Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-15
LOCAL BREVITIES.

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Apply to Mrs. w. Fl. Byers.
Don't forget the lecture at the courthouse
Saturday evening. Free to all.
WANTED.-A good Butcher or man to as
sist In butcher business. Apply to
CHAs. AENOLDY, Ironton, Mo.
Watt Jores, one of the prisoners who es-
capped from the st. Louis Jail, has been cap
tured, but there is no definite news from
Orrick.
Star of the West Lodge holds stated
meeting next Saturday night. all resident
and transient Masons are invited. Work in
the degrees.
Mrs. Lopez has succeeded in engaging a
frst-class milliner, Miss Thornton, of St.
Louis. Ladies wishing a tastefully trimmed
hat will do well 10 call on her.
Lost, some time during The past ten DAYS,
gold scarf-pin, with horseshoe of blue
and white sets. A reasonable reward will
be paid to the one leaving it at this office.
Rev. Ell. Whitehead preached at Fort Hill
church last Sunday-his initial sermon
there. He very fayorably impressed those
who were present, and confirmed the repu-
tation which had preceded HIM.
p. W. Whitworth quit official business
long enough to remove his household
goods last Monday into dwelling west of
the courthouse. The carpet stretching and
stOve-setting returns will come in in a day
or two.
The Iron County F. & L. U. will meet
Thursday, October 18th, at O'Clock p. NJ,
in Flatwoods, Iron county, Mo. Business of
importance will be up for consideration.
Every SUBJ Union in the county is requested
to send a delegate. VIM. RUDDOCK
j. B. HOLLOMAN, President.
Secretary.
Some burglarious individual tried TO find
entrance irs.o the EDITORS cellar Saturday
night, but good paddock stayed his ravag-
ing hand. There isn't much in the cellar to
tempt a thief, perhaps; but we have suffi-
GENT regard for it to have given the trespass-
er warm reception if we hadn't been sound
asleep when he made his venture.
The Arcadia Accommodation was over an
hour late Monday evening. A box-car across
the track near the Chouteau Avenue depot
caused the delay. 1t was soon seen that the
track could not be cleared in time, so the
passengers footed it to this side of the OBJ
struetion, and one of the Carondeet short
trains brought them down to Goods coun-
try"
Rev. A. T. TidweIl and family removed TO
st. Louis Monday, where presume he
will take up his residence. lie retires from
his charge at Arcadia possessing the esteem
and goodwill of his congregation, and the
whole community rs we'll. The REGISTER
wishes him renewed health and the useful
and successful career which is certain to at
tend that desired consummation.
Capt. VIM. Searle, who has been superin-
tending the work in the Mohawk gold mine,
near Breckenridge, Colorado, returned to
Pilot Knob Sunday, and will probably re-
main for couple of weeks. Work in the |
mine was suspended for the winter, last |
Tuesday week, and will be resumed in the |
spring. Too much snow and ice at this seas
on of the year. The Captains health is con-
siderably improved, his friends will be glad |
to hear.
Mr.. James Banton, young man reared |
is the Valley, and brother to Thompson |
Blanton, ESQ.,, last week returned from Col |
orado, after an absence of seventeen years. |
While he gives due allegiance to the Valley |
as his first love, he is now welded to the
Far West, and is an enthusiastic supporter |
of the state which now claims his citizen
ship. Mr.. b. will remain long enough to |
visit old, familiar faces and see former friends |
and acquaintance, when he will return |
home.
Hon. Henry A. Newman, of Randolph |
county, will address the people of Iron coun-
ty, at the courthouse in this place, next Sat-
TOY Gnh
Confederate Home of Missouri, its present |
condition, aims and prospects" Mr.. New
man is an elegant and eloquent speaker, and
we hope to see the court room filled that
evening, to the end that the commendable
work in which he is engaged may receive
suitable recognition and furtherance by our
people, Everybody is cordially invited to
attend.
An elite hunting party is now 10 the woods
Strengthening wild beasts and bagging game.
The following named gentlemen are Win
the expedition: VIM. A. Fletcher, Jos. ii UNI,
w. Fl. Fisher, Thomps. Blanton, VIM. Hen
son, and Newt Tins; the names OF the three
or four others who complete the crowd, just
now escape US. The party left here Monday
morning, intending to rendezvous in the
woods some len miles south or southwest OF
the Valley. They took with them sufficient
scrub" to last them the week out, at the end
of which time you may look for them to
come struggling back with lots of big stories
to make up for lack of game.
Mrs Kate Glatzell of Granitevile, in the
name of the State of Missouri, had Fred.
HOFFMAN arrested and tried for ASA ult. The
trial was held before Squire AXE last Mon
day, Mr. Jordan for the State, and Mr.. Ed
gar defending. The evidence showed that
Mrs c. and Nj. X. were not on good terms
and had had a racket over the question OF
water privilege: the former denying the
right of the latter to the use of well on the
premises she occupied. The jury, after
full and careful hearing, and the calculation
of the knotty points by toe attorneys, re-
turned a verdict of ''nOt guilty." The trial
was made piclu ,esque by the inebriety that
attended it, in spots, as it were.
Last Thursday night Mrs. Andrews, who
had gone on a visit to the city day or two
before, returned to her home in Arcadia.
She came down on a late train-after mid
night. Now, ''Sam," who had expected her
on the Accommodation, had locked up the
home place, and had gone, with the chill