Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-10-17

AuS ursb car Oh te1Slb over me- new
railroad, consigned to Popular Bluff
was received Friday. The car wa.
loaded with shingles. which will be
given away to our citizens as souve-
Mrs of the opening of a ley era o.
prosperity to our city.-Popular Biu6
| Gazette.
We understand there is a good pros
pect of a number of st. Louis people
buying homes in the Valley in the
near future. There ia no doubt but
that If we had the proper transports.
ton facilities our Valley would again
become quite q popular summer resor,
for st. Louisans.
To our very good friend. F. P.
Graves, OF St. Francois county, we are
indebted for a copy of the ~Ironton
Weekly ReUiew, printed in October,
1866, just t%hirty-five years old. 1t is
a valuable and interesting relic and we
are under many obligations to Mr..
Graves therefor.
For EXCHANGE OR SALE-A four
room house and lot near Worlds Fair
site, st. Louis, valued at $1,400. Rents
for $15 per month. Will exchange for
good farm of equal value within five
miles of railway station | have other
property to sell or exchange. Call or
write Mrs. H. O'Brien, Ironton, Mo.
Married-At the Southern Methodist
parsonage in Arcadia on Monday, Oc-
tober 14th, 1901, Roy Snyder of Iron
ton and Miss Mabel Oliver of Arcadia,
Rev. w. a. Humphreys officiating.
Mr.. and Mrs. Snyder departed on the
noon train for ST. Louis, where they
will spend a few days and then return
to the Valley. The REGISTER extends
congratulations and wishes Mr.. Snyder
and his bride every happiness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Perry aud Mrs.
Blanche Blake returned the first of this
week from st. Louis where they at
tended the marriage of Miss Ella Nc
Ilhatton. Mr.. Perry's stepdaughter, to
August Moelman. The ceremony was
performed at 500 P. NJ. Wednesday,
October 2, at the Bethlehem German
M. E. church, Rev. c. Stark, pastor of
the church officiating.s Mr.. and Mrs.
Moelman's friends in this city wish
them happiness.-De Soto Press.
We learn from the Carterville, (Mo.1
Record tina Capt. s. S. Bice, died at
his home in Carthage, Mo-, on the
night of Oct. I'd. Capt. Bice was a
resident of Concord Township, this
county, some eighteen or twenty years
ago, where he carried on mining oper-
atoms in the neighborhood of Hope
well.-Potosi Journal.
Capt. Bice was very we'll known in
Iron County, and has many friends
among the elder residents here who
will hear OF his death with sorrow.
The millinery opening at Lopez's
last Thursday was indeed a C
Miss Laughlin had a most elegant dis
play of fall and winter hats on exhibit
ton, and the ladies were loud In their
praise of her skill and handiwork. The
store was most tastefully decorated for
the occasion and the large and we'll
selected stock of all kinds of fall goods
just received was displayed most ad-
yantageously. The handsome selec-
ton of dress goods was especially adj
mired and commented on. The ladies
fairly Toasted their eyes on the beauties
spread before them, and the store was
thronged with visitors all day long.
Louis Schultz returned home last
week from an absence of three months
most of which time was spent on a
trip to South Africa. Louis and Chas.
Sutton, another Ironton boy, boarded
ship at New Orleans about August 1st
on a transport loaded with mules for
Africa. They rounded the Cape of
Good Hope and landed at Fort Eliza
beth in Southeastern Africa. Going
aud coming, they we're sixty-three
days on water. Although they were
subject to pretty hard treatment the
boys stood the trip fairly we'll and re-
turned home in good health. But they
say they wouldn't relish q second voy-
age like unto the first.
Ten citizens of the eastern part of
this county and northern part of Rey-
nolds county were arrested Tuesday
by Constable John Young of this city
chorged with assassination of Thos.
Hall ten days ago on Huzzah. John
Barton, Jube Barton, Milt Camden and
Chas. Asher waived a preliminary ex-
animation before Justice Wingield of
this city and gave bond in the sun of
$4,000 for their appearance at circuit
court here two weeks from next Mon
day. The other six were discharged.
They were: John Camden. j. Fl. Cam
den, Lucinda Asher, Rebecca Asher,
JAKE Clemmens and Allen Mathes.
Three of the ten are ordained ministers
of the Baptist church. They are John
Barton, Chas Asher and Allen Mathes.
They all claim that they were in j. G.
Asher's cornfeld cutting corn at the
time of the murder. Salem Monitor.
A solid vestibule train, consisting of
two coaches and one combination mail
and express car. we're placed on the
). M. & A. tracks Wednesday, and will
now make a daily run between this
city and Popular Bluff. No finer train
runs over any road in this section of
the country. They are all six wheel
trucks of the best steel, while the in
terror OF the coaches are finished in
highest style of workmanship, and
most deliberately decorated throughout.
The ends In the interior are covered
with solid plate mirrors, while the
seats are the most comfortable made.
In one end OF each coach is q compart-
ment mos exquisitely finished which
is used as q smoking room. This kind
of rolling stock any road should feel