Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-04-09
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Noes" got it-in the neck !!

The "Noes" got tin the neck!
As spring strengthens, so stiffen the verte.
brR of the kalsominer.
April showers, We presume, are necessary
but they're not always pleasant.
We publish on our first page the amend.
ments made by the late legislature to the
school law.
We mean you: and we want you to return
without delay those Academy of Music keys
We let you have ''for few minutes only"
VIM. G.. Fairchild is having his residence
repainted, and the fence in front of the prem.
Uses Strengthened up and made as good as
new.
When the dogwood blooms spring fishing
is ripe, and not before. Remember this, ye
who would escape the proverbial "tsher-
mans luck"
Weddings and rumors of weddings. Mat
rimony appears to be SO "ketchin" in the
Valley that new -comers early succumb to
the fatal infection.
W. r. Edgar, Esq, went to Bismarck Mon
ON further |. b. He returned in company
with tie "blizzard," Tuesday night.
Two bridges-at Allenville and Bessville-
on the Belmont branch, were burned We'd
nesday night. In consequence, many of the
trains were put through on the main route.
Rev. B. F. Thomas has been retained in
this circuit for another year. He is aworthy
and energetic pastor, and we hope his minis
trations may be crow ned with eminent sue
cess.
From the apportionment of State School
Monies the school districts in Iron county
will receive $2,216.60. This amount will be
distributed by the county clerk to the several
districts in Iron county, about May LIST.
Do dead dogs and burglarious cummings
convolute, or do the latter evolute from the
nowhereness of the former? This double
question is sundering, from pit to dome, the
fabric of Ironton's domestic philosophy.
We claimed before the election that those
who would vote to repudiate an honest pub
lie debt for which the public had received
full value, must, mentally, be fearfulIy and
wonderfully made. Thank God, Ironton has
only ten such voters! Who are they:
All persons entitled to fees in the Ed.
to the circuit clerk of Washington county. at
Potosi. The State has forwarded the funds
for the liquidation of all claims in this case,
and the clerk is DESTROYS of settling up the
matter without delay.
Attention is called to the fact that May
Festival will be given in the Academy of
Music, Wednesday, May 6-the proceeds of
which will be for the benefit of the Catholic
Church at Pilot Knot. The price of admis-
sion will be 80 cents only, and we are sure
the spacious hall will be packed to its fullest
capacity.
Hon. Thos. G. Foley desires us to notify
the public that he has placed Iron county's
share of such public documents as were or
dered by the General Assembly in the hands
of the various postmasters throughout the
county and the circuit clerk, for free distri-
button. Those who may desire any of them
will call at the above places.
The following marriage licenses have been
issued since our last report-March 18th:
VIM. Henry Middleton and Carolina Ann
Hilleman.
L. B. Vincen and Florence Parks.
James Swofford and Helen DuLogan.
Jno. Weber and Louisa Breitenstein.
The initial number of the Bonnie Terre
Reuister, edited and published by our old
friend, j. NJ. Kirkpatrick, lies on our table.
1t is a seven column folio, well filled with
excellent reading-mostly, as it should be,
home news. 1t is neatly printed from new
type, presents a creditable appearance, and
will deserve the patronage of the people Of
st. Francois.
The Musical and Literary Entertainment
advertised for Graniteville will be given Fri
day night of this week, April 10th. We hear
chat the tickets are going off rapidly, and the
only fear now is that the hall will not be large
enough to hold the people who will desire to
attend. The programme is an excellent one,
and all who are present may expect to be
well entertained.
John Biemel has an A baker, As is well
proven by the sort of bread he furnishes.
His first output last Saturday delighted ev-
erybody, and we predict good run of Gus
tom to the establishment. Cakes and pies of
all kinds will also be kept on hand at all
times. Wedding parties, balls, etc., will be
fitted out at reasonable rates, with every
thing desired IN the way OF cake ahu pastry
The baker is boss of his trade and guarantees
satisfaction to even the most eXacting.
Please allow us to interpolate the "Brevi-
ties" with the following from the Missouri
Republican. It's not "local news" we adj
NIT, but it is adamantine truth that always
looks well and reads we'll, wherever you may
put it:
The New York Ereaing Post requests the
Sun "a0t to include the Ereniag Post in anv
list Of persons or papers favoring or excus-
ing the transactions of the Louisiana return
ing board in 1876, or the doings of the ''vis-
ting statesmen or the contamination of
what il calls the counting out of Samuel j.
Tiiden and the counting in of Rutherford b.
Hayes In 1871"
AS the years pass by the Republican papers
grow more and more anxious to forget that
detestable work. They are ashamed of it
and of all who took part in it, aud of all who