan companies, and the
stockholders have the s'bag to hold"
At one time the company had a num-
Der of stockholders here but most of
them s.pulled OUT before the crash
came The following is from the Ken
nett Democrat: The Aetna Loan Co.,
of st. Louis, made an assignment
last Saturday, James Hayward being
named as trustee. 1t is understood
that his brother, E. G.. Hayward, who
was president and manager of the
company, has gone to England, to stay;
at least he wrote letter to that effect
to his travelling adjuster who was here
last week. The failure of this COM
pany is not a surprise here. 1t had
been anticipated for year or more.
Every stakeholder here, who could get
out of it by making any reasonable
sacrifice, did so; but several waited
too long. The attention of the public
has long been directed toward the
Aetna's methods. This paper, nearly
year ago, made some comment on
them; but the state superintendent of
building and loan associations did not
furnish our people any relief. In time,
the truth will likely all come out. In
the meantime, it is hoped that the bor-
rowers and stockholders will not have
to pay as much for their experience as
some seem to think they will"
The following ''eagle" story is re-
produced from Sundays Globe-Denso-
crat: Nv. l.. Beyersdorff, of Centre
vile, sent Maj. Charles G. Gonter a
splendid specimen of an eagles foot,
| xiiled IN Col NJ L, Clardv's live stock