Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-08-27

A. Winkler came up in Justice
Schacht's court in Pilot Knob last
Thursday and was taken to Squire
Luthy's court in the west end OF
the county on a change of venue.
While j. Breitenstein, an old
and well-known citizen of Belle
view, was on his way to Ironton
last Thursday, he fell over in his
wagon and died. The deceased
had been in poor health for some
time.
If we can believe Madam Rumor
we can step across the street from
the REGISTER Office and find two
of the high contracting parties of
two weddings that it is said will
occur before the harvest wakes and
wanes.
w. L. Mathews was last week
appointed receiver of the South
Missouri Pine Lumber Co. at Elsi-
more, Mo. Lat is a fine business
man and the court could not have
made a better selection.--Wayne
County Journal.
Mr.. j. B. Buckner, who lives
south of town, brought to this Office
last Friday the finest and largest
watermelon we have seen here this
year. 1t was unusually large for a
homegrown melon and Mr.. Buck
ner has our sincere thanks.
1t is reported that the Iron
Mountain railroad contemplates
greatly increasing the speed of the
passenger trains in the near future.
1t is said that the lessening of time
is made necessary by the COM
petition of the Frisco system.
Franklin Sutton, a we'll known
resident, died at his home near the
rifle range last Thursday night.
Mrs. Sutton died a couple of
months ago and a number Of small
children are now left without father
or mother to fghtthe battle of life.
John Brierton has returned to
his home in Festus, Mo-, from Ala
bama, where he has been located
the past six months. John has
been in poor health and will re-
main some time in Missouri, He
writes that he expects to visit in
Eronton in a few days.
There were twenty teachers took
the examinations at the school
house last Friday and Saturday.
Thirteen of the applicants had
failed at the former examination;
one was trying to make a higher
grade and the other five were tax
ing the examinations for the first
time.
A freight train failing to get Sin
the clear occasioned a wreck at
Hogan last Friday morning. The
freight had taken siding and was
struck by another train. Quite a
wreck resulted and in consequence
No. 2 was held at Hogan almost
three hours before the track was
cleared.
1t was a long fight and a hard
fight that finally resulted in keep
ing the hogs from roaming the
streets of the town. Scarcely any
one would like to have them back
now. Some of these days We'll get
rid of the COWS and then that law
will be more popular than the hog
ordinance.
Some of these days, perhaps it
may be in the far distant future,
but some of these days, somebody
will build a great big hotel on the
summit of Shepherd Mountain, and
it will be the greatest resort in all
the Mississippi Valley. Why
some one doesn'ttako advantage of
the proposition now is hard to IN
derstand.
The union services at this place
were held at the M. E. church last
Sunday evening. The young folks
services were conducted by Miss
Ada Farmer, which were very in
spring to the young people. Sub
ject: elbow to make our lives
count" After which Rev. Hum
phreys preached a very interesting
discourse from Ii. Kings, 81.
The second quarterly meeting of
the M. E. Church will be held at
Graniteville Saturday and Sunday.
Presiding Elder Rev. A.. D. Ball
will preach Saturday evening and
Sunday morning. Everybody is
invited to come and bring their
dinner, which will be served at the
foot of Elephant Rock, after which
a religious service will be held
there.
Rev. T. G. Peterson was called
to Belleview last Thursday to
preach tho funeral of Joseph
Breitenstein, who was born in
Switzerland Feb. %, 1847; came
to America in 1866, and died Aug.
49,, 1908. He was raised a Catholic,
professed faith in Christ and died
in that faith. He was a good citi-
zen. He leaves a wife and six
children to mourn his absence.
The members of the colored M.
E. Church will give a grand cele-
bration and picnic at Purkiss'
Grove, west Ironton, on Tuesday,
September %, 1903. A grand
parade will be arranged and the