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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
TO KEEP DOWN WEEDS.
Fight Which the Farmer Has to
Make and How One Farmer
Does It.

In keeping down weeds l find It
best to cultivate az long as possible,
and sometimes when the weeds are
very persistent we sow cow peas in
the corr fields, as these COW peas are
low growing and improve the soil
some by adding nitrogen to it, says
J. R. Fulkerson, Of Jersey county, ILL
nois, in writing to the Farmers Re-
view. We have been troubled some
with the morning glory or bind weed.
We ind that a thorough cultivation
keeps it down, but another lea is to
turn in sheep which will keep 1t eaten
to the root. This results in the root
dying. We have very few weeds in
our small grain fields. but frequently
have a good many in u hay mead.
ows. II they are SO abundant in the
hay as to reduce it's value we pick
them out Of the swarth after the cut.
ting or pull them out Of the field
sometimes before we cut the hay.
The latter process is preferred. The
most stroublesome weeds in this 10.
cality ars cookie burr, SOU dock,
thistle and plantain. The state law
regarding weeds is in this locality =
dead letter.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
ALL OVER THE STATE.
MabeI Haley. Body Reco,erea.


Brookield-The body of Miss Mabel
Haley, aged 20. daughter of DR.. Rob-
ert Haley. a former member CT the
state legislature, was found in the
Long branch of Elk creek. The young
woman left her home secretly during .
severe storm en- the night of November
%, under circumstances that in the
light of later events led her relatives
to fear she had ended her own life.
Miss Haley was afflicted with con-
sumption, and in fits Of Dependency
had on several occasions threatened to
kill herself. The most elaborate search
for the young woman after her d'sap-
pearance failed to disclose the least
trace Of her. Il was thought she had
gone to the creek and drowned herself,
and a diligent but unavailing search
was made for the body. The creek
was dragged at all points where she
might have plunged in, and dynamite
was exploded at a number of points in
the hope of bringing the body to sur
face. The entire town Joined in the
search. c. G. Armstrong, a Ineat-nlar-
ket man, who passes over the bridge
in going to his home from town, saw
the body of a woman floating III the
creek. 1t proved to be that OF the
young woman who had left her home
1873 days before.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
FROM FOREIGN FIELDS.

A woman's rifle club is being formed
at Byfieet Surrey, England, the men,
bers of which are to use a special min
iature rifle.
Under the patronage of the House
mistresses' Union" there has just been
opened in Hamburg the first of the
schools to be established in German
cities for the improvement of domestic
servants.
Frederick de Martens. who was one
of the Russian commissioners at Ports
mouth, has just resigned the professor
ship of international law in the Uni
versity of st. Petersburg, which he has
held for many years.
Mile. Butticar, a Swiss, is the first
European woman to choose engineering
as a profession. She gained a diploma
with honor at Lausanne university, be-
ing sixth in order of merit. She is now
practicing in Geneva
A dredger built of oak, 6S feet long,
Il feet wide and drawing seven feet six
inches of water, is now in use in Dun
dee harbor. 1t has been in use in the
same place for over 100 years, and its
engine is said to have been built by
James Watt.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
THIRD PASTURE.

