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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-04-21
PICKLE CO.'S NEW CONTRACT.


tween the Now and Old Contracts
The new contract will increase the
gross amount of checks from 20 to Is
per cent, making that much more
actual money to the growers. The old
contract was: Pickles from IL in, up
to and including 81 in, S1.00 per 100
pounds; pickles from 311s in, up to
and including AZ in, 60 cents per 100
ponds; pickles from AZ in, up to and
including 81 in, 80 cents per 100
pounds. On the new contract there
are only two sizes, ~ to in, S1.00
per 100 pounds; in. up to and in
Guiding 81 in, so cents per 100.
This would put one half of the old 60
cent size in the small size of the new
contract and one half of the 60 cent
size in the large size according to the
new contract, SO you can easily see
how the old checks would figure out.
Below we quote some of the actual
checks as paid last year and then
figure them on the basis of the new
contract
Original check No. 1929, dated
August Is, 1909, paid to S. J. Peter
son
1,o65 lbs. medium at 60c ................. $50
919 lbs. large at SOC. Observation-Disclosures. 2.97
Total. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. SIT .sS
We will now figure this check on the
new contract. We have 852 pounds
No. rs, 81 plus one half of the No.
Us, which is one half of ], O65, or 532,
to be added to 852 pounds 81 in.
pickles to bring the number is up to
4 inches. We have 919 pounds of No.
3 pickles on the old contract plus one
half of the No. 2, or 532 pounds of
No. 2's to be placed with the No. 3's.
Now we find that this check would
figure up considerably more. We find
that we have on the new basis check
as follows:
1884 lbs. No 1, or in. S1.OO per 100 lbs. Sl3 "a
| ,451 lbs No. 2, from in to 81 in, SOC
per lso los OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 10
AOu11 OIL 80
Comparing the checks we find that
the new check gives Mr.. Peterson 1921
more for his load on the basis of the
new contract
Check 1892, August "a, 1909, issued
to G.. A. johnson for 1882 figures as
follows:
1896 lbs. No. 8. SOC per 100 lbs. $40
l 374 lbs. No. 2, 60c per 100 lbs. " 1924
1.7Os lbs. No. 1, S1.6s per 100 lbs . 100
Total. Observation-Disclosures. 500 so
In this check we have 1,7O9 pounds
Of No. is. Add one half of the No.
rs to the No. Is and we have 1,7O9
plus 687, making 1896 pounds of No.
rs at Sl.00 per 100 pounds. The
other half of the No. Us added to the
No. 3's of the old contract would give
us 2,183 pounds of No. 2 pickles.. On
the new contract the result would be:
1892 lbs. 81. 90 per 100 lbs . 1923 90
| 2, 1888 lbs. SOC per 100 lbs 1921
1otal. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. @34 81
A difference of S5.0l, paying Mr..
johnson fairly good wages for haul
ing the load to the factory. We find
upon investigation that Mr.. G. A.
Johnson planted one and one half
acres, receiving SAP. IS; under the new
contract he would have Is per cent
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-04-21
A. s. Bigelow.


Funeral services over the remains
of A. S. Bigelow. notice of whose
death appeared in last weeks
. Mon, were conducted by Rev.
Fisher in the Princeton Congregation
al church on Friday afternoon. Mr..
Fisher delivered a very impressive
sermon and vocal selections were
rendered by a quartet consisting of
Mrs. Cooney, Miss Rita Byers,
Grover Umbehocker and Henry
Plaas. The interment was in Oak
Knoll cemetery and the pallbearers
were r. D. Byers, S. A. Cravens,
Dennis Kaliher, A. z. Norton, Guy
Ewing and Solomon Long. Many
relatives and friends followed the re-
mains to the grave.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-04-21
A difference of s5.Ol, paying Mr..

A difference of S5.0l, paying Mr..
Johnson fairly good wages for haul
ing the load to the factory. We find
upon investigation that Mr.. G. A.
Johnson planted one and one half
acres, receiving S142. IS; under the new
contract he would have Is per cent
more or 1858, total of S177.93.
We make these statements showing
the actual conditions as they are this
year, and ask our growers to give this
matter careful consideration.
Haarmann Pickle Co.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24
Annapolis News.

