Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-06-27

the valley TO OF. Louis these days.
Miserable, miserable service. Not
to be compared with what we had
twenty years and more ago.
The Ironton and Pilot Knob base
ball clubs played a game on the
1ronton diamond Sunday, in which
the Ironton team won by a score
of IA to 8. The Ironton club will
probably go to Fredericktown next
Sunday.
Add. Reese of Annapolis was in
Centreville a day or two this week.
While here, we understand, Mr..
Reese purchased the saw mill on
Sinking Creek, near the Tate
farm, from Lee Jackson.-Centre-
vitse Outlook.
Paul Patton was circulating a
petition about town this week ask
ing Governor Folk to commute the
sentence of VIM. Spaugh, Jr., to
imprisonment in the penitentiary,
and secured. many signatures
HiHsboro New Era.
Mr.. McEntire, an attorney from
st. Louis, representing Mrs. V. G.
Raney in her suit for divorce, took
deposition before Notary Public
Damron last Thursday. The case
will be tried in the circuit court in
st. Louis in the near future.
The infant child of Rev. G.. H.
Schlesselman was attacked with
spinal meningitis Monday noon
and lived but a few hours. We
extend coincidence to the bereaved
family in their sudden and unex-
pected Observation-Disclosures Ga
@ette.
There will be a union temper
ance meeting at the Presbyterian
church, next Sabbath evening, at
8 o'clock. Four churches Of the
Valley unite in this meeting, and
the programme will be-of special
interest. Everybody is invited to
this service.
The Ironton ball team regularly
organized Monday night by elect
ing J.. S. Conway, manager, and
Emil Roehry field captain. The
new uniforms have been received
and the boys expect to shine like
diamonds the next time they APP
pear in public.
Mrs. Alex. R. Fletcher, of Ar
cadia, arrived in the city yester-
day for a visit of several days with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Pipkin.
She was accompanied by her little
brother, Harold, who has been
visiting in Arcadia for the past
two weeks.-PopIar Bluff Democrat.
Louis Schwaner, our harness
maker, stole a march on his
friends last week and went over to
Pilot Knob and took unto himself
a helpmate, her who was Miss
Gerstemeyer. The band gave
them a hearty welcome Thursday
evening when they came to their
home in this city.-Fredericktoa0n
Tribune.
Maytield Huff, son of Arthur Huff
of Pilot Knob, suffered quite a
painful accident while out on the
river with a fishing party Tuesday
afternoon. Mayfeld and Blow
Martin, colored, we're having some
fun with a fishing gig when Blow
made a bad throw and the gig
entered Mayfeld's foot. He is
getting along as well as could be
expected.
We understand that w. H.
Smollinger, the owner of the race
track and adjacent property at
Iron Mountain, is trying to have
the adjoining counties establish a
district fair at that place. Mr..
Smollinger, it is said, will do his
part. The matter should be looked
into. Such an association would
be Of great benefit to all the coun-
ties participating.
Station Agent Downey one day
last week turned loose a basket of
carrier-pigeons from Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. There we're ten birds
in the lot and every one of them
got back to Milwaukee in twenty
four hours. The first pigeon ar
rived in just ten hours and twenty
five minutes after being liberated
at Ironton. The distance is four
hundred miles on an air line.
Mike Hughes, a young man from
Graniteville, was arraigned before
Squire Rasche Tuesday on the
charge Of burglarizing the home Of
John Hado, a Hungarian, near
Sheahan's quarry, about the latter
part of May. He was held for the
circuit court in the sum Of $500
bond, in default of which he went
to Jail, where he will likely remain
until October next. There are two
other charges Of burglary against
Hughes, but he waived examina-
ton as to them.
Mrs. August Suhr, the wife of a
farmer living four miles west of
this city, while yawning Sunday
night, dislocated her jaw and for
several hours was unable to talk.
About seventy five neighbors
gathered in and gazed with won
dering eyes at the remarkable
spectacle Of a woman who could
not talk. The drug stores and Drs'.
offices are receiving numerous calls
these days for something 'ster
make the old woman yawn."-Oak
Ridge Indicator.