Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-07-20

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1t was learned here Monday tina
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. w. Collins of
Crane Pond had been summoned
to st. Louis that day because of a
serious accident that had befallen
their son, Otto, the day before.
The young man has held a posi-
ton as travelling salesman for sew
eral weeks past, was quite badly
injured on the Wabash railroad,
sixty miles from st. Louis, having
one foot cut off and the other bad
ly crushed. We have no partic-
ulars but trust his injuries are not
SO serious as reported.
On Saturday afternoon last Ray
Jones, son of MI. Chas. Jones, OF
Koshkonong, was accidently shot
by a companion. The full charge
took effect in the left arm shatter-
ing the bone near the elbow. DR..
w. G. Patton, of this city, was tel
ephoned for and upon reaching the
bedside of the boy found it neces-
sary to amputate the arm between
the shoulder and elbow. The OPP
Grafton was most successful and
the young man is now getting
along as we'll as his physician
could hope for.-Thayer (Mo) Ozark
NeWs.
Miss Eva Endurance Hirdler, OF
st. Louis, a graduate of the Mis-
souri, School of Mines, and said to
be the only woman mining en-
gineer in the country, is a guest OF
Mr.. and Mrs. R. w. Ayres and
family. Miss Hirdler is in Iron
ton for the purpose of studying
the geology of the iron deposits in
this district, and especially the
conglomeritic iron deposits OF
Pilot Knob, having become in
terested in these particular ores
by her discussions with Mr.. Crane
of the Missouri Bureau of Mines.
After completing her observations
here, Miss Hirdler will make a
personal study of the lead and
copper district of Fredericktown,
and later that of Flat River.
Contracts for several portions OF
the Houck railway extension from
Coffman to Pennington have been
let during the past week. J. G,
Evans vas awarded the contract
for preparing the road bed for the
ties and steel from Coffman tc
Henry Boyd's farm, a distance Of
about five miles. He is bringing
6 or s teams with him and ex.
poets to hire several local teams.
VIM. Woods has been given the
heavy rock work from Henry
Boyd's farm to I. N. McDaniel's
place, a distance of one and one
half or two miles. MI. Woods will
begin work just as soon as hi
finishes a job at Pocahontas, Ark.
which will take him a few NOR,
days. Part of his contract will
possibly be sublet to r. L. Girls
low. The contract for clearing the
right-of-way has been let to a
contractor from Stoddard county
A car load of tools were shipped
from Cape Girardeau on Tuesday
Within the next week or ten days
the dirt viii undoubtedly be flying
on the H0nck extension.-Fdrm.
ington Nsl1s.
We understand that there is a
petition BEING circulated asking
that the post Office in this city bt
closed on Sunday. The business
men Of Fredericktown should
turn this petition down and down
hard. If this should be pul
through there is no telling where
this thing will stop. There is ne
law in the world forcing anyone
to go to the post-ofhce on Sunday
and get their mail; if one thinks
it's wrong to read a newspaper or
Sunday that's their business, NJ
one is going to get up a petition tt
force them to read a newspaper or
Sunday or GO for their mail on
Sunday; the mail trains will rur
just the same whether the post
Office in Fredericktown is KEEP
open or not, and the mail will be
received and dispatched from
Fredericktown, petition or no pc.
tition. We have had too much o,
the old blue laws in Frederick.
town in the last two years for the
towns good or the business of the
town. There is nc moral question
involved in this new move of try
ing to close the post-ofice on Sun
day, therefore, it is the duty OF
everyone to speak out and say so
If they oppose the move. The
Democrat News has had it's say
FredericktoWn Democrat News.
The wedding of Miss Melissa
Thomas and of Mr.. Fred w.
Kaths, both Of this city, was
quietly celebrated last evening in
the presence of about thirty
guests, at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clifton Ryker, on East B av-
enue, at $3.50 o'clock, with DR..
Sargent of the Grace Episcopal
church, officiating. Miss Nina
Lord and Mr.. F. G. Kaths, brother
of the groom, of Stafford, we're the
attendants. The wedding march
was played by Mr.. Richard Hall,
on his violin and his sister, Miss
Hall, accompanied him at the
piano. The ceremony took place
under a large wedding bell, sus-
pended in the archway between
the large rooms, and from the bell
were streamers of smilax. AT
either side, palms and ferns were
effectively banked and through