Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-10-29

speech in the Academy Of Music
Saturday night. One side of the
hall was reserved for white people.
AS Crews has the reputation of
considering himself as good as any
white man this arrangement prob
ably did not meet with his appro-
baton. Why did the Republican
committee confne Crews to Iron
ton? Why didn't they send him
out over the county with old Ben?
They would make a lovely pair!
Circuit court convened Monday
afternoon. The first case on the
docket was State vs.. VIM. Steffens,
charged with selling liquor on Sun
day. The defendant pleaded gull
ty on four counts and paid fine
and costs amounting to S206. The
first jury trial was that of State vs..
Clark Stringer and Chas. Jones,
charged with highway robbery;
the jury return ed a verdict of gull
ty and fixed the punishment at
eight years in the penitentiary. A
Jury Tuesday afternoon found Bill
Borders guilty of arson and gave
him five years. Court will be in
session all week.
Among the recent marriages in
this county is that of Ed. Dahlke
and Ethel M. Sinclair, Sunday,
October 25th. The wedding sup
per was partakep of at the home
of the BRIDES parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. L. Sinclair. It vas at
once in honor of the only daugh-
ter's marriage and in commence
ration of the birthday of their cid
est son. The meal-one that would
have tempted the appetites of the
gods-was cooked on a stove that
has been in continuous use for 80
years. The table was decorated
with peach bloom and flowers.
The newly-made husband and wife
took a wedding trip to st. Louis.
The REGISTER wishes them happi-
ness and long life!
A few weeks ago H. M. Collins,
the livery man, received word from
the officials in St. Francois county
that a lot in Bonne Terre, belong
ing to him was about to be sold for
taxes. Hartford says he thought
over the matter a long while and
finally called to mind that in 1882,
while he was living in Bonne Terre,
I1AlAl hiro n LOT io M '
ment of a bill he owed. Mr. Col
Inns filed the deed for record, soon
afterwards loft the county, and says
he never thought of the lot again
until he received the letter a few
weeks ago. He went over to Farm
ington Saturday, learned the title
| was good, paid the delinquent tax,
and is now about 5000 better of
than he thought he vas
: We are in receipt of a very
pleasant letter from our young
friend, DR., Chas. P. Harviell, at
: Robinson, Utah. He says tell all
inquiring friends that he's lived SC
+ long with the Mormons that he's
much like them in many ways,
He wears the typical hat, pays
!, tithes, drinks sage tea, and at spare
moments endeavors to show them
, that VIM. j. Bryan is the man,
The DR.. takes a very rosy view oil
Democracy's chances in his coun.
try and says the labor vote is al
with the Democrats, He writes
+ that he would like to see the val
ley once again if only for a day
He couldn't make it, he says, dur
ing the bowling prosperity of Ted
: dy. Perhaps he can come wher
) we get a change. Good luck tt
, you, Doctor!
! Richard Hartnoll, aged sixty
four years, died at the Brown Ho.
J tel, in Graniteville, Thursday
! October 22d, 1908, at ten o'clock
A. WI. The deceased had been {
. sufferer from pulmonary trouble
t for several years, and it has beer
known for some time that the enc
was near. He was not confined tc
, his bed, however, and was sitting
in a chair when death came. Mr.,
Hartnoll was born in England and
3 first came to Graniteville over &c
years ago. He was a good mar
r and true, and held in high esteem
by all who knew him. The tuner.
4 al was conducted Friday afternoon
| by the Masonic fraternity and the
= remains were laid to rest in thu
i, beautiful little cemetery on th'
: hillside in Middlebrook. Peace t.
his ashes!
/ In 1868 VIM. F. Mitchell was can
> didate on the Democratic tickle
) for assessor of Iron county. HI
> had served as sergeant in the Fed
eral army, had been twice wound
ed in action at Ringgold Gap, Ga,
and invalided in consequence
Returning home, after the wal hi
resumed his avocation, that of car
t penter and builder. After hi
nomination for Assessor, he ant
t Mr.. Park Peters secured a contrac
Ito build a courthouse at Popla.
Bluff, and while they were in con
sequence temporarily absent iron
the county, Mr.. Mitchell's nam'
was secretly stricken from the reg
istration list-every voter had tt
register those days-and he thu
made ineligible to Office. | repro
= duce this bit of the county's histo
. ry merely to demonstrate to m!
lesser informed brethren the pre-
vailing idea of "a free ballot anc
: a fair COUNT when everything
n was lovely and the bosses COOS
hung high. The charge preferre'
d against Mr.. Mitchell was 'disloy