Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-08-07

Scott, wife and three children, OF
Joplin, on a fishing trip on the Big
Piney river.-Rolla Herald.
Before buying your Oil Stove see
the "Acmen line at M~adigan's. They
are the best in the market, and the
price is right.
Arthur Russell, colored, a train por-
ter on the Iron Mountain railroad, was
arrested on the arrival of train No. 8
at the Ironton station Tuesday night of
last week, on the charge of child aban-
donment and placed in the county
jail. Next day he was tried before
Squire Rasche who found him guilty
and fixed his punishment at $50 fine
and costs. Russell has three mother
less children, the eldest seven years
of age. The evidence showed that for
several months he had practically
done nothing for their support. He
paid the fine and costs and has prom
ised to look after the children in the
future.
Says the Flat River Correspondent
of the Pennington News; ~. o. Steel,
who has been a student at the Cape
Girardeau Normal the past year, ar
rrived the first of the week for a sew
eral days. visit with his parents, Rev.
and Mrs. George Steel. Since the
regular term at the Normal closed
last June, John has had a good posi-
ton in railroad work in Tennessee,
but has given up the position there
and will spend the remainder of his
vacation visiting relatives here, at
Bismark and Ironton. He will go to
the latter place next week. John tells
us that he expects to attend the State
University at Columbia the coming
term and will probably take an agri-
culture course"
Watermelons are bringing fancy
prices in Dunklin county. This week,
$181.50 was the top prices, per car
load, while $3.50, $175 and $3.50 were
frequent results, and $136 vas the
lowest We ever heard of. Holcomb
was the center of the buying district
and fifteen buyers were there Tues
day night. The acreage is not as
large as is usual and 60 per cent is be-
lieved to be the yield, as compared
with al average crop. Several fields
are turning out a car loadto2h acres,
but one we heard of gave four a
loads to 6 acres. The melons are not
unusually large, but are of good quality.
The territory south from Clarkton will
possibly yield 27O a rloads. The crop
around Clarkton will move next week.
Around Maiden the crop is not so pro-
life as formerly.-Dunklin County
Democrat.
Through the efforts of our efficient
and active Congressman, Hon. Walter
L. Hensley, an order has been made
for the establishment of a post-office
at Kaolin, this county. The name of
the new office will be Shepard. Fol-
lowing is the letter of the Fourth As
sistant Postmaster General to Con-
gresham Hensley in regard to the
| matter: swift further reference to
establishment of post-offlce in Iron
| County, Missouri, to be known as Ka-
olin, I beg to inform you that the
name could not be accepted because
of its liability to confusion with Kar-
lin, in Polk County, but the estab-
lishment of an office at the point,des-
ignated, to be known as Shepard, has
been ordered, effective upon the quail
ification of a postmaster" This will
be a pleasing announcement to the
people of Kaolin and vicinity, north
west of Belleview, who have long
been trying to get more adequate
mail facilities. They will be well
pleased at the outcome of Mr.. Hens
ley's efforts.
The first of the new Mikado en-
gines nosed it's way into Piedmont
Monday at the head of a string of
freight cars. This is one of eight
powerful locomotives recently receiv
ed by the "Bush system" Two others
like the one here alluded to will run
on the Mountain and the others run
on the Missouri Pacific. The Noun
tain engine will do passenger service,
but will first be tried out on freights.
The big fellow had to be %uncoupled
from the tank before it could be turn
ed on the table here. The round
house was a size to small for it also,
but it managed to to get most of IFS
huge bulk under shelter. However,
the roundhouse here has the longest
stalls of any on the roads except at
points having shops. The turn-table
Is h regulation type on Inc Moun6-
ain. There are no indications that a
new turn-table will be built soon, al
though this has been rumored. The
new locomotives are nearly eighty
feet long.-Piedmont Banner.
Shortly after midnight on Wednes-
day Of last week the residence of Mrs.
Ompie Bradley, on north Main street,
across from the Lopez store, was de-
stroyed by fire. Mrs. Bradley was
awakened by the heat sweeping down
the stairway and into her room. She
and her son and daughter hurriedly
made their escape. The alarm was
oivan and manila hurried to the acene