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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28
Mems fine Wool Shirts away down
in price at Browns.
Administrators Sale.

I will, as Administrative of Henry
M Jones, deceased, on Saturday, the
18th day Of February next, at the
residence of the deceased, at Ironton,
Mo-, sell to the highest bidder, at
auction, the following property of the
deceased, to-wit:
l walnut dresser, 1 wash stand, 1rug,
/ willow chair, / toilet set, / bed, l
wardrobe, / couch, l chest, / small
trunk, 4 chairs, / large rug, l bureau,
/ stand, 1 dresser, / wash stand, 1
willow-rocker, l rug, / mattress, 1
hall tree, | %settee, l parlor carpet, 2
plush chairs, / settee, desk and book
case combined, / dining-table and s
chairs, / de-board, / morris chair, /
willow chair, 4 split bottom chairs, l
small table, / range and utensils,
l kitchen safe, 1 kitchen table, l wal
nut wardrobe, 100 fencing boards and
l dozen cedar posts, / two-horse
wagon, hay frame, wagon bed and
spring seat, 1 two-horse pillow, / single
plow, l cultivator, 1 one-horse spring
wagon, 1 single buggy, l mower and
rake, 1 set double harness, buggy har-
ness and saddle lot farming imple-
ments, 4 tons Of hay, 20 bushels of corn,
/ "V" harrow, 2 old plows, l horse, /
feather bed, l trunk, and 1 pillow.
TERMS All sums under twenty five
dollars, cash; on all sums owe TWEEN
ty-five dollars, a credit of six months,
upon notes and security being given.
MARTHA j FRANCIS,
Administrative.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28
Lucinda HolIoman Hinchey.

Mrs. Lucinda Jane Holloman, born
in Ste. Genevieve county, January
10, 1886, died at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Hugh Steel, at Bismarck, jan
uary ID, 1915, lacking only six days of
reaching the age of seventy nine.
Deceased was reared and educated
in Arcadia, being survived by only a
half dozen Of her class at the famous
old school, that for 30 many years was
the leading educational institution in
this part of the country.
In 1857 she was married to William
J.. Hinchey, an instructor in that
school. Her husband died twenty one
years ago.
Mrs. Hinchey was the daughter of
Allan W. Holloman, a pioneer citizen,
and spent most of her life in Arcadia.
She is survived by five sons, Allan
H., Paul p, Robert E., William w.,
Augustus s., and by one daughter,
Flora, Mrs. Hugh Steel of Bismarck,
at whose home she passed away.
Her remains were buried beside the
grave of her husband in De Soto, jan
uary 10.
With the passing to the Great Be-
yond of Mrs. Lucinda Holloman Hin
chey Arcadia Valley has lost one who,
for nearly four score years, was
identified with it's history and who, by
a long life Of kindness and gentleness,
had become endeared to all.
Not all Of the heroi6es of pioneer
Missouri have been told Of in history
or in song. Many who helped in the
development Of the country west OF
the Fathers Of Waters, and who blaz-
ed the way for the new empire that
we now enjoy, lived lives Of privation
and hardships that are unknown to
us; many, who experienced the lack
Of comfort that to us Of modern times
seems a necessity, have left as hertz
ages to their descendants names OF
unsullied honor and q repute for in
tegrity and for Christianly fortitude
under trying ordeals-whose example
should make Of those descendants
better men and women,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28

DEMOCRATIC doctrine and good
sense from the St. Louis Times: "Four
men charged with manufacturing
oleomargarine without paying the
governmental tax, pleaded guilty.
Their sentences have not been pro-
nounced. We make no plea in favor
of breaking the law, but We do ask:
What was their crime? Evading a
tax upon a commodity calculated to
reduce the cost of living. And for
what purpose was the revenue de-
rived from the tax to be used? To aid
in maintaining a department of the
Government from which spies are to
be sent out, in an endeavor to run
down others who dare attempt to sell
IN competition with the big butter
dealers. If the guilty men are fined
guilty because they violated a ridic-
ulous law which was passed on the
theory thatit would protect the farm
er, but which is protecting the Butter
Trust only-we suggest that they pay
the fine Immediately, obtain receipts
for the payment and mail the receipts
to Congress with a copy of the pro-
ceedings. No better argument for
the repeal of the ubiquitous cleo tax
law could be made"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28
Assignee's Notice.

