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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-08-21
Annapolis News.

A light rain fell here Saturday night
and heavy rains all around us.
Our school started this morning.
Chas. Phillips, principal, and a young
lady from Belleview is his assistant.
VIM. Kitchell found a bee tree Sun
day morning. J. j.. Sutton came in
during the afternoon and claimed he
found the same tree during the week,
but there we're no marks on it.
William (Skip) Lewis was here Sum
day evening on his way home. He
had been on Carver Creek, above Sa-
bula, to see his mother. Skip told me
he had but recently retur ned from a
visit to his son, Jesse e., who is a tel
egraph operator at Clayton, Mo. He
reports his son married and has a fine
little wife. While in Clayton Skip met
the Constable, Peter Burns, who gave
him all the free automobile rides he
wanted.
John 5. Benson died at his home in
st. Louis Sunday morning at 2:2O
O'Clock. He win be buried there on
"Wednesday. He leaves a wife, two
sons and two daughters to mourn the
loss Of husband and father. Every
ms who ever had any dealings with
John Benson liked him. He never
.'turned down" o deserving man. He
gave much to the people Of this com
munity, and leaves a comfortable for.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-08-21
GOOdIand Items.

After a three weeks drought, there
are indications of rain. The meadows
and corn are ruined. All garden crops
are beyond repair. Our good wives
are drying apples and canning peaches
and plums.
The whooping cough is epidemic all
about Goodland.
George Martin and wife of Huzza
are visiting their sons, Jerome and
o., at Goodland.
Mrs. Ref is spending a couple of
weeks with Mrs. G. G. Adams.
Saturday was a busy day for the
beer saloon. Wagons passing with
empty cases, returning loaded with
full men and women too. "Is there
no balm in Gilead?"
John Mayield is quite ill at this
writing.
Aunt Mary Mcmahon came home
sick from a visit to her daughter at
Belgrade.
Mrs. R. Black and children are Wis
iting relatives at Logan's Greek.
Matthew HARRISON is building a
dwelling at Redmond.
w. D. Troutman is sick. He was
out with a threshing crew and was
taken sick.
Mrs. Efie Brown of Brushy spent
the weekend with her mother, Mrs.
Troutman.
The machinery is being put in the
hub mill which will be in running or
der in two weeks.
Bell Brothers have their new store
building about completed.
Peruna mill will start up Monday
after several weeks idleness, during
which the teams were busy hauling
lumber to the railroad.
The Disciple brethren held services
on Sunday, in the grove at W. B.
Brooks. Rev. Dennis, Rev. Pryor,
and Rev. Croker debated the ques-
ton, "Christ is now sitting on the
throne of his father, David"
R. @. Love has gone to the railroad
with his daughter, Mrs. Webb, who is
going home to Flat River, after an
extended stay at the old home.
The extreme heat continues.
DR.. Crenshaw has gone from Good
land where he did work amounting to
more than four hundred dollars, but
we all look fine with our new teeth.
TIMOTHY HAY.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-08-21


tune to his widow and children. May
he rest in peace?
Mrs. Mathina Bolch and son and
daughter were called to st. Louis last
Friday.
Misses Eva Stafford and Elmer
Booker returned to St.Louis last week
after spending several days here with
the family of Mr.. o. L. Bolch. The
young ladies reported a delightful
visit.
T. N. MARI of Ironton was an An
napolis visitor Sunday.
Robert Miller of Minimum and
Pearl Kemp of Reynolds county were
united in marriage at the home of
Robert Lewis, on Bear Branch, Sun
day, August IL, 1918, at 2:3o o'clock,
s. Kitchell, j. P, officiating.
Fred O. Kit chell and Floyd Worley
have gone to Granite City, Illinois,
looking for work.
Mrs. James Robinson and family of
Flat River are visiting relatives and
friends in Annapolis and Vicinity.
They report the big strike on in the
lead belt and nothing doing.
F. o. Warncke and son, John, will
ship a car of fine cattle to st. Louis
to-day.
Cynthia Lee has returned from Pop
lar Bluff and is at the home of Q. E.
Bolch.
Robert Funk is on the sick list.
Esquire Kitchell is sick to-day.
Miss Carnahan of Brush Greek is in
town.
Robert Deborde and wife are hav-
ing trouble again.
Likely another wedding in Annapo-
lis this week.
The old man Parker of Kansas is
again at his Low Hollow stock ranch
in Reynolds county; he owns 27OC
acres of land in one body in Reynolds
county; in Missouri and Kansas he
has 400. He has a standing offer Of
| 800 an acre for his Kansas land.
ohm Lewis of Piedmont came up
hismorning on train % on his way to
his old home on Bear Branch.
John Moss bought Drew Lewis team
this morninff for $125.
VIM. Moss has built a new house.
More than fifty cases of beer sold
here the past week.
George W. Slusher held the battle
ground last Saturday. BULLETIN.
Before buying your Oil Stove see
the "Acme" line at Madigan's. They
are the best in the market, and the
price is right.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-08-21

