Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1921-12-08

Car. Every ouOIt Was mhuc w iOCeoo
blood hounds in an effort to catch
them, but they were unable to get
any and so far no trace of the bur-
glars has been found"
Recorder Hawkins has issued the
following marriage licenses since u
last report:
Cornell A. Werner of West Plains
and Maurine h. Farmhouse Of Ironton.
Charles A. Mitchell and Dollie A.
West of Arcadia.
Toney o. Goggin and Ethel Renee
hansen of Shepard.
Daniel W. Sutton of Glover and
BERTHE Dawson of Piedmont.
Clarence Comad and Martha Budek
of ST. Louis.
O. Fl. Duncan and Alice M. Sutton
of Chloride.
W. M. Ratliff and Mrs. Jamey Corey
of Reynolds.
Andrew Fogan and Mrs. Ethel
Schulz of Irondale.
While in Kenneth, Missouri, last
week, Claude A. Eaton, vice-presi-
dent of the United States Bank, st.
Louis, was called to st. Louis by tele-
phone on account of the death of Cap
tain Fred ]. Loomis, a nephew to Mr.
Eaton, who was killed in a collision of
air planes at Lawton, Oklahoma. The
planes, in falling, caught fire, and the
occupants, including Captain LOOMS,
were charred beyond recognition.
Mr.. Eaton left Kenneth and attended
the military funeral of Capt. Loomis
in Columbia Sunday. Captain LOOMS
was a graduate of the Missouri Uni
versity, held several degrees in that
institution, and while serving in the
world WARM France he taughtfor sew
eral menths in the leading schools in
Paris. He was a young man, rs years
of age, and his tragic death was q
shock to all Southeast Missouri. Capt.
Loomis' parents formerly lived at
Belgrade, Washington county.
Word was received In Ironton Tues
day morning of a most miserable
murder-if not double murder-neaI
Doyle, a hamlet in the west end OF
Iron county, last Thursday night
That night the house of Bud Osburn,
not far from Doyle, was destroyed by
fire. 1t seems, though, that discovery
of the fire was not made until the fol.
lowing morning. An investigation
revealed the charred remains of
Osburn's body; indications were thai
he had been tied to a bedstead with
baling wire and the house set on fire.
A short distance from the house wat
found Mary Ann, Osburn's wife
terribly beaten and bruised, yet alive
but unable to make any coherent
statement of what had happened,
Osburn was about 65 years old ano
his wife near the same age. They
have lived in the community possibly
fifteen years, were ~peaceable and in
offensive, and no plausible motive is
assigned for the brutal and murderou
attack on them. All the west end O
the county is naturally very mucl
wrought up over the horrible affair
1t is said there is some clue as to thu
guilty parties and every effort will b.
made to bring them to speedy justice
Word of the murder was first received
in Ironton Friday night, but no partic
ulars were Forthcoming until Tues.
day when Sheriff Marshall ,accompani
ed by Prosecuting Attorney Keith
departed for the scene of the GRIM
to make an investigation. From
the meager particulars ascertain
able it is one of the most dastardl,
and outrageous crimes that ave oc'
Cured within the borders of ou1
county.
Again I hear from the Rev. DR.
Fuller Swift, erstwhile pastor of tn,
First Baptist Church of Ironton, blu
now full 1edged rector of St. Clement
Episcopal Church ofEl Paso, Texas
A friend sends me a clipping from thu
81 Paso Times which will not be de
void of interest to those who in othe
days knew the Rev. DR.. as both paste
> and editor. He, it seems, was requisite
to preach a sermon against vice a
she is known in Ell Paso, and this j
] a part of his open letter of reply t
, to the Ku Klux Khan of that city:
Your recent communication i
which you ask me to denounce fror
my pulpit next Sunday some of tn
irritating Irregularities in our com
munity, also ssthe crime wave sweep
b ing over our state and the lax enforce
3 ment of our laws" is before me. M,
reasons for answering you in thi
open letter are two. The first is tina
| have no other mean of reachin,
you. The second is that I think som
OF my friends belong to your organiza
ton, and while / DO not approve o
your methods, SO far as I understan,
them, / am rather impressed with tn
evident sincerity Of those friends O
mine who belong and I want them t,
know it. During my boyhood day
,. thoro Iivnd acroaa tho atreot from nn