Eight inches of snow and the
thermometer twenty degrees below
zero last Friday morning. AS lots
of people rel nearly out of fuel,
it required some hustling to keep
warm.
Squire Kitchell had a rooster all
most frozen to death. There were
icicles two inches long on his bill,
and his legs frozen so stiff that
when he walked he looked like a
wooden legged chicken. He was
brought into the house, thu wed
out and is now running about as
usual.
T. P. Fitz was here this morning
looking after hub timber.
James B. Sheldon and Charley
Polite of Sabula were in town to-
to-day on business with the nota-
ry public.
Robert Santhoff is here to-day to
haul a load of merchandise out to
BEDFORD. 1t is remarkable the
amount of goods sold at that point.
Town has been very quiet the
past week. A couple got tanked
and INDUCED in loud and bolster
talk before some ladies. The
offenders have been warned not to
repeat the offense.
Ties still coming to town.
February 14th has passed. If
the grounding came out he saw
his shadow, and has gone back for
another six weeks--and may new
er come back again, as the sun
shone in the day and the moon at
night, and, of course, a grounding
can see his shadow by moonlight
as well as sunlight.
Two civil cases were tried in the
Justices court last Wednesday.
Skipper Bill Lewis is in town
to-day.
John Smiths wife died Thurs
day. They live nine miles north
west Of Annapolis.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24
PERSONAL.

j. M. Hawkins was in st. Louis
Saturday.
Mrs. Woodside is in st. Louis
this week.
Mrs. DR.. Wick of st. Louis was
in the valley last week.
Mrs. Edgar and Miss Mary went
to st. Louis Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Roehry went to
st. Louis this morning.
Miss Alma Fletcher was in the
valley from st. Louis last week.
w. L. Mathews was here from
Wayne county several days the
past week.
Prof. Wilkinson and family
arrived from Upper Alton Thurs
day noon and returned Sunday.
Mrs. j. N. Bishop and George
have gone to Alabama to make a
prolonged visit with Mr.. Bishop.
Mrs. g. w. Collins, who has
been sick for the past two months,
is able to be up most of the time.
Misses Mamie Roehry and Fam
ME Tiedebohl were in Frederick
town last week as the guest of
Miss Birdie Norwine.
Mrs. g. L. Smith and children
returned to her home in Frank
clay last Sunday, after visiting
her mother the past two or three
weeks.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24

last week. He gives quite a
thrilling experience of the fire at
Fredericktown on last Sunday
morning. He says it was a heart
rending scene when the brick wall
collapsed and crushed the lives
out of the four men who were
helping save the buildings and
contents. One man, Mr.. Cowden,
who was rooming in the next room
to him at the hotel, walked him aad
called to him to come and go to
the fire. They hurried away to-
gether and just in a short time
after they arrived at the fire Mr..
Cowden ran into the building to
help save the contents when the
brick wall collapsed killing him
and three others. Mr.. Cowden
was manager of the Waters Pierce
Oil Co. at Fredericktown. He has
An aged mother living at SPRING
field, Mo. G. S, Fitz had met him
at his hotel in Fredericktown and
he was always the first one to
greet him on his trips there. He
always found him to be a straight,
good hearted fellow and a fine
young man. He lost his life try
ing to aid and save the town.
Miss Gertie Fitzpatrick is visit
ing Mrs. Leonard Morris.
Mrs. DR.. O'Bannon and Mrs.
Chas. Williams came down Mon
day from Annapolis for the
musical Monday night, at. the
College.
The public school here will cell
citrate Washington's birthday.
Will give programme next week.
ISAAC.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24
find some of your work on exhibi

find some of your work on exhibi
ton.
Ask your teacher to help you
arrange your collection.
The penmanship papers, essays
and collections of work must be in
the County Superintendent Of
fee by April 22d.
Programmes of the exercises
will be sent to you later.
Respectfully,
B. P. BURNHAM,
County Superintendent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24
William A. Fletcher.