LET no Democratic Congressman,
in the befogged air of Washington, be
deluded into the notion that his con-
stituents are less in earnest concern
ing the reforms promised by the plat
form than they were on the day they
cast their ballots which gave us power.
The people are watching the proceed
ings at the National Capital as they
never watched them before, and they
demand the redemption of the pledges
we made last year. AS stated above,
they are in dead earnest about it, and
our Representatives and Senators
should not forget that though the
commonalty has no lobby at Wash
ington it will be fully represented at
the polls when the day of election
rolls round.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-08-21
Catholic Church Servic rs.

ARCADIA.
First Mass, Homily, $3.50 O'Clock;
High Mass and Sermon, 9 O'Clock;
B~enediction, 1880 p. nj.
PILOT KNOB.
First Sunday Of the month, 1920
o'clock; Second and Fourth Sundays
$3.50 o'clock.
GRANITEVILLE.
First Sunday of the month, $3.50
O'Clock; second and fourth Sundays,
1913 o'clock.
No mass at Pilot Knob or Granite
vile on the third or fifth Sundays OF
the m Q nth.
BISMARCK.
Third and fifth Sundays of the month
at $3.50 and 8 o'clock.
REV. Il. q. WERNERT, Pastor.
REV. JOHN r. ADRIAN, Asst.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-08-21

A GOOD, observing Texas Democrat,
Mr.. James W. Powers, of Gainesville,
aptIy says: "Referring to the criti-
cism of Mr.. Bryan in regard to his
spending his vacation on the lecture
platform, l would suggest that this
furore of indignation is due to a fear
that he may disseminate true demo
cratic doctrines and promote progress
sive ideas. If Mr.. Bryan had followed
the examples of some other high
government officials of previous adj
ministrations, and requisitioned an
American man of war, and loaded it
with expensive food and wines, and
filled it with a party of fashionable
ladies and gentlemen, and gone on a
pleasure junket at a cost of 100000
or so to the government, these re-
publican and radical critics would
doubtless have had no adverse criti-
cism to make"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-08-21

A DEMOCRATIC administration has
been in charge of public affairs for
nearly six months. Some things have
been done and some are doing; but
there r a lot of things that are so
slow in the doing. One of the most
reprehensible statutes enacted under
the influence of Special Interest is the
oleomargerine law. False on its face
in it's p~retense of having been enacted
as a revenue measure, it stands a de-
NAL to fairness and justice. In these
days, when we are seeking diligently
to find means for reducing the ''high
cost of living" why has this outrage
GUS tax upon one of the commonest
necessities been overlooked by our
Solons? Is it possible that Special
Interest still has the power to bind its
victims to the altar of Mammon? To
blind the eyes of legislators to the
wrong it first induced? l know of no
measure that could more forcibly in
dictate the honesty of Democratic pro-
fession for the common good, than the
abrogation of the lawn question; yet
such action has not, SO far as / know,
been even mooted. Why?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-08-21

GREAT SCOTT! Did we ever before
read such revelations as are being
made before the Compression linvesti-
eating committees? Taking as truth
the testimony of the witnesses, one
is made to conclude that Big Business
is only a potter term for thief or liar.
Let us hope, in pride OF race, that the
witness stand is not without its liars
and traducers, since a few scoundrels
cannot contaminate a whole people.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-08-21

