Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-02-12

some concerted move TO secure a
night man for the station heref The
night accommodations at the station
are inadequate and outrageous. II
you don't believe this just journey up
to the station and wait for a night
train to come along. Prompt relief
should be urged by our people,
At a luncheon given at her home on
January 18th, Mrs. w. A. Humphreys
announced the engagement of her
daughter, Miss Ruth, to Mr.. Eugene
Munger of this city, the wedding to
take place in the very near future.
Miss Humphreys, with her parents,
formerly lived in Dexter and she 10
well known here and very popular
with u young people. Mr.. Munger,
a son of Prosecuting Attorney George
Munger, is a promising young attorney
of this county, and a young man
whose character is unassailable.-
Dexter Messenger.
We were without lights Thursday,
Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights
of the past week. A broken pump,
it is said, put the light plant out of
commission. Nothing was done Fri
day, Saturday or Sunday, but some
fellow happened along Monday and
got the pump to working. Mag
nificent, beautiful service that. May
or Baldwin wired a vigorous protest
to the president of the Light Company
in st. Louis Monday and that night
the lights came on again. Whether
it was tie Mayors kick or just kind
and considerate condescension on
the part of the light people that
brought them back we do not know.
The county court had no bids for
the construction work on the 3 IL
miles of state highway in the Potosi
special road district, recently adver-
tised to be let on February I'd. 1t APP
pears the amount of the work and
appropriation for same was too small
to induce outside construction con
tractors to go after it. Second Assis-
tant State Road Engineer Kirk Nc
Farland of Jefferson City, was here
Monday, to review the bids offered,
and finding none, said that the work
would probably be carried on to the
amount of the funds on hand under
the special road district commissioners
with such local labor as can be pro-
cured.-Potosi Journal.
From the Cente-ville Outlook:
"During the past few weeks there
has been much talk throughout this
congressional district as to who and
how many will offer their services to
their party during the congressional
campaign. For the Democratic nom
nation several have been mentioned.
We do not know that he could be in
duced to enter the contest, but we at
this time have in mind one of Iron
County's stalwart young Democrats
who has spent his time and money in
the interest of THE party in this district
since arriving at the age of twenty
one years. He is a f~orceful speaker
and has the sticktoitiveness to keep
aeverlastingly at it," He, in every
respect, will measure up to the stan
dard. His name is VIM. r. Edgar, Jr.,
of Ironton."
We this week received the blue
print for Dam No. 2, which will span
Current River at the junction of Jacks
Fork. This dam will furnish the
power or a part of the power, to
operate the proposed Electric Rail
way from Cabooi to Ironton. We al
so learn that the consulting engineer
in New York City has approved the
plan for the dam. Mr.. M. R. Cole,
engineer in charge of the survey,
etc, etc., is now in Cincinnati, Ohio,
for a conference with those who con-
template the building of the road.
The people back of this enterprise
are asking our people for nothing
only the right of-way as the road is
constructed. When the time comes
for our citizens to act on the PROPOSE
ton of right Of way they will do the
right thing. We will probably have
something more definite for our
readers in a couple of weeks.-Center-
vile Outlook.
Business was never better on this
line of the Missouri Pacific, OCCASION
ed, at least in part, by the condition
of the Mississippi river at the
Lesperence street transfer where a
large deposit of sand and a heavy
flow of ice have caused the st. Louis
Ivory street yards to discontinue
the use of the transfer BOAT to Dupo,
Illinois. 1t is estimated by engineers
that it will require an expenditure of
at least 800 900 to remove the OBJ
strucring bed of sand SO that the
transfers may again be made by
boat. 1t is possible that the final out
come will be that the boats will be
abandoned and all the traffic which
was formerly handled through here
will again come our way rather than
as handled for some years on the
Valley division. There are already
many crews being used in freight SER
vice here that are regularly used at
Dupo.-Piedmont Journal Banner.
Monroe Black, a farmer from Brule,
was struck by a south bound freight
train as he was driving v Q the rail
road at the crossing just north of the
Ironton station at 1880 O'Clock Tues
day morning and instantly killed.
Crossing the track just ahead of Mr..
Black was an automobile. Black drove
on to the track and the pilot Of the
engine struck the rear end of the
wagon, lifting the bed off the running
gear and carrying it on down the
track withSthe driver. The train did
} not stop until it reached the old hub
factory. An examination then re.
vealed that the unfortunate mans
head had b0en cruRhad and his RIGHT