Iron County register., 1920-11-25

soon he hopes to be in position to
throw his doors open to the public
and invite them to try on pair. As
the Republican representative passed
Mr.. Marshall's "bootery" this morning
fiveiwoud-be customers were stand
ing out in front "waitlng for the store
to openn Poplar Bluff Republican.
The internal Revenue Department
has decided that the head of every
family may make as high as 200 gal
Ions of cider or fruit juices contain
ing one half of one per cent alcohol
and more, when it is strictly for use
in the home. Up to 200 gallons the
cider is freed from the payment of a
tax, but if more than that amount is
made, the producer must pay tax on
the excess and give bond. If the
cider is Intoxicating or becomes 30
later on, it will be subject to the or
dinary tax.
A. P. Farris made an automobile
trip to Alton. in Oregon county, and
return last week. 1t is about 100
miles each way. Mr.. Farris stopped
in Van Buren, on the trip. Carter is
one of the counties that went Repub-
lican in the late election and it is said
the Republican majority was secured
at Midco, the seat of the big iron
furnace. The workmen we're assured
there would be plenty of work if
Harding was elected. Since the cleo
ton about two hundred men have
been laid off and there is said to be
much weeping and wailing and gnash-
ing of teeth.
Many men are being laid off in var
ious departments of the railroad at
the present time. Eleven car repair
ers were cut off last week and the
maintenance of way forces are being
reduced considerably. This is done
each winter by the various railro ads
as work cannot be done successfully
during the cold weather. The ap-
proach of winter has also forced the
discontin uance of the clam shell work
trains in the raising of the track on
| the Cairo branch in the drainage dis
trIct. II is said this work will be re-
sumed as soon as weather will permit
in thu spring if not before.
The concrete vault in the Catholic
Cemetery, southwest of the city, con-
tanning the remains of John Mangold
of Harviell, Mo, who died February
20, 1916, has been offering a stubborn
4 resistance to force of workmen in
the employ of A. w. Greer Under
taking Company, who had been at
tempting to break through its walls in
order to exhume the remains for in
ternent in the Cath olic Cemetery at
st. Louis, which relatives have order
ed done. Four men have busy two
days endeavoring to break through
the concrete shell to reach the inner
vault of steel in which the coffin rests
1t is probable that the work will be
completed today.-Poplar Bluff Citi
zen Democrat.
The gross earnings of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad for September jus
made public, amounting to $10,S06,
O4S, the greatest for any month in the
SYSTEMS history,is estimated to in
dicate gross earning to exceec
$120, 100000 for the full year. Thi
compares with $93, ,577 900 in 1919, th'
previous high record, representing
an increase of 20 per cent. The ex
tensiveness of the company's de
velopment and maintenance work j
shown by the fact that for the pas
five years more than 3S per cent o
gross las been expended annually OIL
road maintenance and equipment
A large proportion of these expendi
lures have been for heavy rails an
for the laying of ballast on roadbed
to supplant the light rails and unbal
lasted roadbeds.