Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-06-14

The case against Arthur Spaugh
in the Reynolds circuit court was
Monday passed until July 23d.
The defense got a continuance be-
cause of the absence of a witness
by the name of Schirer, a travel
ing man they claim was present at
the depot the day Sheriff Polk was
killed. The case against Mary E.
Spaugh was continued until July
23d.
Miss Jenna E. Logan, the tai
ented daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E.
M. Logan, of Belleview, this coun-
ty, sends the editor an invitation
to attend the Graduating Concert
of the Beethoven Conservatory of
Music, at the Odeon, st. Louis, on
the evening of June 10Th. Miss
Logan is one of the graduates,
completing the course on the
violin at this time.
A western man who has had con-
siderable experience in raising po-
tatoes, says that planting two or
three flaxseed in each hill will pre-
vent the potato bugs from appear
ing in the patch. He claims to
have tried it several years in sue
cession with always the same
result. 1t may pay our readers to
try it. 1t is certainly easy to try
and handy if it does the work.
The Ironton and the Doe Run
ball teams played a game here
Sunday. At the end Of the first
half of the eighth inning the Wis
itors pretended to get offended at
something or other and quit. At
this stage of the game the score
stood s to s. Nobody thinks the
Doe Run boys were really mad,
though. They didn't want to go
on with defeat staring them in the
face.
Dan Warren of Reynolds county,
who was serving a term in the Iron
county jail for ''pistol toting,"
made his getaway last Friday
evening shortly before dark.
Warren was helping some of the
other prisoners plant sweet pota-
toes, and when everybody's back
was turned he quietly sneaked
away. If Dan will promise never
to come back to Iron county he
will be freely forgiven.
Among the visitors in Ironton at
present is Miss Fannie Markham,
who was for thirty years or more
a teacher in the primary depart
ment of the Ironton schools. Miss
Markham has for the past two
years been making her home at
Pittsburgh, Kansas, with her
brother, who is truck gardening
there. Miss Fannie says that is a
great country, but she frequently,
very frequently, signs for the rocks
and hills of dear old Arcadia VAL
ley.
Five cars of a north bound
freight train we're wrecked just
east of the hub factory Thursday
afternoon. A truck on one of the
cars left the track just north of the
bridge and bumped along on the
ties until the switch was reached.
Then the derailed truck tried to
run in on the swith and the rest of
the train stuck to the main track.
The train was running at a high
rate of speed and it is most fortu-
nate that no one was hurt. In
consequence the track was blocked
for four hours.
Robert A. Rasche announces in
this issue of the REGISTER as a
candidate for Justice of the Peace
of Arcadia Township, subject to
the will of the voters at the gen.
eral election in November next.
Mr.. Rasche is we'll and favorably
known to the voters whose suff-
rage he seeks. He is a young man
of exemplary habits and his
friends are legion. Should he be
elected to the office to which he
aspires we know full we'll he will
at all times be found endeavoring
to discharge his duties to the best
of his ability.
When the Spaugh case was
called in court Monday morning
the State announced ready for
trial. R. A. Frazier, Of counsel
for the defense, asked for a con-
tinuance. He filed an affidavit in
support of his plea to the effect
that he had been all over st. Louis
looking for the missing witness,
Schierer; that he could not find
him and that the defense could
not safely go to trial without him.
The case was laid over until next
Monday and the court ordered the
sheriff to summon 100 men from
which to select a jury.-CemtreviIle
Reformer.
DR.. j. H. Moffitt of Redford,
while here attending court this
week, informed us that it was his
intention to put in a telephone line
from Redford to Annapolis, Iron
county, in the near future. The
Doctor also informed us that he
would extend the line from Red
ford to other sections of our coun-
ty, provided the citizens along the
proposed line would take sufficient
interest in the matter to warrant
their erection. The Doctor is 8
successful business man and we
feel sure he will succeed in the
telephone business. - CentreviII'
Outlook.