A GOOD deal less of delaying confab
and greater speed in Democratic
legislation at Washington would
crafty every well wisher to the u
try. The tariff bill ought have been
passed and signed a month ago, for
there are a lot of things IN file that
need early consideration.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-08-21
For SaIe-sacrifice

North half northeast quarter section
%, township "a, north, range 4 East,
containing over "a acres. Also, lot 8,
block l, 8 acres, J. H. York Subdivis-
ion Arcadia Heights. All or part. Adj
dress w. H. Egan, 102 South Sd street,
st. Joseph, Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-08-21
people.

SAYS the Commoner: SIT might be
well if all senators and congressman
were required to commit to memory
the national platform of their party"
Why not paste a copy thereof on their
desks as against possible slip in mem
orv2
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-08-21
VOLUME xLvII. NUMBER ii.

THE st. Louis Globe Democrat is
making a determined effort to have
its readers believe that the strike in
the lead belt is due to the proposed
change in the tariff. Boshi.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-08-21

WAR with Mexico? 1t would be a
most excellent thing-for armorers
and contractors and the embalmed
beef trade but a h-ll of greater or
lesser dimensions for the lave of the
people.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-08-21

Trunks, and Suit Cases, Sanitary
Couches and Davenports, upright
Bedsteads and Settees,
A. RIEKE & SONS.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-08-21

Before buying your Oil Stove see
the "Acme" line at Madigan's. They
are the best in the market, and the
price is right.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-16
LEAVE GRIM
TWO F|NE CITIES
Death and Destruction Reach
High Proportions In Both
Sections.
O%OHO~O~O%O%OHO4O%O~OHO

ported. Relief work seemed to slow
indexes of sufferers wants and to
make acquisitions on the central relief
station at the Auditorium for supplies.
While these formallties were being
carried through want stalked through
disconsOlate homes from one corner Of
the city to the other. The task of car
ing for those needing food, clothing.
supplies and money seemed to be too
large for the relief forces.
A young girl who came TO the sta
ton at Forty-sixth and Leavenworth
streets told of a father siXty-five years
old who had labored for forty years
and had just completed payments on 4
small home, which was in ruins. The
| father would not ask for aid, but the
child did, and it was forthcoming.
The Real Estate Exchange took
steps to prevent the raising of rents.
! Quickly cases of alleged attempted ex-
tortion were reported. some by mem
| bers of the exchange itself. EXecu-
| tives of that body decided TO deal
harshly with any owners found taking
| advantage u luoSt lbiGtu 10 DUNalll
new homes on account of the tornado.
Hundreds of persons from all parts
of the country unable to hear from rel
atives went to the city seeking news
| Many persons known to have been in
the vicinity of that part Of the city
swept by the storm have been reported
missing. and everything possible is be
ing done to locate them.
Dayton has stood in the shadow oil
disaster from food ever since its fOun
dation. No less than six times previou.
to the recent inundation have the riy
ers which flow through it left their &c
customed courses and brought dealt
and destruction Of property upon tn
town. The first Of these floods occurre,
in 1905, the very year that Dayton wa
Incorporated as a town. The sixtl
was in 1895 and the others in the year
1917. 1865, 1866 and 1856.
The site of the present city was pun
chased in 1875 by n group of Revolt
tionary soldiers and laid out as tow
in the following year by one of then
who named it after Jonathan Dayton
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-16

During the recent sessions of the Anne
rican Academy of Political and Social Sci
ence at Philadelphia, the high cost of liv-
ing was the theme of discussion by many
speakers of national prominence. Amos
Pinchot advocated the curbing of mOnopo-
lies by national law. Albert Shaw
thought that the farmers were wasteful
and that their productiveness could be
greatly increased. Martha Van Rensse
laer suggested the training of women il
economy. Dean Lewis of the Pennsyl
vania University Law school spoke foi
the minimum wage. Mrs. Julian Heath
organizer of the Housewives League
urged the elimination of the middIeman
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-16
The MeddLer
"If The coat fits yOg. PIT il on. i"

