Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-04-25

Saturday evening w. H. Delano
was chosen to take the enumera-
ton for this year. Another meet
ing of the board will be held May
4th, for the purpose of electing
teachers for next year.
The case against Munsen Hen
derson, of the west end of the
county, charged with seduction
under promise of marriage, has
been dismissed, the defendant
having been married to the prose-
cutting witness, Efie Stricklin, last
Saturday.
The respite granted AmaleK and
John Brooks by the Governor
names May 18th, as the date OF
their execution. We understand
that the friends of the convicted
men are making a strong effort to
have the sentence committed to
life imprisonment.
Mr.. Geo. P. Foster, who recently
came here from California, last
week purchased the home-fur-
n~iture, fixtures and all-of VIM.
Trauernicht in Middlebrook and is
domiciled there. Mr.. Trauernicht
will probably make his home in
Bismarck in the future.
Our court stenographer, Mr..
Claud T. Jarvis, is now also a
newspaper man, having leased the
Press, a Democratic paper in De
Soto. It's a long jump from court
stenographer to the ranks of the
chosen few. But we guess Claud
is equal to the occasion.
The merchants of Ironton are
circulating a petition agreeing to
close at 7 O'Clock P M, commence
ing May list and continuing until
October list. 1t is a move in the
right direction, and we trust all
our business men can see their way
clear to join in the agreement.
The following attorneys are in
attendance on court this week:
L. F. Dining, Potosi; R. G. Tuck
er, Fl. D. Ledbetter, Pennington;
John H. Raney, Greenville; R. l.
January, Centreville; N. A. Mos
ley, L. G. Keaton, Ralph Wam-
mack and Geo. Houck, Jr., Bloom
field, Mo.
B. P. Burnham, who was reared
in this county, but for the last few
years has been teaching school in
Iron county, has been appointed a
member of the Board of Education
in that county. Mr.. Burnham is a
bright young man and no better
selection could have been made
CentrewHe Outlook.
Judge Williams Tuesday ordered
a special venire of thirty jurors to
appear in court Wednesday to
serve in the case against Prescia
Blanks, colored, for shooting Rob-
ert McGill of Graniteville, at Pilot
Knob last September. The jurors
are being qualified to-day and the
case will go to trial Thursday.
We are sorry to hear that our
friend, A. Winkler, of Poplar
Bluff, is not enjoying the best of
health, and that he contemplates
a trip abroad this summer. Mrs.
Winkler and the children will
probably spend the summer here,
in the cottage now being built on
the mountain side by Mr.. Winkler.
Miss Mabel Reyburn asks the
REGISTER to state that on May 9th
she will inaugurate a private school
in one of the rooms in the Ironton
public school building. Instruc-
ton will be devoted chiefly to the
primary subjects. Parents desir-
ing to send their children are re-
quested to communicate with Miss
The Des Arc correspondent of
the Ironton REGISTER says that
town has a better telephone SER
vice than Pennington, because at
this place you have to go a half
mile to talk over a Bell. Wonder
when he was in town, for there are
"a Bells in private residences and
offices distributed all over town.
Pennington Times.
We believe that it was in the fall
of 1905 that the railroad officials
promised the railway commissions
ers that a new depot should be
built at Ironton as soon as weather
conditions would permit. Evil
IDENTIFY the railroad officials do not
care what they promise the COM
missioners--to say nothing of the
interests of the public in the prem
ises.
The REGISTER acknowledges a
pleasant call from Rev. T. A. Bow
man, who has been filling the pull
pit in the Baptist church here the
past few weeks. Mr.. Bowman was
for a number Of years engaged in
the newspaper work at different
points in Southeast Missouri.
There is a possibility, we UNDER
stand, of the church here extend
ing a call to him.
We r in receipt of a very
pleasant letter from an old Iron
county boy, P. L. O'Bannon, who
is now making his home in Clear
water, Idaho. Mr.. O'Bannon was
a school mate of our murdered
sheriff, John w. Polk, and COM
mends the REGISTER for the effort
it has made to see that his MUIR
derers are punished. Mr.. O'Ban-
mons friends here will he Glad to