Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-21

Tor her pupils to give an enter
tainment at the school house Fri
day night, December 22d, for the
benefit of the library fund. AL
are invited to attend.
All the services at the Presby-
terrain church next Sabbath will
pertain to the babe in Bethlehem
Christmas sermon and Christmas
music in the morning, and in the
evening the Sunday school Christ.
mas exercises will be given, COM
mencing at 1880 P. M.
Everybody come to the joint
entertainment given byNElm Grove,
Belleview and Thorn Grove
schools, at the Masonic Hall, in
Belleview, Xmas night. A good
and interesting programme will be
rendered for the small fee of ter
and fifteen cents. A. F. SAFFoLD,
The South Hungary Land and
Colonization Company last week
sold the Pilot Knob fort and some
adjacent land to Aug. Gehner and
and G. A. Peterson of st. Louis,
and Thos. Ewing, Jr., of Yonkers.
New York. There is a fraction
over nineteen acres in the tract,
and the consideration named is
S1443. This is the land which it is
proposed to try and have the gov
eminent purchase and make a
national park thereof.
Chas. Parks and Bart. Miller
were arraigned before Squire Fair.
child Monday, charged with hold
ing up Arthur Meyer and taking a
razor and S. from him on the 9Th
of December. All three were
travelling through the country, and
Meyer claims his companions went
through him near the railroad
bridge. He made complaint and
the officers took Miller and Parks
in tow. They were bound over to
the adjourned term of circuit court
in February. The defendants say
their home is in New York.
Granville Gwin, cashier of the
Bank of Hayti, who decamped re-
Gently with $751; 600 of the banks
funds, has sent a message from
Mexico, offering to return the
money if guaranteed freedom from
prosecution. Now that he has
been located somewhere in Mexico
his arrest is only a question of a
short time. He was supposed to
have gone to Russia, where he has
a cousin, who is a noted jockey. 1t
is claimed the bank people will
make no agreement with him but
will see that he is given the limit
in the way Of punishment for his
crime.
There was a man in a nearby
town, and he was wonderous wise;
he marked a silver dollar and gave
it all to Lie; she went to see the
butcher and she blew all it init
wasn't long before the coin came
back to him again. He took it to
the merchant and it bought a dress
for Jane-before the week had
finished up, back came the PUNK
again; he spent the coin in his
own town fully fifty times or more,
but always got it back again and
spent it DER and DER; but when he
sent it to Sears & Sawbuck's store,
twas gone for good-forever-and
he never saw it more.-Er.
A quiet wedding took place at
the residence OF P. G.. Carly, Esq,
at Belleview, on Sunday, Deem
Der 10, 1905, at 2 P. M. The con-
tracing parties we're Mr.. Mont.
and Miss Sadie E. Carly,
daughter of Mr.. P. G.. Carly. The
officiating minister was H. j. La
Tour, pastor of the Belleview
Second Baptist Church, Of which
the bride is a valued member.
Only immediate relatives of the
bride and groom were present, but
they filled the parlor when the
young couple faced the minister
and took upon themselves the
solemn VOWS of matrimony. After
the wedding a collation. was spread
of ice cream, cakes and fruits, to
which all did full justice, especially
Love Carly, cousin to the bride,
We understand the newly welded
couple will make their home for
the present at the Carly home
place, owing to the failing health
OF Ma Carly. H. j. L.
The attorneys for VIM. Spaugh.
Jr., and Mary E. Spaugh, in the
Reynolds circuit court, last week
filed numerous motions and
amended motions in their efforts
to secure a new trial. One charge
made was that the guns with which
Sheriff Polk was killed had been
left in the jury room and influenced
the verdict; another charge was
that the jury had been separated
and boy was produced who swore
that one of the jurors had COM
mitted himself before going on the
jury. All these charges were dis
proven, and the court refused the
motion for a new trial as to VIM
Spaugh. In the case of Mary E
Spaugh a new trial was granted
because the court concluded it had
erred in the previous trial in adj
hitting certain evidence. The
court sentenced VIM. Spaugh to
hang February is, 1907. His at.
torneys, however, have taken ar
appeal to the Supreme Court, anc
it will probably be several months
before that body passes on the
case. Mrs. Mary E. Spaugh has
again been released on on bond
one Moses McNail, a wealthy