Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25
LOCAL BREVITIES.

circuit Court has filled the hotels to over
flowing.
The conundrum: What are we going t
do for ice this summer?
Senator Vest has our thanks for a COPY q
Puck's Cartoons and Comments on the Tar
if.
The legal mill is grinding, and there ar
two or three grists we hope it will grind lik
that of the gods.
The REGISTERS inside pages give severa
columns of reading appropriate to the Wash
ington Centennial.
The diamond drill at Pilot Knob keeps
drilling. Perhaps, after while, we may find
out what they have found.
Mr.. VIM. &. Craine now represents tn,
"Cotton Bette" at Delta, the junction of tina
road with the Belm ont Branch.
One Piano, Ga Octaves, (square), can be
bought for $50. Also one large Double Bass
Violin, at $50. Call at this office.
A most refreshing rain settled the dus
and doomed the budding trees and earlier
vegetation on Thursday night last.
The cry now is, son to Oklahoma. ,
Many boomer will shortly wish he had
been "onto it" before he left home.
Rev. o. NJ. Martin will hold services at
the Union Church, Pilot Knob, Sunday
afternoon, at 3:15. All are invited:
A number of engineers and brakemen ere
"let out" at De Soto last week for reported
drinking and crushing the growler."
q. A. r. Post, No. 346,. All members are
requested to be present Thursday evening,
April 18th. POST-ADJUTANT.
"To combine or not to combine" that is
the question that is at present said to be in
the minds of some of our long established
butchers.
The night offices at Cadet, Weeks and
Middlebrook were closed last week and sim
ilar moves, at other stantions, are said to be
contemplated.
A lamp exploded in Anton Roehry's sa-
loon yesterday evening. A conflagration OF
the building was happily averted, though not
without eXertion.
st. Francois county has unearthed another
deposit of lead, "richer than either st. Joe
or Doe Run" 1t is the first fruit of the
Whoever else may be Gin the SOUP" the
painters and paper-hangers are kept on the
Jump. House renovation and spring time
cleaning have no reverence for hard times.
Applications for board in the Valley, dur
ing the heated term, are already frequent
and persis' ent. What a pity that the ma
1ority have to be answered so unsatisfact-
orily!
DIED-At Pilot Knob, Mo-, April 10th,
1850, little BIRTIE, only son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thos. Kent, after an illness of seventeen
DAYS. The remains were inferred in the 1.
o. o. F. cemetery last Sunday.
To the editor of of the w. G. T. U. col
reading the published report OF your Grand
Jury we would suggest that Washington
county license "a dozen or more" drug
stores.
Old Mother Earth is again DOMINIC her
ever-recurring dress of living green. I'm
Alike Mother Eve, her first attempts are not
with the grape-leaf, but with the tender
maple and early .springing, ever-rooting
poplar.
Capt. Crisp, of the drug store, has two
new Ito this place) brands of cigars-the
"Daisy and the, Northumberland they
are excellent, without doubt. No better
5-eent cigar can be had anywhere. Try them
and be convinced.
QUARTERLY CoNFERENCE-At lronton
M. E.. Church next Saturday and Sunday.
Rev. o. NJ. Martin, Pc, will preach Satur-
af I
services at 7:45 P. NJ.
C.. E. HEAToN, Pastor.
The Easter services at the Arcadia Con-
vent were largely attended and Rev. Wer-
merits address to the assembled congregation
was fitting and eloquent. The floral deco
rations displayed the taste and faculty TO
nlease ALWAYS exercised by the good sisters
on like occasions.
Mr.. Eli TetwiIer will make trip to
Charleston and Cairo on business and pleas
ure the early part of next week. Mr.. let
wfler has invented a b1acksmith'S vice. 10 oe
operated with the foot. and he goes 20 Cairo
tn give instructions in the manufacture OF
his device.-Popldr Bluff Citizen.
Visitors to the Fredericktown W. Z. L. U.
May I'd and Sd, are requested,
in purchasing tickets, to procure receipt
of the agent. These properly counterslsneo
at the convention will ensure return fare
at oue-third rate. 10th District papers please
copy. Il. r. MAY, Dls'ric' ie''uo"''
Fishing parties have been numerous the
mast week The only individual that mas
fms far given We editor any substantial PROOF
of his success is Mr.. Ed. Blandford who one
i1ay last week presented us with as paiataoie
j.. mess of the finny tribe as we have had the
good fortune to possess for many a day
Mr.. B., our thanks!
The recent "White Cap" troubles in st.
Francois county have had tendency to urge
on the TO, eign- born residents thereabout
the necessity of becoming full-hedged clti-
zens of the United States, and enjoy all the
thereto pertaining. Scarcely DAY
in the past two weeks but what one or more
ann,;cants from Iron Mountain have been
,,efore onr Circuit Clerk for first papers"
The REGISTER has been little remiss Ia
not cbronieling the arrival of boy at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jno. T. Baldwin,
rounle of weeks since. Mother and child are
doing nicely while johnnie is all smiles from
early morn till late at eve, and wonders why |
any man. who is the recipient of such bless
ings, will let the imaginary Ills OF TINS HE
disturb his happiness. Our best wishes ana
assurance of distinguished consideration 10
Mr. B., Jr.