Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-11-12

Bonnie Terre Banks that the burg
lars were on their road here. Both
banks Immediately took steps to
prevent a robbery and hired extra
watchmen. To date nothing has
happened here.-Bonne Terre Star.
Josh Moon came down from Pilot
Knob last night and asked Prose-
cutting Attorney Van Mort for a
warrant for L. ]. Keenan,, whom he
claims shot at him about A o'clock
in the afternoon. The men have
been having trouble for several
days. Moon was not hurt. The
warrant will probably issue to-day.
A jury was empaneled in the
Probate Court Monday to pass on
the mental condition of j. F. G..
Logan, a former resident of this
county, who has been an inmate
of a private asylum the past thir-
teen years The jury declared him
of unsound mind, and his son, j..
F. Logan, was named as his
guardian. The proceedings were
merely formal, in order that some
of the unfortunate mans property
might be disposed of.
A new time card went into effect
Sunday. The Hot Spring train,
north and south, was put on the
road. The only changes of local
Importance are that No. 1, the
south-bound evening passenger
train, no longer stops at Arcadia,
and No. 3, the south-bound train
at 11:2S, now stops at Arcadia on
a flag. No. 1 stops nowhere in the
county except at Ironton. No. 3
does most of the local work, stop
ping at Middlebrook, Arcadia, An
napolis and Des Arc. No. 8, the
south bound Memphis train at
night, stops at all the stations.
A petition, signed by all our
business men, has been forwarded
to Louis Houck asking him to con-
slider the matter of running his
road in here from Perryville, and
another petition is to be sent to
the Frisco people to see if they can
not be interested in the matter of a
connection with this city. We
just must have another road or
better accommodations from the
one we have. Our town, with the
immense business transacted,
should have a new depot and ad-
ditional train service, and u peo-
pie seem determined to get relief
in n way or another. Relief
must and will come if we keep
hustling for it.-FredericktoaDn Tri-
bune.
The Academy Of Music will have
Melroy Bros. Minstrels on Friday
night, Nov. 18th. The show travels
in a special sleeping and dining
car. The program consists OF
music, singing and dancing, with
sketches introduced that are very
pleasing to the theater-going pub
lie. Special mention is to be made
of the quartette, as their singing of
old-time melodies and plantation
songs brings back the times of the
Sunny South "before the war"
The show is just as advertised,
can Evening in Sunny South"
introducing a pretty first part en-
titled ga Coon Town Picnic" and
an after-piece called can Evening
in Sunny South" Reserved seats
on sale at usual place, Boo.
1t pays to advertise, and we are
glad to notice that there is some
Indication that the medical pro-
fession is beginning to realize this
great truth. The light has broken
in Virginia. The medicos of that
great state have shaken off an I'M
profitable tradition and decided
that physicians may place their
business cards and advertisements
of private hospitals in the news
papers. This action of the Virginia
Medical Society shows that the
doctors have caught the spirit of
the handspring of modern progress
and they r no longer content to
lay modestly in the ear while the
patent medicine men wear dia-
monds and ride in automobiles at
the head of the Professionalism
phis Morning NeWs.
At a recent county association
three teachers had classes present
and conducted ''model lessons" in
reading, arithmetic and geography
respectively. In manner of re-
citing on part of pupils and of
questioning on part of teacher the
exhibits were fine. They tested
the pupils preparation and mem
ofies we'll and merited the many
compliments given by others pres
sent. Each failed, however, in the
most important feature of a good
lesson-that Of teaching, of setting
the pupils to investigating, of de-
veloping the subject. This is a too
frequent mistake. A patron says
that, as a rule, children are taught
at home and the teachers content
themselves with testing the result
of home instruction. The mission
of the school will be better fulfilled
if the real teaching were done at
school and the testing done al
home.
Sunday morning about half-past
three o'clock, as Will Lax and
Arthur Williams, two colored boys.
were passing up the street, they
discovered flames in the interior Of
the Greater Bonanza. They i'm
mediately gave the alarm, ar
entrance was forced in the from
door, and after considerable hare
work the flames were finally sub.
dued. The fire originated in a box
of sawdust used as a cuspidor, ano