Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-15
LOCAL BREtIT1Es.

LOCAL BREVITIEs.
Is our High School shipped i the bud"
The "cold wave" predicted by the signal
service struck US Monday, in modified degree.
Rev. B. F. Thomas Will preach in Pilot
Knob Church, next Sabbath afternoon, at 8
O'Clock. 4 ss
The Bonanza man went to ST. Louis Mon
day to take advantage of the sale of Leubries'
stock Tuesday.
Bro. Hotson has our thanks for bottle of
fine elderberry wine-a New Years present.
The wine Is excellent, being made, after the
regular old English recipe, by himself.
Some of the ladies of the Presbyterian
Church will give Concert In the Academy
of Music at an early date. The proceeds will
be used in making some very necessary re-
pairs upon the church building.
G. r. Peck had valuable milch- Cow killed
by a train last Saturday night, near the cross
ing east of the churches. When discovered
next morning, she was lying within the cat
tle-guards, and had evidently been instantly
killed.
On the night of December 31st a small
sum of money WIS given in mistake to HI.
c. Clement, at Graniteville Hotel, which the
owner can have by proving property and
paying charges. Apply in person to III. C.
Clement.
We see that our old friend, !. j. Gilmore,
of st. Louis, has been reelected Secretary
and Treasurer of the Western Commercial
Travellers Association. We send our con-
gratulations; and, John, remember that if
you ever feel In need of a summer resort,
Arcadia Valley lies at your door, as it were.
c. Blomeyer, ESQ.,, was made happy on
Christmas Eve by the presentation, at the
hands of his better-half, of q bouncing H.
pound girl. This, together with the recov-
cry of his little boy, who had been quite sick,
was enough to start George gaiiy into the
New Year, and we wish him as happily
through the whole twelvemonth.
The last Quarterly Meeting for this con-
ference year, of the Ironton NJ. E. Church,
will be held I'm Ironton next Saturday and
Sunday, 18th and 18th. Quarterly Confer
ence will convene Saturday, P. NJ. The
first public service will be Saturday, 1880 p.
NJ. The Presiding Elder, j. F. Corrington,
will be present. All are invited to be pres
ent. .F2-s s-=e5, E
: Ordinarily the sidewalks in Ironton are
passaDle, but now it would be we'll to have
danger signals placed along the street; one
I'm front of Herald office, one between the
Singer office and Bonanza" and in front of
the new buildings, of Mr.. Clark and Capt.
Bradley. And the opening of wagon gates
across the sidewalk should be prevented.
Let our city fathers look to this.
Mr.. e. w. Exum, a boarding house keep
err, desires us to "show up" the two electric
light men who lately vegetated here. Their
names are Reppy and White, and they claim
to hail from De Soto. Mr.. E. says they got
into him about $47, and other persons about
town mourn the fiatness of the pocket-boeks
carried by the men of light. Ii they ever
happen into this neck o. the woods again, we
advise them to come well supplied with
funds for the liquidation Of their indebted
ness. Some of the creditors are vowing
eternal vengeance.
A wreck on the Iron Mountain, between
Knob Lick and Mine LaMotte, occurred last
Saturday morning, No. 615 running into the
rear of an extra south, which had broken in
two on the grade and was not properly pro-
tected by flagmen. Engineer Carrie, of De
Soto, had his arm broken in two places.
Fireman John Holioran had his ankle sprain-
ed. James whitehead, a boy residing at De
Soto, No., who was taking ride with one of
the brakemen, and was asleep in the caboose
z of the extra, lost leg and had an arm brok-
en- in two places. The company's local sur
geon, DIR. Norwine, took the patients in
charge and all are improving. One engine
and several loaded cars were badly damaged,
and all trains were delayed ten hours.
The Text Book Convention, which met at
the court house last Tuesday, adopted the
revised series. These books are great i'm
provement on the old. Most of the old series
have been in use for more than quarter Of
a century. The books adopted are publish
ed by the same house rs the old, and are by
the same author; the only difference being
that the adopted have been revised, and con-
-sequently possess all the modern improve
,mepts of textbooks. To show just what
these Improvements are, we would have to
go into details, and this would necessitate a
Tong article. Suffice it to say that we are all
familiar with the progress that has been
made in other things, such rs farming i'm
plements, &c. 1t would be unreasonable to
suppose that there has not been a similar
progress in the compilation of textbooks.
The Introduction of these books need not
incur any extra expense to the people, us
they are to be introduced gradually. To IL
hstrate: when a class now studying the Sec
ond Reader is promoted, instead of buying
: the old Third, 1t gets the REUSED, which will
. not cost any more than the old. SO with all
1 the other books embraced in the list.