Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-12

DR.. F. w. Trauernicht last week
received and set up in his dental
office an electri C engine which is a
beautiful piece of mechanism.
The motor is run by a sixteen-cell
battery and does its work perfect
ly. When running, the moveme mt
of the machinery is ~noiseless and
so rapid that the eye cannot detect
the turning of the wheels. Thor
oughly up-to-date is everything
in connection.
Every Senator and Representa-
tive in the General Assembly may,
each year during his term of Office,
appoint three cadets to the Mis-
souri, State Military School. These
appointments carry with them free
tuition in the State University, a
substantial uniform, and frst-class
military instruction by an officer
of the regular army. Young men
who can satisfy the entrance re-
quiyements of the University and
who would like an appointment as
a State cadet, should write to their
Representative or Senator in the
Legislature, or to the Commandant
of Cadets, Columbia, Mo-, con-
corning the same.
1t is said to be a settled fact that
a large summer hotel and big dam
will be built in the lower Shut-In,
east of here, withinthe next twelve
months. An engineer was here to
locate the dam, which will be con-
structed across Stout's Creek in
the Shut-In, near where the pros
pecting was done for iron ore sew
eral years since. st. Louis parties
are back of the movement, and it
is stated have the funds to success
fully finance the movement. The
dam will be forty feet at the base,
fifty feet in hefghth and six feet
across at the summit. Some seven
hundred acres of land have been
optioned for the purpose.
With 70 shots in his body, Jas.
Mulligan, rs years old, a farmer of
Van Buren,, Mo-, crawled several
miles on his hands and knees to a
logging camp from his farm, where
he was,shot by five unknown men,
who we're ordered away. Multi
gan is a former ST. Louisian; sew
eral years ago he lived at 1910
Chouteau avenue. When he left
st. Louis he moved to Arcadia and
then to Van Buren,. He is recover
ing.-Monday's Post-D Dispatch.
James Mulligan lived on a farm
east of Ironton for twenty years.
He left here three or four years
ago, however, and since then has
spent most of the time in Carter
county.
The fire blight has done much
damage to pear trees in this coun-
ty this season. This disease at
tacks the trees among the branch
es, turning the leaves black and
killing the trees eventually from
the top down. 1t is said that there
is NO remedy for this blight, and a
tree once attacked will soon die.
In speaking of this tree disease to
Rev. I'll. w. Cook of this place,
who has had much experience with
fruit trees, we were informed that
he had avoided it in his orchard
by sowing salt about the trees
twice a year. This, he says, seems
to act as a stimulant to the trees
and makes them less liable7to at
tack by diseases. He has found
it effective not only in preventing
the ravages of pear blight, but in
the yellows in peach trees also
Potosj Journal.
The last local option election in
Iron county was on January IA,
1888. Those who participated will
recall that it was a miserable day,
sleet and snow, with the Their
mometer near zero. There were
1914 votes cast in that election,
and the wet majority was 1874.
Below is the vote at the various
praninctc.