Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-12-13
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

FoUND.-On Main street, Ironton, Royal
Arch pendent-probably dropped from a
watch chain. Owner can recover the same
by applying at this office.
The st. Louis Orc & Steel Company's Store
presents its Christmas ad. this week.
Payday at Pilot Knob next Saturday.
Boys, don't take your Christmas before it
comes.
The Company Is putting up new hoist
ing engine on the south side of Pilot Knob
1t Is a big one.
County Court adjourned last Thursday, to
meet the eth Of January, 1884, at which time
the Assessor will return the Assessment
Book of Iron county for 1884.
The County Court last week reduced the
license on theatrical performances to two
dollars for the first performance, and one
dollar for each succeeding performance.
The Iron County Sabbath School Associa-
ton will hold its next regular meeting at
Des Arc, 17h and 18th inst. A full attend
ance of all S. s. workers Is desired. Pro-
gramme will be published next week.
No fee rs yet in this section. The morn
ings are clear and frosty, but during the day
the temperature rises to such a degree that
fires in the Office are dispensed with until
the evening shadows again cool the atmos-
phere.
The 30th inst. being the fifth Sunday in
the month, the Missionary in charge of St.
Paul's Church, purposes to hold services on
that day, morning and evening. The Sum
day School will have service and Christmas
tree Christmas eve.
The County Clerk says this is unquestiona-
bly, the greatest county in all Missouri for
babies, Judging from the birth reports filed
in his Office daily. On and after January /,
1884, we will publish list monthly of all
births filed in the clerks office.
Collector Fletcher gives us the following
figures Of taxes paid in this county during
the month of November: State, g, SOL 90;
County, $2,3O2,5s; Road, $551 ,51; School,
$2,2a6.46; total, 81 ,3s1.55. This about doub-
les The receipts Of Madison county for the
same month.
We find in st. Louis paper, under the
head Of "Lost Heirs" a notice to the. effect
thatC A. Gitchell, 513 Elm street, wants to
know the whereabouts Of Margaret Doyle
who married Dennis O'Leary in Oskaloosa,
Iowa, during the years 1904, and after
wards moved to Missouri.
The County Court made an order last
week ordering the clerk to make out and
have served on the railroad company an Or
der to repair the footbridge across Stout's
Creek at the railroad bridge, which, by
agreement, they were to do. This is a step
In the right direction, aud we hope the court
will see that the necessary work is done.
The sidewalk In front of the American
Hotel Ia being raised very desirable i'm
provement, and one that will commend itself
to all psssers-by and droppers-In. There
are several other places on the sidewalks
along main street that need some work done
ON them, and we are surprised that the au-
thorities have not long since attended to the
matter.
We have heretofore neglected to make
mention of the repairs which the county
court has had done on the Jail. FL. L. Sim
norman cast and put in chilled iron ceiling
one inch thick, and he has made an excellent
Job Of it-as he does with all his work, by
the way. We can now safely assert that es-
capes from that building will be few and far
between, and that we have the best jail in
Southeast Missouri.
On Friday, tho 21st inst, the Rt. Rev. c.
r. Robertson, s. I. D., Bishop of Missouri,
will make visitation to st. Paul's church in
this place, and administer Confirmation :.
The service will be at O'Clock in the even
ing and the Bishop will preach. Those who
wishto pay their respects to the Bishop will
have an opportunity from to 5 O'Clock in
the afternoon of the same day, at the resi-
dence Of Judge Emerson.
Last Friday was payday at the Granite
Quarry, and some Of the boys have been
shaving q good time" ever since. Monday
they had regular, old-fashioned fist-and
skull, bite nd-gouge-one woman taking
hand. The party who saw the skrimmage
says she put in some Of the hardest licks Civ
en- In the fight, while the whole party wall
loewd In the mud more like hogs than hui
mans. Boys, isn't it rather poor fun, after
all?
Next week we shall give our readers a
very interesting article on the mining and
business interests Of Iron county, taken from
the american anufdcturer and Iron World.
published at Pittsburgh, Pa. 1t is from the
pen Of C. G. Atchison, travelling correspond
emit Of that paper, and is q well written and
interesting account of this section. Parties
desiring extra copies of the REGISTER will
please notify us not later than Friday eve
ming of this week.
A deadly fight between three men occur
red at o still on st. Francois river, in Madi-
son county, about twenty miles southeast OF
Iron, last Saturday evening. The three men
were VIM. Boyer, Bart Kelly, and VIM. Ber-
ry-the last named being the only survivor
able to give an account Of the fight. He says
Boyer shot Kelly IN the head, the ball crash
ing through the skull, and then shot him
berry in the shoulder. Berry returned
the fire, killing Boyer instantly. Kelley was