Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-06-20

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to do effective work. He is glad
to get with a different team and
one of the best in the league. His
friends confidently expect him
soon to be pitching in his old-time
form. Washington yesterday won
its fourteenth straight victory.
Barney has been asked to report
for duty at Washington the first of
the week."
Geo. H. Bisdlinghoff editor of
the Bismarck Gazette, week before
last made a trip owe the route of
the proposed Bismarck, Belleview
Valley and Western Railroad. In
writing of his trip in the last issue
of his paper MI. Bisplinghoff says:
+" The road makes the
turn at Loves store, near Edge
Hill, and at this point there is also
a very fine location for a town.
Mr.. R. G. Love, the owner of the
land, is thoroughly awake to the
possibilities of the road, and is do
ing everything in his power to help
it out, even offering a good sized
townsite. 1t is a pleasure to be
among such people as these and
this part of the trip will always be
remembered with great pleasure"
One of the worst thunder storms
ever known to this valley was ex-
perienced last Sunday night,
about nine o'clock. A very high
wind D revealed, leveling wheat,
tearing branches from the trees,
and in many instances uprooting
the trees as we'll. Mr.. Delano re-
ports the loss of a large mulberry
tree, and that several others were
badly damaged. 1t is reported
that south of Arcadia near the
Durfee farm, a swath was cut as
if for a roadway. All over this
town the storm left its marks, and
its course was strewn with leaves
and branches from the shade trees.
The very large and fine maple on
Mrs. Backof's premises was shorn
of three or four of it's limbs.
Heavy thunder and binding light
ming lent accompaniment to the
fury of the winds, and a heavy
rainfall deluged the earth.
Mr.. F. P. Graves of Doe Run and
o. M. Billharz, general superin-
tendent of the st. Joe Lead Com
pany, were in Ironton last Thurs
day morning on their way home
from Reynolds county. Mr.. Graves
owns about 400 acres of land, if
teen miles from Ironton, near Les
terville, on which there are good
indications of lead. The visit of
these two gentlemen was to ar
range for doing some prospecting
on the property with diamond
drills. Work will begin a soon
as the machinery can be shipped
in. There is every reason to be-
lieve that the lead mines in st.
Francois county are evidencing
that the ore will be exhausted in
the course of time and the big com
panies are seeking mineral else
where. Messrs. Graves and Bill
harz journeyed from st. Francois
county here in automobiles; from
here to the Kingdom OF Reynolds
in buggies.
The following from the circuit
court proceedings in St. Francois
county last week is reproduced
from the Pennington Menus: "Upon
the converting of circuit court yes
terday morning, Judge Huck am
nounced that he would sustain the
demurrer to the petition of Edward
| A. Rozier in his damage suit for
libel against G. Q. and R. Heber
Nations on the grounds that he did
not think the statements made in
the Voice of the People were libel
GUS. The suit was brought by
| Mr.. Rozier two years ago against
the Nations for $4,000 damages
on account of the publication in
} the latter's paper of an article in
which it was asserted that Mr.. Ro-
/ zier had been unable to retain the
position of u. S. District Attor-
6 ney. The construction Mr.. Rozier
. placed on the article was that it
meant he lost the position because
! his ability as an attorney did not
: warrant his retaining it. MI. Ro-
zier was not in the court room at
! the time the decision was render
ed, but his attorney, Mr.. Boyer,
asked that the record show him as
excepting to the decision, and
! stated that petition for an appeal
to the Supreme Court would be
filed during the day, which later
was done"
, Rev. w. w. Strother and family
of Des Arc, on their way to Cali
! fornia, were in Kansas City when
the terrific cyclone and rain storm
visited that section last Saturday
evening. Under date of June 10Th
!. he writes the editor: ".We are safe
: after the storm of yesterday. The
! city is strewn with trees this morn.
! ing. Many people injured. Wife
!, and / were in a cafe when storm
struck. Many plate glass fronts
were smashed and frame build
ings wrecked. We were in the
worst of the storm. Wires, trees,
1vehicles and glass fronts blocked
: the streets for over a mile. Wife
and | waded water and climbed
., over treetops, getting to where we
Ecould hear from our daughter, Eel
! la. She had joined a party of old
Z : friends of ours to visit Swope's
Park, fourteen miles away. The
storm put the cars out of business
and we heard nothing from her
until $3.50 O'Clock. Those were the
: longest three hours and a half ]
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