Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-11-30

noon was spent in relating Incl
dents of old times, while music
played on the piano, pianola and
violin added much to the enjoy
ment of the day. The guests
were Mesdames T. II. Henderson,
Silas Pickett, w. S. P. Byrd,
Lucy Walton, w. G. Ion, Linn
Relic and Mrs. Engledow.-Bel-
grade correspondence to Potosi Inde-
pendent.
According to a commercial
traveller who was here last week
our neighbor Fredericktown is in
no enviable situation. He said
that when the Madison House fire
was discovered and the alarm was
attempted to be given the church
bells were found wired SO that
they could not be rung; that the
towns fire engine had been sim
ilarly put out of commission and
the building was about consumed
before the machine could be put
into use. That the citizens who
have subscribed toward the de-
lection and punishment of the
incendiaries have been anon
ymously warned that their build
ings will suffer a similar fate.
This,if true, evidences a deplorable
condition-one that cannot be
permitted to continue, but must
be abolished at whatever cost.
The land owned by G. w. Kaune
in this county is advertised for sale
in this issue by Sheriff Fits, under
a deed of trust made to secure a
note given the Bank of Ironton,
for $4,000. The bank later trans
ferred the note to j. r. Perkins,
trustee, w. G. Kaune, bankrupt, at
whose request the land will be
sold. Date of sale, December 9Th.
This same land was advertised for
sale here last spring by Geo. F.
Neff, under another trust deed but
the sale was not made on account
of a restraining order issued from
the Federal Court. Kaune is the
man who left saw mill men and
others along the Missouri South
ern r. r. in the lurch some S25.00
or $50, 600, before he went into
bankruptcy. 1t is said that he il
now somewhere in Canada.-Cen-
terrible Outlook.
With the fling the other day by
j. M. Davis, collector of Barry
} county, of a damage suit of S20,00(
. against the Audit and Bond Com
kpany of St. Louis for alleged libe
+ in a report made by the bonding
company some time ago, after al
investigation of the records of thi
. county, the first official actor
taken against the report was taker
in the circuit court. In the repor
which was made several month";
ago, the auditors of the st. Loui
company stated that the forme
county collector owed the count,
. S140.0 6, which, it was said, he hat
received in commission in exces
T of the amount to which he wa
: legally entitled. MI Davidson
: did not make objection to the re
port that he had charged too muc'
commission, but cited the audi
tors to the fact that he had at an
Y other time failed to place to hi
i credit fees from poll taxes an
that the county's indebtedness t
him more than counterbalance
the claim of the county. Record
i in which the county court too
ID official 5cognizance of the fact an
released his bondsmen were NJ
regarded according to the plair
g tiff in the libel action, who charge
% that the audit and bond compan
ls refused to include this in its re
z port. 1t is believed that on TIL
a claim the former collector expec
q to base his right to damages. Z
II asks $4,000 actual and 5000
% punitive damages. This sam
II concern had a force of experts
work for several weeks on IL
books of a few Howell county o
b. fcials last year. Several oficia
ID were found s'short'' but the cour
o. ty court ignored the report aft
rt paying for it and the matter W
s. dropped.-West Plains Gazette.