Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24

sessed S11.50.
The cylinder heads in the boiler
at the hub factory blew out last
Friday morning. Fortunately no
one was hurt. AS a result the
factory has been shut down and
the damage done amounts to about
5000.
Mrs. Emma Kerchner last Thurs
day sold her place, Just this side OF
Ghermanville, to Sam. H. Robin
son. Consideration, $3.50. Mrs.
Kerchner has removed to st. Louis
where she will make her future
home.
G. M. Stevenson, teacher on
Funk's Branch, near Annapolis,
was last Saturday acquitted by a
jury in Squire Johnson's court at
Des Arc of the charge of too
severely whipping a son of Judge
Alcorn.
John Glover, twelve years of
age, while playing with the child
rem during the noon hour on the
public school grounds last We'd
nesday, fell and fractured his arm.
He was taken care of and is getting
along very nicely.
1t is reported that the screen
factory property is about to change
hands, and there are all sorts of
rumors as to the uses to which it
is to be put. One story is that d
furniture factory will be moved
here from Chicago.
LosT-Sunday evening, October
both, somewhere between the resi-
dence of G. A. Buckley, in east
Ironton, and the courthouse a
lady's gold watch with fob. "N.
B." engraved on the watch. Leave
at this Office and get reward.
1t pays to advertise. We hear
of a fellow who lost a S. bill and
advertised for it. The money was
returned to him. A few days
att II, he put on an old vest he
hand't worn for several days and
there was the missing S. bill.
The circuit docket printed this
week is the largest we've had in
Iron county for a number of years
and if all the cases are tried the
session will be a long one. Con-
tinuances will probably be taken
in some Of tbs cases, however.
J.. Grandhomme will open a pool
and billiard hall and lunch room
in his saloon building in a couple
of weeks. The license to run a
pool and billiard hall must be ap-
proved by the county court or Mr..
Grandhomme would have been
ready for business now. He hopes
to secure license as soon as court
meets,
The saloon element won out in
the recent local option election in
Iron county by a very small mar
gin-24 votes. If our Mr.. Full
bright had have gotten into the
campaign a few days earlier than
he did we'll venture to say the re-
suit would have been Different
Doniphan Prospects, ews.
Perhaps it might! and then again
it might not! .
Louis Miller, a contractor and
builder from Arcadia was in
Greenville Saturday in %consulta-
ton with the officials of the Peo-
pies State Bank of Greenville in
regard to their new building. Mr..
Miller is we'll known in this Sec
ton, having done considerable
work here in days gone by. AS
contractor, he built the H.-K.
store, the lumber kilns, the planer
and numerous houses -Greenvite
Journal.
The railroad company is build
ing a high cinder pavement in
front of the new depot and along
side the main track so it will be
easy to step on and off the coaches.
This is a decided improvement on
anything we've ever had here, for
getting on and off the cars always
has been attended with more OF
lessinconvenience if not danger,
The new depot is completed, the
carpenters gone and the painters
finishing to-day.
The REGISTER is in receipt of {
very pleasant letter from Mr.. Ferd
L. Inner, who is travelling il
Utah, Wyoming, Nevada ant
Idaho for the Mine & Smelling
Supply Company, of Salt Lake
Mr.. Immer's old home friends
here will be glad to know that hi
is getting along nicely and enjoy
ing splendid health. He promise
to write a letter for the REGISTER
in a short time and we hope hi
will keep his promise.
Last Friday evening Mrs. Laur'
H. Morris of st. Louis was admit
ted to State Hospital No. a as
patient. Mrs. Morris is the wowal
! who was so unceremoniouslJ
|, bounced from the White Hous
and dragged over the mansion
grounds at Washington becaus,
+ she was seeking an interview witt
President Roosevelt in referenc
/. to the reinstatement of her hus
! band to a position from which h
had been removed.-Tbe Farming
ton Times.
, The chances for a branch line Q
the Missouri. Southern railroad be
ing run to this place is very flat