Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28

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thank the ladies for their past patron
age, and wishes to inform them that
her new fall samples and cuts for
ladies' tailor made garments have
arrived. Call at her home and see
the elegant line of samples she has to
select from.
DR.. Chas. P. Harviell of St. Louis
was in Ironton last Thursday attending
the funeral of his aunt, Mrs. Owens,
who died in Bloomfield last Tuesday.
The DR.. tells us that he has recon
sidered his determination to locate in
the Valley this fall. He will remain
In st. Louis for the present.
Rev. T. A. Waterman desires to
state that he expects to spend the
winter in st. Louis, engaged in liter
airy work if practicable, otherwise in
work oil any kind that may be offered.
He says that he has become reconciled
at last to the idea of secular pursuits,
for at least sometime to come, but not
as much to the thought Of leaving
Ironton.
We hear that Rev. Ben. Deering.
who ia now writing life insurance for
the New York Life Insurance Com
pany in Texas, is making a fortune.
The official bulletin issued by the COM
pany says that Ben. made four thou
sand in commissions the last three
months. This is doubtless more money
than Ben. can make out Of politics, 30
he'll hardly be making speeches for
the Republicans this year.
Fifteen or twenty Republicans of
Reynolds county met at the courthouse
in Centerville on last Saturday, and
nominated a county ticket, as follows:
Representative, F. t. Hunt; Circuit
Clerk, Bennett F. Moore; County
Clerk, Ulysses G, Barnes; Sheriff, o.
L. Allsman; Collector, James Pinkley
Treasurer, A. P. DAce; Presiding
Judge, William Allen; Judge 1st dis
trict, George Morris; Judge I'd dis
trict, b. Franklin Bonney; Coroner,
Lot Copeland; Public Administrator,
Clarence Stout.-Regnolds County OUT
look.
A drunken man staggered into a
church one Sunday and sat down in
the pew of one of the deacons. The
preacher was discoursing about preva-
lent popular vices. Soon he exclaim-
ed: Where is the d~runkardP" The
drunken man was just far enough gone
to think the call personal, so rising
heavily, replied: ''Here l am" and
remained standing while the drunk
ards character and fate were elo-
quently portrayed. A few minutes
later, the preacher reached another
head Of his discourse, and asked:
"Where is the hypocrite" gently
nudging his neighbor, the drunkard
said, in an audible whisper, ''Stand
up, deacon, he means you this time.
Stand up and take it like a man, just
as l did. 1t will do you ."-Er.
The improvements that the Iron
Mountain railroad is making on its
Piedmont property is of a substantial
nature. The yard has been enlarged
to about three times its former size.
The big water tank at the depot is
about complete; and Foreman Ziegler
Of the B. & B. department expects to
turn the water into it this week. A
contract has been let to the Cooke
Well Drilling Co., of St. Louis, to sink
a twelve inch well, to depth Of 500
feet, near the round house, from which
the supply of water for the engines, as
we'll as for the running of the machine
shop, is to be pumped. The Banner
learns from a very reliable source that
it is the intention Of the powers that
be, to have nine more stalls built to
the round house, and twelve additional
coal chutes erected. The arrange
ments as,they are given out are to have
the division headquarters at Piedmont
by Sept. Is, thus making five divisions,
Of nearly equal length, between St.
Louis and Texarkana.-Piedmon
Banner.
Some newspaper men are terrible
liars, says an exchange. In writing
OF a cyclone out west one of them said
it turned a well wrong side out, a
cellar up side down, moved a township
line, blew,all the slaves out OF a whisky
barrel and left nothing but a bunghole,
changed the day OF the week, blew the
hair off a bald-headed man, blew all
cracks out of a fence and took all the
wind out of a politician. This must
be the same editor who gave the fol-
lowing as an item Of news in his local
column: ''Last night yesterday morn.
ing about l o'clock in the afternoon
before breakfast a hungry lad about
40 years old bought a big custard for 8
levy and threw it through a brick
wall 9 feet thick and jumping over il
broke his right ankle off above his lefI
knee and fell into a dry mill pond ani
was drowned. About 40 years after
on the same day an old cat had nine
turkey COOLERS and a high wind blew
up Yankee Doodle and a fryingpar
and killed a SOW and two dead pigs a.
Boston when a deaf and dumb mar
was talking to his aunt Peter"
The Iron Mountain railroad survey
is a veritable will-o'-the. wisp, thu
baseless fabric of a dream, as it were
"An ignis fatus that bewitches
And leads men into pools and ditches;'
especially If one attempts to follow vi
its r~ight-of-way and find where it /!
headed. The surveying party tina
passed through here last week has dis
appeared as suddenly as did the mucl
famed McGinty. Various speculation
have been INDUCED in as to the rea