Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-06-08

The Republicans have not as We
made any public announcement
OF an intention to nominate a can
didate for sheriff, to be voted OF
at the election June oath.
The railroad stock yards al
Piedmont are being enlarged. A
great many people insist that this
is evidence that all of the freight
trains are not going over the
bridge.
Many friends in the Valley will
be sorry to hear that Rev. w. A.
Humphreys, of Festus, is not in
the best of health. We hope to
hear of an early improvement in
his condition.
The engine on No. / broke down
at Irondale last Saturday evening
and delayed hat train an hour
and a half. One of the pusher
engines was sent to Irondale and
pulled the train to Piedmont.
Some of the Southeast papers
are saying that there has been a
ten per cent. reduction in express
rates. We have not noticed any
reduction in charges on packages
that have been brought to this
office.
Sam. Middleton left Pilot Knob
last Friday for st. Louis, where he
will make his future home. Mr..
Middleton has employment with
the Norvell- Shapleigh Hardware
Company. His Iron county friends
wish him every success.
Through the efforts of the pastor
and congregation the fifteen win
dows of the Presbyterian church
have been covered with screens
and three screen doors hung. The
Presbyterians a now truly say,
"There are no flies on u.s."
There seems to be a unanimity
Of sentiment among the Democrats
of Iron county that John 1. Mar
shall shall be the successor of our
murdered sheriff. 1t looks very
much now as if Mr.. Marshall's will
be the only name mentioned in
the convention next Monday.
Our young friend, DR.. Jesse w.
Hale, who recently graduated from
the Medical Department of Wash
ington University, has located at
Greenville, Mo-, for the practice of
his profession. We have no doubt
that DR.. Hale will achieve success
and dollars in his chosen profess
sion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Oesterle, of
st. Louis, and Miss Louise and
Clarence Oesterle, of Middlebrook,
are visiting relatives in Farming
ton. Charley, who is a son of our
good friend, Chris. Oesterle, of
Middlebrook, has a shoe store in
st. Louis and is doing we'll there.
-Farmington News.
Mr.. Geo. M. Kinks of Harting-
ton, Nebraska, was a caller at the
REGISTER Office Monday. MI. H.
was quite badly hurt in a railroad
accident in Nebraska in March and
has been in a hospital most of the
time since. He expects to spend
several weeks with Mr.. j. w.
Whitworth and family at Bis
marck.
They have the Slid on" good
and tight down in Doniphan. The
prosecuting attorney has notified
the livery men that they must not
do business on the first of the
week. We don't know just how
this will please our former fellow
citizen, Hayes Malugen, who is
engaged in the livery business in
that town.
That Sheriff Polk was not drunk
when he attempted to arrest VIM.
Spaugh is attested by a half-dozen
honest, law-abiding men who saw
him and talked with him but a few
minutes before he was murdered.
John Polk. was a sober, upright
man, and an official who did not
need the spur of strong drink to
urge him to his duty.
j. A. Finch, of st. Louis, the at
torney who defended Bill Rudolph,
the Union bank robber, and D. L.
Rivers, of Elvins, are here to-day
looking after the defense of the
Spaughs. 1t is said they will
make an effort to secure the re-
lease Of Mrs. Spaugh on bail. The.
application will have to be argued
before the circuit Judge.
To a former Iron county boy.
VIM. D. Bay, now living in Cen
tralia, Washington, we are indebt-
ed for the "Lewis & Clark EXPOSE
ton in a Nut She'll" 1t is quite a
novelty. A number of miniature
photographs of principal features
of the exposition, enclosed in an
English Walnut shell, and call
bound round' with a golden rib
bon. tits a pleasing souvenir and
Mr.. Bay has our thanks.
A man in a neighboring town
remarked the other day, ''if the
newspaper man knew how many
knocks he gets behind his back he
would adopt another calling"
But the newspaper man does know
and he has learned to expect it.
The newspaper man who is a suc-
cessful editor is cordially hated by
every ~lawbreaker, hypocrite and
swindler, every penny pinching
knocker on progress.-Er.