Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-10

$50 per car. Growers will have tt
do something by next year, to OBJ.
tain better prices. Some suggesr
that a competent and honest agent
must be sent ahead to contracr
melons, and that growers mus
trust him, or remain at the mercy
of the pooling buyers or dishonest
commission men.-Dunklin Demo
crat.
The REGISTER job department
this week printed for Rev. Geo,
Steel some souvenir copies of the
Minutes of the First Anniversary
of the Jefferson County Baptist
Association held with Bethlehem
Church. September 9, 1854. The
original is quite a curiosity and is
among the things ancient. We
reproduce the following taken from
the report on Missions: "Report
of Missionary operations for 1854,
in Jefferson County Association,
by Elders Hudspeath and Will
liams. Travelled six hundred and
twenty miles; occupied thirty-fou1
days; preached one hundred and
thirteen sermons; witnessed the
conversion of sixty-fve persons
Joined the Churches, fffty-four
baptized, thirty-four. Prospects
are so flattering, that we can truly
say that the fields are white unto
the harvest"
The oldest mines in America are
the lead and nickel mines at Mine
LaMotte, in Madison county.
They were worked by the Indians
as early as 1925 and have been in
operation ever since. The Indians
carried the ore to Ste. Genevieve
where it was traded to the French
and German settlers for beads
and calico. These mines were
later worked by the Spaniards
and were finally acquired by a
French nobleman, La Motto, after
whom the mines were named.
During the Revolutionary war a
large part of the bullets used by
the COLONIAL soldiers were made
from the lead from these mines,
An interesting exhibit of the Mis-
souri, commission at the Worlds
Fair will SHOW the primitive tools
used in mining in the early days.
Among them is a wooden spade
supposed to be more than 100 years
old, which is now in the possess
sion of a citizen of Fredericktown.
Lead Belt News.
Something like two weeks OF
more ago a man happened into the
Belleview and Graniteville neigh
borhood and said his name was
VIM. Hall. He said that he came
from Tennessee, where he had re-
Gently sold out and that he wanted
to buy a farm. He claimed to be
the uncle of VIM. Hall at Granite
vile and Arch Hall of Arcadia,
though these latter gentleman knew
him not. The Tennessee man
looked at several farms in Belle
view but finding nothing to suit
him he came to the Valley and
closed a deal for the Socrates New
man farm west of town agreeing to
pay $1,000 for it. He claimed to
have the purchase money right at
hand but delayed, from time to
time, the payment of the same.
After repeatedly failing to do what
he said he would, VIM. Hall OF
Tennessee walked out of town last
Monday morning. And now the
people here who tried to do bust
ness with him are of the opinion
that he is a fake. And we would
not be surprised if they are right
in their calculations.
The following, telegraphed from
Jefferson City to Wednesdays
Republic, is of some local interest
"Judge Marshall of the Supreme
Court to-day granted an applica-
ton for a writ of prohibition
against Judge Frank bearing OF
the Twenty-first Judicial District
to restrain him from proceeding
further in the case of the Southern
Missouri Pine Lumber Co. The
writ is made returnable to the Su-
preme Court Oct. 18th. A suit was
brought before Judge Zachritz in
st. Louis by the lumber company
against VIM. Crommer, William
F. Crommer, E. P. Ewart, E. S.
Newhouse and S. j. Malugen to
prevent the sale of some notes
amounting to $751; 900 held by them
for land purchased by the COM
pany. The defendants won in the
Circuit Court, and the case came
up to the Supreme Court on ap-
peal. Pending action by the Su-
preme Court the defendants went
into the Circuit Court of Wayne
county before Judge bearing and
asked that a receiver be appointed
for the lumber company. The ap-
plication for the writ to-day is to
prevent the carrying out Of the
effort to place the company in the
hands of a receiver"
WANTED.-Woman cook, also
girl for general homework, good
wages. Apply to Mrs. A. G.