Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-17
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Mud. Mud. Mud!
Ironton has had her taste of "dry'' and
willingly returns to saloons.
No services in St. Paul's church this
"wednesday evening, owing to the absence
from town of Rey. Davis.
We this week commence the publication of
new serial story entitled loyal at Last"
Read it, as we are confident it will prove in
teresting.
Contributions to the fund for the "strand-
ed kids" at Poplar Bluff have been numer-
Gus and generous. We will account more
fully at future date.
w. G. Dilts, formerly cashier of the St.
Louis Ore and Steel Company, Pilot Knob,
is now employed rs clerk in Iron Mountain
Railway Tralnmaster's ofiie, ST. Louis.
We hear that our Babtist friends anticl-
pate securing the services of noted evan
geli>t TO conduct series of meetings in
their church sometime in the near future.
DIED-At the residence of James Buford,
in Belleyiew, on the morning of January 9th,
1889, DAISY BELLE, infant daughter of II.
c. and Lottie j. Clifton (nee Buford,) aged
16 days.
For the week ending, January 18th, 1889,
So commercial evangeists registered at the
American Hotel and not i good week for the
missionaries either. But the good time is
coming, boys.
Among the adyents of the New Year in
1ronton we hear, girl born to Mr.. and Mrs.
j. Il. Whitworth, on January 9th. Also
girl to Mr. and Mrs. ". l.. Brown the first
week of the month.
One hundred men were discharged from
the machine shops at De Soto on January
LIST. Wonder if any of the unfortunates ever
heard the 49, day and roast beef" story
during the late campaign.
Iron county's Alliance convened in regular
quarterly session at the court house, on
Tuesday, January 10Th and will continue
for two or three days. Considering the
Indictment weather the attendance is good.
Through the efforts of Hon. Mann Ringo
MI J. V. Ryan has secured clerkship at
Jefferson City and will spend the remainder
of the session at the State Capital. Werner,
let us hear how YOU enjoyed the Inaugural
tion ball!
This season has been an exceptionally hard
one on streets and pavements, land for sever
al years Ironton's thoroughfares have not
been in as horrible condition as at present.
AS soon as the weather permits the author
titles should hump themselves.
County Court Tuesday leased the poor
faxn for term of one year to Mr.. Thos.
Boaer, the present occupant, who will also
have charge of the county's pensioners fer
the ensuing year. Court having completed
the business for which il convened adjourn
Tuesday noon.
Judge Emerson has quite an extended
article in the st. Louis Magazine for Janu-
arv on the "Arcadian- Ozark Region
The sketch is we'll worthy its author and
would, doubtless, prove of special interest to
residents of the Valley. We shall, at some
future time, endeayor to make few extracts
therefrom.
Several perlpatetic typos, (yulgarly dub
bed, tramp printers nave passed throu igd
north, and say that the south Is literally |
oyerrun with manipulat0rs of the stick and
rue.-ButleF County 1dcocdte.
Wonder if the foregoing is intended as
sIur at Ironton's two fortune hunters of
whose departure and later arrival at Poplar |
Bluff we made mention last week.
new time card goes into effect next Sum
Slav. We are told that among the more I'M |
portant announcements therein will be the |
discoatinuins of the Arcadia train, one of
the cannon balls" and two of the passenger
trains on the South End. For all this pros
pective prosperity o. we should return
thanks to the election of Harrison and Nor
ton, the sS2 a day and roast beef' candI-
dates.
The County Court examined the dramshop
petitions Monday and decided that the petit
lions all had the requisite number OF sIgners.
Licenses were, accordingly granted to all
three petitioners, and it will no longer be
necessary for the ''parched" Threats to HE
to Pilot Knob to quench their thirst. Mr..
A. Roehry has not rs yet made application
for license, but Will likely do so in the course
of the next few weeks.
Messrs. Hull Il Dale, of whose arrest we
made mention last week, when taken before
the l.. $. Commissioner in st. Louis, were
released on their own recognizances and re-
turned home Thursday. The case will Ike
ly be dropped by the prosecution when IL
comes I'D for trial at the next term of the
z. ). District Court. The whole affair seems
to have originated not so much from an out |
ragged law as from rumor.
The mine office of the Ore & Steel COM i
pany, situated on the Knob, burned down
Monday night about 1890 O'Clock. 1t is {
not known how the fire originated, but ii {
probably started in the fiue, and when the t