Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-05-30

couple of weeks. The case will
come up for trial to-day, Wednes-
day. It is understood that since
the warrant has been issued Will
liams has made an affidavit in
which he says the only whiskey
he bought from DR.. Farmhouse
was four gallons at one time,
which amount the defendant could
sell without violation of law.
City Attorney Irwin has ruled
that pool playing, when the loser
pays for the game to be gambling,
and as a consequence a number
of cases have been filed against
pool players in the city court.
JUST whether the city attorneys
construction of gambling law is
is going to be upheld by a higher
court is a matter yet to be settled.
If pool playing is gambling, then
shaking the box, "playing seven
up, and even the progressive
euchre in the home is gambling,
pure and simple, and Mr.. Irwin
should get busy all along the line.
1t is said that the drag-net which
the police court has set to work
will rake in hundreds, and that
some of the city officials, as we'll
as some of the most prominent cit
liens of town, will be caught in
its meshes.-Jefferson Republican.
At a meeting of the Ironton
school board last Saturday even
ing the teachers were employed
for the ensuing year. B. w.
Loomis, principal, and the follow
ing assistants: G. w. Hanson,
Misses Judith johnson, Audrey
Thompson, Anna Shane, Robbie
Pipkin and Laura Codding. The
new teachers employed arS Miss
johnson, who will be in charge
of the high school, Miss Shane,
who has been in the Arcadia
school, and Miss Pipkin, daugh-
ter of Merrill Pipkin, of Farming
ton. Miss Johnson has been in
the schools at Richmond, Mo-,
and comes highly recommended.
EProf. Loomis' salary was increas-
ed from $500 to S115 a month.
Prof. Hanson gets $50 and the
ladies S45 a month. Bee Russell
was re-employed as teacher of the
colored school at S35 a month.
The mad dog scare is on in the
valley. About two m onths ago
MI. J. M. Hawkins lost four goats
and three calves which had been
bitten in the field west of Pilot
Knob by a stray dog. All the an
imals died with all the Symphonic
attending rabies. The same dog
was seen in various neighbor-
hoods; he attacked sheep, cattle
and hogs, always biting them in
the nose, from the effects of which
many of them died in the course
of two or three weeks. He was f.
nally killed at or near BellevieN
and the "scare" subsidized. Blu
last week another dog passed
through this town, attacking ev-
erything that he met, biting a mum
Der of dogs, until he was dispatch
ed. I am not much of a believe
in rabies, but it may be as we'll TO
owners of dogs to "look a little
out"
Thursday, May 22d, Mr.. Johr
Newman rounded out his I'D year
and his niece, Miss Irene Marshall
on the evening of that day, sur
prised him with a birthday party
The relatives and MI. and Mrs. F
Kindell, ST., and Mr.. and Mrs. Mi
ner York, yer in attendance. AL
brought tokens of regard, and Mis-
Alice Gay sent a fine birthday
cake. A very enjoyable time wa'
had, and all fervently prayed tina
the subject to whom was given thi'
evidence of Their esteem might liv'
to be similarly surprised" of
and oft again. The REGISTER join
with them in their good wishes
I have known Mr.. Newman TO.
nearly fifty years as an uprigh
man and estimable neighbor, will
a heart as kindly as his purpose il
free from evil intent. May his lif'
to it's close be without misfortune
or care!
Chas. w. Schneider of st. Louil
was here Saturday. He made tn
trip the day before from st. Louis
to Graniteville in his automobile
He was just three hours and forty
minutes, he says, in going from
st. Louis to Iron Mountain. HI
says that with the exception 0.
about ten miles between De Sot'
and Bonnie Terre the road is jus
fine. Mr.. Schneider says work a.
the quarry it unusually dull, bu
they are hoping to secure the con
| tract for a monument at Vicks
burg, Mississippi, that would keeI
t a bunch of men at work for the re
mainder ofthe summer. The rail
Friday night prevented MI
Schneider from returning to st
Louis Sunday in his automobile
! as he expected to, so he, went HON
on the train Saturday, leaving the
i chauffer to follow with the ma
!; chine when some Of the mud hat
dried up.
The manner in which our citi
zens have responded and are re
spending to the ordinance rela
tive to putting in granitoit
sidewalks is gratifying. A fe,
: stretches on the several street
t specified are yet to be filed, bu
. their construction 10 being rapid.
i. prosecuted, and soon the city vii
lab nroudIxy nnnt1 the hniahai