Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-03-12
LOCAL BREVITIES.


DON'T forget the Festival Friday evening.
A first -class supper for % cents.
Remember Bonanza's opening in Clark's
new two-story brick. Don't fail to attend.
No more make-shift crossings for Stout's
creek. Nothing but the rale, ginooine ar
tickle-pig- tight, boss high, and whitewash-
ed!
The City Council held its stated session
last Monday, and looked over the books of
the treasurer and collector. We understand
there is about two hundred dollars in the
treasury.
Attention is directed to the advertisement
headed, "Notice to Schoolboards." The gen.
tleman advertising is recommended, by the
editor Of this paper, as thoroughly qualified,
and certain to give satisfaction in every way.
We have known him for years.
A caboose jumped the track, just south of
the depot, Monday morning. 1t tore up
few yards of track, turned over, and lay on
its side until the wrecking train came along
and put matters to rights. No trains were
delayed, since they used the switch which
carried them by the wreck.
A slight "Sk1ft''O snow covered the ground
hereabouts last Sunday morning, but it dis
appeared long before the sun had eoursed
the heavens and sunk behind the western
hills. In Poplar Bluff they had four inches,
and seven inches in Oregon county. 1t APP
pears we were on the edge of blizzard.
l. Within few days, the Academy of Music
will be enclosed by tight, seven foot high
fence. The first boy or man caught tres
passing on the premises will be taken up and
punished to the full extent of the law. That
is one nuisance the board of directors is de-
termined to abate-and don't yon forget it
Dramshop licenses for the year ending
january 31st, 1885, yielded to Iron county
S. ,O3s.42, against little over 81 900 the year
before, while in 1882, under the old law the
income from this source was only $3.50.
We think this argument in favor of the
Downing law is unanswerable. BY the way,
the new iron bridge ordered by the court
last week to be built over Stout's creek be-
tween Ironton and Arcadia, will be paid for
every cent of the expense-by the revenue
derived from dramshOps. Since Arcadia
Township pays about two thirds of this Ii
eense, we don't think our friends of the out
side townships ought to be very much dis
satisfied at the action of the court, as we are
sure they will not be when they come to
look at the question in all its bearings.
Lat of letters remaining uncalled for at
the Post Office at Ironton, Mo-, Mar. 18th, |
1885:
Burke Thomas Watkins VIM NJ
Blackburn A Payne Mary Miss
Brown David Robinson Edward
Cooper Chas III Roger Harmon III
Carter Katy Robbs William |
tIiiiies Robert Smith w
Grissom William Schneider Sam'l T Mrs |
Goe Mile Miss Smith + e
Haussett James ThOme Gragor
Horn NJ NJ Thompson Ill |
johnson F = Thomas Geo (CoD
Jones Lou Miss Wren Robert
Johnson Maggie Miss Wheeler John
Kline Chas Whitney L l.
Lewis VIM A Third and fourth class |
Morris Clawson matter Geo Gray |
All letters not called for within thirty days |
will be sent to the Dead Letter Office.
j. 4. Hughes, Postmaster.
No. 6O3 was delayed this side of Hogan last |
Sunday morning by rather singular occur
renee. Two horses were observed ahead of |
the train, and when the engineer blew the |
whistle they started down the track ut their |
best gait. They KEEP: well ahead until they
got to the trestle this side of Mrs. Fenelon's |
place. They refused to turn aside for it, and |
plunged ahead, but their feet went down
between the ties. The train was stopped, |
aad all hands turned out to help the horses |
ont OF their predieament 1t was a rather |
difficult job, for the animals were heavy, |
frightened, and plunged and kicked wildly. |
One of them was ut length pulled out and |
ran down the embankment, not much dam |
aged. The other, when pulled partly out, |
plunged from the grasp of his rescuers and /
fell down over the side of the trestle into the |
rocky creek bottom, fifteen feet below. He, |
too, got on his feet and ran off, apparently |
but little the worse for his fall. Then the |
train men got TO their places and speeded |
away to another more serious mishap, an ac- |
count of which is given Elsewhere. While |
the train was awaiting the removal of these |
Instructions, brakemen were sent &c the |
front and rear to flag approaching trains. |
The bows say that one of the brakemen got
scared almost to death by . big black bear
which drove him back to the train GREATNESS
and excited beyond description. The truth |
of this, however, we do not avouch-know-
ing well the guyIng propensities of railroad