Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-02-26
The following figures are taken from the
Iron County Assessment Book for 1914:

Total Taxable Wealth. s., 6e7, I59
Increase over 1913, $227, $50.
Tuesday morning the thermometer
registered 5 degrees above zero. Sun
day night the blizzard began with
rain, then sleet, then snow, Monday
was colder, and snow fell again, but to
no great depth, except where drifted
by the high winds prevailing. That
evening the pinch began, and before
bed-times stoves and furnaces were
red-hot and still a-heatin'. During the
night the skies cleared and the sun
gladdened our vision with returning
day. The papers tell us the storm
covered eight states, and great dam
age was done to telegraph and tele-
phone lines. In st. Louis, the electric
lights for two hours Sunday evening
went out, the supply of electricity
from the Keokuk power-plant being
interrupted. Trains everywhere were
late, and several instances are re-
ported of passengers being snow
bound. I sincerely pray that this was
Old Boreas' final blast fonthis winter.
The following is a part of the report
of the Wayne county grand jury for
the February term: eve are forced
to the conclusion that a great deal of
Intoxicating liquors have been, and
are'still being, handled in the county
in various ways, and for the most
part, either in open violation Of law,
or by means of what appears to be
to us as mere subterfuge, and the lat
ter seems to be the most prevalent.
From inspections of the prescription
lists on file in the Office Of the County
Clerk, and the evidence taken before
the body, it appears to us that there
are several physicians in the county
who are ~indulging a freedom in the
writing Of prescriptions for %intoxicat-
ing liquors that merits the severest
c~ensure. Each of these physicians is
either directly connected with, or
closely associated with, some drug
store in the county. The long list of
prescriptions for intoxicating liquors
as shown by the files, and issued and
made out by some of the physicians
of Piedmont and Greenville, for
many and various persons, repeatedly,
in many instances, for persons un-
deniably addicted to the free, not to
say excessive use of alcoholic liquor,
and whose use of which is we'll known
publicly, is amazing and exceedingly
noticeable"
The Shrums mentioned in the fol-
lowing article taken from last We'd
nesday's st. Louis Republic, were
residents OF G~raniteville and Hall and
Gilbert lived at Iron Mountain, where
the homicides took place: "Jamee
Schrum, serving a life sentence in the
penitentiary for murder in the frs
degree, to-day was sentenced by the
Supreme Court to be hanged April 8
for a second murder. The case is sale
to be without a parallel in the history
of Missouri. June %, 1912, Shrum
NJ
shot and killed Mont Hall and Gent
Gibson in st. Francois county. He
was first tried for the murder of Glib
son, convicted of murder in the frs
degree, and sentenced for life. He wal
next tried for the murder of Hall, con
victed of murder in the first degree
and sentenced to death. Following
conviction he was brought to thu
penitentiary. The wife and daughtel
of Schrum claimed that Gibson ant
Hall had called at their home whil'
Schrum and his son, Harvey, wer'
absent and insulted them. They sen
for the father and son as soon as thu
men left. The next day Schrum wen
to a neighboring town and obtaineC
a rifle, but was unable to get am
munition. He took the gun home AM
the next day went to Ironton wher'
he got ammunition. The third da.
Shrum and his son, the latter armet
with a double barreled shot gun
found the two men lying on the banl
of a small lake, fishing. Shrum free
at Gibson and killed him. Hall starte,
to run, and Shrum shot him in.the back
The son also fred at Hall and strucl
him. Hall also was killed. Harve.
Schrum was convicted of murder il
the second degree and sentenced tC
the Penitentiary for twenty-fi
years. He occupies a cell with hi
father. Under the ruling Of the court
James Shrum will have to be take
; from the Penitentiary to Pennington
: and there hanged, unless Gov. Majo
extends clemency. The opinion il
/. the Ease was filed by COMMISSIONS
Roy and adopted by the court"
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