Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-01-28

after an absence of twelve Years or
more in Texas, is back in "good
old Missouri" He has a position
as telegraph operator at De Soto,
and expects to be made train dis
patcher in the near future. He is
a mighty good boy, and we are
glad to see him "come back
home"
The nimrods were after a bear
or panther several days of last
week, and a couple of large par
ties were organized to hunt the
terror. The animal is reported to
have been seen in the Hogan coun-
try and west of Pilot Knob. We
have been unable to see a man
who saw the monster. But we
saw one fellow who had seen the
man that saw the Cracks"
Mr.. Bert Gregory has been con-
fined to the bed for the past two
weeks owing to severe burns
which he received on both feet
while at work at one of the min
ing plants in this city. 1t seems
that Bert attempted to ros over
a vat of hot water and stumbled
and fell and in some manner both
of his feet 'and part of his legs
went into the boiling water. For
tunately he had on heavy boots
which protected him some but he
was nevertheless badly burned
FTedericktoaOn Democrat NelDs.
Recorder Hawkins last week re-
ceived applications from two diff
ferent men to marry the same girl.
One of the applicants is rather an
old man and not long since di-
vorced; the other is from a young
man of %, which is said to be the
lady's age. The applicants had
failed to follow certain legal re-
quirements of which the recorder
advised them, and now he is curl
ously waiting to see who will win.
Two of the parties live across the
line in Wayne county and the
other in the extreme south end of
Iron.
Francis B. Runder, former CASH
Ter of the st. Louis post Office, was
brought to Ironton Monday even
ling by Deputy U. S. Marshal
Williams to serve six months in
the Iron county Jail for embezzling
about $4,000 from the postal funds.
The punishment no doubt is just,
but it looks strange to an outsider
that Runder who is O De nocrat
should have to serve six months
for stealing $4,000 while no one
has been punished for stealing
that S61, 500 from the st. Louis
subtreasury. Is this the boasted
American justice?
Mrs. A. j. Sheahan of Granite
vile died in a hospital in st. Lou
is Wednesday of last week. Mrs.
Sheahan had been in poor health
health for a number of years and
for some time it was known that
the end was coming. The remains
were brought to Graniteville We'd
nesday and interment occurred at
Middlebrook Friday morning, a
large concourse of friends and rel
atives paying the last sad tribute
to the departed. A husband, two
sons and two daughters mourn the
loss of devoted wife and mother.
To them, in their great sorrow, the
REGISTER extends sincere sympa-
thy.
A new time card on the Iron
Mountain railway is expected to
be inaugurated in the very near
future. The change is generally
talked among railway men. Not
only changes in schedules are ex-
pected, but marked changes in the
train service as well. 1t is said
that the st. Louis Mexico special
will be put in service for the rest
of the winter season. 1t will be an
international Pullman train rum
ming from St. Louis and through
this city to the City of Mexico.
The most decided change in train
service that is talked is that pro-
posed for the Cairo and Belmont
branches. Operation of the two
lines with the same trains is said
to be the plan. Trains, it is said,
would run from this city over the
Cairo line as far as Charleston and
there take the Belmont branch to
Bismarck. From Charleston to
Cairo is fifteen miles and from
Charleston to Belmont is about the
same distance. The same train
would operate the lines between
Charleston and the two river ports,
There has been no official an
nouncement of the new time card.
However, it is "common notoriety''
in railway circles. The date of the
change is not known.-Poplar Bluff
Republican.
We see in the IRON COUNTY REG,
lister that the authorities of that
county have been imposing upon
the interesting Brooks family that
abode in our midst for a short
season last summer. The trouble
seems to have arisen from the ef-
forts of the boys (Jim and Leroy
to share n 1.-THE prosperity of a dagc
family that lived near them
Prosperity had struck the village
of Pilot Knob a little unevenly, in
their opinion, and it was up tc
some one to even things up and
the Brooks family assumed the