Notice is hereby given to all the
creditors of O. J. Percy & Son 70. J,
Percy, sole owner), of Ir~onton, Mo-,
that | will, on the 9th day of March,
1915, at the Office of Edgar & Edgar
Attorneys-a at law, in the City Of IRON
ton, County Of Iron and State Of Mis-
souri,, proceed publicly to adjust and
allow demands against the estate and
effects assigned to me by Q. J. Percy
& Son (C.J. Percy, sole owner) for
the benefit Of creditors, and viii con
tinue said hearing during the two fol-
lowing days.
GEORGE w. MARSHALL, 4
Assignee Of @. ]. Percy 3 Son 70. j.
Percy, sole owner.)
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28

buC SaAuPdl6n VI ioot Year,
The following letter received last
week by Mr.. 7. P. Fitz, of Des Are, is
OF general interest:
My Dear Friend-I have yours Of
the 18th, relative to an appropriation
for Confederate soldiers pensions. 1
have talked to a number about this
matter and find that sentiment seems
to be opposed to a further appropria-
ton for this purpose. l think the
trouble is that a lot of men are on the
rolls who are not entitled to a PEN
sion within the meaning of the law,
because they have ample means for
their W support.
took occasion to go to the Adj
jutant Generals Office and look over
the list of applications. l found a
number of applicants whom | know
personally and know them to have
ample means for their support. Some
of them have farms worth five or six
thousand dollars, and no one depend
ing upon them for support. The law
passed two years ago intended to give
pensions to those soldiers, only, who
we're physically ~incapacitated and
were wholly without means of sup
port.
| intend to investigate the matter
further and if necessary will introduce
a bill asking an appropriation to PEN
sion needy Confederate soldiers.
Yours truly,
CHAs, P. DAMRoN.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28

SPEAKING of the vote on the Pro-
hibition amendment before Congress,
ex- President Taft says:
"Many members voted for it who
were not really in favor of it, nor did
a majority of their constituents de-
mand it. Such members voted for it
merely to secure the approval and
support Of a comparatively small ell
ement in the electorate whose votes
they feared might defeat them if they
voted their own convictions"
Mr.. Taft says true; but what wind
shifting weather-cocks it makes Of
our Representatives! When a Demo
crat votes for a Democrat, or a Re-
publican votes for a Republican, he
lays up a disappointment for himself
if he expects his choice to represent
him: the only people to be considered
is t'the comparatively small element
who make broad their phylactoriel
and shout aloud from the house-tops.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28
NOTICE OF LETTERS.

Notice is hereby given, that letters of Adj
ministration on the estate Of Henry M Jones,
deceased, were granted to the undersigned
on the goth day Of January, 1915, by the
Probate Court Of Iron County, Missouri All
persons having claims against said es state
are required to exhibit them for allowance
to the administrators within six months after
the date Of said letters, or they may be pre-
Guided from any benefit Of such estate; and
if such claims be not exhibited within one
year from the date Of the last insertion Of the
publication Of this notice, they shall be for
ever barred.
This goth day Of January, 1915.
MARTHA J. FRAN IS,
Administrative TX.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28

The readers attention is directed to
an editorial from the Youths Com
p%anion, reprinted in this paper. 1t
clearly sets forth the rapid strides
toward centralization-something of
grave concern to all believers in the
government as instituted by its found
ers. Democracy has always stood for
the rights of the States and for proper
restriction of the Federal jurisdiction.
The liberty of the citizen, the freedom
of speech and press are involved in
the question, and, as / have been led
to believe, no true Democrat can lend
his aid to measurers requiring the
still further advancement of the al
ready overgrown power at Washing
ton. I am a Democrat for this reason
above all others. If we are to follow
in the footsteps of our Republican
neighbors, whose purpose for fifty
years seemed to be to exalt the
National Government at the expense
of the States, let us join ranks with
them and 60 our united way rejoicing
vote National Prohibition, set up
little satraps all over the land, and
prepare to humbly kiss the ground
before the star lapeled keepers of the
public morals. This is what a lot of
ci-devant Democratic congressman
did when the nationwide Prohibition
amendment came before them. II
their vote was Democratic, let us
turn Tom Jefferson's picture to the
wall and deluge our cheeks in re-
p%entant grief that we have been sail
ing all these years under false colors.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28

