Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-09-27

Fork post-ofice with 1000 ties and
were eighteen days making this
place, a distance of about IS miles.
The river is very low now and the
water does not run very swiftly
except over the shoals where it is
not deep enough to float q tie.
They expect to reach their desti-
nation, Bear Branch, in about ten
days.-CentreUille Reformer.
Our we'll known townsman,
Judge A. Blaine, is wearing an
unusually proud look these days
and goes about repeating to him.
self "grandpa"-just to see how it
sounds. On Monday a fine girl
baby was born to Judge Blaine's
daughter, Mrs. T. G. Mason, at her
home in Cleburne, Texas. Mr..
Mason is in q hospital at Fort
Worth undergoing treatment for
injuries incurred in a motor car
wreck some time ago, but he was
able to have his attendants fire
two red hot kilograms from Fort
Worth to Judge Blaine announce
ing the good news.-Piedmont Ban
ner.
For several months past the
trainmen employed by the Mis-
souri, Pacific-Iron Mountain sys-
tenn have been in consultation with
the heads of the road regarding a
number of differences between
them. These have been amicably
settled by the issuance of orders
from headquarters to the effect that
after the first of October no negro
porters are to be employed on their
lines. 1t is understood, however,
that this order will for the present
mean only the negroes who have
been employed within the past
three years, and that in the future
none will be employed.-Pop,ar
Bluff Citizen.
Mrs. Woodside has returned
from St. Louis, and desires to
make the announcement that she
has the largest and most complete
line of millinery ever brought to
the Valley. She is ready and pre-
pared now to sell ready-to-wear,
tailored and trimmed hats, and
ladies wishing to purchase before
the regular fall opening, which
will take place next week, will find
everything in readiness for them.
Mrs. Woodside also has in stock q
complete line of tailor-made skirts,
waists, handkerchiefs, collars and
everything that is found in an up
to-date millinery establishment.
The ladies are cordially invited to
call. ~:.
There was ga hot time" at a
dance, west of town, Saturday
night. The hostess and a couple
of the guests got into a wrangle.
The host espoused the cause of his
better half. Then another guest
took a hand. Then a son of the
host took down from the wall a
double-barrel shotgun and leveled
it on the offending guests. 1t was
taken from him and he straight
way reached for a Winchester rifle
hanging near by. This was finally
wrenched from his grasp, and in
the course of time the white
winged dove OF peace lowered
over the scene. Our informant
says that beyond q few bruises no
on5 was hurt. But he says he
can't understand how all escaped
SO fortunately.
G. A.. Moser died at 9 O'Clock
this morning at his home at 405
Cottonwood street. Mr.. Moser
was taken sick last week, and had
been confined to his bed since
Monday. Mr.. Moser was born in
March, 1887, near Philadelphia,
Pa. He moved to Iowa in 1857,
where he was married and lived
until 1861, when he moved to St.
Joe, Mo. He later moved to IRON
ton, Mo-, where he edited a paper
and lived until 1884, when he
moved to Emporia, Kan. Since
coming to Emporia, MI. Moser has
made a great many friends, who
remember him as a kind and gem
erous man. He leaves q wife, three
daughters and one son. The chill
dren are Mrs. John r. Baldwin, Of
Ironton, Mo-; Mrs. G. F. McCarter,
of Emporia, Kan; Miss Fife
Moser, Of Emporia; and B. A.
Moser, of Denver, Colo. All of
the children are here with the ex-
ception of Mrs. John T. Baldwin
and B. A. Moser.-Emporia (Kan.)
Gazette.
A crime as shocking and vile as
any that blots the pages of the
Valleys history was committed at
Arcadia last Saturday evening
about five o'clock. Marie Warner,
eleven years old, who lives with
her grandmother, Mrs. M. G. ALI
son, was sent out in the yard to
look for some chickens. Not re-
turning in a reasonable time, her
grandmother went to look for her
and heard her crying in the closet
of the Arcadia public school build
ing, which is adjacent to the ALI
son home. Mrs. Allison opened
the door of the closet and the little
girl came out crying and sobbing.
In the closet with the little girl,
Mrs Allison saws was Thoa per-