Died-Suddenly, from paralysis.
at Arcadia, Mo-, Wednesday, Feb
ruary Is, 1910, at s o'clock P. M,
William A. Fletcher, aged Sc years,
5 months, and 10 days.
The funeral services were held
at the family residence Friday,
February IS, at 2 P. NJ, Revs.
Aspley and Swift officiating.
Thence a large concourse OF
n~eighbors and friends accom-
panied the body to the Masonic
Cemetery, where it was given
s%epulture.
Deceased was born in Madison
county in 1913, and sever years
later he with his parents removed
to Arcadia, and all his subsequent
years was a resident of that town.
In 1875 he was united in marriage
to Miss Saba Ringo who, with a
family of three sons and five
daughters, survives him. Singu-
larly, the day of Mr.. Fletcher's
death was the thirty-fifth ami
versary of a long and happy
union.
For several years succeeding
his marriage, deceased vas a
! farmer and tobacco manufacturer.
After that he was honored for more
than twenty years with public
Office, serving successfully as
sheriff and collector and county
clerk. About ten years ago he
retired from public service, and
engaged in darying and farming,
and subsequently in farming alone
to the time of his decease.
With MI. Fletcher's death passes
another of those who made the
county's earlier history. How
piteously few the number remain
ing! Life, after all, is but a roll
call of births and deaths, with
here and there a fading line traced
by fortune and circumstance to
mark its having been. know tits
platitude to say that the new
forces the old from the stage and
that ever the new becomes the old
but when one reaches three-score
its truth is from day to day more
fully borne in upon him, and the
burden of vain regret for the days
and friends of cid grows the
heavier. He may therefore be
pardoned giving passing express
sion to that which Is constantly
within him.
It is said that for several
months prior to the end the sub
ject of this memorial had been i'm :
pressed with the conviction that
death might come u~nheralded by
sickness or token of warning, and
that he was resigned to the dread
inevitable; so he may be said to
have approached his final rest
"Like one who wraps the drapery of his
couch
About mini, and lies down to pleasant
dreams"
To the bereaved family the
REGISTER extends its earnest SYM
pathy, and would, if it could, give
words of comfort and solace to the
sorrowing widow. May the path
that she must perforce pursue
henceforth alone, lead her to calm
content and subdued happiness
long ere her journey be ac-
complished.
Though dark the clouds, beyond the
is fair, m
And God the Fathers face is everywherel
-0-- M M
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24
Arcadia Items.

Owing to the very inclement
weather which has prevailed in
this locality for the past week,
business of all kinds is practically
suspended. The snow is fully
fourteen inches deep, and in many
places it is drifted fully three feet,
thus making it almost impossible
for teams to travel. Friday morn
ing the thermometer registered "a
below zero.
Wednesday night last the peo-
pie of this town we're very much
panied to hear the sad intelligence
of the sudden death of Mr.. w. A.
Fletcher, one of our most honor
able and respected citizens. Death
was probably due to a paralytic
stroke, from which he never re-
gained consciousness. At the time
of the stroke, Mr.. Fletcher, with
several other men, was in the
barber shop, chatting in his ac-
customed manner, whel it was
noticed that he suddenly ceased
to talk, and his head dropped very
perceptibly forward. A number
of friends carried him to his home
just across the street, placed him
comfortably in bed, but he never
spoke, and within three or four
hours his spirit had passed from
its earthly tabernacle to it's home
beyond this vale of tears, sorrow,
and affection. The funeral services
were conducted from the residence
by Rev. Swift, at 2 o'clock P NJ,
after which the remains we're
taken to the Masonic cemetery for
~interment, followed by a large
concourse of friends and relatives.
E. A. Meyer, one of our very
popular merchants, is closing out
his stock of goods, preparatory to
removing to St. Louis, where he
will again engage in the mercan-
tile business. Mr.. Meyer is a good
business man, and has many
friends here who are sorry to see
MIN leave this town. He contem-
plates leaving next week.
Prof. R. E. Wilkinson and fami-
ly, of Upper Alton, came down
Thursday to attend the funeral of
Mrs. Wilkinson's father, w. A.
Fletcher.
While in Ironton Saturday after
noon the writer stopped a few
minutes in the Office of Messrs.
Edgar Fletcher and R. L. Barger,
who are doing a general insurance
business. They are very desiring
young men, and are doing a good
business on date business
principles. The writer is a
Phoenix of Hartford man, and
does business right along with
Messrs. Fletcher and Barger.
When they owe you for work, they
don't wait for you to ask them for
the amount, but they call you in
and give you a check for the
amount.
Mrs. Emma Yount was called to
Goodwater Sunday, to see her
sister, who is seriously ill.
The many friends of Prof. w.
Anderson will be glad to learn that
he reached ST. Petersburg safe
and sound. He says that he was
pretty sick the first two or three
days, but otherwise enjoyed the
ocean voyage very much.
During a recent visit to Des
Arc, we enjoyed very much the
hospitality of Mr.. and Mrs. R. H.
Stevenson, of College Hill, and
MI. and Mrs. John Kelly, of Des
Arc proper. Des Arc and College
Hill are up-to-date towns. P.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24
Des Are Items.