WHILE we believe in higher educa-
ton and think that the facilities
ought TO be put in the reach of every
boy and girl for a good education, the
State University is costing thetaxpay-
ers of the state too much for the good
the common people are getting out
of it 1t is supposed to be practically
free but by IL e time the boy pays all
the side expenses that are required of
him and not necessary to his educa-
ton or his moral or citizenship train
ing, it is costing him too much. The
present head of the school may be an
efficient educator but he is not a
success as a manager. If the legisIa-
ture will sit down on them a few
times, it will bring them to their
Observation-Disclosures Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28

HERE'S another choice bit from the
sweet mouthings of the "Rev." Billy
Sunday;
aThers's rotting, sinking, corrod-
ing, corrupt, hell ridden, God-defy-
ing, devil ridden New York. God'll
get it in His own good time. He can
move it, and oh, how He will move
It'll"
Think of the user of such language
being gifted to tell what God is going
to do, and how he is going to do it!
But the Grew" Billy draws the
crowds and gets the nun. l think it
remarkably inexplicable.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28

A BILL now pending in Congress
granting the Postmaster General the
power to deny the use o the mails TO
any paper he may deem not pro bono
public. 1t is a dangerous proposition,
and if the bill becomes law, good-bN e
to the freedom of the pressl The
postal authorities have too great
power looking toward censorship
now
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28
THIS report on the Kansas sugar in
dustry comes from Topeka:

THIS report on the Kansas sugar in
dustry comes from Topeka:
Thirteen million pounds Of Kansas
sunshine, sacked and ready for the
family sugar bowls, is the result Of
the sugar making campaign OF the
beet sugar factory of the Garden City
Sugar and Land Company that has
just ended. The factory received
$4,000 tons of beets, grown in Finney,
Kearney, Hamilton, Pawnee, Lyon,
Chase and Greenwood counties, which
produced 13O, 900 bags OF 100 pounds
each Of q fine quality Of %granulated
sugar. This was almost twice as much
sugar as was produced last year, as
the adverse growing season OF 1918
cut the production for the year to
n, 900 bags. The average yield OF
the best fields was twelve tons to the
acre, but many fields produced from
fifteen to twenty tons per r The
factory paid $3.50 o ton, which places
the market value OF the sugar beet
crop at @275, 900. To this is added S3
to SIS per acre els the value Of the beet
tops, left in the field, for stock food.
How ID that for 'sthe destruction Of
the sugar industry BY reaaon Of the
lately enacted Democratic tariff
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28

Mr. BRYAN is now in favor OF
National Prohibition. He has evoluted,
as | thought he would. He has come
to the "'parting of the ways' with a
good many old friends as we'll as that
Democracy which views with Jealousy
and alarm the encroachments of the
Federal government. | look to see
him made Chairman of the next
National Prohibition Convention.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.

Notice Is hereby given that the under-
signed, a. Lott, Administrator Of
the estate Of John Lott, deceased,
will. make final settlement Of his accounts
with said estate as such Administrator at
the next term Of the Probate Court Of Iron
County, Missouri, to be holden at Ironton,
in said county, on the 9Th day Of February,
A. D, 1915. "A. LOTT,
Administrator Of estate Of John Lotz, deed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28

THE Pennsylvania railroad has
directed its Altoona shops to proceed
with exe cutting an order OF 1850 all
steel box cars, the airs to be turned
out at the rate of 400 a month, be-
ginning next February or March.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28

We are glad to note the appoint
ment of Bro. H. E Zorn of the West
Plains Gazette as postmaster of that
town. Mr.. zorn is a splendid news
paper man and loyal Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28

IowA's farm crops for the year 1914
are worth S465, 1893 ,419, according to
the final report of DR.. George M,
Chapel, head of the Iowa weather
and crop service. DR.. Chappel's re-
port shows the farmers of Iowa are
$27 ,635 1919 richer than they we're for
last years labors. The total value OF
all crops for 1918 was but $43s, 49,
440.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28

THE nail mill of the American Steel
and wire company of Sharon, Pa, has
resumed operations in full. The plant
has been operating only in part for
some time.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28
The Big Man OF Russia.

