Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-07-26

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covery of the animal is curious. A
few days ago MI. Osborne, a
neighbor of Mr.. Hays, had busi-
ness that took him to Williams
vile. He was requested half
seriously by Mr.. Hays to call on a
woman named Forbes, noted for
her powers of divination, but in
regard to whom Hays was skep-
teal, and endeavor to find out
from her the whereabouts of the
equine. Osborne was informed
when he questioned the seeress
that the horse was in Corning,
Ark, in a barn on one side of a
road on the opposite of which
lived the owner of the barn. A
little detective work following the
lead of the prophecies on the part
of Hays and his friend soon To-
Gated the horse.-Jackson Herald.
The Arcadia Hotel has been filed
to overlooking all the season with
summer visitors, and the reign of
life, youth and beauty there is
mighty pleasing, even to eyes
dimmed and senses hardened I'M
der the fire of many years. A few
evenings since, by urgent request,
|, with two other youthful de-
voices to Apollo, went over to the
Park and set some twoscore dainty,
white-clad feet a-twinkling.
And never slept
To time well-kept
A bunch OF m9idens sweet and fair
AS those before US gathered therel
For it was an exclusively feminine
party, unmarried by the presence
of the ruder sex. From s to 10 the
dance went merrily on, and then,
after ice cream and cake, "Home,
Sweet Home waltz rounded out
the programme. The following
young ladies-they werea all young,
no matter the "Miss" or "Mrs."
preceding the name - from st.
Louis were in attendance: Mrs.
S. Fl. Wheat, Misses Frances
Wheat, Florence A. Banek, Tillie
Wilehm, Ida Updike, j. H. Chris
tie, Ella Roeder, Elsie Wiedner,
Lenora Roeder, Nellie Schlefforth,
Linda Spies, Bertha Wetzel, Mary
E. Wheat, Susie Mcnamara, Nell
lie Mcnamara, Mesdames j. S.
Mcnamara, j. Robey, w. T. Ward
and Master B. Ward.
Here is a splendid illustration of
the way that politics makes a man
rich. Twelve years ago, this fall,
a prosperous passenger conductor
who ran out of Moberly over the
Wabash, was nominated by the
Republican State convention for
railroad commissioner. Beside
his snug position on the road, he
had property worth $1,000 or $4,000.
By an accident he was elected.
He moved to Jefferson City, took
his Office and held it during the
six-year term. He was nominated
for governor against Dockery, and
of course defeated. He then Sc
cured through his pull among
prominent Missouri Republicans a
position with the Worlds Fair
commission. The fair closed, and
there was no more political pie to
be had. He spent every cent he
every possessed, and as his po-
sition was abolished he was forced
to throw dignity to the winds and
seek some position that would
bring bread and meat to his family.
He got a job at about S75 per
month as conductor on a train that
ran out of one of the Arkansas
logging camps. Recently he has
been promoted and given the po-
sition of yard master at one of the
Iron Mountain division points
down in Arkansas. The job hardly
reaches $500 a month. Who is
this man? None other than Joe
Flory, whom thousands of Mis-
sourians but six years ago con-
fdently expected to see governor
of this great State. Now to-day
he can't even find a place to make
a comfortable living in the State
that came within thirty two OF
thirty-three thousand votes of
choosing him as their chief execu-
tive. Every young man in the
State ought to read the story OF
this once famous Missourian. The
lesson is too apparent to need ex-
PLANTATION or comment. = Lama,
Democrat.
The following incident is an
other illustration of the miserable
treatment at present accorded the
Valley by the Iron Mountain Rail-
road Company. Last Saturday a
couple of ladies wished to take a
train at the Ironton station fol
their home, which is located on
the Helena branch of the Iron
Mountain railroad, and something
over two hundred miles south oil
here. Now the only train on the
main line by which you car reach
the Helena branch is the Memphis
train, which goes south through
here about midnight, but does not
stop here. There is, however, a
local train that goes south through
here about a half hour before the
Memphis train is due. So these
ladies concluded to board the To-
cal train here, ride to Poplar Bluff,
disembark, there wait for the
Memphis train and proceed on
their journey. (Not a very pleas
ant thing to make the change at
that hour of the night, but they
were gracious enough to be will
ing to make the best of a bad state
of affairs.) So about eleven O'Clock
Saturday night they went to the
Ironton station to take the train.