Now we come to a frisky lot, the
Labor Union editors. You know
down in Texas a weed called
loco" is sometimes eaten by a
steer and produces a arrangement
of the brain that makes the steer
"batty" or crazy. Many of these
editors are "Locoed" from hate OF
anyone who willnot instantlyobey
the demands" of a labor union,
anditist the universal habit of such
writer's to gostraightinto a system
of personal viliication, manufac-
turing any sort of falsehood
through which to venttheir spleen.
We assert that the common citizen
has a right to live and breathe air
without asking permission of the
labor trust and this has brought
down on us the hate of these edi-
tors. When they go far enough
with their libels, is it harsh for us
to get Judgment against them and
have our lawyers watch for q
chance to attach money due them
from others? Cor they are usual
ly Irresponsible
Keep your eye out for the 10
coed" editor.
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have. He knows it too well. And II
tears spring up and surprise him al
this moment, it is because while pity
ing the child's helplessness he is also
in despair at his own.
Meanwhile the door opens. Mere
Matthew has returned. She is all out
of breath, and, oh! how tired and worn
she looks; how pale and wrinkled her
face is, in her old black bonnet.
But, now or never. Jean Vignol has
something on his mind, and is deter,
mined to speak out.
Listen, Are Matthew. I have been
thinking about you during your alb
sence. When my mother was alive my
earnings sufficed for two. Why
shouldn't they now--if you will take
her place? Will you? Then we shall
both have a home, which neither Of us
has at present. Besides, l can help you
to bring up the little fellow"
The poor woman gave a startled cry,
then sank into a chair and buried her
face in her hands; and, as the baby
opened it's eyes and began to murmur,
Jean took it up from the cradle, re-
garded it at arms length for a moment
and planted upon it's chubby little
cheek a kiss already quite p%aternal.
Nor is this the end of the story
AS it turned out, Jean Vignol's gener-
GUS conduct brought him luck. True
he continues to reel out much the same
kind of stuff for his special public
Yet there is something about his last
story, 1.-THE Orphan of Belleville," thai
lifts it out of the class Of the others
and has made all the shopgirls cry
Its success has increased the circula.
ton of the paper, and at last the author
gets his four cents a line. 1t has ever
been s%yndicated in some of the provin
cial sheets.
The other day, as Jean Vignol stop
ped at his publishers to collect his roy,
allies, he experienced the %proudest mo
ments of his literary life. An illus
trious writer. one Of the very creates
novelists of the age, patted him on thu
back and salu:
by the way, M. Vignol, I have beer
reading one or two of your things late
ly, and | find some bits very we'll dom
indeed-very sincere, very touching
about children"
The poor author blushed to the tol
Of his head.
Thank you so much, cher matre,
he stammered, with happy emotion
"You see, the fact is, when I writ
about children now, I work directl.
from life"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
awkwardly for a beginner. and then

IOT y DeSlnnef, anu lncn
rocked it to sleep again.
But, this done, the writer did not TO
turn Immediately % his work. Instead
he sat pensively regarding the poor
little mite. as it lay on the pillow, with
two tiny fists clenched as if already al
ticipating the fight for existence.
The cradle-infancy-has he ever
given these a fair showing in his abb
surd novels? How false and stupid they
seem to him now, all those yarns Of
his about children stolen and subs'i.
tuted vne for another! Now, here IA
a real, living, breathing child, and an
orphan at that-a genuine creature OF
misery. What is going to become of
it? Its grandmother is old, and worn
out with toll and privation-she can.
not last very long. Then it will be one
of those unfortunates whom organized
charity brings up by wholesale, and
who, for the most part, turn out badly.
1t is from these that the malefactors
and criminals-the real-life ones-are
recruited. Poor little thing! what has
life in store for it? Life! that strange
serial story which grows more and
more incomprehensible with each in
stallment, and of which the monoto-
nous denouement explains nothing.
Jean Vignol has fallen into a dolo.
rous reverie. The poet he once dreamed
of becoming is not dead in him yet
AS he looks upon the cradle before
him and remembers that tomorrow
is Christmas, he thinks of the BABE
that lay upon the straw in the man
ger at Bethlehem.
The child materially and moral!
abandoned-the child dedicated, as i
were, by a sort of social fatality tt
vice and crime-there is the theme o
a great book to be written, with thu
outpouring of all the tenderness, al
the Indignation, all the sincerity o
ones heart. All, there is the novel tina
Jean Vignol might write, if But
why think of it? Jean Vignol has III
talent-he never did, and never will
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

This burst of true American girl indig-
nation was caused by the teacher saying
that Grape-Nuts, the popular pre-digest-
ed food, was made of stale bread shipped
-~-
In and sweetened.
The teacher colored up and changed
the subject.
There is quite an assortment of travel
ing and stay-at-home members of the
tribe of Ananias who tell their false
hoods for a variety of reasons.
In the spring it is the custom on a cat
tie ranch to have a 'round up,"and brand
the cattle, so we are going to have a
'round up" and brand these cattle and
place them in their proper pastures.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