No, it is not the car, though his
name has been the synonym of des-
potism. Who really rules Russia
these days is told in a most interest
ing special article this week on an
other page of the REGISTER.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28
Rule of Action.

Aid the willing, honor the virtuous,
and compel the idle into occupation
Ruskin.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28

schedule, so p~ersistently asserted by
my Republican contemporaries during
the campaign Of last year?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28

The following letter received last
week by Mr.. t. P. Fitz, of Des Are, is
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-05-19
GIVE US A

The Seaboard Air Line should re-
place the buffet car on the early
morning train from Abbeville to At
lanta. The train leaves Abbeville
at five o'clock, too son to get break
fast, and too soon to eat it, if you
had a chance. 1t arrives in Allan
ia sometime before ten o'clock,
Eastern time, something like an
hour after a man is dead, if his life
depends on getting breakfast.
The fact is that more people
would patronize the train if a berth
could be purchased at ten o'clock
every night by those intending to go
to Atlanta, so that the public might
take advantage of the train without
getting up at so unearthly an hour.
A months trial of this plan would
not cost the railroad much, and
would be an experiment worth
while.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-05-19

officer who allows the prisoner to be
taken from him by the mob, and the
members of the mob be liable over
to the county for the amount of the
judgment, since the liability of the
county is the result of negligence
on the part of the officer, and of IL
legal acts on the part of the men,
bers of the mob. Sometimes
men of property join the mob,
very often they do. Why not give
them a chance to pay the damages?
The decision of the court will re-
suit in many more suits of this kind,
Heretofore, it has been almost i'm
possible to get verdicts from juries
in these cases, but under the law
and rules of court it becomes the
duty of the presiding judge to d.
rect a verdict where there is no con-
fict of evidence. In most of these
cases there can be no conflict of evil
dence, and the result will be that
verdicts will be rendered in all such
cases in the future.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-05-19
EDITOR O RETIRES.

We are Sorry to lose Brother
smoak, who quits the hills OF the
Piedmont to return to the low eoun-
try. He made the Anderson In
telligencer a readable paper. And
then his heart was in the right place,
and he was mostly right. We are
glad, however, that we shall not
part with him entirely. He goes
back to his own paper, The Press
and Standard, which he will edit in
the future, and which is n of the
best county papers which comes to
us. A mar can do a great deal of
good on a county paper, where he
thinks for himself, and does his own
talking-we hope.
Mr.. Smoak is succeeded or the In
telligencer by MI. L. R. Glenn, an
Anderson man, and a newspaper
man of experience. He starts out
as a veteran, and we hope he sue,
ceeds.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-05-19
H

The Supreme Court of the State
has gone a long ways towards stop
ping lynchings in South Carolina.
But it has gone no further than the
law goes. The Constitution of
1895 makes a county liable in dam
ages to the family of a person lynch
ed, if he be taken from an officer by
a mob, or unlawful assemblage. The
Supreme Court applied the law in
q case which came before it on ap-
peal from one of the lower counties
of the State.
The decision will not have a great
deal of weight with some parties
who + always willing to join the
mob, but it will have very persua-
sive force with those people who
must pay the judgment. Taxes are
high enough now in most counties,
and none of them, especially the
small ones, will welcome an addi-
tional debt of two thousand dollars
because some officer failed to pro-
tect a prisoner.
And this raises a query, as the
court would put it,-Should not the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-05-19
JUSTICE HUGHES.

