Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-09-09

and sleeping car rates are jumped 80
per cent. These rate advances will,
of course, tend to Increase the cost
of all the things we must buy. The
freight on coal to Potosi, for instance,
will be eighty cents a ton more. Ii
your income doesn't grow in proper
ton, goodnight!
{ Desloge Sun: "Jasper Thomure
has located his Ford touring q which
was stolen from G. F. Shaner's barn
about a month ago. The machine is
in a garage in Topeka, Kansas, where
it is being held for storage, having
been left there by someone, just who,
we do not know, but hope to find out
soon. Mr.. Thomure in company with
Sheriff Adams, left Desloge Thursday
afternoon for Topeka, where they
will claim the car and return home.
We are certainly pleased to know
that Jasper Is SO fortunate in locating
the a and trust that 1t has not been
roughly used, as 1t was q new car
when stolen.n
Potosi Journal: "Those who took
in the ball game here last Sunday
afternoon between the crack Ironton
team and the home nine saw some
real ball playing, but Notwithstanding
the strong stuff the visitors put up,
they took home with them a full bas-
ket of goose eggs, the score being 8
to DIN favor Of Potosi. The home boys
played true to the winning form they
have developed with the advance OF
the season. Wilson on the mound,
allowed the visitors but few openings
and these were closed by his support
so that not a man got through. Rob-
inson on the mound for the visitors
also did good work. The whole
game was good ball."
One Of the principal business deals
of the week was the purchasing of the
Banner Store by W. s. Cssebolt; the
deal was closed the first of the week,
MI. Oasebolt taking charge and re-
moving his former stock of merchan-
disc from the Greer building to The
Banner Store Tuesday. Henry Macon
and Claude Marshall launched the
Banner Store about eight months ago,
after having the building in which
the business was conducted remodel
ed to meet their demands; their trade
in the very beginning was most en-
couraging and just why they have
decided to quit business is not gener-
ally known. Mr.. Macon, it is under
stood, will now devote his undivided
attention to his campaign for the
office of sheriff, while Mr.. Marshall 1t
is understood will again enter the
shoe business .-Poplar Bluff Repub-
lican.
Prof. Roberts, a member of the fac
ulty of the State Teachers College at
Cape Girardeau, was drowned in Cur
rent River week before last. The de-
ceasedlwas we'll known to the students
from this county who attended thai
institution. The following is from the
Cape Girardeau Morning Sun: "Mrs
Roberts, who was in the boat with the
Professor when it oapsized, narrowly
escaped drowning. When the boat
was turned over she was struck by one
side of 1t and when she regained con-
sciousness she was clinging to one
side of the boat floating down stream
The current of the river, which at thit
time of the year is very high, carried
her away from the scene of the acci-
dent and she says that the last thing
she saw of her husband he was hang
ing to the snag which caused the ov-
erthrow of the boat. She said that
she called to him to stay there until
she arrived and that the last words
she heard him utter were those an
swering her that he would remain. I
is supposed that he either suffered
cramp or let go of the snag to go tt
his wife's assistance. The screams o
Mrs. Roberts brought other people tt
the scene, but the body of Prof. Rob
erts was not found until wednesday
morning when it was located sitting
upright on a shoal near the banl
about $50 yards from the place wher
the boat capsized."
The editor is in receipt of the fol
lowing interesting lines from hi
young friend, E. A. Roehry, genera
superintendent of the Cairo Railwa,
and Light Company, Cairo, Ills, un
der date of September I'd: every
thing has been going along NIGEL.
with me here, except for the condi
tons of coal shortage, strikes ant
the ineficiency of labor, which is
constant worry to the public utilit,
industry. 1t doesn't seem that WI