Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-04-08
Des Arc News.

/ was on No. 9 a few nights ago ana
picked up the st. Louis Star. Ifound
the following item which / hope every
one of our representatives with Gov.
Major included, will read. He should
have recommended it, l will repro
duce it here.
"The Missouri Public Service Com
missioner has begun to pry into the
affairs of Missouri railroads, with a
view of determining whether the
salaries paid the president and other
high officials are in proportion to the
wages of laborers."
The statement was made frequently
during the Forty eighth General
Assembly just ended, that the officials
of some of the roads were receiving
fabulous salaries, and that such ex-
penditures were responsible in a
way for the plight of the railroads
and their subsequent request for an
increase in freight and passenger
rates.
The Commission has ordered every
railroad doing business in Missouri
to furnish it with the average salary
of its employees. This will necessitate
revealing the money paid every man
from president down to section hand.
James Moss who took suddenly i'll
last week passed away at his home
here last Saturday. He suffered in
tensely and all that medical aid could
do was done for him, but with no
avail. He leaves a widow with three
children, all grown and with families
to mourn for him. He was a good
industrious man and had just got his
home fixed up comfortable and had
improved his place by putting new
fencing around his land which he re-
Gently purchased here. But God
knows best and it is a great consola-
ton to his family to know that he had
made his peace with God and was
ready to go. His body was taken to
the Sutton graveyard near Annapolis
for burial. Quite a number from
Des Arc attended the funeral.
VIM. Stevenson went to Annapolis
Monday.
q. S. Fitz from Poplar Bluff was in
town last week.
Miss Hattie Hickman was in Pied
mont last week.
Miss Essie Tolleson went to Granite
vile to spend Sunday with her
parents.
VIM. Walcott has gone to Kansas
where he has employmet.
Miss Freda Hickman from Brunot is
visiting Miss Edith Miller.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Kness from
Belleview were here last week to
visit r. Davidson and family.
John Lloyd and Joe Deane have
gone to the Missouri Pacific Hospital in
st. Louis.
A fine baby boy arrived at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. K. Wallis
last week.
Jas. Lovelace and James Maddox
we're in Greenville last week attend
ing court.
DR.. N. A. Farr is fixing up his
telephone line in good shape. He
has put in a number of new phones
and is giving good service. We are
certainly glad to have good telephone
service here. 1t is something we have
needed. For some time the lines
were down and were in a bad condi-
ton.
Rev. o. s. Taylor preached for us
part of last week and his sermons are
still very interesting. He has good
attention and good attendance al
each service. The Sunday School
was made very interesting Sunday
morning by a special paper on the
"Origin of Easter" read by Prof. W
E. Mckee. 1t was very instructive
and was listened to with great interest
Our Sunday School is getting better
each Sunday and the attendance has
almost reached 100. Bro. J. L. Stradel
is a fine bible teacher and has a large
class. We have a good Superinten.
dent, our Station Agent. He is a true
Christian and doing noble work in the
Sunday School, ISAAC.