Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-07-01

of the late Mrs. Bell Patton.
Commissioner E. ]. Bean heard the
complaint of the pleople who want
the Sligo & Eastern railroad freight
rates reduced, at the American Hotel
Annex In st. Louis last Friday and
Saturday. There was a mass Of evil
dence introduced. The Commission
win announce its finding later.
Local option has been in effect in
Iron county nearly a year. The pro-
hilton contention that the abolition of
the saloon works a reduction in GRIM
inal costs is not justified by Iron
~county's experience. Not in years, If
ever before, has the criminal cost bill
in Iron county been as large as in the
year just passed.
Program of Presbyterian Missionary
Society for July 14th at 8 O'Clock PM:
Hostess, Mrs. F. Kindell, Jr.; Devo-
tional, Mrs. Damron; Roll Call, For
eign Topic; Music. Miss Mitchell; Pa
per, "The Red Men and The Govern
ment," Mrs. Francis; Story of Poca-
hontas-in costume-Louise Damron;
Hymn; MizDah Benediction.
Some of the ladies' have been solicit
ing subscriptions this week to secure
funds to cut the grass and clean up
the Masons and Odd Fellows ceme-
terry. If there are any who have not
contributed, who wish to do so, they
can make a remittance to this office
and the amount will be turned over tc
those having the work in charge.
The government is seeking an I'm
munition testing range, adjacent to
st. Louis, and several points along the
Iron Mountain railroad, it is said, are
being considered. The tract must be
four and a half miles long and a half
mile wide. 1t is said that the Iron
Mountain tract, owned by W. H..
Smollinger, is under consideration.
Recorder Hawkins has issued the
following marriage licenses the past
two weeks:
VIM. A. Toney and Nettie Dewey
Bunyard Of Piedmont.
Thos. Symonds and Cornelia W..
Mcfarland of Ironton.
Monroe Edmonds and Efie Moore
of Granitev!lle.
Ferman Myers of Poplar Bluff and
Minnie Simms of Bismarck.
Fred E. Goaz, of Lafayette Indiana.
and Ida Lee White Of Des Arc, Mo.
Mr.. E. B. Becker and wife of st.
Louis are spending a couple of weeks
with Mr.. Becker's mother, in Pilot
Knob. Elmer recently graduated
from the Law Department of the st.
Louis University. He has been asso-
ciated with The Mercantile Trust Com
pany for the past eight years, recently
being transferred to the banking de-
partment. He is, indeed, a most ex-
cellent and deserving young man and
his many friends here IRE gratifed to
note that he is mounting the ladder.
Rev. Howard G. Colwell, Secretary
of the Missouri Baptist Assembly, ar
rived in Ironton from st. Louis Sun
day, to make preliminary arrange
ments for this years Assembly, which
will be in session on Arcadia Heights
from August Sd to 18th, inclusive. Mr..
Colwell us that he has every
reason to believe that the attendance
this year will be the largest ever. The
programme is most excellent and he
says that 1915 is going to be the ban
ner year of the Assembly on Arcadia
Heights.
The friends in this county of Judge
John L. Thomas, who makes his home
in Washington, D.. O., will be glad tt
learn that he is again able to be up
and around after being confined to his
bed for ten weeks. The Judge during
the last three months has undergone
two operation, n for his eyes and
the other for bladder trouble. He and
Mrs. Thomas expect to leave Wash
lington in a few weeks for San Fran
cisco to take in the Exposition. Judge
Thomas is now nearly eighty years
old.-De Soto Times.
An agent for portable heaters fol-
school rooms worked this county, OF
portions of it, last week. The heater
is a good thing, but the agent does
not depend wholly upon its merit tc
induce sales. He imparts the interest
ing information that a recently en-
acted law compels school boards tc
purchase and install the heater IN OF
before 1915 Such is the story told BY
a member Of the Middlebrook board.
That district bought one heater and
Graniteville two, we are informed
but as to the alleged law compelling
the purchase, neither lawyer nor lay
man has as yet been able to locate it.
MARRIED Wednesday, June %
1915, at the home of the brides sister
Mrs. Harry Dinger, Ironton, Mo.
by the Rev. o. @. E. Brandt, MI
Thomas Symond and Miss Cornelii
mcfarland, all OF Ironton. The cere'
mony took place at 8 O'Clock P. M
Only the nearest relatives were pres
ent at the ceremony. Miss Rub!
Calvert attended the bride, and MI
Roland Hill acted as best man. 4
dainty supper was served to thos'
present, and a pleasant evening wa
spent by all, Mr.. and Mrs. Symon'
have the congratulations and goo
wishes of a host Of friends. They vii
make their home near Ironton.
Freight Traffic Manager q. e. Per
kins Of the Missouri Pacific ha
notified station agents to refuse to al
low consignees of bulk freight to ped
die goods out Of cars at destination
The use OF cars as ~salesroom, for TIL,
disposal of apples and other freights
has become too common to be toler
ated, and the practice is now forbid
Il den nnt univ IN accouut of cOnHidera