Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-10-28

from injuring the fruit. The doc
tor has already received several
attractive offers for the exclusive
right of his invention.-Elpins
Herald.
Circuit court convened on the
arrival of Judge Williams shortly
after noon Monday. A jury Mon
day found Douglas Marshall, the
negro boy who stole a pair of
shoes out of Browns store a couple
of months ago, guilty of larceny
and fixed his punishment at six
months in jail. About all day
Tuesday was occupied in hearing
evidence in the case against Hat
tie Williams, the colored girl at
whose home was found a lot of
bed clothing and wearing apparel
stolen from w. e. Thomson's
summer home in Arcadia. It is
expected to complete the case by
noon to-day wednesday, The
next cases to be called will prob.
ably be the election fraud cases
from the west end of the county.
Court will probably be in session
two weeks anyway.
A new 2-cent postage stamp will
make its appearance in about a
month. Word to this effect has
been received from the post
master general at Washington.
The new stamp will commemorate
the discovery of the Hudson river
by Henry Hudson in 1909. and the
introduction of steam navigation
on its waters in 1857 by Robert
Fulton. 1t is oblong; nthe center
is engraved a picture showing the
palisades of the Hudson river in
the back ground with the Half
Moon sailing up the river and the
Clermont sailing in the opposite
direction. An Indian and a canoe
furnish the foreground, and barely
discernible in the distance is a
canoe containing Indians. The
canoes are to represent the first
means of navigating the river.
The color of the new stamp is the
same as that of the regular 2-cent
stamp.
President Taft and party went
through Ironton bound for st.
Louis on a special train about
four o'clock Monday morning.
The special train was preceded a
few minutes by a pilot train and
every precaution was taken to
safeguard the presidential party.
All the section men along the line
were on the track and our agent,
MI. Downey, was ordered to be
on hand at that unseemly hour so
that he would be in call if his
services were needed. We've only
one president in the United States
and we ought to take care of him
but it does look like piling it up a
little too high to take all these
precautions when one man is
passing over the road, and there
are thousands and thousands of
men, women and children riding
by all the time without any such
safeguards being thrown around
them. We are aping the mon
archial customs in this country
very much at the present time.
S. G.. Nipper, of Washington
county, was in Pennington attend
ing the Fair on last Friday and
Saturday. Mr.. Nipper was recent
" appointed supervisor Of the
census for the 18th Missouri
district, which comprises the 18th
Congressional district and the
county of st. Louis. This district,
he tells us, will be divided into
about $50 ub-districts, in each of
which there will be one or more
enumerators. The enumeration
must be made during the thirty
days following April 10Th of the
next year. Mr.. Nipper has the
appointment of the various enum-
orators in his district. These APP
pointments will not be made until
after January 1, next, and anyone
making application to him for ap-
pointment as enumeration must do
so in his own hand writing. The
work will be much more compli-
Gated this year than ever before
owing to the population being
larger and the work much more
comprehensive than formerly.
The salary will be not less than
So nor more than So per day of
eight hours.-Farmington Neacs.
Following are the estimated
losses and insurance in the Cal
edonia fire Sunday night Of last
week:
L. L. Sinclair & Son, store house
value $3.50, insurance $500; stock
of goods $500, insurance $1,000.
L. L. Sinclair, residence value
$1,000, insurance $500; no insur-
ance on furniture.
I. B. Headlee, store house, value
$3.50, no insurance.
F. P. Marrow, stock of groceries
and hardware, estimated loss at
$500; no insurance.
s.. McSpaden, residence value
$4,000, insurance on residence $1,000.
Furniture value $3.50, insurance
$500.
S. McSpaden, store house value
$500, insurance $500. Stock of
general merchandise $4,000, insur-
ance $4,000.
Miss Minta Stewart, residence
and furniture $1,000. Residence
insured for $500.
M. E. Church South, value $4,000,
insured for $3.50.
S. McSpaden, store house form
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