Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-01-04


last Thursday evening. The goot
ladies had provided most excelIen
spread to which each and every on,
did full justice. The evening wa
unanimously declared one of the mos
successful and pleasing events of tn,
holiday season.
Last Monday Mr.. VIM. Spaugh, Jr
celebrated New Years 10 his own in
/ imltable way. He had jag" on
He drove through Ironton from the
north, about noon, whooping at every
jump of the poor horse in front of him
and accentuating his hilarity with fire
quent whip-lashing. Mr., Spaugh il
just now denizen of Arcadia, with
the privilege of this city Whenever he
can take it without the Marshal sight
ing him.
Last Thursday w. P. McCarver oil
this town received a telegram stating
that his father, VIM. McCarver, had
been shot and killed on Christmas day.
The murder was committed at Yonia,
near Harrisonville. Ky. Though but
few particulars have been received, it
Is known that three or four persons
were engaged in the affray. Mr.. Nc
Carver was widely known in Missouri,
and his friends will learn with regret
OF his untimely taking off.
A. c. Jaquith, Esq. of Cripple
Creek, Colorado. was in the Valley for
a few days, returning to his Western
home Tuesday. He was called to
Pilot Knob by the death of his mother
last week, although too late to be
present at the rites which mark the
duality to the cares of humanity. Mr.
j. is firm believer in the prosperous
future of his adopted State, and the
REGISTER is pleased to see that it has
dealt kindly with him, physically and
financially.
Mr.. ID. E. King, travelling freight
agent OF the Missouri Pacific railway
Is arranging for a meeting of fruit
growers in the Valley some time the
latter part of the month. Among the
visitors Will be some of the largest
fruit growers in the country. The
purpose of the meeting will be to
awaken interest as to the possibilities
VI bhAS oCNehOh as q II OlG OIL
ticulars will be announced later. 1t is
hoped the movement will be given
local encouragement.
The churches of the Valley have
arranged to hold union services during
the week of prayer. The meetings
will be led by the pastors and will be
held in the different churches in the
order to be arranged later and an
nounced next Sabbath. The services
will be evangelistic in character. The
burden of the prayers will be for our
own community. Let all the Chris
tan people come out and unite in
seeking the divine blessing upon the
churches and upon all the people.
is cordially invited to these
meetings.
Misses Ruth and Alice Gay enter
tanned a number of friends Saturday
evening of last week The occasion |
proved most delightful one in every |
respect and those in attendance will |
long cherish the evening in pleasant |
There were present:
Misses Lillian Steel, Belle Muffley, |
Ella Halter, Bertha Fairchilu, Mildred |
Steel, Lucie Jennings, Hattie Brown,
Leila O'Neal, May Gay and Mrs. Il. w. |
Gay. Messrs. Thos. F. Marshall, A. |
w. Gillian, Adrian Steel, l.. &. Cham |
bers. M. w. Daugherty, r. W. Gay, |
Paul Steel, W. II. Brown, A. L. Schwab. |
Chester Prince.
The Observer gathers the following |
statistics from the weather report for |
1898: Deaths by lightning In United |
States, 367; injured, 494. 965 barns, |
sheds, ETC., 735 dwellings,, stores and |
office buildings, 95 churches and |
and 20 other buildings, were |
struck and damaged by lightning, the |
loss being $1,000, 900. |
Of buildings struck, 40 had lightning |
rods; $50 had not. and in 952 cases it |
could not be ascertalned whether the |
had rods or not. 964 head |
Of cattle, 500 horses, 80 mules, 426 |
sheep, and 116 hogs were killed in |
above year. Lightning also caused |
great loss of life and property so far |
Turing year 1899, but the exact figures
ire not yet ascertained.
Mr.. T B. Pruitt mourns the loss of a |
yripsack, well filled with clothes and |
. few of the tools used in paper-haDg- |
ug. He came home from Bismarck |
md got off the train at IrontOn Friday |
evening, with a grip and lot of
Christmas bundles-toO many for the |
limited ability of one man to properly |
,are for. Leaving the grip outside
Mr.. p. carried load of things into
he station, and when he returned to
get it, behold! the grip had disap-
Deared. Search failed to recover it, |
snd suspicion rests upon a stranger
Who had been lingering about the
station all day. He was fairly we'll
dressed with comfortable outer gar
neuts and wearing a colored shirt. |
He was seen once after the disappear
ance of the grip-next morning-wear-
ng a shirt of dazzling white. As Mr..
Pruitt's missing property consists in
part of three fresh Numbered white |
shirts, the suspicion lies that the afore-
said stranger knows how 10 avail him.
self of the good that fortune throws in
his way AS for Tom, he'd like to run
across the man who made so free with |
ais property and opened his grip with
out the aid OF the lawful key thereto.
Weather Report.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL raDort of VoIoptary