The Barrow Q~uartette, with their
brass horns and big marvin
vaphone, played at the Woodmen
Hall last Wednesday night. They
made the finest music we have
ever heard. Although it was a
very bad night, quite a little crowd
came out to hear them and left we'll
satisfied. They promised to call
on us again asa good many could
not get out to hear them. They
are Wayne county boys and de-
serve much credit for the fine
music they make.
Mr.. Hicks and family have
moved to our town from Illinois.
He has rented two houses from
Stevenson Bros. for their families
and brought with them eighteen
mules and two horses. He also
wants to buy a farm In this Sec
ton These moneyed men are
what we want in this section. We
need capitalists to develop our
mines and clear out our lands.
VIM. Carter, of Piedmont, was
here last week.
Mrs. Bud Nichols, sister of Chas.
McCue and Mrs. Jessie Wallis,
was brought here from Poplar
Bluff Sunday and buried at the
Des Arc cemetery. She had been
i'll of consumption for the last
three months. Her funeral was
preached from the Holiness church
by Rev. Ralph p, Kistler.
"A fine baby boy arrived at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. j.. Fitz
last Saturday morning.
e. w. Graves went to Poplar
Bluff Monday.
@. s. Fitz was in Fredericktown
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24
Gard of Thanks.

We take this method of assuring
our dear friends and neighbors in
the Arcadia Valley of our sincere
appreciation of the generous kind
ness and sympathy extended to
us in our bereavement-the death
of husband and father. Ever
will we bear you all in most CRATE
full memory.
MRS. w. A. FLETCHER
AND CHILDREN.
Arcadia, Mo-, February 81, 1910.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24
County Graduation Exercises
May 7, 1910.

Dear Pupil-The examination for
eighth grade graduation will be
held at Ironton, March 25th and
26th, at the time of the regular ex-
animation for teachers.
Are you using your best en-
deavors to complete the work this
year? Please remember that your
teacher expects thoroughness and
if you do not study enough to
complete the work this year you
will have to 60 over the same work
again next year, which NEAR a
waste of time.
Remember that a beautiful
Diploma is waiting for you.
Every INT that completes the
eighth grade will be awarded a
Diploma of Graduation and a
High School Entrance Certificate
which will admit you to any High
School in the State of Missouri
without further examination.
PREMIUMS FOR THE CONTEST.
I. Best Average on Examination.
1st ~prize-gold medal.
I'd prize-"Poets of the
South" by Painter.
2. Best Recitation.
1st prize-gold medal.
I'd prize-a book of select
poems.
3. Best Essay Of not less than taOo
hundred nor more than tfVe
hundred words on one of the
following subjects:
"The Value of an Educa-
ton" "The Cause of the
Increase of Civilization"
"My Life on a Farm"
"Why I Go to School,"
missouri and Her Re-
sources"
list prize-one years sub
scription to the IRON
COUNTY REGISTER.
I'd prize-Webster's Acad-
emic Dictionary.
4. Best Set Of Penmanship Papers,
consisting Of tweIUe sheets Of
fools cap paper aCTitten on
one side.
1st prize-Fountain Pen.
I'd prize-one years sub
scription to the ArGdiG Val
ley Enterprise.
Since my last writing you will
notice that l have added another
subject to the essay contest, "Mis-
souri, and Her Resources"
The Missouri immigration Com
mission has offered prizes for the
best essay on this subject to the
children under 16 years Of age, and
the essay shall consist OF from two
to three hundred words.
If you are under 16 and desire to
write on this subject, it can be
used for both contests.
Copies for the writing contest
have been mailed to your teacher
this week.
| would be glad to have a per-
sonal letter from every pupil,
stating the title of your recitation
iii you expect to enter the recita-
ton contest), the subject of your
essay and the amount of time you
are giving to your studies outside
of school hours.
Ask your teacher to let you
make a collection of your best
work, place it in an exhibit book,
and send it to me to be placed on
exhibition at the graduating ex-
e~rcises.
| would be glad to have a col
lection from every pupil in the
county to be placed on exhibition
whether you are in the graduating
class or not. When your parents
and friends come to the graduating
exercises they will be pleased TO
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24

Walter Ruble's child was buried
here last Friday. He is certainly
having bad luck with his family.
Ed Lloyd buried his one-day-old
baby Saturday.
BULLETIN.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24

