Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-08-24

hoping for an improvement, but the
electric light company, with absolute
Indifference, is making no effort tC
better the service. 1t is time Tor dras-
tic action. The light company should
be compelled to furnish us lights or be
put out of business.
From the Pennington News: '"Roy
Williams is in Jail charged with an as
sault with intent to kill VIM. Boat
right at Iron Mountain on last Friday
afternoon. He was to have had bis
preliminary hearing yesterday before
Justice Good, but asked that it be con-
tinued until tomorrow. The report
of the affair that we have is that Will
liams and Arch Hall became intoxi-
Gated on last Friday and went down to
tue lake where they got into trouble
with some persons camping there and
Roy got a whipping. They went back
home and got a shot gun and as they
passed Bo%atright's home they fired at
him as he was sitting in the door,
wounding him slightly in the shoulder
and thigh. The sheriff was notified
and Deputy T. V. Brown went over to
Iron Mountain that afternoon and got
Williams. Hall had skipped and has
not been heard of since"
The following is from last Thursdays
Poplar Bluff Citizen Democrat: sword
was received here this morning of the
marriage of Bern Lorenz of the Lorenz
Mercantile Company, and Miss Au-
rela Galloway, daughter of Mrs. Re-
becca Galloway of this city. The
nuptials occurred this morning in the
parlors of the Hotel jefferson in st.
Louis. The news was conveyed in a
letter from Mr.. Lorenz to Mayor Rob-
ert G. Felts, received this morning.
Word of the wedding came as a great
surprise to friends of the couple.
When Mr.. Lorenz went to st. Louis
Tuesday night, ~ostensibly on bust
ness, no n suspected that he was
to meet his bride and her mother
there. Mr.. and Mrs. Lorenz will re-
turn to Poplar Bluff after a short
honeymoon trip. Both bride and
groom are very well known and popu-
lar in social society circles" Valley
friends of the bride extend congrat-
ulations and best wishes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Shores and
two sons, Fred and Paul, arrived in
Ironton Thursday evening from FL
don, Iowa, on a visit to Mrs. Shores
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Kindell,
ST., and other relatives. They made
the trip in an automobile and a por-
ton of the journey was a bit strenu-
ono Thh x010n1ntar al, t1at fh1
distancefrom Eldon to Ironton is 1892
miles. The party left Eldon Monday
morning and the trip that day was
without special incident, arriving at
Frankfort, Mo-, a small town about
midway between Hannibal and Louisi-
ana, and 1870 miles from Eldon. That
night, however, there came an awful
storm and rain, the precipitation in
twelve hours being more than sever
inches. The roads we're badly washed
and bridges swept down the streams.
1t was not until Wednesday morning
that the party ventured to proceed on
their journey and then took a mule
team along to pull them out of the
worst places and over the streams.
They arrived at Louisiana about noon
and there found that an the bridges
across a small river that they had to
0 was washed away, except one
railroad bridge. Finally Mr.. Shores
concluded he would try and drive the
car over the bridge ties if he could
secure permission to make the at
tempt. The agent of the railroad
would not give his consent to any
such hazardous an undertaking but
intimated that if the Automobiles in
sisted on going over the bridge he
couldn't help it. After further con-
sidering the matter Mr.. Shores re-
solved to make the attempt. And
bumpety bump, bumpety bump, they
went over the bridge ties, finally get
ting over without mishap. The rest
of the road to st. Louis was very
muddy and badland several times they
had to be "pulled out" but had no
serious mishap. They spent Wednes-
day night near St. Charles, got into
st. Louis about 8 o'clock Thursday
morning and reached Ironton a little
before supper time. Under favorable
conditions Mr.. Shores says the trip
could be made in two days.