Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-01-09

position as teacher in the public
school at Bismarck for the re-
mainder of the present school year.
Miss Bishop is a most gracious
young lada and an excellent teach
CT. We have no doubt she will
discharge her duties most accept
ably to the people of Bismarck.
Under the present arrangement
not a mail train stops at Ironton.
If you want to send a package by
mail that is too bulky for the little
letter pouches that hang on the
crane, it will have to be dumped
into the baggage car of one of the
local trains and take a chance on
reaching it's destination some way,
some how. Outrageous! How
long will the people stand for it?
A young man who came to IRON
ton from the lead mines in st.
Francois county one day last week
said: "Well, Pm a single man; no
one dependent on me, and l can
get out and hustle for myself. But
where | came from many a poor
man with a family has nothing to
eat, nor does he know where to get
it. l truly believe that there +
people in the lead country to-day
who are hungry"
County Clerk Reyburn Tuesday
received a telegram announcing
the death of his brother-in-law,
Fred w. Green, in Fort Worth,
Texas, that morning. Mr.. Rey-
burn had not been informed that
Mr.. Green was sick and the sup
position is that the call was an un-
expected one. The deceased leaves
a wife and one child. To them
and other sorrowing relatives we
extend coincidence.
Newt. Warren OF Belleview was
in to see us Monday. MI. Warren
has just returned from Loyalton,
California, where. he visited his
son. He says that California is
unquestionably a great country,
but he saw nothing there to lure a
Missourian. Mr.. Warren lately
sold out his blacksmithing bust
ness in Belleview, after thirty
eight years continuous working
at the trade-thirty three of which
have been spent in Belleview. He
is taking a well-earned rest,
The REGISTER is in receipt of a
card from Mr.. and Mrs. Clemens
Zumbroegel, of st. Louis, an
nouncing the marriage of their
daughter, Kathryn Cecilia, and
George Winston Whitworth, Tues
day, January 7th, 1908. The BRIDE
groom is an Ironton boy, the
youngest son of Nh. P. w. Whit
worth. For a number of years he
has had a position as train auditor
on the M, K. & 7. Railway, and
has made his home in st. Louis.
Many valley friends will join us in
wishing him and his a life of very
great happiness. George and his
bride will visit Ironton next week.
After February first, they will be
at home 290ta Madison street, st.
Louis.
There came near being a con-
f~lagration on the premises of Cir
cult Clerk Hawkins last Thursday.
The day before Mrs. Hawkins had
carried out some ashes in a bucket
and placed them nextto the stable.
After smoldering for a day some
Goals in the ashes ignited the buck
ct, which in turn set fire to the sta
BILE. Station agent Downey, who
lives next door, saw the fire and
called Mr.. Hawkins. Together
they succeeded in distinguishing
the flames before any great dam
age resulted. However, had the
discovery been delayed a few min
utes the barn would certainly have
been doomed and probably some
adjacent buildings, too.
Jas. O'Donnell, formerly of Pilot
Knob, but now living in Wash
ington county, was seriously in
jured while working in a mine
near Potosi one day last week. 1t
seems that Jim and some men
with whom he was working had
fred a hole and left the shaft for
the explosion to occur. After
waiting some time and hearing no
discharge, O'Donnell went down
the shaft to see what the trouble
was. He saw at once that the fuse
was still ignited and dashed a
bucket of water on it. An explo-
sion Immediately followed. Mr..
O'Donnell's injuries wer such
that his left leg had to be ampu-
tated below the knee in addition
to many other bruises and cuts.
A new time card went into effect
Sunday. Train No. | has been
discontinued and in lieu thereof
is a train, leaving Union Station at
three o'clock P. NJ, reaching Iron
ton at $3.50, and Poplar Bluff al
$3.50. 1t is a local train and makes
all the stops. In many ways, SO
far as Ironton is concerned, the
new train, No. %, affords better
service than No. 1 did. One big
item is that it stops regularly. But
a d~isagreeable feature is that there
is a wait of twenty minutes fol
supper at Bismarck. The train
only runs as far south as Poplar
Bluff. One of the reasons given
for disseminating No. 1 is that il
did no business in Arkansas. Or
the new card No. Is is due here al
1904 A. M, instead Of 1887 as for.
merly. No other changes.
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