Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-10-15

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Married-At the Courthouse, Iron
ton, Mo-, October 18th, 1914, Lewis
Skies and Mrs. Jane Berry, both of
Madison county, Mo-, Judge O.. W.
Roop, officiating.
At last two persons are behind the
penitentiary bars for burning the
Madison House. Mrs. Shrum and
Clarence Umfeet went to trial Thurs
day morning and Friday at noon the
jury fixed their punishment at 10
years in the pen. e. D. Anthony
and d. M. Tesreau were appointed
by the court to defend them and they
did the best they could with the
material in hand. Mr.. Boyer of
Pennington assisted the prosecuting
attorney. Both prisoners had made
sworn confessions at the time of their
arrest and at the trial claimed they
were made under duress and denied
the statement made therein. Much
of the testimony vas very contra
dictory and the trial was long drawn
out.-Fredericktown Democrat-News.
Ironton closed the baseball season
for 1914 last Wednesday by defeating
Graniteville by a score 8 to 0. McCabe,
Col. R. L. Hedges, star right handler,
who has been pitching sensational
ball for Burlington, in the Central
Association the past season, served
them up for the visitors. Robertson
tossed for the local boys and pitched
in fine style, for Graniteyille could do
but little with his delivery. 1t was a
pitchers battle from start to finish,
and the local boys supported their
box artist in excellent style. Three
times did the visiting runners move
around to third, only to expire, as
Robertson vas going grandly, Pruitt
caught him in fine style, and the
infield afforded him stonewall sup
port. K.
The Poplar Bluff correspondent of
the st. Louis Globe Democrat sends
the following to his paper: "The
watermelon yield in Southeast Mis-
souri, this year has broken the records.
Approximately $500 cars of water
melons have been shipped from this
district and from 5 to 10 cars are be-
ing shipped daily. The shipments
started July 81 and unless there is a
heavy frost the melons will continue
to ripen for several weeks. Farmers
who have raised melons nea there
for years say they have never before
picked melons in October. The late
crop is attributed to the drought and
and late rains. Early in the season it
was thought the yield would be about
go cars.
The following appeared in Wednes-
days st. Louis Republic sent from
Bismarck under date of October 18th:
Few. T. Nelson, of Bristol Tenn, %
years old, was found at 4 A. NJ. to-day
near the Southern Illinois Railway
station, tied to a tree where he had
been robbed at midnight by two con-
fidence men who accompanied him
from Springfield, Ills., to Bismarck.
They pretended to be stenographers
residing at Bismarck and said they
would accompany him to Little Rock
the following day! Nelson is also a
stenographer. His clothing was stolen
except his underwear and stockings.
His condition from four hours ex-
posure was critical. Seventy-two
dollars, a gold watch and two suits of
clothing were taken. Mayor Ramsey
and others were attracted by his cries
for help"
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat:
sThe st. Louis Alumnae Association
of Arcadia College of Arcadia, Mo-,
held a get-together luncheon at the
annual meeting in the Planters Hotel
yesterday. There was a large attend
ance. Short talks outlining future work
of the association were made by each
young woman present. Mrs. James
B. Lanigan of Chicago, a former st.
Louisan and secretary of the lalumnae,
made the principal address, and told
of efforts to be made in Chicago to es-
tablish a branch of the alumnae in
that city. She presented each Of those
present with a flower. The following
were elected to the Executive Board:
Miss Mary Gummersbach and Miss
Catherine White, both Of st. Louis;
Rev. John Adrian of Arcadia, and
Rev. ]. M. Huber Of Perryville. Rev.
Huber presided at luncheon"
One by one, our cherished fancies
go, like the departing glimmering OF a
pewter dollar in the ~darkening shades
of night. Now, after the lapse of
over fifty years, the famous "Grant
spring. in the Emerson Park is about
to lose it's honored titlel BY request
of a citizen here, an army attache at
Washington has been examining the
records there, and gives the following
as the result Of his researches: Seen
eral Grant was commissioned a Brig
adler General of Volunteers on the
18th Of May, 1861, and the commission
was delivered to him at Mexico, Mis-
souri,. Records do not show the exact
spot; it may have been inside or out
side the city, but in his acknowledge
ing letter, he gave Mexico as the