Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-04-11

therefore cannot copy the tax
book, and only a verjuiced ass,
relying upon the ignorance and
prejudice of his readers, could or
would assert that the clerk copies
"the old book year after year"
He didn't have a dollar; he
didn't have a dime. His clothes
and shoes were looking just as
though they'd served their time.
He didn't try to kill himself to
dodge misfortune's whacks; in
stead, he got some ashes and he
filled five dozen sacks; then, next
he begged a dollar. In the paper
in the morn, he advertised tin
polish that would put the sun to
scorn. He kept on advertising,
and, just now, suffice to say, he's
out in California, in his cottage on
the bay.
The attention /of the teachers
and students of Iron and adjoin-
ing counties is directed to the an
nouncement of Prof. b. E. MCGEE,
in another column, telling of the
Training School that he will in
augurate in the public school
building in Ironton, IN Monday,
April 10Th, and will continue dur
ing the months Of May and June.
Those who want to review and
prepare for the June examinations
can not afford to miss this oppor-
tunity. Mr.. MCGEE solicits cor
respondence.
At the school meeting in Good
land district, in the west end of the
county, last week, j. r. Adams
was chairman of the meeting, N.
w. Adams secretary, and G. G.
Adams got eight votes for road
overseer. If there had been any
other favors to dispense, it is pre-
sumed that the Adams family,
with characteristic modesty, would
have come in for full share of the
honors. Now if they had been
Democrats, how the word "ring"
would have resounded down the
valleys and On the hill tops.
We received long obituary no.
tice for publication this week, but
declined to publish it, for the
simple reason that none of the
parties who would be interested in
the matter are subscribers to the
paper. The manager of the Citizen
is naturally inclined to favor any
one, but the line must be drawn
somewhere, so hereafter, gratis
publications of this kind will be
restricted to subscribers only. All
death notices will be published as
news items, but to publish long
obituaries gratis for parties who
have lived several years in the
community without taking the
home paper is not altogether fair
to the paper.-CampbeU Citizen.
1t begins to look like the Gov
ernor does not intend to interfere
with the sentence against the
Brooks, whose date of execution
is set for April 18th. If the SEN
|tence of the court is allowed to be
carried out, these will be the first
legal executions that have occurred
in the county in its fifty years ex-
istence. Sheriff Marshall will have
charge Of the executions, and the
work Of building the scaffold in
the jail yard will commence in a
few days, a carpenter from Poplar
Bluff having solicited and received
the contract therefor. Several To-
cal carpenters refused to h~avesany-
thing to do with building the
structure. The law provides that
the executions must be private, n
ly the officers of the court, guards,
and witnesses being permitted to
be present.
Mr.. George P. Foster, wife and
niece arrived here from Napa,
California, last Sunday evening.
Thirty-five years ago Mr.. Foster
was employed as a stone cutter at
Graniteville, and since that time
has travelled in about every State
in the Union. He left here the
last time in 1890, going to Okla
homa, when the boom was on and
has spent the past four years in
California. Mr.. Foster was To-
Gated about forty miles north of
San Francisco when the terrible
earthquake visited that section
a year ago. He and his wife were
both thrown out of bed, but suf-
fered no serious injury. He visit
cd San Francisco within a week
after the calamity, and says that
the sights he saw there he can
never forget. He is thinking of
buying property in Ironton and
making this his future home. We
hope he will be successful in find
ing what he wants.
Thirty years or more ago a citi-
zen of the county walked into this
Office and told us of a man down
the country who was mistreating
his wife. The citizen suggested
that we make reference to the facts
without calling any names, and
intimate to the offender that if he
did not stop abusing his wife,
some of his neighbors would wait
on him in Klu Klux fashion. Well,
we printed the item, and in not
more than three days twelve
different men came into the Office
to explain that some of his neigh
bors had been lying on him-and
the most singular fact in connec-