Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-10-09

views. Attorney Rozier, one of st.
county's leading citizens,
will be here to address the meeting.
John F. Adrian, who is in
charge of the Iron Mountain Demon
stration Farm at Arcadia, has been
selected as one of the speakers for the
day. F. NJ. Buffman, State Highway
Engineer, will also be here that day
and give all those present a talk on
how to build good roads. Besides
these other notables from Southeast
Missouri will be present to give a lend
ing hand and boost the Association
Bismarck Gazette.
The Outlook draws a narrowing
picture of Jail conditions in
Reynolds county, and amendment
ought not be long in coming. Right
here, however, I am constrained to
ask, why does u neighboring BALI
wick want with any kind of a jail?
According to Prohibition contention,
"dryness" does away with such re-
quirement and such a word as "crowd-
ed" can never truthfully apply.
Reynolds has been saloonless since
the time to which the memory of man
runneth not to the contrary. Says the
Outlook-"At the recentterm of the
circuit court in Jefferson county the
grand jury made a report in which they
condemned the Jail at Hillsboro as be-
ing "too small, males and females,
black, and white, crowded together, no
toilet, no room for privacy, and where
the stencil is awful, and sanitation i'm
possible" The grand jury of u
neighbor county could not have
pictured our jail any more truly than
if they had been sitting in our '4ittle
chicken COOP" How the people of
Jefferson or any other county can put
up with such conditions, we cannot
see. The progressive people of
this part of the state cannot afford to
have such conditions exist. 1t is a
stencil in the nostrils of all new
corners, and people from afar. 1t is
too bad that our Sheriff is compelled
to keep men in such a ''thing' as the
Reynolds county people call their
Jail. 1t is too small to accommodate
any number of prisoners, and all the
care and attention the Sheriff and
Deputies are able to give it cannot
make it sanitary. We think the time
lis at hand when the people of the
county should wake up snd take steps
to build a new Jail and in connection
Herewith a vault for the Deed Re-
cords Of Reynolds county. The tax
payers of the county would not miss
what it would take to build the two
together"
Prof. o. E. MCGEE, several years
ago in charge of the school at Pilot
Knob and we'll known in this county
was arrested in St. Francois county
a month ago or the charge of embez-
Element preferred by some parties al
Chaffee, Mo-, where MCGEE had taught
school the year before. Mr.. MCGEE
is now in the schools at Webster
Groves, Mo. He writes the REGISTER
as follows:
Webster Groves, Mo-, Oct. /, 1918
Editor Ironton Register Il hav'
been informed that your paper con
tanned an account of my arrest on 6
charge of embezzlement. If this ii
true will you send me a copy of the
issue that contained the statement
There have been some of the most
ridiculous misstatements in connec'
ton with this affair. The facts in the
case are these: The school, with
me as leader, raised some funds fol
play ground improvement ETC., anC
the board tried to get possession o.
these funds to use as they wished.
refused to give them up and they
charged me with embezzlement. The
whole thing wal the result OF a tigh
on gambling in which l took a par
and they prompted this action agains
me. AS soon as school opened thil
fall I applied the funds to the pur
poses for which they were raised.
have now sued the instigators of thi
devilish plot for $4,000 damages.
When l appeared before the Judg'
for preliminary examination he dis
missed the Ease without my max
ing any defense whatever. The prose
cution utterly failed to make any case
Now, Mr.. AXE, appropriation is in.
deed ruined unless the papers thai
have spread the report will faithfully
state the facts. I ask what B believ'
is less than every just news publishe.
will be glad to grant, that he do wha
he can to undo the harm done me b,
J the first publication of the account o
my accusation.
Very respectfully,
o. e. MCGEE.
We cheerfully give place to tn
above, although the REGISTER did no
publish the accusation to which MI
MCGEE refers.
Here is another story of the affai
as told by the Chaffee Signal: 9Th
; case of the Chaffee school board VI
I 0. E. MCGEE, whereby the schoc
board sought to ecove certain fund
which were collected last winter an
} spring on school entertainments, an
turned over to the credit of the dis
/, trict, was tried before Legrand a
Benton, and the defendant discharg
ed. Last year the school board sign
ed a contract with MI. MCGEE EN-
ploying him rs principal of the schoc
here, at a term salary Of $1,000 for
nine-months term. The funds givin