Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-16

worth; Third Vice. President, Mis-,
Bertha Fairchild; Fourth Vice.
President, Mrs. Mamie Walker
Treasurer, Miss Ethel Shelton
Secretary, Earl Gaines; Era Agent
Rev. w. I. Farmhouse.
County court last week made an
order letting the court appoint the
road overseers instead of electine
them at the school meetings as
heretofore. Judges Buford and
Lewis voted in favor of letting the
court make the appointments,
while Judge johnson declared
himself in favor of the old practice
of letting the oyerseers be elected
at the school meeting. We be-
lieve the plan adopted by the court
will in the end prove more salts
factory than the old way.
Following is what the Lead Belt
News says of the Montgomery
Wood Theatrical Company, which
was billed for three nights at the
of Music last week, but
to put in an appearance
"The Montgomery-Woo Theatri-
cal Company came to Flat River
last Thursday for a three nights
stand but left the next day owing
to the frost received Thurs
day night, and mainly to the gem
tie hint given them by Mr.. Gfojean,
who is managing the opera house.
The show was particularly on the
the company having just
started out, apparently without
any rehearsals at all. Mr.. Grojean
is determined to have nothing but
first-class plays presented-plays
that all our people can safely pa
tronize.
At the last business meeting of
the Woman's Home Mission Soci-
of Fort Hill, one new member
was received and two names en-
tered on the "baby ROLL" The Of
fcers elected for the year are:
President, Mrs. M. T. Langdon;
First Vice-President, Mrs. P. w.
Whitworth; Second vice. Presi-
dent, Mrs. I. B. Manly; Third
Vice. President, Mrs. Mary Gaines;
Secretary, Mrs. Grace Whitworth;
Treasurer, Mrs. Mamie Walker;
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. w.
A. Shelton; Superintendent of
Press Work, Mrs. P. w. Whit
worth; Agent for Our Homes, Mrs.
Eliza Hatten. Delegate elected to
he annual meeting to be held in
st, Johns church, st. Louis, Mrs.
P. w. Whitworth; alternate, Mrs.
The visiting commit
5ees: For Arcadia, Miss Maude
and Mrs. Grace Whit
worth. For Ironton, Miss Carrie
Farmer.
R. X. Kelly, a Kansas City rail-
'oad promoter, is pushing a rail-
'oad scheme that comtemplates a
line from st. Louis to the
Gulf of California in Old Mexico.
The line has not yet, as Mr.. Kelly
been located east of Spring.
ield, Mo-, and he is now sending
,ut letters of inquiry as to the
geographical aspect of this Sec
ion of the country, and says
hat it is expected the line will run
through the following counties, to-
Wit: Webster, Wright, Texas,
Dent, Iron, Washington, Jefferson
md st. Louis. The line marked
,ut enters Iron county near Red
Point post-office; thence in a
lortheasterly direction to Rich
in the northeast corner of
Washington county, passing about
miles northwest of Potosi. We
10 not know what Mr.. Kelley's
packing is in this great enterprise
IT whether he has any at all, but
i've the information we have de-
ived for what it is worth, trusting
hat later developments will show
hat such a road is an actual con-
.mplation, in which event Potosi
hould wake up and swing the line
trough this city.-Potosi Journal.
Favorable circumstances pre-
'ented a disastrous wreck when
he engine and three coaches of
ron Mountain train No. 20, known
the Ell Paso Express, inbound
rom Texas and Arkansas points,
we're derailed 200 yards south of
efferson Barricks at HAS Thurs
lay night. Two men, said by
'ficials Of the company to be
aborers on their way from Mon
oe, La, to New York City, were
lightly injured by flying glass,
me sustaining a scalp wound and
he other a bruised shoulder.
hey were attended at Union Sta
ion by Surgeon Wells of the Mis-
ouri Pacific Hospital, after which
hey were able to continue to their
estimation. The Ell Paso express
S one of the fastest through trains
IN the Iron Mountain system, and
lad the derailment occurred at
my other point fatal results would
certainly have followed. The
ipeed of the train had been slack
med to thirty-fve miles an hour
when the loose rail was struck,
Of the approach to the
Jefferson Barracks station, where
Ill inbound trains stop.-St. Louis
M..#.