Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-01-02


tanning money under false pre-
lenses. D. w. Reese of West Plains
a member of the State Board of
Charities, will take the matter up
with the state officials"
We made the trip from st. Louis
to the valley last Thursday with
MI. R. D. Lewis, of st. Louis,
who has just completed a palatial
home on the Langdon place in
Russellville, and found him to be a
most affable and entertaining gen.
tleman. Mr.. Lewis is the western
representative of the American
Tobacco Company and has charge
of that company's immense busi-
ness in st. Louis. The different
factories require about SIS, 1000
worth of internal revenue stamps
daily, and he says it took consid-
cradle hustling to get that much
cash every day when the money
furry was at its worst and the
banks were refusing to pay out
anything at all-and Uncle Samu-
ell, you know, has to have the cold,
hard cash. No check goes with
hin. In addition to this a pay roll
of $4,000 had to be met every
week.
The many rumors that are being
circulated this week to the effect
that the Doe Run and st. Joseph
Lead companies are to resume
work on full force schedule the
first of the year, are, we are glad
to report, true. In conversation
with an official of the Doe Ruu
Lead company about this matter
yesterday, we were told it was the
intention of these companies to
resume work, about January 1, on
a full time basis, as was in force
previous to the recent depression
in the lead market. Our infor-
mant also stated teat there would
be a establishment and slight re-
duction in the wage scale. This
proposed change from half to full
time is by far the best news of the
week, and, no doubt, will be re-
ceived as such by the three thou
sand employees of the two COM
anies throughout the lead district
and by the citizens of the country
in general.-Farmingtom News.
The following appeared in We'd
nesday's Republic, telegraphed
from Hillsboro, Mo-, under date of
December 3tst: "W. j. Brown
field, a G.. A. R. veteran, stabbed
and probably fatally injured Paul
Patton, deputy sheriff, and brother
of DR.. w. G. Patton, Mayor of
Cape Girardeau, tonight. Brown
field is in Jail awaiting a charge
that depends upon the outcome of
Patton's injuries. Patton, who is
about sixty years old, was stabbed
under each shoulder and at the
right wrist. The wound at the
wrist bled profusely. The attend
ing physician said tonight that
the wounds are serious, but he
could not then determine whether
Patton would die. According to
the testimony of witnesses Brown
field came to Hillsboro yesterday
and quarrsled with Patton in a sa-
loon. They met again on the
street this morning, when Patton is
alleged to have warned Brownfeld
that if he repeated epithets of the
night before he would fix him.
The men met in another saloon at
noon and after heated words Pat
ton knockedBrownfield down. This
afternoon, while Patton was in a
saloon with acquaintance Brown
field, bystanders say, walked from
one end of the bar and attccked the
deputy with a knife. Patton is a
former City Marshal of Ironton.
Brownfield had been at a soldiers
home, but returned to his farm,
near Hillsboro, six months ago."
A telegram from Cape Girardeau
says: "Mayor w. G. Patton, who
is also a physician, plans to leave
at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing to attend his brother who was
stabbed there and to inves tigate
the ARRAY"
An editor near our city tells this
story of a cranky sort of a man
who ordered his "little town pa
per- stopped. He says he has
frequently met him on the street
since that time, and it is amusing
to us to note the look of surprise
and chagrin on that fellows face
that we are still in existence, re-
CARELESS of the fact that he had
''stopped the paper" Some day
that fellow will turn up his toes.
His spiteful little heart will be
stilled forever. Neighbors and
friends will follow his l~ifeless clay
to the silent city and lay him to
rest among the flowers. An obit-
uary will appear in these columns
telling what a kind father, good
neighbor and beloved, generous,
big-hearted, open handed citizen
he was-which lie the recording
angel will overlook for sweet
charity's sake-and in a very
short time he will be entirely for
gotten. AS he lies out in the
graveyard wrapped in the silent
slumber of death he will never
know the last kind word ever
spoken of him was by the little
paper which his measly soul had
tried to ''stop." Did you ever
think for just a moment, that the
editor, whoever he may be, will
write your obituary some day and
never a mean word or a harsh or
nrual santanna will be found there.