N lNEE.
fulness. Convenient trimming tools:
Narrow pruning saw; long-handled
pruning shears (handles about two
feet long,; hand shears for small
twigs. Other tools, says the Home
Journal, may be added to the list, if
desired (see nursery and implement
catalogues), but the three mentioned
should prove equal to the needs of all
ordinary pruning requirements. Last,
but not least, do not forget a can Of
thick paint (any kind, and a brush
with which to apply it to all large
wounds.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

Now let all these choice specimens
take notice:
We will deposit n thousand or
fifty thousand dollars to be covered by
a like amount from them, or any one OF
them, and if there was ever one ounce
of old bread or any other ingredient
different than our selected wheat ana
barley with a little salt and yeast Used
in the making of Grape-Nuts, we Will
lose the money.
Our pure food factories are open at all
times to visitors, and thousands pass
through each month, inspecting every
department and every process. Ourtac-
tories are so clean that one could, WITH
good relish, eat a meal from the noors.
The work people, both men and wom-
en-. are of the highest grade in the state
of Michigan, and according to the state
labor reports, are the hlghest palu Ill
the state for similar work.
Let us tell you exactly what you will
see when you inspect the Manufactured OF
| Grape-Nuts. You will find tremendous
elevators containing the choicest wheat
and barley possible to buy. Ihese
grains are carried through long convey
ers to grinding mills, and there convert
ed into flour. Then the machines make
selection of the proper quantities OF this
-four in the proper proportion and these
parts are blended into a general f1our
which passes over to the big dough mix
ing machines, there water, salt and a IT.
tie yeast are added and the dough knead-
ed the DrODer length of time.
Remember that previous to the barley
having been ground it was passed
through about one hundred hours OF
soaking in water, then placed on warm
floors and slightly sprouted, developing
the diastase in the barley, which changes
the starch in the grain into a form Of
sugar.
Now after we have passed it into
dough and it has been kneaded long
enough, it Is moulded by machinery into
loaves about IS inches long and 5 or {
inches in diameter. 1t is put into this
shapefor convenience in second cooking
These great loaves are sliced by ma
chinery and the slices placed on wire
trays, thesetrays, inturn, placed on grea'
steel trucks, and rolled into the second
aryovens, each perhaps rs or 80 feet long
There the food is subjected to a long low
heat and the starch which has not beef
heretofore transformed is turned into {
form of sugar generally known as Pos
Sugar. 1t can be seen glistening on thu
granules of Grape-Nuts if held toWarS
the light, and this sugar is not poured
over or put on the food as these prevari
Gators ignorantly assert. On the con
trary the sugar exudes from the interio'
, of each little granule during the process
If manufacture. and reminds one OF tn
little white particles Of sugar that com
out on the end of a hickory log afte
It has been sawed off and allowed t
stand for a length of time.
This Post Sugar is the most digestibl
food known for human use. 1t Is so per
fectin its adaptability that mothers wit
very young infants will pour a littl
warm milk over two or three spoonful
of Grape-Nuts, thus washing thesugaro
from the ~granules and carrying 1t wit
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
PEACH TREE PRUNED.
An Example of the Best Style Of
Trimming of This Variety
of Fruit Tree.

Here's a picture of a properly-pruned
young peach tree, set two years pre-
yious to the taking of the photograph.
This tree has been cut back, thinned
out, and nicely shaped for future use
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
FIRST PASTURE.

