Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-12-18

10 WOEtn Ju6 regular InuTbuay dumis-
sions OF IL and % cents. At the Acad-
amy Theatre, Ironton, n week aft
er the opening in st. Louis. Come
and see. Your money back il you are
not satisfied. ADV.
Miss Velma Sutherland returned to
st. Louis Monday after spending
three weeks with her parents in Ar
cadia. Miss Velma has been a nurse
in Barnes Hospital, So. Louis, the past
four years and is now assistant super
visor of the operating room. She
tells us that she recently underwent
an operation for appendicitis, but her
recovery therefrom has been marvel
GUS and she's a picture of health and,
if you will permit an old man, beauty.
q. j. Amelung, formerly of Pilot
Knob, writes from Granite City, Ills,
under date of December 9th: "We are
always glad to get the REGISTER. Not
a day passes that my wife and I do
not speak or think of our good old
home and the good people at Ironton
and Pilot Knob. We are we'll but not
much doing at the mill on account of
the coal strike. 1t looks like the
strikers will give in to-day. 1t is
showing now. Real winter 10 coming
now. 1t will be very hard on poor
people if the strike continues. Best
regards"
The following from Washington, d.
O., under date of December 18th,
appeared in Sundays st. Louis Globe
Democrat: Establishment of q ma
tional park to commemorate the
battle of Pilot Knob and "to preserve
to history the events which occurred
during the last invasion of Missouri
in 1854" is proposed in bill introduced
in the House today by Representative
Rhodes of Missouri. Congress is ask
ed to appropriate 500, 900 for the in
auguration of the work of turning the
Pilot Knob battlefield into a govern
ment park"
1t is reported to us that q certain in
dividual from Marble Creek who re-
Gently visited the west end of the
county to campaign against the pro-
posed road bonds, made the assertion,
while out there, that the REGISTER
had "lied" in certain statements made
in urging the voters to adopt the bond
issue. We here and now call on this
individual for a bill of particulars;
state wherein the REGISTER has made
any Misrepresentation. If he fails to
do this W. take it that the public will
have little trouble in arriving at the
proper conclusion as to who has been
"lying."
Thos. Hart, formerly of Ironton,
now living in Detroit, Michigan, un-
der date of December 18th, writes:
II will send a few lines to your paper
as | am not at work now. There are
more than $4,000 men 'layed Off in
Detroit now on occount of the strike
of the coal miners, We may go to
work Monday on half time, but BUSH
ness will not be normal before the
New Year. The cold wave passed by
and was only 5 above Wednesday
night-coldest it has been, 80 far, this
winter. We had six inches Of snow
the past week. We are paying from
IS to $40 a ton for coal. Everything
very high here. Best wishes to ALL"
From the Desloge Sun: "The Illinois
Southern Railway, which runs be-
tween Ste. Geuevieve and Bismarck
and through Flat River and Elvins,
formally quit business on Wednesday
of this week. Service over the road
for the past three years has been 60
ing from bad to worse and an attempt
was made prior to the end of the war
to quit, but some arrangements were
made to keep going. Only a mixed
train each day has been operating
over the road this side of the river
for about two years. The road hauled
most Of the coal from the Illinois
coal fields to this district and its
suspension will mean that all coal
must come by way of st. Louis, I'M
less the road is taken over by some
other line. We understand that the
suspension came about by some or
der of court"
Circuit court convened in adjourn
ed session Monday afternoon. The
case of State VS.. j. H. Long, charged
with the murder of Frank B. Cole in
Belleview last July, was called, and
the selection of a jury to try the Ease
was begun. The hearing of evidence
commenced Tusday afternoon with
the following jurors empaneled: M.
Johnson, O. A. Day, Walter Miller, B.
M. Patterson, L. F. Knight, M. Nor
ris, s. J. Macy, ]. o. Wood, M. d.
Yount, ]. Anderson, R. Tins, Geo.
Koehler. Prosecuting Attorney Ed