Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-29

wan ihlukOA vi LAo1 Dis l4Oulbs lllbss
spent several days OF last week with
his parents in Pilot Knob. Will aud
bis brother, Henry, are engaged in the
candy and confectionery business in
East St. Louis and are doing well.
Mrs. A. McGehee gave a birthday
party in honor of her niece, Blanche
Evans, at the home of Mr.. James
Evans, Saturday afternoon. The after
noon was spent very epjoyably by all.
At 2 o'clock a dainty lunch was served.
Rev. H. W. Todd, who many years
ago was pastor Of the Presbyterian
church at this place died at his home
in Vandslia. Illinois, last Friday. The
deceased will be we'll remembered by
many of the older citizens of the
Valley.
The speculator, the man who trsfics
in futures, horse raising, etc., is more
in the Valley these days
than he ever has been heretofore in
our history. 1t is just really sur
prising how many people are ''risking
their money"
MI. Mckee and family, of Iowa, are
domiciled on the property formerly
owned by the late Jos. Huff, Esq. Mr..
Mckee has established, or ia about to
establish, a goat ranch in the southern
end of this county, and a consignment
of Angora goats is expected to arrive
within a few days.
Superintendent Smith was here
again last Friday and said our new de-
pot was going to be built without delay.
He also vouchsafed the pleasing infor-
nation that the new structure would
be large and commodious and in every
way adequate to the demands of the
business done at this place.
Ferd. Inner, after spending several
days with relatives at Pilot Knob re-
turned to St. Louis Tuesday. Mr..
Inner will leave in a few days for
Marion, Kansas, where he expects to
remain the balance of the winter.
We are pleased to state that Ferd's
health is much better than it has been.
DR.. B. H. Zwart, one of the old-time
Ironton boys, but who has been making
his home in Kansas City for the past
twenty years, thus kindly writes: ''Geo.
Schultz told me that you were the
same as you had always been. May
you remain so and when the Angel of
Death calls may he find the Mr.. AXE
I hold in pleasant memory"
Robert Trauernicht resumed work
at his prospect mine les town Mon
day and reports his prospects growing
brighter each day. Mr.. Tr%auernicht
has done considerable work in this
mine and has been rewarded by finding
a quantity of lead ore of fine quality
and he thinks that in the future he
will make a rich strike ere.-Irondole
Gazette.
John Mcclure and Noah La Chance
were brought here last Friday and
arraigned before the U. s. Commits
sioner charged with having burglar
lied the post-ofice at Avon in Ste.
.Genevieve county on the night of De-
cember Goth. They pleaded guilty
and were taken to the District court In
St. Louis where they will likely be
sentenced to the pe%nitentiary.
l thank my Brother Of the Clayton
argus for his kind words and desire to
express my qualification his confidence
begets: "We have received a copy OF
a neat little booklet entitled 'Ouanee-
tee; a Legend of Sunset Mountain, by
Eli D. AXE, of the IRON COUNTY REG
IsTER. We haye not had time to per-
use the volume as yet, but we are
willing to take IN trust anything from
the pen Of Bro. Axe"
Ironton hardly seems like ~Ironton
without our old friend, Herman Davis
rushing up and down the streets. For
the first time in forty years and more
he has been out of town for a solid
month and his favorite haunts are pin
ing over his absence. And he seems
to be having such a fine time down by
the 'ssad lea waves" that he can't find
opportunity to write his old friends
back home a single line.
Little Percy Mayor, who will be re-
numbered by the citizens of Ironton
who left here a year or more ago fol
Chicago, writes to some of his little
friends here that he and his sister,
Winnie, are alone in Chicago, and thai
they are living on $3.50 a week which
he earns by working in a tin shop
Brave little fellow! He hasn't had &
very happy childhood. May the
| future be more kind to him.
VIM. Blue and s.Pop" Thomas were
shot by VIM. Steffens, Jr., in Steffens
saloon in Graniteville, Tuesday after
noon. Blue had struck the elder
| Steffens when young Steffens pulled t
gun and shot at Blue. The shooting
| Of Thomas was accidental. Both mer
are seriously but not fatally injured
Blue was shot in the leg and ThomaI
in the shoulder. With attention they
will 0 be all right again.
A cas- Of smallpox is reported ou'
about the Catherine mines. A young
man named George Fouse, who hal
been working at Birds Point, is the one
reported to have it. DR.. Presnell saw
the case and pronounced 1t the same
disease that vas called smallpox las
year. The county authorities have
%quarantined the house and there is ne
danger Of the disease spreading
FredericktoWm Democratic eWs.
The train crews on all the road
west OF the Mississippi have asked ar
increase OF twenty per cent. in theil