Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-06-30

On our first page we reprint a
portion OF an article that recently
appeared in the st. Louis Times.
The concluding part will be pub
lished next week.
The manager of the local phone
asks us to state that central will
be closed from one until five
o'clock in the afternoon of July
4th. The employees want that
much of a holiday.
~Lost-Wednesday evening, June
", somewhere on the streets of
lronton, a gold locket and chain.
Finder will please return to this
Office and receive reward.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Bond and
Franco left Sunday for Colorado
Springs for a few weeks stay.
Mr.. Bond and Franco will see the
big Jeffries johnson fight at Reno
July 4th.
Mr.. G. w. Collins and family
will move next week to their farm
on Crane Pond to make their fu-
ture home. Mr.. Collins has leased
his Ironton residence for a year to
a Mr. Miller, of Omaha.
A. Zenser. the we'll driller, COM
pleted a 1856 feet we'll for Mr.. Kim
Der last week and got a fine lot of
water. He is now drilling a we'll
for VIM. Trauernicht on his re-
Gently acquired property.
w. G. Perkins has vacated the
property he has so long occupied
on north Main street. Mr.. Dilts,
the owner of the property, and his
daughters will be here soon and
live in the place for the summer.
The temperance meeting at the
court house last Friday night was
quite a "frost." If the speaker
was as careless in his statements
as we are told he was most of
what he said was enough to dis
gust all right-thinking people.
City Marshal g. w. Marshall
and wife became grandparents last
Friday, June Oath, 1910. A son
was born to their daughter, Ada,
wife Of Q. B. Stone, Foreman of
T. & B. V. R'y shops in league,
Texas. Congratulations to all.
Last Monday the Ironton School
Board took up and destroyed one
$500 bond-said bond falling due
the Both of this month. The bond
was burned in the presence of two
witnesses mot members of the
board), and all the red tape of the
law was duly honored in observ-
ance.
Albert Jones last week returned
to his home in Arcadia, after an
absence of a couple of weeks in
Jefferson Hospital, st. Louis, where
he underwent a surgical opera
ton. Mr.. Jones has been in poor
health for a year past, and his
friends hope to see him greatly
benefited by the operation.
Chilly" Martin, for over forty
years agent for the railroad COM
pany at Irondale, died Tuesday of
this week. This leaves our old
friend, faithful Cy DeMier, at Ar
cadia, the Oldest agent in point of
service on the Iron Mountain rail-
road. MI. DeMier has been at
Arcadia about thirty-fye years.
Rev. w. w. Strother of Des
Arc has been named as the
seventh vice-president of the
Southern Holiness Association.
AS the association embraces a
great scope of country, Mr.. Stroth-
er tells us that a special a will
transport the Iron county people
to the next meeting of the associa-
ton at Little Rock in October.
A colored delegation visited
Ironton last Saturday seeking a
location for an institution to be
used as a home for incorrigible
colored females of the state. The
last legislature, it seems, appropri-
ated $4,000 for the purpose.
Several sites, it is said, that struck
the fancy of the visitors were
found here. We do not want any
such institution in the valley,
however.
DR.. j.. HI. Martin of Pilot Knob
has been appointed Local Reg
istrar of Vital Statistics for Iron
Township and all that part of Ar
cadia Township not embraced in
the Ironton precinct. All births
and deaths must be reported to
him promptly-in fact, burial car
not be legally had without his
certificate first obtained. In some
cases the law works a hardship
of which more hereafter.
Mr.. Louis Favez, in charge of
Mr.. Lewis "Ozark Home" last
week brought to this office a bunch
of wheat grown on that place.
The stalks are over five feet high,
and the heads are we'll filed with
large, perfect grain. Two varie-
ties are represented: About six
acres have been grown this year,
the yield being generous, on soil
not naturally adapted to grain.
The advantages attending proper
and careful cultivation are made
manifest in the product.
Hon.. E. T. Eversole of Wash
ington county is a candidate for
Judge of this circuit, and asks the
support of his fellow Democrats
toward that position. He is well
known as an upright man and