Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-07-20


stay in Des Arc, who are sorry to
lose her from their midst. Mr..
Larkin is employed in st. Louis
as a street car conductor. They
left Friday for st. Louis, where
they will make their future home.
Superintendent Tyler and Divis-
ion Superintendent Daniels spent
night at Arcadia in a
private car. 1t is said that the
purpose of their visit was to de-
as to the practicability OF
moving the Arcadia station house
and tank to Hogan, and also to
make arrangements for locating
the pushers at Hogan. 1t is also
stated that the company intends
building a "Y" at Hogan. Al
present many of the south bound
trains ''set out" at Hogan and two
trains are made into one from
there south, but the engines have
had to back to Bismarck. The
''Y" will be put in so the turn can
be made at Hogan.
The Spaugh brothers have given
out a statement which was pub
lished in last Mondays Star Chron-
icle duplicating thirteen of Iron
toms prominent citizens in the
attempted ~lynching. They claim
that the sheriff led the mob and
unlocked the Jail doors. We DOM
believe the men mentioned or any
part of them, with most of whom
we are personally acquainted, had
anything to do with the attempted
lynching, or knew anything about
it. In fact one of the above named
alleged participants, Prof. Daugh'
erty, was some three hundred
miles away from Ironton at the
time. Before we could swallow
such a statement we would have
to be "cited' by better authority
reynolds County Outlook.
A severe wind, hail and rair
storm visited the eastern part O.
this county and western part Of
Iron county on Wednesday eve
ming about 6 o'clock. The rair
fell in such torrents that small
streams were soon raging ano
washing down fences, growing
crops, etc. Particularly was this
true of Mill creek in this county
and Carver and Big creeks in Iron
county. At Annapolis the rail-
road track was washed away fol
quite a distance and a passenger
train was ditched, but no lives
we're lost. The damage from
wind was mostly from blowine
down corn. On the farm of j. T
Dobbins, southeast of Lesterville
it is said the entire crop of corr
was laid flat on the ground
Reynolds County Outlook.
w. H. Byers, formerly an Iror
Mountain detective on this divis'
ion, died very suddenly at hi
home in Ironton at an early hou.
Monday. Mr.. Byers has, for thu
past several years, been engaged
in the mercantile business a
Ironton and had amassed quite {
snug fortune. Mr.. Byers was wei
known in this city by the older in
habitants. He is the detective
who shot and killed Buck Martil
many years ago, while the latte
was attempting to assault hin
while in the discharge of hi
duties. Mr.. Byers was a clos
friend of our townsman, Judge Fl
E. Johnson, and was one of tn,
old characters in this section O
the State.-Poplar Bluff Citizen.
The foregoing is true to som
extent, but the Citizen is somewha
"mixed on it's dates" Long year
ago, when in the employ of tn
railroad company, Capt. Dyer
did take a few shots at Buck Mar
tin and injured him quite badly
But Buck did not die. Not by
long ways, and is "still alive an
kickin' Buck is by no means
dead coon.
The following is taken from al
exchange: ga Missouri preache
has announced that hereafter h
will preach only the truth at funer
ais, and that he does not propos
to make immaculate saints of he
bound sinners. That's all wine
Whenever a preacher or an edito
starts out to tell the entire truth i
either funeral notices or weddin
announcements there will be some
thing doing. And yet there ough
to be a happy medium which wi
meet the demand for reform.
certainly should be disgusting t
read some of the sickeping slus
which appears whenever a coupl
gets married; and this advertiser
of the bride as the fairest speci
men of womanhood, when she j
probably pug nosed and freckl
faced and SO darned pigeon-toe
that her tracks point east whe
she is going south, is just a lit
too strong to set well on the avel
age human. The same thing haI
pens when the preacher eulogize
a VIGOROUSLY bad citizen rigl
into the pearly gates, and the liN
ing know it is a sham, while
certainly doesn't do the dead an
good. No more sense is shown b
a long-winded resolution on til
part Of the people who would NJ
associate with the man or woma
when alive. A reasonable amour
of soft soap is a good thing, b
this OVERRIDING of the thing is
be deplored."
The campaign of removal
officers at the State hospital her
begun by the new board at j
meeting last month. was CO.