The Medder commends the 10 com
mandments of the housing committee
of the Chicago Woman 5 Aid associa-
tion. They are as worthy of fulfil
ment here in Brattleboro as in the
Windy city.
!. Thou shalt honor thy city and
keep its laws.
>. Remember thy cleaning day and
keep it wholly.
;. Thou shalt love and cherish thy
children and provide for them decent
homes and Fairgrounds. ~
]. Thou shalt not Keep thy win
dows closed day or night
>. Thou shalt keep in order thy
alley, thy back yard, thy hall and
stairway.
6. Thou shalt not kill thy neigh
bors' bodies with poisonous air, nor
their souls with bad companions.
:. Thou shalt not let the wicked
fly live.
:. Thou shalt not steal thy child
ren's right to happiness from them
| Q. Thou shalt bear witness against
thy neighbor's rubbish heap.
10. Thou shalt covet all the air and
sunlight thou canst obtain.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-16

Senator Hollis, the first Democrat New
Hampshire has had in that body since the
Civil war, is an equal sufragist. He is
of the opinion that equal suffrage will
come through the federal government
sooner than through state action. He
says: Il have favored equal suffrage for
many years, and 1 believe the Senate
in favor of it. My impression is that an
equal suffrage measure will pass the Sen
ate at the first regular session and | am
assured by well-informed members of the
House that it will probably pass there
Men who do not really believe in it will
vote for it in many instances, because
they think it is a winning issue"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-16

In spite of the gloom in the stock mar
kct and the forebodings of worse condi-
tions, brokers of high repute are advis-
ing the purchase of stocks The highest
disinterested authority in the country is
John Moody of New York, and he says
that a long period of rising stock prices
lies just ahead of us. This opinion is not
shared by others, and many men of high
financial character are advising people to
let stocks alone All, however, agree that
those who desire to put money in bonds
should do so at once. High-class bonds
yield about 4 60, and no others are to be
thought of by the average person. Bonds
will not be as low again for any consider
| able period in a dozen years, perhaps not
in 20 years. The whole world is i'll for a
| long period of falling commodity prices,
and that makes money go farther. Hence
| people will be willing to pay more for a
/ fixed income than under high prices.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-16

a Jerseyman who had fought in the
Revolution and who later served in
congress and the United States senate.
1t became the county seat of Montsom-
cry county in 1903 and received its
city charter in 1871, something more
than a score of years after the open
ing of the Miami canal gave Il boom to
its growth and prosperity
Within the city limits the waters of
Wolf creek, saltwater and Mad rivers
unite with those of the Great Miami.
The latter stream flows through the
city from north to south. AS it reach
es the corporation limits at the north
it sweeps to the westward and IS join
ed by Saltwater river a mile aud a
half from the courthouse. Then ii
takes an easterly course for half mile
and is joined by the Mad river at a
point about half a mile from the court
house.
The river then bends again TO the
| west for more than half mile and is
| Joined by Wolf creek. Its course lies
/ thereafter to the southeast. Great
/ bridges, some of them of great archi-
/ tectural beauty. cross all Of these
streams. The Miami canal takes wa
! ter from the Mad river about two
miles northeast Of the courthouse. runs
/ parallel to the Mad river to its confu
ence with the Miami and then runs
southwark to the city limits.
The courthouse stands at Main and
| West Third streets Distances are meas
ured from it. and it is at the center OF
the scheme according to which streets
are laid out Its original portion was
modelled after the Greek parthenoI
and is built of rough white marbI,
taken from quarries in the vicinity. i
is only one Of the many buildings OF
which the city Is proud. Among then
are the Steel high school, St Mary'i
college. Notre Dame academy Memoir
al building. Arcade building ReibolC
building. postoffice. Algonquin hotel
Public library and the Y. NJ. c. A
building.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-16

