Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-09-30

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Hymn-Mrs. Francis; Business; Roll
Call-Happenings in the Philippines
and Hawaii; Book Review-Mrs
kindell, Jr. Scripture quotations.
The family Of DIR. Chas. H. Jones o
Brunot will remove here this weel
and be domiciled in the house OF
Shepherd Mountain formerly owned
by I. D. Jones. They will remain
here during the school year. DR.
jones' duties will keep him at Brunot
but he will be a frequent visitor.
The Tri-County Fair at Piedmont
four days OF last week was unusually
well attended and declared an un,
qualified success. The exhibits in ev-
cry department were most creditable
and excited universal commentator
A monster crowd was in attendance
on Thursday when Gov. Major deliver
ed an address.
City Marshall W. H. Fisher wishes
to call the attention of those interest
ed to tine fact that the dog tax be.
comes due October 1st and must bt
paid Immediately. Whether you owr
a dog or not, ifyou permit him to stay
about your place, you are liable foi
the tax. Pay at once and avoid the
penalty of delay.
A card from Mrs. L. E. Freeman o.
Watts, California, informs US of the
marriage of her sister, Mrs. Anna
Byers Nagel and Mr.. Barclay H. Burk
of Riverside, California, on August %
1915. Mr.. and Mrs. Burk are making
their home at Riverside. Valley
friends of the bride wish her and herr
long life and happiness!
Fred Robinson, the negro chauffer
charged with assaulting the eleven.
year-old girl, Agnes Favez, with in
tent to rape at the Lewis place or
September 1S, had a preliminary ex.
animation before Justice Rasche last
Thursday, who bound him over tc
circuit court. In default of a $4,000
bond Robinson is in jail.
The wedding of Mr.. Paul Whelahon.
son of Mr.. Ohas. Whelahon, OF Area
dia, and Miss Kathryn Whitworth,
daughter of Mrs. Kate Whitworth, oil
Ironton will be solemnized in st
Joseph's Chapel, Arcadia, Thursday
morning, September 80, 1915. Many
friends wish these young people a
life replete with happiness.
We extend a most cordial invitation
to all our friends and patrons and the
general public to visit our store on
the occasion of our annual Fall Open
ing next Saturday, October I'd. New
fall merchandise will be on display in
all departments, and substantial
souvenirs will be presented the ladies,
LOPEZ STORE Go.
DR.. McOutcheon, the ~penitentiary
surgeon, recently recommended the
parole Of Arthur Spaugh, of Iron
county, stating that he is suffering
from tuberculosis. The pardon board
promptly and properly turned down
the recommendation. Spaugh is
serving a life sentence for the murder
of Sheriff John w. Polk in May, 1905.
Rev. J.. W. Wood,aged So years, died
at his home in Pennington, September
23d, The deceased was one of the
oldest and best known Baptist minis
tiers in this section. Twenty pears
and more ago he filled the pulpit in
the church at the Cove, east of town,
and other places in Iron county. The
funeral occurred at Irondale the fol-
lowing day.
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Rev. Frederick R. Wedge, "The
Fighting Parson Of the Barbary
.Coast,u delivered a lecture in the
Presbyterian church last Friday even
ing. Mr.sWedge was at one time a
prize fighter, became converted and
is now a minister in the Presbyterian
church. He is at present pastor at
Piedmont. He is conducting a revival
fhis week at Graniteville.
GIN. London returned home last
night from st. Louis, where he had
been the past week with his son, Es-
Their, who is at the Missouri Baptist
Sanitarium. He underwent a slight
surgical operation there last Satur-
day for an affection Of the cavity sur-
rounding the left lung. We are pleas
ed to report that he is recovering
steadily, though slowly, from his III
ness.-Farmington News.
My friend, Mr.. Jos. Sellinger, OF
Crane Pond, was in town Saturday,
along with his good wife. They ia
vored the REGISTER with a call, pre-
senting us with a potato of remarkable
formation, weighing 2 ia pounds. II
is, in the rough, the figure of a hui
man, with o~utstretched arms, and head
and body we'll developed. We have il
on exhibition, and you may call and
"see it with your own eyes,"
Encouraged by the numerous dry
victories throughout the country this
summer the good people of De Soto
have decided to match a fight with
the liquor traffic. 1t is reported that
petitions asking that an election be
called are now being circulated and
that a vote will be had some time in
November. DeSoto voted wet by a
small majority when the'question was
submitted several years ago.-Lead
BeltNews.
Rev. j. r. A. Vaughan was called to
st. Louis county Tuesday by a mes
sage announcing the death of his
Youngest sister, Mrs. Perry Davis, of
Bridgeton, which occurred at 10
O'Clock Monday evening following a
stroke of paralysis which she sus-
tanned while at the dinner table Mon
day. She was So years Of age. She
leaves a husband and n daughter,
Miss Ruth, three brothers and one
ter.-Farmington News.
A special from Bismarck to the st.
Louis Republic last Thursday conveys
the following welcome intelligence:
ga deal has been consummated
whereby the old Iron Mountain prop
erty here, consisting Of $1,000 acres,
passed into the hands of a new cor
poration. w. II. Smollinger, the
trotting-hor breeder, who just sold
the property, will retire. The new
owners have arranged for a neW iron