Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-20
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Cloaks at half-price, at Lopez's.
Be game plenty, or be it scarce, the cror
of hunters never fails.
Frank Welch killed deer last Friday,
out in the vicinity of the Reagan farm.
Go TO NJ. j. Crews, Graniteville. Mo-, fol
your Holiday Goods, Christmas Cards, Toys
etc.
County Court is sitting in extra session
this week, clearing up the business prepar-
atory to the New Years new deal.
Harry Jones is travelling for the A. V. NJ.
Co., and is now off a trip through the
South, to be gone for two or three weeks.
The invitations to the Ladies' Leap Year
Bali have been issued, and more than one
fearful beau has happily left the anxious
seat. And some haven't.
There will be a meeting of the congrega-
ton at the Presbyterian Church, Ironton,
Saturday, December 22d, at P. NJ, sharp.
Matters of importance to be considered.
The Farmers Meeting materialized at the
courthouse last Friday, pursuant TO notice.
Prof. Sanborn was on hand, as promised.
The proceedings are given in this paper.
We presume our old friend Omohundro is
finely convinced of the fact that an lrlshman
never gets thirsty for water. When he pre-
tends to do so, there's something else i the
wind.
The saloons have closed; their places
must not be taken by "bliud tiger" lairs,
nor good liquor be replaced by death deal
ing "bitters.' Let this be understood, once
for all.
The curling over the schoohou>e well is
thing of Beauty, aud an architectural JOY
forever. 1t is so Gothic in STYLE that even
the Goths, if they could irrupt, would not
have the gall to modest it.
At length the weather promises to adjust
itself to the exigences of hog-killing time.
Who can enjoy buekwheat cakes and saus-
sage, with the thermometer mercury dane
iny in the sixties and seventies!
Bonanza's "Sunshine and Shadow" win
dow is worth going a good way to see 1t
makes a very pretty picture, indeed, ana one
suited to the season when all persons cry,
with Little Tim, ''God bless us, every one"
The colored Opera House was filed with
tropical grace and beauty last wednesday
night. Long John says 1t was Festival,
given by "Uncle" Frank Sweezie, for his
own use and benefit. We presume 1t was a
success.
There will be called meeting of "Star of
the West Lodge, No. 1913, A. f. and A. NJ
at their Hall in Ironton, on Saturday even.
ing, December odd, 1883, for the purpose OF
working in the third degree. All Master
Masons are invited.
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Sunday school will have an entertainment
at the church. Suitable selections will be
rendered by the scholars, interspersed with
music, after which the good things-candies,
nuts, etc.-will be distributed.
We printed quite lengthy programme
this week for Public School Entertainment
to be given at Graniteville Saturday evening,
December odd. Mr.. f. A. Taylor, principal
of said school, seems determined to place his
school in the first rank of those of this
county.
There's whiskey, wine, champagne, and
cider, too,
And mixed and fancy drinks galore,
To furnish DRINKS to all the multitude
But heed you this, we do implore:
or every kind of drunk, since Adams fall,
of all.
A railroad man, "all bleeding and torn."
last Monday evening, ahont eight O'Clock,
hunted up Constable Patton aud told him
pitiful tale, how he had been set upon, beaten
and robbed by four men near the depot.
The constable went with him to the scene of
conflict, but the assailants could not be
found. The railroad man claimed that they
had taken SO from him.
The Presbyterian Sunday School will take
a little Christmas this year, too. Singing,
and the usual exercises will occupy the ear
lier part of the evening, and after that will
come the candies, nuts, oranges, etc. There
is big basketful of oranges over at our
house awaiting the occasion-put there for
e-keeping-and, children, we knotc they're
good. We've been sampling them three
times a day for a week.
III YOU want an elegant Christmas Present
for your best girl, your beau, your wife, your
husband, your daughter, your son, your
mother, your father, or your friend, go over
and see Crisp's outfit. There you will find
Christmas Cards, at from four cents to $40;
Scrap Books; Satin Water-Sets; Albums,
aoe and up; Toilet Sets to the finest; Mani
cure Sets, dainty and elegant; Work Boxes;
Cuff and Collar Boxes; Children's Tea Sets;
Imported Perfumeries; Autograph Albums
i'm fact, any and everything desirable in
the line of Christmas Goods. By all means,
go and take n look at them.