Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-06-11

The tramp printer is almost a
thing of the past, so far as this
town goes. He used to be a FREE
quent and regular visitor, but for a
number of years he's been getting
scarcer, scarcer, scarcer. And now
we rarely ever see him. But one
travelling printer has put in an ap.
pearance at this Office since last
Christmas.
The REGISTER is indebted to the
genial Mr.. Crum, of the Murdock-
Crum Co., Chicago, for two splen-
did maps-one of Iron comfy and
the other of the City of Ironton.
They are valuable and Mr.. Crum
has our sincere thanks. The Muir
dock Crum Co. is the corporation
that recently bought the Pilot
Knob lands.
We are sorry to hear of the Sc
rious illness of Lieut.. A. Zurich at
the army post at San Francisco.
Recently he underwent an opera
ton to extract a bullet received in
the Spanish war. The operation
was followed by other troubles
that have left the Lieutenant in a
critical condition. We hope to
hear of an early improvement.
E. w. Summers, the tie man,
left here Monday with a force of
men for the West Fork of Black
River, where they will float about
$4,000 ties down the river to the
mouth of Bear Branch. The ties
will then be hauled to Annapolis
to ship by rail. This is a long
ways the largest consignment of
timber that has ever been RATED
on the upper waters of Black river.
Thursday afternoon of last week
Louis Pettana, employed in New
mans garden, viciously assaulted
Glen Parten, fourteen years of age,
who was also at work in the garden,
hitting him a terrible blow over
the left eye. Next day Pettana
was arraigned before Squire
Rasche who fined him 81 and costs.
1t occurs to us that the defendant
may consider that he got off very
light.
A Hungarian baby, % months
old. was knocked off the railroad
track at Pilot Knob Tuesday
morning. DR.. Marshall, who was
called, says he found the little one
pretty badly bruised but, SO far as
he could see, with no fatal injuries.
The train r did not see the ba-
by until after the engine had
struck it. How the little thing
escaped instant death seems mi
raculous.
Horace A. Smith, who lives west
of town, thinks he has a bonanza
on his farm, the old Elgan place i.
Mr.. Smith recently had an assay
made of some of the rocks picked
up on the surface and there were
both gold and silver in them. He
has since done some prospec ting,
and at a depth of thirty fee has
taken out some "dirt" that he is
confident is much richer in the
precious metals.
At a called meeting of the Iron
ton school board held Tuesday
evening Miss Nellie e. Ferguson
of Graniteville was elected teacher
of the primary department in place
of Miss Ewing, who was elected at
the last meeting but had notified
the board that as she had contract
ed elsewhere she could not accept.
Miss Ferguson taught in the Gran
iteville school last year and is
said to be. agood primary instruc-
tor.
7. R. Tolleson and family OF
lockwood visited relatives at
Graniteville the past week. They
came to Ironton Monday and Mr..
Tolleson made the REGISTER q
much appreciated call. Tom has
prospered in his seven years resi-
dence in the lead coutdry. He has
charge of the st. Joe Company's
mercantile interests at Leadwood
and is highly regarded by his en-
ployers. Mr.. Tolleson is a mos
worthy young man and Iron coun-
ty friends are glad to know of his
success.
Our p~ost-office was removed tc
it's new location on the corner
south of the REGISTER office Sat.
urday night and mail was disburs'
ed from there Sunday morning
The new fixtures are all right anc
the Office presents a very neat APP
pearance. One big improvement
in the service is that you can gel
your mail any time of the day or
Sunday Of holidays, provided
you rent a lock box. When the
postmaster leaves the Office, the
front door remains open, and you
can 60 in and get your mail.
Mrs. Eliza Santhuff was tried
for SANDER in the Circuit Cour1
here at the November term, 1906
and was fined five dollars. She
then took her case to the st. Louis
Court Of Appeals, which sustained
che decision ofthe lower court and
upon refusal to pay the fine and
cost, Judge Williams ordere .
Sheriff Fits to convey her to the
Iron County Jail to serve out the