Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-12-12

Recorder Hawkins has Issued the
following marriage licenses The pas,
week:
James l.. Fletcher of Newport, Ar
kansas, and Dorothy Marie Suffer of
ST. LoGis.
hil1h Decline and Mary Louise De-
Clue of Potosi.
Horace Anderson Blanton and Jew
ell iiehriette Gibson OF Bismarck.
Fremont Scoyii and Naomi Scoy!l
Of East St. Louis, His.
From the Flat River items in the
Harrington News: "Dr. VS. Stophlet
was called 10 Frederiektown Wednes-
day whtre be conducted the funeral
OF the Rev. Edwin Parker Keaeh. i
retired Presbyterian minister, whose
death from general debility occurred
there Monday. Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
DeiaDo, Of Bonnie Taige, The latter 4
daughter Of the deceased, accom-
panied DR.. Stoph!et to Frodericktown.
making the trip by motor.n
When circuit court convened In ad.
journed term Monday it was deemed
best. because of the influenza epidem-
ic, to excuse the jurors from service
and all jury eases were continued until
the next regular term In Apgil. The
trial Of eases in which no Jury is re-
CURED ID proceeding. Enoch and
Milton Barton, Robert Camden and
Nike Kelley Monday entered pleas Of
guilty to the charge Of burglary in
the Sligo Furnace Company store at
Doyle about q month since. Court
will probably adjourn Thursday.
Ed. II. Amelung, OF Indianapolis,
Indiana, and his brother, Henry, OF
Granite City, Illinois, were callers at
the REGISTER office last Saturday.
Ed. has mounted another round on
the Prudential ladder and has been
summoned to Cincinnati, Ohio, to take
charge Of the Prudential Life Insur-
auce ~Company's business there. lie
has been in the employ Of the Pru-
Dental about twenty years, having
had charge of the agencies at New
Albany, Indiana, Saginaw, Michigan,
ana Indianapolis, Indiana. Every
change he has made has been q pro-
motion. We congratulate him,
At meeting Of the Irontan School
Bonrd Wednesday evening Of last
week Mr.. r. S!loop rendered his res
ignation as Superintendent of Schools
The resignation was accepted and Mr.
Mckinney, who has been a teacher il
the achoola the past two years, wa
made Superintendent. His successor
has not yet been announced. Mr.
Shoop resigned Ms Superintendent t.
accept the position of State inspectol
of High Schools the first Of January
at a salary of $500 4 year and eX'
penses, under the newly elected STATE
superintendent Of Public Schools, Mr.
s. \, Baker. Prof. Shoop and Bake,
are old friends, having been engaged
together in days gone by in schoo
work at Richmond and Joplin.
From last Fridays Pennington
News: "The various mining compa
MES in the county posted notices O.
Wednesday that beginning to-mor
row they would go on 4 ire-day weel
basis in an effort to cut down the pro
duction oflead and to stimulate tn
price Of that mineral and at the sam
time keep all the employed with
out a reduction IN the daily wage
The companies in their notices ga
that there has been a drop Of a cent
pound already in the price OF lea
since the close of the war. The motto
of the enforced holiday was receive
with keen disappointment by the ne
in the district, who are finding Tia
cost Of living and expenses Of the viii
ter season requiring almost every do
lar Of their seemingly big wage
They fear that the market price
lead may go still lower until a cut j
wages will be made"
In response to q message from Pc!
lar Bluff last Saturday, | quit wori
put on hat, coat and o%vercoat, and
out for Pilot Knob. The aforesaid me
sage assured us that three aeroplane
on their way to Scott Field, would pas
, over the Valley at 1:l0 p. M.-thot
military people are right now
, designation OF time--and land in III
field adjoining the old fort premise
:, A barrel Of gasoline for tho use Of Il
=, aero motors was ordered to be dt
posted in tho field, and its locatic
!, marked by a spread Of white canva
50 said, SO done by Fletcher & BsI
ger and Mr.. j. NJ. Hawkins. At OF
o'clock I took passage IN Mr.. White
jitney, a little uneasy that we mig
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