In designating Friday, April -, as Ar
Dor day, I'm accord with the spirit Of
the season and with the custom of the
state" Governor Fletcher requests The
people of Vermont on that day to plant
trees, which shall be growing symbols
of freedom, prosperity and peace, and
shall become both memorials of the day
and happy heritage to future genera
tions." Very simple, fitting, dignitied
and effective, governor, and in striking
contrast with the frilIs and furbelows
with which some of our executives have
embellished similar proclamations.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-16

that the cost for delivery Is about one
half that of horse haulage We believe
the cooperative plan Of delivery might
be worked successfully in many cities and
large towns all over the country Al the
present time the general plan is for each
store which makes deliveries to cover
practically the whole town, and in this
way the same routes are gone over re-
peatedIy at Il large cost by Il get-togeth-
CT policy the merchants in any town
might reduce their scheme of deliveries
to d system and save Il large expense
through the elimination of their duplica-
lions in covering their territory,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-16
USED COMFORT POWDER
FOURTEEN YEARS,
FINDS NOTHING BETTER

Mrs. w. G. Confer writes from Ashe-
vile, n. c.: - have used Comfort
Powder daily for over IA years and
Just cannot do without it. | took six
boxes to Panama with me but ran out
of it on board ship and the minute I
struck New York | sent out for two
cans. | cant find any other powder
that will half way do. To heal and
comfort the skin there is nothing like
Comfort Powder. Physicians, Trained
Nurses and Hospitals everywhere do
not hesitate to give Comfort Powder
most unqualified endorsement. Be sure
you get the genuine with sigma
ture of Z. S. Sykes on the box.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-16
OUR QUESTION BOX

l. Who was the first secretary of
war in Andrew jackson s cabinet dur
ing his first administration -. Who
was his wife?
1. John II. Eaton of Tennessee
>. Margaret O'Nein, daughter of a
Washington hotel keeper and widow
of John Timberlake, who was purser
in the navy. Mrs. Eaton was the
little friend Peg" to whom Jackson
often referred, and she was the cen
tire of much controversy, which in
volved her social position.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-16
Member of the Associated Press.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1918.
According to the United States bu-

According to the United States bu-
reau of education the rate of rural IL
literacy is twice that of the cities and
the reason that is assigned, after a
careful investigation of the subject, is
lack of proper educational opportuni-
ties. The investigation has also shown
that illiteracy among native born
children of native parentage is more
than three times as great as among
native children of foreign parentage.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-16
STORM and FLOODS
HORROR IN
Omaha and Dayton Suffer
Awful Disasters From
Elements.

TT would be hard to conceive a
Il more dreadful series of disasters
i. from the hand of nature than the
cyclone and floods which in turn
laid waste various sections of the coun-
try. Never before had such freaks of
the elements occurred so closely to-
gether and with such widespread dew
astation.
The country was still gasping from
the first horrors of the great tornado
storms which swept across the central
western states and wrought their
greatest havoc in Omaha when floods
burst forth in Ohio and Indiana. II
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-16

Q 1919. by American Press Association.
SCENE IN ONE OF THE OHIO FLOOD DIS
TRICTs.
could deposit the bodies at graves, .
continual death procession was kept up.
There was little ceremony. AS quick
ly as one funeral was over another be-
gan. Undertakes co-operated in ar
ranging burials. In several instances
where entire families were killed or
where more than one member of a
family awaited burial one funeral
service was held.
One of the most pitiful of the funer-
ais was that of Mrs. Mary Rathkey
and two small children. Surviving Mrs
Rathkey is the husband and father.
who was nearly demented over the dis
aster and who disappeared when he
learned of his wife's death.
Leading in the tireless work of res
cuers among the ruins Of buildings in
the track of the cyclone was James @.
Dahlman. the cowboy mayor" Mayor
Dahlman remained at his work without
cessation for over fifty hours, according
to ali reports.
Many cases of restitution were re-
A woman can think the babv has n
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-16

Now that motor delivery is demon
strated success, merchants in several
cities are using it on the cooperative
plan. In Minneapolis three OF the
leading concerns have central clear
ing and routing station and use six liv-
cries. One of these makes five calls
daily at each of the stores, collects the
packages and takes them to the garage
There they are sorted and assigned tc
the FIVE remaining cars, each one OF
which makes three trips daily. The
cars are each manned by neatly uni
formed driver and assistant. 1t is sale