Any good doctor will tell you that a medi-
cine like Ayers Cherry Pectoral cannot
do its best work II the bowels are con-
stipatcd. ASK your doctor If he knows
anything better than Ayers Pills for corr
rcctingthis sluggishness Of the liver.
Mia by shc J. 3. Aver o., Lowell. MaaS.a-us
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24

NoTE-The precipitation includes
rain, hail, sleet and melted snow
and is recorded in inches and hum
dredths. Ten inches of snow equal
one inch of rain. "T" indicates
trace of precipitation.
w. HI. DELANo, Observer
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24
w Gather report.

Meteorological report OF Volun-
tary Observer at Eronton, Iron
county, Mo-, for the week ending
Tuesday, February %, 1910:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24

For Sale-Barred Plymouth Rock
Eggs. Per setting of Is, rs cents.
Herbert Bixon, Middlebrook, Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24

Ladies' and Gentlemen's Gar
ments Cleaned, Dyed and Pressed.
Apply at North Star Restaurant,
next door north Lopez's store.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24

A big cut in every Boys and
Mans Overcoat In our house.
B. N. BROWN.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24

REaIsrER once for Job work,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24


in years last week. Sleet com :
menced falling before day We'd
nesday and continued until the
afternoon when it was followed by
snow, which came down without
cessation all through the evening
and night and until after midday
Thursday. 1t vas a fearful storm,
cold, blustery and terrific. On a
level Mr.. Delano says there were
about eight inches of the "beauti-
full" but in some places IT had
drifted into almost that many feet.
Locomotion was most difficult, and
the fellow who plodded two or
three blocks with the wind and the
now in his face, found himself
well nigh exhausted. And then
Thursday night the thermometer
registered twenty-four degrees
below zero-the coolest weather In
years and years. 1t was SO un-
expected, too. Everyone knew the
night was going to be cold but
none anticipated its real fie%rceness.
Friday dawned bright and clear
and that night the lowest point
reached by the mercury was nine
above. Saturday vas much
warmer and the thaw set in in
earnest, but there was so much of
the snow that there was plenty of
sleighing and coasting for several
days following. In fact, this
Wednesday, morning there are
still four or five inches Of SHOW,
and another cold wave has arriy ed.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-24
ARREST RECALLS MURDER
OF BLIND MAN 9 YEARSA6(

Princeton. Ind. March e2.-Martin
Hobbs $50 years old. was arrested in
Nmcenncs, Ind. today. charged with
the murder OF John e. Loomiller. e
wealthy blind man. on February 10.
1901. An Indictment was returned
against Hobbs by the grand jury last
September. but until today ne could
not Dee found.
The arrest reNiVeS interest in the
mysterious murder ~ Loomiiler which
occurred nca Hazleton. Ind. loo
miller. b was reported 10 be worth
100000 had seen ia Princeton 10 pax
his taxes on THE day be was killed.
ON His return to Hazieton he was
met at tho station bs Hobbs and the
two walked along the railroad track
together.
The next day Loomncr's body was
found with q bullet hole in his head
Al his side were two empty pocket
books Hobbs WIS arrested. hut as
evidence asainst him was entirely cir
cumstantial he was released. His ar
rest TODAY j. said to have resulted
from the discovery % additional evil
denee.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-24
SQUATTERS CAN ACQUIRE
TITLE TO FOREST LANDS

Washington. March 2s-"squatters'
upon unsuryeyed lands in the nation
al forests who have occupied their
tracts continuously since before the
creation OF forest reserves and have
complied with the homestead law.
have had their rights increased by an
order just issued by the secretary OF
agriculture.
Such settlers can now acquire title.
prior 20 survey. to 100 acres
The new order relates To the act Of
June II, 1905. which permits the sec
.retary 20 list for settlement. land with
IN the national forests which he finds
chiefly valuable Tor agriculture. The
object OF the order is to provide for
the listing OF the tull amount of land
the occupant would receive ii he ex-
ercised his option OF awaiting the
government survey. Irrespective or
whether the entire area is cultivated.
provided the claim is bona fidc and
theFland is not more valuable for its
timber than for agriculture.
In cases where less than 1850 acres
have been listed To "a person uho settl-
ed upon the land before the creation
of the forest. an additional area sur
iicient 10 complete The homestead
entry Will he allowed upon applica-
ton