Cooking school teachers-this
includes "teachers7 who'have APP
piled to us for a weekly pay if they
would say something nice about
Grape-Nuts and Postum, and when
we have declined to hire them to
do this they get waspy and show
their true colors.
This also includes "demonstra-
tors" and lecturers" sent out by a
certain Sanitarium to sell foods
made there, and these people in
structed by the small-be-whis-
kered doctor-the head Of the in
stitution-to tell these p%revarica-
lions (you can speak the stronger
word if you like). This same little
doctor conducts a small magazine
in which there is a department
of answers to correspondents
many of the questions as well as
the answers being written by the
aforesaid doctor.
In this column some time ago
appeared the statement: mo, we
cannot recommend the S of
Grape-Nuts for it Is nothing but
bread with glucose poured over it."
Right then he showed his badge as
a member of the tribe of Ananias.
He may have been a member for
some time before, and so he has
caused these Lecturers" to de-
scend into the ways of the tribe
wherever they go.
When the young lady in New
York put the iron on" to this
teacher" and BRANDED her right
we sent $1,000 to the girl for her
pluck and bravery.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
SECOND PASTURE.
Editors of"Trade'papers known


Remember, we don't put the
brand on all, by any means. Only
those that require it. These men,
5ers of the tribe have demanded
that we carry advertising in their
papers andwhen we do not consid-
eritadvisable they a cam
paign of %vituperation and SANDER,
printing from time to time manu-
factureds lurs on Postum or Grape
Nuts. When they go far enough
we set our legal force at work and
hale them to the judge to answer.
If the pace has been hot enough to
throw some of these "cattle" over
on their backs, feet tied and "bel-
lowing" do you think we should
be blamed? They gambol around
with tails held high and jump stifr
legged with a very "cocky' air
while they have full range, but
when the rope is thrown over
them "it's different"
Should we unite them because
they bleat soft and low? Orshould
we put the iron on, SO that people
will know the brand?
Let's keep them in this pasture,
anyhow.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
Demented Woman strangIes HerseIl

Kansas City-During the absence OF
an attendant, Mrs. Josephine Hurt,
aged So, a demented patient at DR..
Grover Burnett's sanitacium, strangled
herself with a stocking.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
Folk Grants McCarver Respite.
Husband With Razor Shot by Wife,
Graves Now a Supreme Judge.

Jefferson City-W. w. Graves, OF
Butler, was sworn in as a judge of the
supreme court, and will assume his
duties at the April term Of court. He
succeeds Justice Marshall, resigned.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
investigating Midwives.

Jefferson City-The state board Of
health is looking into the cases of GER
tain st. Louis midwives who, it is al
legged, improperly advertise themselves
and use the mails to defraud.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

Poplar Bluff-In the case Of L. M.
Henson, circuit clerk of Butler county,
for the shooting of Sylvester Adams.
the Jury acquitted MIN.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

Kansas City-William H. Weaver, Of
Dayton, o., committed suicide in the
corridor Of the Cosby hotel here by
taking carbOlic acid.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
Brady Ray County Treasurer.

Jefferson City-vGov. Folk has ap,
pointed Onward Brady to be treasurer
of Ray county, filling the vacancy &C.
casioned by the death Of John @,
Brown.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
st. Charles in Darkness.

st. Charles-The city electric light
power house boilers and other mAchin-
cry at the power plant collapsed, and
the city is in darkness. City Electrician
Pierson states that It will be impossi.
BILE to repais the old machinery turth-
err, and that new machinery must be
purchased, which will cost at least
$4,000. The city council is debating
the question of consolidating the city
waterworks and electric light plants.
Lafayette's Poor to Get New Hame.
Lexington-The county court has
arranged for better facilities to care for
Lafayette county's poor by purchscing
25 acres of ground half a mile north
east of this city, and will erect build
ings with steam heat, electricity, sew
erage and all modern conveniences and
have the same ready for use by No.
vember /. The old, inaccessible poor
farm will be sold.
Only Young Policemen Wanted.
Springfeld-James Blain, recently
elected mayor, has created consterna-
ton in the local police department by
making the announcement that he will
name no man over 40 years Of age for
positions on the force. Blain declares
that men who have passed that age can
not possibly make as active and vigi-
liant police officers as men under 10.
-
Folk Grants McCarver Respite.
Jefferson City-Gov. Folk granted a
respite to o. P. McCarver. who was tc
have been hanged at Pennington, April,
II, extending his lease or life until
June IS. McCarver killed a man
named Harry Lett.
Husband With Razor Shot by Wife
st. Joseph-Frank Hobart and wife
quarreled, and while Hobart was pur
suing his wife around the house threat
ening her with a razor, she secured
possession Of a revolver and shot him
probably fatally.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
Death Ends Damage Suit.

