Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-02-14

o, bird of early, treach'rous Spring,
Who dares Old Winters hidden frowni
Your note brings cheer where Death is king,
And heralds forth a living crown.
1t comes upon the sense of man
Soft and sweet-not shrill, not loud;
His heart responds like nature wan
To sun-ray through the rifted cloud.
Then here's to the birds that sing
The earlier lays of spring
The promise of joy they bring
To every sentient thing
And hope for the days to comei
Two horses-one free and untram-
meled, and the other harnessed up in
a delivery wagon-over in Whitworth
& Huff's store lot last Saturday had a
disagreement. In the fracas the wagon
was injured, and a window-frame in the
Commercial Hotel received a scalp
wound. The big gray mare jumped
clean and clear over the iron fence and
took a tumble over the sidewalk into
the gutter, but wasn't much hurt. 1t
wasn't so much of an incident, but it
gathered quite a crowd.
II. E. Melhado, Esq, gave a dinner
| to a few friends Wednesday evening
of last week. That was his birthday
just which, numerically, We on't know,
and perhaps he wouldn't like US to
say publicly, if we did-and a very
pleasant occasion he and his guests
made of it. An elegant dinner, fol-
lowed by wine. cigars, and the con-
v~ersation induced by good company
and congenial spirits soon sped the
evening into time past The REGISTER
wishes the host many happy returns
of the day.
All who are interested in the i'm
provemeut or advancement OF the In
terests of the neighborhood will do
we'll to attend the lectures to be held
in the early part of March under the
management of the local Horticulture
Society. The President of the State
Horticulture Society, Hon. n. f. Muir
ray, Major Frank Holsinger, of Rose
dale, Kansas, Prof. j. T. S%tinson, OF
Mountain Grove, and several others
who are prominent in Horticulture,
have promised to attend. The 9TH of
March is the time appointed for this
point, and it is hoped that all will
make an effort to come on: and hear
these distinguished gentlemen.
Last Tuesday evening a tragedy
came near being enacted In the village
| of Middlebrook. 1t was a family row
among the SalIngs, and from all we
can learn, Fritz, a youth OF twenty
years, caused it. 1t is alleged he went
home drunk, quarreled with his father,
drew a knife and attempted to cut the
parental throat. He made an ugly
wound, but not probably fatal. A
Younger brother, Will, caught the
knife as Fritz made a second stroke
and has a badly wounded hand in con-
sequence. The mother, who was pres
ent. was struck in the face in the me-
lee, but this was probably an accident.
Fritz left after the trouble and o a
train north. He appears to have been
a pretty good boy. generally speaking,
and was the main support of the family.
Bro. Edwards of the Dunklin Ne1Os
had it. too. Would that the REGISTER
too could put it in the past tense. Its
editor would gleefully promise to
amend the ways of has paper, and make
his readers happy by anticipation. at
least. This is Bro. Edwards song OF
triumph: THE grip and the editor
have dissolved partnership, after a
close association for five weeks, during
which time first one and then the other
had the best of it. Everybody will
understand that it was really a serious
proposition when we state and can
prove that we were actually too blamed
sick to eat (and our better-half killed
hogs, too.) We feel so good over feel
ing natural that we are going to give
our readers a good paper next week,
to partly make up for the recent short
comings."
Uncle Frank Sweezie is known tt
everybody in the Valley as a ''water
witch" of no mean ~pretens1ous, and he
has made some singular finds In tina
line: but he isn't in it with a Texa:
boy, IL we credit newspaper accounts
The boy is a resident of Uvalde, ant
one of the specials from that place
saws: s.Joel c. Fenley, father of Guy
Fenley, the ~14-year-old boy with TIT
X-rav eyes,, who sees water, oil o.
minerals at any depth in the ground
ia receiving letters from all parts o
the United States from persons WHIT
have read the newspaper accounts o
the remarkable gift of this boy. Man!
of these letters are from oculists AM
members of scientific societies of tn
North, where thorough tests may b
made OF his X-ray sight. MIR. Fenle.
is also offered large sums OF none.
from oil and mining p~rospectors .
have his son locate oil and mineral
beneath the earth's surface. The DO,
} has located several wells of water a
( depths of from 200 to 400 feet o.
ranches in western Texas during To
week"
Many of the older residents OF Iror
l ton will recall the subject OF the 10
loving sketch. She. her husband an
family resided here some twenty-hv
wears ago. Mr.. Buchanan at that tim
: was Superintendent OF this section
i the l. NJ. R'y. They moved I Arkar
q sas where Mr.. Buchanan died aoor
" twenty years later. Now we are Gale
TO chronicle the final departure OF d
r widow. She died al Fayetteville, Ark
January 31st. and thus the life-ledge
of two most estimsble people stand
closed forever. We subjoiu the follow