Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-02-19

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Francis will make some improvements
on his mill at once.
Robert Roblee, of the Brown Shoe
Company, st. Louis. was In Frederick
town last week looking over available
sites for a branch shoe factory which
his company proposes establishing in
some country town during the year.
No demand will be made on commu-
mites seeking the location of the
factory but Inducements will be
considered"
W. @. Perkins, for many years a
photographer, died at his home in st.
Louis Wednesday of last week. The
remains were inferred in the New
Hope cemetery Friday. Mrs. Mary
Eckellkamp, Mrs. Perkins mother,
died at her home in Washington, Mo-,
last Thursday. Friends of Mrs.
Perkins in the valley offer sympathy
in her double bereavement.
Recorder Hawkins has issued the
following marriage licenses since our
last report:
Frank j. Gault and Ella Pierson of
Iron Mountain.
Sidney j. Wilkinson of Belgrade
and Palla May Allen of Caledonia.
Emmanuel ]. Stuckey and Florence
Loughran of st. Louis.
Clarence Leo Smith and Bernadette
Theresa Wagner of st. Louis.
The writer while standing on Main
street noticed a heavy car coming
d0u,o tho afraok Tuoc1ory 1;rht ohoIt
nine, or shortly after, headed towards
Arcadia. All at once it changed its
course and went around the Court
House block. In another instant it
increased it's speed and crossed Main
street very recklessly, between the
Court House and the old American
Hotel. Who was in the car? What
would have happened if the Marshal
had been near? K.
w. r. King, the lumber man from
Minimum, wal a caller at this office
Tuesday. Mr.. King tells us that he
recently cut and sawed q monster
white oak tree on Thos. ID. jones'
farm, near French Mills, from which
he made 81 ties, SOC each, which
brought $4S. so, and 200 feet lumber
which brought $3.50, a total of SOL 80
for the whole tree. The stump of
the tree is 33 inches across and the
tree was II feet high. The first cut
of the tree made IL ties, next II, next
10, next 8, next 8, next 4, next 8,
next 2.
The Fredericktown Democrat-News:
"Every few days a new asset of
Madison county comes to light.
Mines, timber. fertile fields, good
water, good climate and a hundred
other things are used daily to induce
strangers to come and live with US.
Now comes to light a new one One
year ago one VIM. Hughes bought 40
acres of land in the southern part Of
the county. His equipment consisted
of a coon dog, grade number one
The land was bought or credit and
during the past year Mr.. Hughes
caught enough coons, possums and
miDks to pay the entire $400 for the
land and support himself in addition.
just what Mr.. Hughes needs with
land does not appear, unless it be
that he requires the space on which
to cure his hides"
James W. Mccormick, sou-in-Iaw
of Mr.. and Mrs. @. q. Russell, former
residents of Ironton, died at his home
in Bourbon, Crawford County,
January 31st. In speaking of the
death of this young man the Bourbon
Standard of q recent date says:
"One>of the greatest losses that this
- ,, tty hoo cr1utaino1 fnr cnron
years was the death of James W.
Mccormick, which occurred last
Saturday, morning, January 81, after
an illness of about ten days duration.
The immediate cause of his death
was pneumonia, resulting from a
severe cold taken while on a business
trip to st. Louis, where he had gone
to close a contract with the dining
car company of one of the railroads.
| Mr.. Mccormick was one of the few
who made the poultry and egg
business pay, and his success was due
to mis- wide vision of possibilities and
powers of execution. He was a man
of wonderful tenacity of purpose, and
endowed with almost superhuman
perseverance to reach the goal of
his ideals. He was highly educated
and his daily walk in life, his business
methods, bore witness to his culture
and training and discipline of mind.
| He was a good man, a good husband,
and a kind and indulgent parent-a
lover of his home, which was always
hospitable. He was a good neighbor,
and one that will be missed by those
who looked up to him for his unerr-
ing judgement and guidance, for he
was a natural leader of Q He
was to a great degree modest and
unostentatious, but would defend
what he believed to be right with
pronoun ced and convincing energy
PERSONAL.