Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-03-26

of Miss Mamie @. Baird, in Area
dia, Mo-, l will sell at public auc-
ton a lot of household and kitchen
furniture, consisting of beds, one
range, stoves, chairs d~ressers, ia
bles, stands, wardrobe, cupboard,
commode and various other arti-
cles; also loom, wheel and reel; a
horse and buggy and single har-
ness. MITTIE ASHBRooK.
Sale will commence at 10 o'clock
A. NJ.
Pupils of Room 2, Ironton school,
neither absent nor tardy during
the month of March: Lucille Far
rar, Alta Kindell, Laura Pfitzinger,
Velah Pippin, Mary Walker,
Marie White, Grace Barton, Or
pha Davis, Josephine Francis,
Roberta Francis, Bette Grissom,
Della Golf, Birdie Stricklin, Wal
ter Fisher, Raymond Buckley,
Charles Pruitt, Ward Farrar,
Lawrence Lashley, Albert Schultz.
VIM. H. George, one of lester
ville's jovil merchants, gave this
Office a pleasant call while in the
county capitol Monday. While in
town Mr.. George entered into a
contract with the Isaac Bays OF
near Monterey, by the terms Of
which Mr.. George agrees to sell
his stock of merchandise and
store building at Lesterville to
Mr.. Bays who is to have possess
ion September list, 19O8.-Cen-
terrible Outlook.
Judge Shepherd arrived here
from Doniphan Monday afternoon.
Circuit court was convened and the
remainder of the day was devoted
to getting forty qualified jurors to
try Thos. Persons, charged with
rape. Court then adjourned until
Wednesday morning, the attor-
neys devoting Tuesday to make
their challenges. Wednesday the
challenges we're announced and
the trial of the case proceeded
with. The trial will probably be
concluded this evening or Thurs
day morning.
w. T. Leeper, a resident Of Mill
Springs, a small station on the
Iron Mountain between this city
and Piedmont, has sued that road
for $4,000, through his attorneys,
Clark & Yount, of Van Buren,.
Leeper alleges that the defendant
company uns a train which they
call the fast mail, and that in
throwing off mail at the station of
Leeper several months ago, while
he was standing on the platform, a
sack of mail hit him, breaking his
leg. For this injury he asks dam
ages in the sum of $40,
Bluff Republican.
Mr.. BENZ. H. Marbury, who was
placed on the Board of Curators of
Marvin College at the last meet
ing of the st. Louis Conference of
the M. E. Church, South, was in
Fredericktown this week attending
a meeting of the board, and at his
suggestion ways and means were
put on foot to endow the presi-
dency of Marvin College in honor
of Rev. Jerome G. Bergman, and
it will be known as "The jerome
G. Bergman Presidency" Father
Bergman was the original founder
of the old Arcadia College, the first
church school in Southeast Mis-
souri,. This will perpetuate the
name of Father Bergman and in
fluence the young men and wom-
en- of this section of our State
during}the future years.-Farming-
ton Times.
Monday w. I. Hooper received
$40, 900 through the State Bank
from the Missouri Steel & Iron Co,
in payment of certain of their OBJ
legations. This is the first large
sum sent to this city by this firm
since securing the twelve thousand
acres of Iron lands in this county
some few months ago, but shows
plainly that the company means
business in their promise to oper.
ate these lands. Among some
there was a tendency to discredit
this company and to question
their sincerity, but since this first
obligation has been removed il
due season there can no longer be
any question as to the creditabili-
ty of those at the head Of the en-
terprise. No information regard
ing when the work preparatory tt
beginning operation Of the land
will begin can be learned.-PopIa
Bluff Citizen.
Twenty tie inspectors for thu
Iron Mountain railroad compan,
have bern eliminated from the roll
of that corporations paymaster
Six of the former inspecting fore,
of twenty-six remain to do the en-
tire work of the system. Severa
of these r frequently in Popla
Bluff and vicinity. Employees il
this department who have been il
the Iron Mountain service TO
nearly a quarter of a century as
sert that they stand in constan
fear that the arrangements AK
will officially decapitate one o
- e H.. - 49, TNL,
salaries and expenses Of the TWEEN
ty men laid off totaled a tidy sun
each month and this cut aids con
siderable in the process of re
trenchment adopted recently b,
the railroad company. 1t is re
ported that further reductions il
other departments will be mad,
shortly.-Poplar Bluff Democrat.
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