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

The committee from the G.. A. R.
and w. R. G. wish to publicly
thank allNwho so ably assisted and
trust the words spoken may bear
fruit in waking thoughts of pat
riotism in our community. After
exercises, which were held in the
park, all repaired to Mr.. Oren's
house where dinner was eaten,
followed by music, stories, and
even a little politics crept in-un-
til the middle of afternoon, when
it was time to bid our kind host
and hostess goodbye. Better
weather will be ordered for June
Ia, 1918, and it is hoped all those
who attended this celebration, and
a great many others, will meet to
do honor to 'the birth of the
American Flag"
Last week was begun the forty
sixth volume of the REGISTER.
With the closing number two
thousand three hundred and forty
weekly editions had been printed,
and with every one of them the
writer had to do-the first year as
foreman, and, after that, as editor
and proprietor. That the work, in
ADLER hands, would have been
more productive of good, is plati-
tudinously true, yet. in looking
back over the sometimes rough
and rugged way, l may be par
doned for cherishing the consola-
ton that greater faults of head and
heart might have marred its doing,
Forty-6ve years is an extended
stretch along life's pathway spread
with the pitfalls of selfish desire
and bordered by the brambles Of
ever recurring contention. He who
can look back over it and truly say
he has had neither scratch, stumble
nor fall, is fit for Immediate trans
lation. | am not, nor can | aver,
being very human, that the mon
otone of undertaking righteous
ness appeals to my wavering step.
Forty-five years! They have moi
left me scatheless, yet perhaps
wouldn't like to have had their
blessings to be measured by my
deserving. There's satisfaction in
the thought! Forty-fve years !!
They have cleared the stage of the
old actors and brought in new
with lines that lack the fervor that
erst did move the brain to thought
the heart to action. In all the val
ley there are but three Or foul
known to it forty-five years ago
One by one the ties of compan'
ionship have been severed by the
blade of the Grim Reaper, and the
dearer affections have been his
spoil, though Memory disputes
the possession. The dead pas
can not bury it's dead; or, rather
it has no dead: ever present, eve
animating us,are the spirits which
gave the past its being. New as.
sociations take the place Of thu
old, materially speaking, but can
not displace them. So l plot
along, lacking not in attendance
Of congenial fellowship, content t.
serve the time allotted me-. Forty
five years hence there'll be ''an'
other hand at the bellows" ant
may he blow a stronger blast thai
is within the effort of him he is tx
succeed. There's money merit IL
shot air." you know!
Saturday morning about min
o'clock Sheriff Marshall received
telephone message from Sherit
London of st. Francois county, a
Pennington, stating that two mel
had been seriously injured in l
shooting ARRAY at Iron Mountain
dam that morning, and that jaime
Sink, alias Shrum, and his sor
Harvey, who had done the shoot
ing, left Iron Mountain immediate
ly after the trouble and it wa
thought had gone to Graniteville
Sheriff London asked the assist
ance of Sheriff Marshall in appre
bending the fugitives, saying tina
he would be on the scene as 500
as he could get there. Sherii
Marshall at once set out, for Gran
itevile, where, after telephonini
about the community, he learne'
the Sinks had been there, but ha,
started back to Iron Mountains go
ing through the woods. The Sherii
got on theirtraiI and overlook then
midway between Granitevile an
Iron Mountain, on the Schneide
railroad, walking along the tracl
toward Iron Mountain. When MI
Marshall told them his mission