Kirksville-The death Of Goldie
Granger puts an end TO the Still
Granger damage suit, in which she
was the plaintiff.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
70 Preach Baccalaureate Sermon.

= Mexico-Dr. J. r. NJ. Johnson, pas
tor of Delmar Baptist church of St
Louis, will preach the baccalaureate
sermon at Hardin college, May 20.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
Rise Liars,
And Salute Your Queen
Ho, All Ye Faithful Followers Of Ananias
GIVE EAR!

A Young Girl said to a Cooking School Teacher in New York: eff You moks
One Statement as False as That, All You have said about Foods
is Absolutely Unreliable
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

Woman Found Hanging to Tree.
Laredo--Mrs. S. G. Ban, wife of q
prominent farmer, was found hanging
to a tree in her yard. She had been in
poor health.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
Ferris, Inventor, Passes Away.

HcEFfs3 F"V
Mexico-George d. Ferris, aged "a,
one of the first to secure a patent on
the sheet-iron air-tight stove, died at
his home here.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

Observation-Disclosures T%ouchstone waa
awarded $4,000 damages against A. T.
Jolly for alleged alienation Of his
wife's affections.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

Civil War Veteran Drops Dead.
Boonville--Capt. Isaac o. Hale, aged
rs, dropped dead at his home nea
Gooch Mill. He served as captain in
the Union army.
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old Grudge Causes killing.

Ulu 6ruuge causes Milling.
Union City-Madison West shot and
killed Columbus Stowe, the culmina-
ton of an old grudge. West is in jail
at Galena.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

Jefferson City-Nine ~lunatics have
been transferred from the penitantiary
20 the insane asylum at Fulton.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

Prisoners Cut Way Out Of Jail.
Joplin-Ralph Ornott, Bill Busie and
Fred Friend, charged with grand lar
ceny, cut their way out Of jail with a
jack-knife.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

food known for human use. 1t is so per-
fectin its adaptability that mothers with
very young infants will pour a little
warm milk over two or three spoonfuls
Of Grape-Nuts, thus washing the sugaron
from the granules and carrying 1t with
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
Henson Acquitted.


Henson Acquitted.
Poplar Bluff-In the case Of l.. M.
Henson, circuit clerk of Butler county,
for the shooting of Sylvester Adams.
the jury acquitted MIN.
Took Acid in Hotel Corridor.
Kansas City-William H. Weaver, Of
Dayton, O., committed suicide in the
corridor Of the Cosby hotel here by
taking carbolic acid.
Death Ends Damage Suit.
Kirksville-The death Of Goldie
Granger puts an end 10 the Still.
Granger damage suit, in which she
was the plaintiff.
wife's Affections worth Money.
Observation-Disclosures Touchstone wa
awarded $4,000 damages against A. T
Jolly for alleged alienation of his
wife's affections.
Boonville-Capt. Isaac o. ;Ialn, aget
rs, dropped dead at his home neal
Gooch Mill. He served as captain II
the Union army.
Ferris, Inventor, Passes Away.
Mexico-George d. Ferris, aged "a
one of the first to secure a patent or
the sheet-iron air-tight stove, died a
his home here.
Woman Found Hanging to Tree.
Laredo--Mrs. S. G.. Ban, wife of
prominent farmer, was found hanging
to a tree in her yard. She had been il
poor health.
Old Grudge Cause Killing.
Union City-Madison West shot an,
killed Columbus Stowe, the culmina
ton of an old grudge. West is in jai
at Galena.
Prisoners Out Way Out Of Jail.
Joplin-Ralph Ornott, Bill Busie an,
Fred Friend, charged with grand lar
ceny, cut their way out Of jail with
jack-knife.
Insane Prisoners Transferre1,
Jefferson City-Nine lunatics hav
been transferred from the penitentiar,
20 the insane asylum at Fulton.