Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13

Died on Friday, February z, 1902.
at 4:30 o'clock A. NJ, 10 st. Louis,
Mary E. Bergsieker (nee Groom, be-
loved wife of Oscar Bersieker, and dear
daughter Of Mrs. Fannie Aver and sis
ter OF Harry Aver, Mrs. Daisy Kehne
and Mrs. Stella Tuthill, after a linger-
ing illness, at the age Of 20 years and
6 months.
The investigation of the books Of
the various county offices, which has
been in progress the past two months,
was completed last week and the re-
port Of the investigator, Love Carly.
filed with the court. The report re-
cites that the books of the various
have been carefully examined and
everything found all right.
The celebration of the tw~enty-ifth
anniversary of the establishment of
Ursuline Convent and Arcadia College,
to be held next June, will probably he
the biggest event OF the Valley In 1902.
The preparations therefore have been
quietly progressing for several months,
and when the time arrives the visiting
crowds will find an interesting pro-
gramme and a hearty welcome.
While putting in a pipe in the new
artesian we'll at the Touring mill Mon
day ninety feet of inch and a half pipe
.'got away" and fell to the bottom of
the we'll. Fortunately the pipe is but
an inch and a half while the we'll is
six inches in diameter and it will be
possible to put another pipe along side
the one already there.
DIED--At his home in Los Angeles,
Calf, Jan. 29, 1902, Frank M. Reach,
aged 4S years and Z days. The de-
ceased was a resident of Arcadia in the
early seventies. we'll known and a gen.
eral favorite among the young people
of the Valley. In 1877 he married
Miss Anna Cochran of Navasota, Tex,
and removed to California in 1884.
He leaves a wife and five children.
H. w. Adolph, G. F. Hanson and
Geo. K. Gay attended the business
meeting of the Southeast Missouri K.
P. Association at De Soto Wednesday
of last week.. The next celebration
will be held at Dexter June Oath and
the next business meeting at Farming
ton in 1908. Mr.. Gay was elected
Vice-President of the Association for
the ensuing year. The visitors say
they were elegantly entertained at De-
Soto.
Rev. j. H. Dew, State. evangelist,
inaugurated a series of meetings at the
Baptist church Sunday. Tuesday eve.
ding Mr.. Dew preached to men only,
while Mrs. Dew talked to the ladies at
the Presbyterian church. The church
was not large enough to accommodate
the congregation, and Wednesday
afternoon the meeting was moved to
the courthouse. Services every after
noon and evening this week. The
people are cordially invited to attend.
The sl~eet-covered sidewalks made
human locomotion a little risky during
the ten days ending Tuesday, and more
than one downfall is reported. Don't
be alarmed, ladies! the REGISTER
scorns to give names and particulars.
Fortunately. no serious accident is to
be recorded. Several people scattered
ashes and sawdust over the sidewalks
fronting their premises and reaped a
harvest of blessings from passing hu-
mainly. They are not only worthy
citizens, but good christians as we'll.
An eastern writer gives the follow
Ing definition of an Editor" An edi-
tor is one who reads newspapers,
selects miscellany, writes articles on
all subjects, sets type, reads proof,
works at press, folds, packs and directs
papers and sometimes carries them,
prints jobs, run on errands, saws wood,
works in the garden, takes care OF
babies, talks to all his patrons who
call, patiently receives blame for a
Thousand things that never were nor
never can be done, has scarcely time
to enjoy natures restorer, sleep.
That is an editor.
Mr.. j. f. ("Windy'0 King. the we'll
known grocery drummer, was in Po-
tosi Monday on the regular weekly
trip. He stated to the Journal man
that he is positively 10 the race for
the Republican nomination for Rail
road and Warehouse Commissioner,
and that he thinks his prospects for
securing the nomination are exceed
ingly good. He claims to have the
assurance Of support from enough
counties to give him between three
and four hundred delegates when he
goes into the convention .-Potosi Jour-
nal.
Following are the petit jurors drawn
by the County Court last week, tt
serve at the April term of Circui
Court:
r. A. Dunn, Henry Volner,
Thos. Henderson, A. G. Russell,
henry huOle, WIN. Moofe'
W. M. ONeal, Sam Bradley,
John Poston, Sr., Jas. Pratte,
Charley Clifton, Moses Thomas.
Houston Seal, J. F. Thompson,
VIM. Dunn, M. S. Petty.
j. G. Austin, VIM. Reeves,
r. F. Holloman, John D. Webb,
E. T. Elgan, John Goggin,
Fred Delano, Chas. Thompson
Barney Frauenthal, chief of thu
bureau of information at the Unior
Station, has a pipe. 1t is a big pipe
in fact, an immense pipe. 1t is con
ducive to dreams, and If M were Il
smoke all that can be put in 1t at ont
sitting all kinds of dreams would b
liable to visit him. The pipe was
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