Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-06-08

Exercises of the Tuxedo High School,
Webster Gloves, June list, we see the
name OF Chester Billings as n Of the
graduates. This young man is the
son of Mr.. B. r. Billings and the late
Mrs. Billings and a grandson OF Mrs.
M. E. Hughes Of Ironton. We have
no doubt the young man acquitted
himself with credit on the occasion.
Parties tried to gain entrance to
the e. L. Peck home Friday night
Mrs. Peck and baby being the only
ones at home at the time. Upon
hearing the noise, Mrs. Peck scream
\ ed, which aroused John Winters, who
came to her assistance. This also
frightened the would-be intruder and
he beat it while going was good.-Bis-
Marek Gazette.
Larger postal savings deposits will
now be accepted at the post office.
This is made possible by an impor-
tant amendmentto the Postal Savings
Act just approved by President Will
son. A postal savings depositor may
now have an account amounting to
81, 900 upon which interest will be
paid. Formerly $500 was the maximum
amount he could have to his credit.
At a meeting of the Ironton School
Board last Friday night VIM. McKin-
ney of Caledonia was employed as
principal of the grammar school
for the ensuing year to succeed MIR.
Hutchins. Mr.. Mckinney has been
employed as a teacher at Caledonia
for a number of years past and comes
highly recommended. He will move
his family to Ironton in the near
future.
G. A. Hartzell, the postmaster, mil
Ter and merchant at Enough, four
miles west of Shepard and seven
miles east of Goodwater, was in IRON
ton last Wednesday afternoon on his
way to St. Louis. Mr.. Hartzell has a
small flour mill, 25 barrel capacity,
and say he makes much better -four
than many of the big mills. The post
Office was established at Enough
April LIST.
So far as we have been able to as
certain Jesse Hawkins is the only
Irontonian who %journeyed to st. Louis
last Wednesday to hear Teddy on the
occasion of his visit to the city that
day. Jesse heard and says he made a
great speech. But he denies that he
went to St. Louis to hear the ex-
President. Says he was subpoenaed
there as a witness in the case against
the Sligo Furnace Company.
In passing on Section 10,S69 of the
school laws whose title is "Primary
and high schools to be established and
sites located" the st. Louis Court of
Appeals, in Volume So, page 85, says:
Directors have no power to change
site of schoolhouses or erect new
schoolhouses on new site without the
sanction of the voters of the district.
Does this me an that there will have
to be an election held to determine
the site for the high school building in
the Ironton district?
The REGISTER is in receipt of a
copy of the Fort Worth, Texas, Re-
cord of June LIST, telling of the death
of Mrs. Fl. Peters, which occurred at
home of her daughter, Mrs. w. F.
Stewart, in that city May 31st, at the
age of rs years. Mrs. Peters was we'll
known in this county, having at one
time conducted the American Hotel
in Ironton, and later in the hotel
business at Annapolis. She was a
good woman and the news of her
demise will be heard by many old
friends with real sorrow.
A jury in the United States District
Court in st. Louis last Friday returned
a verdict for $500 in favor of Richard
P. Dalton in his suit against the Sligo
Furnace Company. Dalton had sued
the Sligo Company for 81 800, alleg-
ing that the defendant had purchased
that amount of timber which had been
stolen from a half interest in $40 acres
, of land which he owned in the west
end of Iron county. Dalton lives in
Chicago und owns the lands jointly
with Marshal John e. Lynch of St
Louis.
In this issue of the REGISTER will be
found the announcement of j. W
Reed as a candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for Assessor. Mr.,
Reed is a good man and straightfor'
; ward Democrat. He has been a resi-
dent of Iron county for the last five
years, coming here from Reynolds
: county, where he long made his home
r We have no doubt that should he be
elected to the office to which he
aspires he will, at all times, be founc
d~ischarging his duties to the very
!, best of his ability.
In this weeks issue of the REGISTER
will be found the announcement OF
| James G.. Austin as a candidate fol
the Democratic nomination for Rep
resentative Of Iron county. MIR. Aus
tin needs no words of Introduction OF
: commentator from us. He has spenI
all his life in Iron county and is known
. BY all. He promises that should the
voters honor him by electing him to the
! office to which he aspires he will a.
all times devote his best ability toWarc
i, carrying out the will of his constitu-
: ents. .
Judge bearing and Stenographel
Jarvis arrived son the noon trair
Monday. Circuit court convened in
1 the afternoon. Elliott Sheriff., o.
I Ironton, and Myrtle Chandler, o.
/ Bixby, who were indicted by the re-
cent grand jury for violation of the
/ local option law, both pleaded guilty
and we're sentenced to six months II
/, Jail and paroled. Appeals were taker
in several cases tried at the recent
term of circuit court. All OF the
] business of the adjourned term wal
} completed before Tuesday noon ant
: final adjournment had.
J w. w. Strother and L. L. White
: who recently with a few others Dough
' in the College building at Des Arc
under a foreclosure sale, this week
transferred their interests to the
! Nazarine church. Messrs. Strothel
and White were on notes for the
: school and bought in the property al
appreciation to themselves. We I'M
, derstand they turned the property
back upon being released from thu