Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-20

charged with whipping Elmer
Polk, a boy, with a buggy whip.
The trial will be had Friday.
The most interesting ball game
of the season was that between the
''fats and cleans" last Thursday
afternoon. All business houses
closed for the occasion and the at
tendance was large. The Stats
won in a score of q to %.
There will be an ice cream sup
per held at the Allen Church, Sat-
urday night, Doth, on Carver Creek.
Music furnished by the Carver
Creek Mandolin Club. All are es-
pecially invited to attend.
COMMITTEE.
Luther Daniels, of Des Arc, dep
uty sheriff, last Saturday brought
two Des Arc boys, Hobart Lit
trell and Mike Kelly, to Ironton
and placed them in jail, both hav-
ing been convicted of petit lar
ceny. Their crime was stealing a
watch.
Pennington, for the first time in
many years, now has no saloons,
the license of the last one expiring
last night. There are now only
five left in the county, one at
Elvins, one at Bismarck, two at
Frankclay and one at Bonneterre.
-Farmington Neaos.
At the Ice Cream Social in the
courthouse yard Thursday even
ing for the benefit of the brass
band, the brass band andthe Bud
weisers will both furnish music
for the occasion. The public is
cordially invited to attend and
help the boys along.
Word was received here last
Saturday announcing the death in
Butte City, Montana, of Mrs. Nina
Finnegan, nee Schmitz. The de-
ceased was born and reared in
Ironton but has been away from
here almost twenty years. To the
bereaved relatives the REGISTER
extends sympathy.
A night blooming cereus at the
Commercial Hotel has attracted
considerable attention this week.
Shortly after dark the blossoms
begin to unfold and are at their
best about midnight. By morn
ing they are closed and then droop
and die. 1t is the most beautiful
plant of the kind probably ever
seen in the valley.
Died-Ironton, Mo-, Aug. II,
1908, at 10:40 A. M, Sarah Eliza
beth Beman, aged SO years, one
month, and IA days. The funeral
occurred from the residence of Mr..
Chas. P. Damron the following
morning and interment was made
in the K. P. cemetery. The de-
ceased was an aunt of Mrs. Dam
ron and made her home with the
family. The bereaved have the
sympathy of the community in
their sorrow.
Miss Ruth Pruitt, who has been
for several seasons assistant mill
liner at the store of B. N. Brown.
mas accepted the position of head
milliner there. She is now in st.
Louis where, by special and I'M
usual arrangements with a large
wholesale millinery house, she is
undergoing training in this fine
art at the hands of experts. We
doubt not that she will return one
of the most artistic trimmers in
the valley, and we wish her sue
cess.
Second Lieutenant Anton Zurich,
Fourteenth Cavalry, hero of sever
al engagements in the Moro cam
paign, in which he was wounded,
lies at the point of death in the
Yosemite, where he was sent to re-
cuperate. He will be- brought to
the Preside general hospital to-
day. Lieutenant Zurich, who is an
Austrian by birth, is of scholarly
attachments and secured his COM
mission from the ranks in a COM
petitive examination.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle, July %.
Geo. Gay, superintendent of the
Clark & Gay Company's business
at this place, was here the first
of the week looking after their
business. Mr.. Gay, in speaking
of the prospects for their business
here in the future, said that they
had timber for about four months
run in sight, and when that was
consumed if parties who held tim.
Der within reach of the plant still
held out for a price greater thar
they could afford to pay, they will
be forced to move the plant, as
much as they regret to do so.-El'
hngton Press.
Prof. o. E, Niece, who ha:
charge of the schools at limo
wife and boy, visited relatives a
Pilot Knob this week. From here
they go to Irondale and then tx
limo to get ready for school thi'
fall. Prof. MCGEE informs us tina
while there he met Prof. Needham
who will be in charge of the Iron
ton schools the ensuing year. HI
says that Prof. Needham is a stu
dent and was one of the three VIII
made the A. B. degree at the Cap
the past year. Prof. Needham i
now at his old home in Dent coun
ty, but will be here within a wee
or two.
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