ANOTHER GHOST
Submitted by Martha J. Kounse

SOURCE: Semi Weekly Irontonian, August 23, 1907

Has Been Seen. Frank Brown of North Second Street Saw One on the River Bank Near the Old Palace Hotel Site, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Winkle Also Saw the Mysterious Visitor.

Are the ghosts holding convention Ironton, or is it that so many things happening here just by accident? Beside the one seen on the Klondike building on south Third street Tuesday night by Wilburn Hall and the one which has been causing so much excitement in the neighborhood of Seventh and Quincy streets, another mysteries something has been reported.

Frank Brown, who formerly conducted the Freeman grocery story near the tunnel, but who now is employed at the J. P. Lewis' grocery store on Third and Oak streets, says the he saw a ghost all dressed in white Tuesday night on the river bank, just below the pile of pipes which are to be used in the constriction of the pure water system, and near where the old Palace Hotel used to stand.

Mr. Brown says the the ghost was first seen by Mr. & Mrs. Chas. Winkle, who live on Second street, near Buckhorn, just in front of his residence. Mr. & Mrs. Winkle were greatly frightened at what they saw so much so that they were unable to sleep anymore that night. They called Mr. Brown's attention to the white object and when he started over to get a close view of it, it disappeared as mysteriously as it had come. Mr. Brown described the strange sight as something which resembled a man dressed in white.

By some, it is thought that the ghost is the spirit of a man from West Virginia, who several years ago, went to sleep on the track in front of the depot while awaiting for the train and was run over and killed almost in the sight of his wife and children, who were sitting in the depot.

One man, however, has been mean enough to suggest that it was the spirit of Engineer Potter, coming back to haunt the members of the Board of Public Service while another intimates that it is the prospects of the people of Ironton securing pure watch under the present management.