Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-03-25

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publican: "Contractor Knorpp spent
the latter part of last weekin Ironton,
where he has a contract to build
some streets. The editor of this paper
was with him on Wednesday. We
were most ~agreeably surprised to find
the little city of Ironton, nesting as
it does at the foot of Shepard Mount
ain, putting on real city airs. Concrete
sidewalks, graded streets and electric
lights are some of the notable i'm
provements during the pastfew years.
While there we called upon our good
friend Pigg of the Enterprise. He
was very busy nursing a new type
setting machine recently purchased,
He is publishing a good paper and is
ably assisted by Mrs. Pigg. We talked
shop for an hour and then went over
and called upon "Uncle" Eli AXE, the
veteran newspaper man of Southeast
Missouri. Fifty years in the IRON
COUNTY REGISTER officel His hair is
as white as the driven snow, but his
brain is active and he publishes a
splendid local paper and gets a dollar
and a half a year for it, too"
W. @. Robinson and family drove
over to Irondale Saturday morning
to be present at the reunion of the
Robinson family which was held at
the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Robinson, in Irondale that day
in honor of the seth birthday anniver-
sary of his father. The four sons and
four daughters and the families of
those who are married were all pres
emit to spend the day together and at
tended church together. They are all
members of the Methodist church,
but attended church on Sunday at the
Baptist church and heard a very fine
sermon by Rev. Taylor who recently
held a great revival meeting there at
which "a persons were converted,
many of them heads Of families and
leaders in the community. Mr.. Rob.
inson drove over to Irondale in his
automobile, making the trip in a little
over an hour. He went by Frank
clay and says there is a rock road
from Pennington to the st. Francois
County line via Frankclay and that
between the county line and Irondale
the road is rocked except for a little
over a mile and that the people in
' Washington county expectto improve
this small stretch during the coming
year.-Farmington News.
: Roy WEIGH, aged 10 years, of
! Cherryville, was shot and mortally
! w~oundedby Tom Wigger, also Of Cher
: ryville, near Gumbo Tuesday morn
! ing. Wigger is being held in the u
!. ty jail to answer for the murder. May
Jones, the "woman in the case" is in
: the county infirmary, being detained
as a witness. The foregoing r the
principal facts in a tragedy which
claimed the county wide attention
= this week, and in which the drink
! curse had it's part. The shooting,
which rounded out a night of dis
sipation, occurred on the county road
leading to Leadwood at a point near
Gumbo where the road leads of
VI to Mitchell Place. According to
the story of the Jones woman, the
trio, composed Of herself, WEIGH and
Wigger, had spent the night together
. at Desloge and were returning to theil
homes in the Leadwo6d neighbor
hood between 9 and 10 O'Clock Tues
day morning. WEIGH and Wiggel
quarreled over which II should walk
with the woman and when the latter
!, showed a preference for WEIGH, Wig
ger became angered, drew his revol.
yer, fred one shot in the ground anG
Z the second one into the body o,
" WEIGH. Wigger fired three more
shots, emptying his revolver, as the
woman fed. The latter said sht
IS thought he fred at her. She said she
se ran and jumped into an automobile
a6 which was a short distance from thu
u. scene, but the driver, whose identit.
is has not been learned, made her ge
o out of the car. She later returned tt
! her wounded companion. WEIGH la.
/ beside the road for some time befor'
IL he was removed to the home of Chas
T. Christopher at Gumbo. WEIGH wa
y, in a semi conscious condition from
er the time he was shot until his death
90 which occurred about $50 that even
~ ing. He made no statement excep
to say that he had been shot. Dr.
McClelland, of Desloge, was called i'm
r m~ediately after the shooting. After al
,, examination Of Welch's wound tn
doctor pronounced it fatal. The bal
us entered just above and a little to tn
lg right of the heart.-Farmington News
OF Fort Hill Church.
l. n at Sunday School, and 10 absent
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