Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-12-22
Graniteville Items.

| Mrs. Scout bateman le1t sunday 10
Steelville and Cuba, Mo-, to spend tn
holidays with relatives at those pieces
Rupert Smith is now filing q promi
nent position with the Amberg Grant.
Company of Amberg, Wis.
Mr.. E. NJ. Smith has been confined
to his house the past few days with Z
sore foot, caused from stepping on 8
nail that had been driven through 8
| board, but is now abba to get around 9
| little.
The Syenite Granite Company laid
off their block-makers Saturday even.
ing last
Bills are up as evidence of the ball to
be given at Workmen's Hall Friday
evening, December 23d, under the
auspices of our Graniteville Brass Band
members and good crowd is expected.
The holiday season will be enlivened
in our town through the event of a
couple of weddings.
Jock Snasdell has sold his property
in the east side of town to Harry
Hughes; consideration, $500.
George Cloud purchased a $42 horse
on Saturday evening last for fifty cents.
Verify, horsehesh is getting cheap.
George Whitman also drives a fine
big draft horse and small wagon re-
Gently purchased from Joe Schreiner
of Middlebrook for $75.
Real estate and personal property
sales have been on the boom in this
vicinity tor several pays past. but work
is still pretty slack.
Most all of our merchants have on
hand fine display of Xmas goods,
toys, etc., and each day of the coming
of Santa Claus seems a month to the
little urchins, as some of them have al
ready been heard to remark.
Our district school master had quite
a tussle with one of his scholars Friday
last, who, perhaps, thought himself a
little pugilistic and could out general
his teacher. But the willy master was
equal to the occasion and soon became
master of the situation in manner
much to the discontinue of the unruly
boy, who was quite easily subdued.
The Sunday School children of the
NJ. E. church will be treated to Xmas
tree on Saturday evening, December
oath.
The Graniteville Social Glee Club is
thoroughly organized and under good
working order.
The writer hereof, having nothing
to do, concluded on Friday last to spend
the day sightseeing in the county seat.
So on the morning in question boa. ded
the hack of Hartford Collins that runs
daily between Ironton and Graniteville
and started IrOntOnward, arriving at
Our place. of destination at A. NJ,
proceeded to the barber shop of that
kind old tonsorial artist Mr.. Segner,
who hollows out s'nex5," so in i went
and in few minutes was soon in a
condition to approach the station of
Mr.. Grover Cleveland when he assumes
the executive office on the 4th of March
next. Having thus been treated to a
facial renovating we next picked up in
the headquarters of the Democracy of
Iron county, the REGISTER Office. There
we found the talent in terrible hustle
getting ready to take the first train on
a business trip to St. Louis. Well, as
the talent had no time to talk to dudes
Il ON Graniteville and with strict orders
posters from the press rooms, we, there
fore took Our leave very good natured-
ly and proceeded to the house of equity,
the first door to the left of the main
hall that caught our eye was the Col
lector's Office, but before entering we
began to wonder if our pocket-book
could stand very heavy draw or not,
so we thought to call at any rate, and
stand the consequences. We did so,
and there found that whole-souled,
broad-shouldered, portly built, jovial
with coat and hat off, relating some
what romantic story of party of Iron
who not many months ago
took trip to Wayne county, the sequel
of which was an overcOat. The relator
on seeing that our mission was one of
business soon mulcted the wOuld-be in
truder out of ducats enough to satisfy
his books that are generally lodged by
as long as possible. This
business being settled, and coming out
minus our wallet we next began search
ing for that genial and free-hearted old
man they call ''Bill Fletcher" who, if
rightly and justly approached. will
make out warrant from one cent to |
one thousand dollars. So we at once |
told how we had been feeced only a |
little while before out of our where |
with and succeeded in inducing the |
good County Clerk to draw warrant |
in our favor on the county of Iron for |
the valuable services rendered on the |
9th day of last November in counting |
more Democratic than Republican
votes. Having thus had our wallets
again, our next call was
On his attorneyship, Mr.. John S. Jor-
dan, who we found busily engaged in
making out abstracts, affdavits and |
over other legal documents,
and not wishing to bother the eminent |
gentleman in his studio, took our leave |
to hunt up that good old uncle Joseph |
Huff, who has, we believe, served in |
The capacity of Circuit Clerk for Iron
county quite thirty years. We there
found the old war boss at his desk with |
that self-same-never-crac sort |
of look, just as unconcerned as though |
he hadn't had a campaign from the |
nay he was elected up till the present |
time And yet we fancy twill be an
other thirty years, should he live, be-
fore the Republicans could trot out a
man to succeed the venerable old Cir
cult Clerk. This being the terminus
of our route and the hour growing late,
he, 1xnr hH-t