Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1921-12-15


man and we feel sure he will please
the south-end folk. There is $1,000
available for the work.
GraniteviIle Camp, 1902, M. W. A.,
will give a Grand Ball at Workmen's
Hall, Graniteville, New YEARS. Eve,
Saturday night, December 81, 1921.
A full orchestra will furnish the mu-
sic for the occasion and every ar
rangement will be made for the COM
fort and pleasure of all who atteud.
Come and dance the Old Year out and
the New Year in! JOE BROWN,
Chairman Committee.
An old time covered wagon, with
big canvas top and several cane bot
tom chairs tied on the back, wendell
its way over the Ozark Trail the other
day. Painted on the wagon cover
was this rougly inscribed explana-
ton: HTexas is starvation. Okla
homa is speculation. New Mexico is
desperation. The whole world is shot
to he'll with the Harding administra-
ton. I'm going back to Arkansaw."
Press.
The Missouri State Board of Health
wants to enforce a rule of it's own i'm
perial making that no man, woman
or child be permitted to enter a rail-
way car without a certificate that he,
she or it has been vaccinated against
smallpox within three years. The M.
S. B. FL. is a lula wonder of the
twentieth century-all- wise and all
reaching. The wonder is that the
world endured SO long without it's
care, guidance and administration.
The Western Tie and Timber Com
pany has completed the surveys and
plans for the construction of a huge
hydro electric dam on the Current
river near Eminence. The company
has been granted two years in which
to complete the preliminary work.
The actual construction of the dam
will begin in the ear future it is said.
The plant is intended to furnish cleo
trical power to a great portion of
south Missouri, including Poplar Bluff
and the Lead Belt. Piedmont Journal
Banner.
A meeting of the Democratic Com
mittee for this Senatorial district was
held in st. Louis last Saturday and a
call issued for a convention to be held
in Ironton December 23d for the pur-
pose of nominating a Democratic
candidate for delegate to the State
Constitutional Convention from the
oath Senatorial district. Hon. Frank
II. Farris of Phelps county will very
likely be the nominee. There is not
a better qualified in the state for the
place. A county massmeeting tt
select delegates from Iron county tt
the district convention will be held in
Ironton December 10th.
Amalek Brooks, serving a life sent.
ence for the murder Of John Clemondl
at Graniteville, was paroled from the
Missouri penitentiary by Gov. Hyde
last Saturday and is now with hi
mother at West Granite City, Illinois
Brooks has been in the prison since
July, 1907. The granting of freedom
to Brooks is the fruit of fourteen
years effort on the part of forme
United States Senator Joseph R. Bur
ton of Kansas, who was a companion
of Brooks in the Iron county jail
Brooks is said to have had an excel
lent prison record. He is quoted a
saying,"I will show my friends andan.
enemies I may have that l can be
man among good men," He an
nounces that he will go to Kansa
City where he has employment with
manufacturing concern.
Mrs. Maude Baker of 203S Geye
Avenue, st. Louis, Mo-, formerly {
Reynolds county, was hit by an auto
mobile last Saturday. The polio
tried to overtake the on-rushin
machine but failed. She was dragge,
quite a distance. breaking her righ
arm at the elbow and shoulder, an
her left leg at the knee, also a cut o
her head and several bruises of th
body. She is at the Missouri Baptit
Sanatorium under the care of D.
Klinefelter, said to be the best bon
specialist in st. Louis, and he has OK
pressed his fear that she may neve
be able to use her limbs again, OWN
to the breaks being in or so near th
Joints. Everything is being done 70
her that car be in the way of medicf
skill and we hope to hear Of be
speedy recovery. Her brothers, A
G.. and Bert Shy, are at her bedsid
this week.
Mrs. Emily Russell, relict OF th
late Giles Russell, was for many year
a resident OF Arcadia Valley. Th