Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-04-15

acres each. Mr.. Head says that
he is confident it can be made a
paying crop here. The American
Tobacco Company, whom Mr..
Head represents, agrees to take
the product at ten cents a pound.
w do not know much about the
different tobacco plants, but un-
derstand that it is what is known
as the "White Burley" that will
be planted here.
Miss Patti Andrews had quite
a thrilling experience with her big
horse last Thursday afternoon.
She was driving down Main street
, with a young man when n of the
> shafts of the buggy broke and in
flicted an injury on the horses leg,
cutting it quite badly. This
| started the horse to running and
at a fearful speed he started down
} the street. In front of Albert's
the horse ran into a tree, got loose
from the buggy and went on down
the street. Miss Patti and the
young man were thrown to the
i, ground but beyond some bruises
escaped injury. For a while,
, though, when the horse was run
, ming like mad, and could not be
: checked, their predicament was not
an enviable one
A meeting of the school board
was held Wednesday evening at
which Messrs. Conway, Kindell
and Fisher, newly elected mem
bers were sworn in. Then Mr..
Fisher resigned and DR.. Farmhouse
was elected by the board to fill
, the vacancy. Architect Chas.
Tual was instructed to draw up
. plans and specifications for the
8 proposed addition to the school
3 building. Mr.. Tual will probably
!. have this work done in a couple
: of weeks and then the board will
I advertise for bids to build the ad-
I dition and install the heating
plant. Eight bonds of the denom-
! ~ination of $500 each, to draw in
terest at the rate of five per cent,
r will be issued. 1t is proposed to
. redeem one bond each year.
g MI. G. S. Russell last week re-
4 ceived word of the death of his
! uncle, William Russell, which oc-
CURED in Dallas, Texas, April A,
1909. The deceased was the last
male member of the family of the
n late Cyrus Russell, who came here
from Connecticut in the early
d forties. He was a brother of Mrs.
It Griffith whose remains were
brought here from Bollinger coun-
ty for burial last week, her death
Q apte-dating her brothers just four
Q days. VIM. Russell lacked just
two weeks of being eighty-four
years of age. He was for many
: years a resident of the valley but
!. left here for Texas about thirty
= years ago, and has been a resident
of Dallas for some time. Death
was sudden. In fact he was up
and about the house, when sud-
denly he fell to the floor and ex-
pired. A wife and a number OF
children and other relatives mourn
7 his demise. Mrs. Harriet H, Farrar,
who lives in RussellvilIe, is now
II the only living member of the
original large Russell family.
), The following appeared in last
Thursdays Globe Democrat, tele-
graphed from Washington, D. G..
- Representative Polite Elvins o.
the Thirteenth Missouri District
made his maiden speech in the
House to-day and "made good,'
as a congressman, for the amend
ment which he supported and upon
r. which he largely made his cam
y paign last fall, was adopted
fl "Vote for Elvins and a tariff or
8 tiff,' stared at every passer by
from the trees along the highways
j, down in Washington and neigh
70 boring counties last fall. The PEG.
l. pie voted foraElvins, who received
IT $50 more votes than Taft, and to-
i day the House of Representative
voted for the tariff on tiff, 0,
! barytes, as it is scientifically
! known. Speaker Cannon, wht
y was on the floor at the time ant
"a listened to Mr.. Elvins' speech wal
the first to congratulate him. ''Yol
ar did we'll, my boy" he said, as hi
Fl shook the baby Republican mem
Der of the House by the hand
Herbert Parsons, Nicholas Long
worth and Mr.. Van Olcott of New
York, we're among the others whc
added their congratulations. MI
Elvins let it be known in 40 un
la certain language that he was
re protection Republican, and tina
was why he was demanding pro
3. lection for this industry in hi
st district. He was generously ap
ne plauded on the Republican side
ly and he successfully met the argu
at ments of Francis Burton Harrison
g, of New York, who made the prin
a. cipal speech against the proposes
increase of duty on crude baryte
ID from rs cents a ton to $3.50 pc
as ton. Representative Bartholdt ha'
previously occupied the floor in
colloquy with Harrison and wit
Slayden of Texas, but Mr.. Elvins
~ who had been chosen by the Rep
~ resentatives from all the state
". producing barytes to present thei
cause, was recognized for a five
10 = 1891 L. 4 T.