Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15

time as you ever saw, and Friday
and Saturday were not bad. Sum
day and Monday were cold with
threatening snow. Monday night
there was a sleet storm, and Tues
day morning the trees and the
bushes and fences were covered
with ice. And this "wednesday
morning the scene is unchanged.
1t is not cold, but the ice king is
everywhere in evidence.
Chas. w. Francisco this week
filed his resignation as county sur
veyor with the county court. He
has secured a good position with
the Kanawha & West Virginia R'y-
Co. and is now stationed at Pond
Gap, w. Va. Mr.. Francisco made
an excellent official, and while we
are glad to hear that ne has Sc
cured a good position, we are sor-
ry to see him leave the official
family of our county. Gov. Folk
will appoint a successor to fill the
Office until the next election
Pennington News.
Len. Sutton is the latest convert
to the idea of keeping the COWS off
the streets. Mr.. Sutton says that
he has always been opposed to
the stand taken by the REGISTER
on the cow question until his re-
cent trip up north. While there
he was in several towns where the
COWS were suppressed, and he
says that the advantages resulting
therefrom are apparent to any one.
He doesn't think that any town
that has once tried keeping the
COWS off the streets would be will
ing to 60 back to the old way.
While the evening local was
backing in on the side track at
Ellington Tuesday evening, jeff
Sutton, a brakeman fell off the
cars and was instantly killed. 1t
is supposed that he stepped OFF the
car on which he was riding onto a
pile of lumber lying on a platform
and fell from that underneath the
train. He was a young man,
single, and was very popular. He
was born and reared in Iron coun-
ty. We have been unable to
gather any further details of the
sad affair.-CentreviIIe Reformer.
There was a stormy meeting of
the stockholders of the creamery
Saturday afternoon. The report
OF the auditing committee was
read. The report made no direct
charges, but intimated gross care
lessless, if not graft, and said the
books were in such shape that the
committee could not fathom them.
The employment of an expert was
recommended, but one by one the
members got up and left the meet
ing before any action was taken.
The chairman finally finding him.
self alone, adjourned the meeting.
Mr.. Miller made an offer to lease
the creamery for five years and
pay each stakeholder five per cent.
on his money each year during
that time.
G. A. White of Lesterville, the
manager of the hub factory of that
place, was in town Wednesday
evening on business and gave this
Office a social call. Mr.. White in
formed US that it was the intention
of his company to establish new
yards where hubs would be re-
ceived for the Lesterville factory
-one OF the yards will be estab-
lished at, or near jeff Reeds on
West Fork, and the other below
Campground on Middle Fork. MI.
White is an expert hub manu-
f%acturer, having worked at the
business for thirty years, and it is
said that hub buyers are always
ready to buy, without further
guarantee, hubs of his manufac-
ture. He has associated with him
in the manufacturing business at
Lesterville, among others, Messrs.
J. Hummel and Aug. Rieke, two
of Ironton's successful business
men.--Reynolds County outlook.
Last Friday morning while the
fast mail train was coming this
way at the rate of sixty miles an
hour, the trucks of the engine
Jumped the rails on the trestle
north of the Knob crossing. The
wheels ran along on the ties for
some distance before the engine
was stopped, but, fortunately, it
did not topple over nor did the cars
leave the rails. While the crew
were endeavoring to get the engine
back on the rails, a freight train
came along from the north and
butted into the mail train, smash
ing the baggage coach in the rear,
damaging one of the mail cars and
showing the entire train along the
track for a distance of a couple
hundred yards. Fortunately the
crew on the mail train saw the
freight coming and they all
jumped, got a safe distance and
waited for the crash, which soon
came. In consequence of the
wreck the track was blocked for
several hours, and not until noon
could the mail train proceed on it's
way.
Postmaster Frank Wyman yes
terday placed the Gid" on the
transportation OF a can of coal oil
from st. Louis to Belleview, Mo.
If the can had contained beer OF
an intoxicating drink it would
have been delivered to the address