Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-28
LOCAL BREVITIES.

LOCAL BREVTTIEs.
Bonanza has new ad. this week.
Services at the NJ. E. Church next Sunday
morning and evening.
He that goeth forth without his rubbers
these days, tempteth fall.
Rev. J. w. Worsnop will preach at Pilot
Knob February It'll at3P.M.
Services at Fort Hill Church next Sunday
morning at the usual time, conducted by the
Pastor.
Probate Court will be in session next week,
commencing Monday. We are glad to see
that Judge Dinger is fully himself again.
Some important changes were made in the
Pilot Knob Department of the st. Louis Ore
and Steel Company yesterday. Notice will
be found elsewhere.
The footbridge between Ironton and Pilot
Knob has been patched up, but it ought to
be thoroughly overhauled and repaired SO
soon as the weather settles down and freez-
ing ceases.
j. A. Hughes and Aug. Winkler will make
another overland Arkansas trip so soon as
the weather opens. We advise them to wait
until it gets wide open if they would avoid
Prostitute.
The Concert and Oyster Supper given by
the members of the NJ. E. lChurch here, at
the Academy of Music Monday evening, was
well attended. The gross receipts were
$71.21, and about $4S will remain after pay
ing all bills.
The Second Quarterly Meeting of Fort
Hill Methodist Church will be held Satur-
day and Sunday, February 9th and 7th.
Services each day at IL A. NJ, and P. NJ,
conducted by Rev. j. l.. Batten, Presiding
Elder of the District.
Rev. Ben. Deering, the evangelist, who
was instrumental in doing great deal of
good at jackson, is expected to be at Fort
Hill Church, Arcadia, to hold series of pro-
tracted services, which will commence with
the Quarterly Meeting, February 9th.
The second number of the Enquirer, Pop
lar Bluffs new paper, is before us. 1t is
six-column quarto, neatly printed, with
plenty of home reading matter, and fair
share of local advertising. Richard Metcalfe
is editor, and s. G. Tetwiler. local editor.
J.B. Walker, prosecuting attorney, was
called to Kaolin last Thursday to represent
the state in case wherein woman was
charged with hog-stealing. The evidence
was conclusive that she had got away with
a250-pound porker rightfully belonging to a
neighbor. A fine of ten dollars and costs
aggregating about forty dollars-was assess
ed against her. That was gilt-edged price
for pork.
The "ball of the dudes" at the Academy of
Music last Friday evening, was well attend
ed, and was a very pleasant affair. The
crowd was merry, the music excellent, and
the other accessories all that could be desir-
ed. The trackless tortuity of the May dane e
was assiduously trailed until four O'Clock in
the morning, when weary forms sought rest
full couches and tired Natures sweet restor-
er gave them soft oblivion.
MIR. A. G. Simpson and his son, Mr.. R.
Simpson, mining engineers, have established
an office at 421 Chestnut street, st. Louis.
We take pleasure in commencing them to
the public, as competent and Trustworthy
gentlemen in every respect. Both are we'll
and favorably known to this community.
They also deal in mineral lands, pig iron,
ores and granite. All business entrusted to
them will receive prompt and careful atten-
ton.
A persistent though not heavy rain all
Tuesday night got away with most of the
snow and ice, and if a blizzard doesn't come
along within the next twenty -four hours, the
earth will re-assume her right to the kisses
of the sun and the blasts of the breezes.
So we wrote at ten O'Clock Tuesday night,
assuming the role of limited prophecy. This
morning on waking up, We looked out over
the landscape covered, and through an at
mosphere filled, with snow! Well try
prophesying no more.
There is wood coOk-stove on exhibition
at Fred. Nischwitz's stove store, 14OS South
Broadway, which is by good authority said
to be as fine as any stove exhibited at our st.
Louis Exposition. 1t is manufactured by
Bonnet & Nance of Quincy, ILL.,, who carry
the largest trade of any outside company.
The stove is the finest ever shipped from
Quincy. Mr.. II. Weiskittel is the repre-
sentative of the Bonnet & Nance firm and
will exhit this stove for few DAYS at the
above address. 1t will then be shipped to
j. N. Bishop, Ironton, No., who has one of
the finest stove and house furnishing goods
stores on the l. M. r. r +, who gave the or.
der for it.-Post- Dispatch.
j. p. Barger, ESQ.,. of the West End, was
In Ironton yesterday for the first time in two
years. He came in with wagon load of
fresh pork and found ready market for all
he had, at fair figures: in fact, could have
disposed Of three times as much If he had
been possessed Of it. Mr.. BPS genial counte-
nance is always welcome sight in our
sanctum: he has been subscriber to the