Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-06

six kegs of beer on being relieAed
from the matrimonial bonds, but
seven cases as well, and to show
that he had no malice against us
ordered a case of Budweiser sent
to the Office as a New Year present
that we might drink to his future
happiness and prosperity. 1910,
Bill says, is going to be a '.dry"
one for him. Stick to it, William,
and you'll wear diamonds yet.
Died-At her home in GRANTEE
vile, Mo-, Saturday, January tst,
1910, at 6:45 o'clock A. M, Mrs.
Agatha Kerchner, relict of the late
Lorenz Kirchner, aged 80 years
and 20 days. The deceased. was
long, long a resident of Iron coun-
ty and was held in highest esteem
by the people with whom she had
made her home for SO many years.
Her health had not been good for
some time past and death came
not unexpected. A son, Edmond
Kirchner, and three daughters,
Mesdames. Aug. Block and E. j.
Hitzman of Bismarck, and Mrs.
George Collier, OF Oklahoma, sur
I've her, and soothed and COM
forted the loved mother in her
dying hours. The funeral was
held from the Catholic church,
Graniteville, Monday morning,
and interment occurred in the
Middlebrook cemetery. May she
rest in peace. The bereaved fam
lily have the sympathy of many
friends in their sorrow.
About three o'clock A. M, of the
coolest night of the recent cold
spell, Sheriff Marshall was aroused
from his slumbers by some one
knocking at the door. John donned
a few clothes and went to see who
was his visitor. He found a young
man from the country, who on
riding over the Langdon hill, two
miles from town, on his way
home from a dance, had dis
covered a man frozen to death,
lying by the roadside. He knew
he was dead because he had got
ten out OF his buggy and felt the
face of the PROSTATE man which
was icy cold. The sheriff at once
dispatched a man and a team to
the scene, but when they got there,
10, the corpes had flown. Any
way it was no where in sight nor
did the snow show any evidence
OF it ever having been there. The
young man who notified the sheriff
was non-plussed and is at a total
loss to know how he was so badly
deceived. AS for the sheriff, we'll,
the next fellow that comes to him
with a tale of tragedy in the
dark hours of night and the Their
mometer lowering around zero had
better be sure Of his facts.
Iron Mountain is coming to life
again since larger and finer de-
posits of iron than ever are being
found there. That community
has been going backward for some
years, since the iron industry kept
waning and finally ceased entirely.
Tom Allen frst built a railroad
from St. Louis to that mining
region and called it st. Louis &
Iron Mountain. Afterwards it was
continued south into the new
country until it reached Texar-
kama, a branch starting at Bis
marck and running to Belmont.
Those two lines are pioneers in
Southeast Missouri. The old in
habitants can remember the pas
senger and freight business the
Cape did with the Belmont branch
of the Mountain at Allenville, and
considerable at Delta after Mr..
Houck commenced his PIONEER
railroad building between the
Cape and Puxico in the 70's, then
a few miles further to Wappapello.
Mr.. Houck named a station Tai
lapoosa on the line he built south
from this city via Commerce and
Moorehouse, thence to Clarkton,
Kenneth, Charlottesville. He
evidently admires Indian names,
in whose tracks he built railroads,
but was never able to overtake
them.-Cdpe GirdrdeGu Progress.
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