Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-19

says bhdI VIC ndNO IIlb year ndu
almost twice as much rain as we
had in the entire year of 1901.
A couple of revenue men were
in town last week, evidently bent
on finding out if any one here was
selling liquor without paying Un-
Gle Sans tax. We do not think
that they discovered very much.
Rev. ]. M. Huber, who has been
stationed at Advance in Stoddard
county for a couple of years past,
has recently been transferred to
some parish north of st. Louis.
We wish him we'll in his new field.
H. B. Jones is home from his
trip to Arkansas. Harry says he
found things down there in good
shape. The price of cotton is on
ly moderate, but there is a fair
crop and it is being rapidly mark
eted.
In the county court proceedings
published last week appeared
~. F. Thompson, lumber for road
district No. 10, $780," 1t should
have been $500. The omission of
a lite period sometime makes a
vast difference.
We are told that Paullus, Repub-
lican candidate for Judge of the
western district, was so certain of
being elected he had already app
pointed his road o~verseer for Belle
view. Guess the fellow won't take
the trouble to fill his bond, though.
The Iron County Teachers AS
ISOLATION was in session at the
school house in Ironton, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday last. About
thirty-fve of the county's teachers
were in attendance. An interest
ing programme had been arranged
and the sessions we're instructive
and profitable.
Mr.. Randall Adams, a pleasing
young man from Goodland, called
at the REGISTER Office last Friday
to deny the report that there was
any illegal voting at the Hender-
son precinct in the recent election.
But people who know just as much
about the situation as Mr.. Adams
inform us that there was fraudu-
lent voting at that precinct and a
mighty effort is going to be made
to land the guilty parties in the
penitentairy.
l.. A. Mckee and Pate Pippin
had quite a vigorous fight in front
of McKee's home on Shepherd
street Tuesday morning. After a
while the combatants were sepa-
rated. Pippin's head was bloody,
the result of a blow with a club,
welded Pippin says, by Mrs.
Mckee, when her husband called
for aid. Pippin a also cut in
the back with a knife. The fight
was over some business matters,
Mckee and Pippin having former
ly been in the saw mill business
together.
County Commissioner Geo. L.
Smith was over from st. Francois
county last week to attend the
Teachers Association. George
says he served as a Judge in the
recent election over there. His
duty was to make out ballots fol
those who we're unable to do so fol
themselves. He says he was call
ed on to make out thirty five OF
forty ballots for illiterate Repub-
licans where but one Democrat
asked him to make out his ticket,
George is wondering why the Re-
publicans call theirs the party Of
Intelligence" Other people
have often wondered the same
thing.
For the ediication and informa-
ton of the ulta prohibitionist (?)
Republicans who make their
home hereabout the following is
reproduced from the Post DIS
pdtch's account of the big Hadley
banquet given in ST. Louis last
Saturday night:
y y For while, as had been an
nounced, there was no wine at the banquet
beer flowed without stint, aud two wei
known st. Louis brands were distributed
impartially, while drinking water was as
scarce as in midocean. There was not
water pitcher in sight at the center of the
speakers table and Mr.. Hadley slipped
sparingly of the choice products Of The
brewers art with which busy Chairman
Howe, sittsng at his left, kept his glas.
filled.
1t is said that one lone ''cock-
tail' knocked Fairbank out of the
Presidency. What will all this
beer do for Hadley?
Mr.. w. r. Edgar Thursday
morning received word of the
death of his son-in-law, Lieut.
Anton ZURICH, in the military hos
pital in San Francisco Tuesday
night previous. The deceased
had been in poor health for nearly
a year and the announcement was
not a surprise. On his return from
the PHILIPPINES last February
Lieut.. Zurich underwent an opera.
ton necessitated by a wound he
received in the Spanish American
war. Blood poisoning resulted
and other complications followed,
w. r. Edgar, Jr., was on his way
to San Francisco when the notice
of death was received. The fun.
eral took place in San Francisco,
The deceased was thirty years O.
age. He volunteered in the Span.
ish Wal and was nrnmntad from