Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-10-20

Word was received here last
week of the death of Mr.. E. M.
Smith, which occurred at his home
in Dalton, Mass, October, 7th
Mr.. Smith was for a number oil
years a resident of Graniteville and
many friends here learn of his
death with sorrow.
Herman Dinger has the contraci
for building a residence for w. p,
Pippin in the west end of town
near the Methodist church. HI
is also building a livery barn fol
G.. w. Collins on the vacant loi
across the street from Mr.. Collins
residence in south Ironton.
The Sacrament Of the Lords
Supper will be administered mex
Sunday morning a~tNeleven o'clock
at Fort Hill church. Every mem
Der is requested to be present and
all christian people who desire te
join in The holy communion.
1. B. MANLY, Pastor.
E. H. Amelung and family, after
spending several days with rela-
tives in Pilot Knob, last Saturday
started on the return to their home
in Saginaw, Michigan. Mr.. Anne
lungs mother and niece, Miss
Louise Waters, accompanied them
as far as St. Louis where they they
will spend a week at the fair.
Word has been received from
the bridge company that has the
contract for putting the span across
Stout's Creek, that the span had
been shipped from st. Louis Mon
day. 1t should be in place within
q week. The contractors insist
that they have been unavoidably
delayed in securing the material.
To my young friend, Mr.. E. H.
Amelung, of Saginaw, Michigan,
lately on a visit to the old home in
Pilot Knob, I am indebted for a
box of fine cigars. like to smoke
a good cigar, and a present of this
kind shits me right where l lives"
but of infinitely greater pleasure
to me is the friendly spirit which
impels the gift.
Dick Lloyd, who lives about four
miles south of Ironton, had the
misfortune to have his house and
nearly all it's contents destroyed
by fire Wednesday evening of last
week about four o'clock. The fire
originated from a defective flue.
Mr.. Lloyd is a good citizen and he
has the sympathy of all his neigh
bors in his misfortune.
Love Carly is quoted as saying
that he had to join the Republic
cans to break up the corrupt ring
in the courthouse. Does any one
think, for a moment, that MI.
Carly would have joined the Re-
publicans, ''to break up the ring"if
he had secured the nomination for
county clerk in the Democratic
primary election two years ago?
Not on your life.
A law suit from Annapolis was
tried in Squire Fairchild's court
Monday. Mrs. Slusher sued a man
by the name Of Brown for the pos
session Of her property and for $40
rent. Brown had in a counter
claim for S12.SS. The court gave
judgement, for Brown for eighty
eight cents, gave Mrs. Slusher her
property and decided that she
should pay all the costs of the case.
James Thomas of Graniteville,
who has held the position of quarry
boss-forthe Syenite Granite Com
pany for some time past, died in
Mullanphy hospital in St. Louis
Sunday where he was taken a cou-
pie of weeks ago suffering from ty-
phoid fever. The deceased was a
good man his demise is generally
deplored. The remains were in
tered at Middlebrook Tuesday
morning.
The ice mans soul is filed with
gloom, the coal mans business
takes a boom; in summers heat
or winters chill the sons of men
must pay their bill, because they
think they can't endure the
then existing temperature. for
when the weather's hot, it's queer,
we want to cool the atmosphere.
Still discontinued with our lot,
when it gets cold~we want it hot.
How they aflict and vex the soul,
these bills we pay for ice and coal.
Montgomery, us, NeUs.
Says the Bismarck co rrespon.
dent of the Pennington Times
eve hear considerable in Bismarck
about the Revolt ticket in ,Iror
county. 1t looks at this distance
that it is simply a cunning scheme
of the same old hopeless minority
party to get to the,pie counter by
enlisting and using a few of the
majority temporarily affected with
mental strabismus. The self-styl-
ed Revolt ticket is very, very much
like the proverbial mule, heavine
neither pride Of ancestry nor hope
OF posterityI"
Word was receiv we'd here the ev.
ening Of Saturday, October 9Th, o.
the death that afternoon in Lester
vile, Reynolds county, of William
Farmer. Mr.. Farmers illness was
of short duration, as he had beer
in lronton a couple of days previ-
Gus on a visit to his mother and
seemed to be in his usual good
health. The deceased was about
thirty years of age and leaves q
wife and and one child to mourn
him He was horn and raared ir