Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-12-22

successful in their hunt for the
still, but they thought they had
sufficient evidence anyway, so
loaded up the barrel of whiskey
and took it with Uncle Billy to
headquarters for trial. In due time
the case came to trial and when
the officers were called upon to
produce discriminating evidence,
they proceeded to tap the barrel.
To their surprise it contained vim
egar, hence Uncle Billy was turned
loose and the officers given a Sc
we're reprimand by the court"
This from "Life's Spice" in last
weeks Pennington Times is evil
dence that up-to-date business
does not pertain solely to the
urbanites: "A couple of weeks
ago a man was in our neighbour
hood selling apples. He said he
had Arkansas Black, an apple of
which am very fond, and | told
him | would take a bushel. He
said he also had fine genitings, SO
| told him to make it three pecks
of the blacks and one peck of the
genitings and not to put in any
Ben Davis. | would not pay ten
cents for a wagon load of Ben
Davis apples for my own use.
They always remind me of what
my grandmother used to say,
"pretty is as pretty Does" for
while the Ben Davis is pretty and
red to took at, it is a hollow mock
cry as a good eating apple. The
man remarked that there were a
few bruised apples among them
but if they we're sorted at once
they would not hurt. He should
have used the word rotten instead
of bruised, for when had finished
the sorting | had over a half bushel
of rotten apples, most of them Ben
Davis, and the genitings were
small and tasteless, and of the
very small basket of sound apples,
most of them were Ben Davis.
What do you think of that? do
not know who the man was, but |
hope he will see this and be prop
erly ashamed of himself"
The following is from the Pied
mont Banner: "Mrs. Bessie Reeder-
Mitchell, daughter of the Reverend
and Mrs. j. D. Reeder, of Pied
mont, was shot and dangerously
wounded by Grover Vice, a re-
jected suffer, at her boarding
house in st. Louis, Saturday night.
Vice then shot himself and also
took carbolic acid. He died Sum
day morning, but his victim will
probably recover. Mrs. Mitchell
was shot above the right lung, the
ball going through her body and
grazing the spinal cord in its
course. Sensational st. Louis
papers published statements which
are said to be untrue regarding the
affair. One of these was that Vice
was an adopted son of Mr.. Reeder.
The Bauner is informed that Mrs.
Mitchell never knew Vice until a
few months ago while she and her
husband were living at Chaffee,
that the acquaintance was of only
two weeks duration then, and that
it came about through the fact that
Roy Reeder, a brother, and Vice
worked at the same place in
Chaffee. Mrs. Mitchell went to
st. Louis a few weeks ago. Six
weeks ago Vice met her there, due
again to his acquaintance with
Roy Reeder, who was also in St,
Louis, and began prosecuting her
with his attentions. 1t will be un-
derstood that Mrs, Mitchell's mar
riage was unhappy; she is now
suing for divorce in Wayne coun-
ty. She is popular in Piedmont
and the community sympathises
with her and her family in the
trouble that has come upon them
through a madman's infatuation.'