Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-06-18

Some OF the ladies of the newly
established dramatic club surprised
their fellow members last evening with
q fine layout OF ice cream and cake.
The cream was not city made, but it,
as we'll as the cake, vas the creation
of their own fair hands. All who were
present partook of the good things
with relish, and the evening was as
pleasant all around as one aver has
the good luck to enjoy.
There's a hard time ahead for dead
beats in Missouri. On June 81 the
new garnishmeut law goes into effect.
You can garnishee the wages Of any
deadbeat no matter how little he
makes a week. You can collect any
debt not over five years old, a note
ten years old. The law is for use and
not for ornament. II a man owes you
and don't pay, go after him hard, but
don't try to collect from a man who
has met great misfortune or a mau
who is in distress and poverty. Go
after the deadbeat who makes the
money and spends it recklessly, and
sits back and laughs at you.-En.
At Hillsboro last Friday Judge Dear
ing granted a decision in favor of the
plaintiff In the case of the Southern
Missouri railroad VS.. the Mississippi
River & Bonnie Terre railroad, in ref
erence to the crossings at Elvins and
Crawley's Switch. This suit grew out
of the Bonnie Terre road trying to COM
pei the Southern Missouri to cross its
road at the places named by over
head crossings which would have been
very expensive and almost kept the
Southern Missouri out of lead belt.
We have not heard the full text of the
decision but understand it is wholly
in favor of the plaintiff. And justice
has been done.
Last Saturday afternoon a number
of soldiers had their horses hitched at
the rack across the street from the
courthouse. James Hourihan, who
lives about Tom-Sauk, started to pet
one of the horses when one of the
soldiers told him, in language more
forcible than polite, to let the horse
alone. Some words passed, the
soldier became offensive and James
''tapped" him lightly. Other soldiers
rushed to the scene and Hourihan's
nephew landed a good lick on one of
them. 1t seemed that there was 60
ing to be trouble and the city marshal
and several citizens hurried to the
scene and quelled the disturbance.
The soldiers then left for the camp and
peace and quiet reigned again.
A large steam stone crusher for road
purposes, lately purchased by the
county court, was put In operation for
the first time to-day on the Old Mines
road about a mile and a half north OF
Potosi. Judges Page and Boyer were
present to see the machine in opera
ton. The crusher 10 a ponderous af-
fair built on wheels, so that it may
easily be moved, and breaks the stone
between two heavy iron jaws. Steam
power is, of course, necessary to oper-
ate it, and at present D. N. Sparks
traction engine is being used. The
crusher is intended for general use in
the county, but probably mostly in
special districts where they have a
fund sufficient to pay the cost Of oper-
ating it. We hope good results will
follow its use.-P0toSi Journal.
Pennington has a reputation OF be-
ing a wide-awake, progressive town
among her sister towns of Southeast
Missouri. Pennington Is, in many re-
spects, an enterprising town, and no
one thing is more indicative of this
than the enterprise of those citizens
who have undertaken the building of
the electric railway. But the men who
haye planned and worked for the sue
cessful completion of the railway have
run into a live wire, and unless some
thing is done very soon it will go into
the hands of a receiver It's up to the
citizens of Pennington. Forty-seven
thousand dollars must the subscribed
before Monday. T%hirty-four thousand
is already pledged, and the people of
Pennington need only to purchase
$4,000 in six per cent. first mortgage
bonds of the electric railway TO pro-
tect the city from the worst bubble
h1ratinp H. has ever axperiarcad --
Farmington Times.