Associate Justice Hughes, of the
United States Supreme Court, states
that he is not a candidate for the
nomination for president at the
hands of the republican party. The
justice shows a keen appreciation of
the Importance of the high position
which he holds. No mar should
become a judicial officer until he has
made up his mind that he will seek
no further political preferment.' 1t
lowers the dignity of the Office for a
Judge to come down off the bench
and go into a political fight. We
have all seer the evils which come
from it. The constitution should
declare a mar forever ineligible to
hold office in any other department
of the government when he becomes
a member of the judiciary.
A position on the bench should be
regarded by the judge who holds it
as above any political office. When
he assumes the office, he should turn
his back forever upon political par
ties and partisan politics. The
Goddess of Justice, should be blind
to all things except the law.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-05-19
THE PRESIDENTS NOTE.

W. publish today the note written
by President Wilson to the German
government concerning the viola
tons of American rights upon
the high seas, which violations Gull
minated in the sinking of the Lusi-
tania, and the loss of so many lives
of citizens of this country.
The views of President Wilson,
and the manner in which he has re-
minded Germany of the rights of
this country, his demand that this
kind of warfare cease, and that as
far as possible reparation be made
for American lives, has met with ap-
proval everywhere. The press of
this country as a unit is behind the
President. He has given the Ger
man government to understand that
it will be held to a strict accounta-
bility for the loss of American lives.
The note is not threatening, but it is
a dignifed statement of the issues,
and of the rights asserted.
There is no man on the American
continent better qualified to judge
of the situation, and of the course
of the President than former Presi-
dent Taft. His idea of the Presi-
dents views as contained in the note
is thus stated by him:
Admirable in tone, moderate in
the judicial spirit that runs through
the entire communication, dignifed
in the level the writer takes with re-
spect to international obligations, &C
curate in it's statements of ~interna-
tional law, he puts the case of the
United States in a way that will
call forth our earnest concurrence
and confidence"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-05-19

Speaking of lynchings, we are re
minded that in the last two year:
the Abbeville Jail has been entered
by an unlawful assemblage on two
different occasions. The truth i:
that a crowd of school boys could
break into the Abbeville Jail with
their baseball bats. Even those
people who believe in the law OF
Judge Lynch recognize that it has
it's defects as well as other institu'
tons of human construction. Some.
times a man is arrested charged
with crime, with evidence apparent
ly conclusively against him, who is
not really guilty, and whom a minor.
ity may believe innocent. Such a
man should be protected, and it
cannot be done in a Jail such as we
have.
But the present Jail should be
torn down and a new one built for
the reason that it is no longer suit
able for the purposes for which it
was erected. No conveniences can
be installed for the benefit of those
who are compelled to. languish there,
mol for those who must look after
it. No sanitary arrangements are
possible.
Very often good men are COM
PEELED to 60 to Jail; sometimes inno-
cent men are charged with crime,
and for one reason or another, can
not give bond; sometimes some I'M
fortunate is lodged there for a time.
1t is positively inhuman to force
such people to stay in a building
such as we now have. Every effort
has been made by the county author
tiles and by the several keepers of
the Jail to make it habitable, but
their efforts have come to naught.
1t cannot be done.
We know that times are hard now,
and that people are slow to spend
money; but at the same time a new
Jail is an imperative need of the
county; labor is cheap, and so are
building materials. The building
could be erected at much less cost
now than it could be a little later.
The county a issue fifty year
bonds at five per cent, and the debt
a be retired without hardship. The
legislative delegation should give
the matter some investigation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-05-19
An Election for
School Attendance.
Abbevi1le. s. c., Nav II, 1915.

Abbeville, S. c., May II, 1915.
Whereas, a majority of the School
Trustees of Abbeville School District
No. %, has presented to the County
Board of Education a petition asking
that an election he called for the pur-
pose of voting on Compulsory Educa-
ton,
1t is therefore ordered, that an cleo
ton be held in the Graded school build
ing between the usual voting hours on
the Sth day of June, tbeing the second
Tuesday of the month";, 1915.
Those in favor Of Compulsory Educa-
ton will vote a ballot on which Is
printed Compulsory school attendance
accepted" Those opposed will vote a
ballot on which is printed Compulsory
school attendance rejected"
The Trustees will supply three mana
gers Of election.
j. M. Lawson,
D. II. Hill,
W. j. Evans,
County Board Education.