Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-06-04

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Filson e. Broadwell, publishers and
editors. The paper is printed on the
ex-Eagle outfit removed from this place
The paper is independent 10 politics.
George Lester, who two years age
assaulted a preacher who had made
some remarks about him was found
guilty in the circuit court in Reynolds
county last week and 6ued 1925 and
costs. 1t is said that the suit has cost
Lester 500.
There will be the usual services at
Fort Hill church next Sunday morning
and evening. Also the 3rd Quarterly
Conference of tho Arcadia charge will
be held on the 14.h and 18Th inst.
Rev. j. Il. A. Vaughn will preach the
evening of the 18th.
Cuba is to vote on a. electric light
franchise on June 9th. MIR. l.. G.
Chambers the hustling and genial
manager Of the st. Louis Lumber &
Stave Co. at that place, will secure
the franchise If adopted by the people.
-SteelviHe Democrat.
Next Sunday a base ball team from
Piedmont will come here and play a
game with the soldiers. The follow
Ing Sunday the soldiers will go to
Piedmont to play a return game and
on Sunday, June 2lst, they will 60 to
Poplar Bluff to play a game.
The condition of the road between
Ironton and the Shut-1n is deplorable.
Is there no balm in Gilead? For
years, this road was a favorite drive
way and the pride of our people, but
now It's an abomina,ion and conduces
not to pleasure but profanity.
The young people have organized a
dramatic company. The married folk
meet next Tuesday night to perfect a
similar organization. So in the near
future we may expect shows by both
the old aud the young. May every
participant be covered with glory.
John Harris one of the bad" family
of that name of St. Francois county
was taken 10 custody at Graniteville
last Thursday morning by Sheriff Polk
and Constable Marshall. He was
wanted in St. Francois county on the
charge of carrying concealed weapons,
Thomas Keathly, of Lesterville, was
arraigned before Squire Kitchell at
Annapolis Tuesday morning on the
charge of astaulting a young man by
the name of Coleman at Sabula, on
May 14th. Keathly entered a plea of
guilty and was fined S. and costs,
amounting to $15 80 which he promptly
paid.
The editor acknowledges the receipt
of an invitation to attend the gradu-
ating exercises of the Rockford Hos
pital Training School for Nurses,
Rockford. Illinois, Tuesday evening,
June 4, 1908. Among the graduates
is Miss Marie Gratiot of the Valley,
and her many friends here wish her
every success.
The formation of another dramatic
club is on the tapis, to utilize the I'M
employed hislironic talent lying
around loose and unrecognized in this
town. An age limit doesn't go in the
new formation, and the bars are down
to Young and old alike. Such a thing
as a ..back number" is unknown to its
dramatiS perSonae.
The editor acknowledges the re-
ceipt of an invitation from Mr.. and
Mrs. W. H, Wheelock of Marion, Kan
sas, to attend the wedding OF their
daughter, Lillian, and Mr.. Ferdinand
Lawrence Inner, Tuesday evening,
June 9th 1908, at eight o'clock p. NJ,
Mr.. Inner is a Pilot Knob boy, and
has many friends in the old home who
will join us in wishing him every
happiness.
H. M. Collins wishes the REGISTER
to return his most sincere thanks to
the good citizens of Ironton who fought
so brayely and successfully to keep his
barn from being destroyed by fire on
the occasion OF the conflagration in
north lronton on Tuesday night OF last
week. Mr.. Collins says that had it
not been for the good offices of his
neighbors and friends his property
would most assuredly have been de-
stroyed.
The screen factory closed for the
season last Wednesday and Mr.. Moore
leaves this week for his homo in Hills
dale, Michigan. The season has been
q very successful and profitable one.
Mr.. Moore says it is not likely that he
will be back here as manager OF the
factory. He does say, however, that
there is a bare possibility that he will
come back to Ironton and build a
factory OF his own. We certainly hope
that he may.
Fred Klndell, Jr., was in telephone
communication with his wife, who is
visiting the family OF w. A. Flowers
in Eldon, Iowa, Tuesday evening
Eldon is in the flooded district in Iowa
and at the time Mrs. Kindell was tele'
phoning the water was six feet deep IL
the lower story Of the house and foi
several days they had to make thelI
home in the second story. The waters
are subsiding now, though, and ne
more danger is anticipated.
The party who picnicked on the st
Francis on Decoration Day had a fine
time. All sorts Of games and amuse
ments we're INDUCED in. even TO heavy
weight racing, Notwithstanding the
ground was so uneven, some were no
standing at the finish. Some fish
were caught, we are told, but that Ii
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