Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-04-21
LOCAL BREVITIES.

roast beef is at hand.
The demand for houses, as is usual
in the spring time, is quite large.
The public schools close next Friday.
There will be no public exercises.
Now that the Easter season is over.
spring In earnest may be expected.
The summer residents are fixing I'D
their places for the coming season.
The trees are beginning to leave and
the grasses grow greener each day.
More cold, cloudy and disagreeable
days this spring than for many seasons.
Last Sunday was quite pleasant
day and the drivers were out in num-
bcr5.
An extra coach was attached to No
Monday, to carry passengers to the
De Soto ball.
The sporting" element in the North
End has been having some lively times
again of late.
BoRN-To Mr.. and Mrs. Eli .Depew
on Saturday, April 10th, boy. All
are doing we'll
new pavement with stone curbing
is being built in front of the American
Hotel this week.
The trains are just about running on
time again and the damage done by the
wash-outs is almost repaired.
We trust that every delinquent sub
scriber will promptly respond to the
statement sent out this week.
All possible speed should be used in
repairing the damage done to the streets
and roads by the late freshet.
A locomotive has lately been pur-
chased by the Belleview Valley rail
road and trains now run regularly.
Mrs. Schmitz has removed from the
hotel to the private residence of Mrs.
NJ. /. Moser on central Main street.
Several young couples in town are
experiencing the fact that the course
of true love was never smooth one!
Mr.. Jno. Nagel and DR.. j. d. Nifong
have lately improved the sidewalks in
front of their respective residences on
Main street.
Rev. O. VI. Martin will preach in the
NJ. f. Church in Graniteville Saturday
night and Sunday morning, and in Iron
ton Sunday night.
The REGISTER this week publishes
the docket for the April term of the
Iron county circuit court which con-
yenes next Monday.
The young people are preparing a
concert for the benefit of the Episco-
paiian church to be given April 2s, at
the Academy of Music.
The board of appeals meets next |
Monday to hear and determine all APP
peals from the recent assessments of
the board of equalization.
There is a general curiosity in this
section to know what will be the future |
of the granite quaries. No definite |
news seems to be ascertainable, how |
ever.
Mr.. p. w. Whitworth is fencing up |
the lots recently purchased on Shep- |
herd street. and expects to commence |
the erection of a house in the near |
future.
There was another very heavy rain |
fall Sunday night and people for a time |
began to fear that the food of "A couple |
of weeks previous was going to be re-
peated.
The Young Peoples Missionary So
ciety of the NJ f. Church, South, will |
give Il mite society Friday night at the |
residence of Mr.. Monroe WhitwOrth.
All are invited.
There is but little gossip in local |
political circles just now. The pros |
pective candidates will likely make /
themselves known during the circuit |
court next week.
The deHli-nlGnd. of the Valley were |
out in force last Sunday, sight for /
gods and men. as they livery-rigged up |
and down the streets. clothed in Tags"
that babe defiance to public scorn and |
comment.
Miss Addie Petit is organizing a |
class in music and will probably spend /
the summer in Ironton. Miss Petit Is
said to be a most accomplished music
ian and We have no doubt will meet /
with success.
An old resident: They said when /
the Truth was first established that /
it had been brought here to worry the |
Democrats. but | believe it has caused i
the Republicans more trouble than 1T |
ever has the Democrats.
All trains were tied up" Tuesday |
night as the railroad officials feared |
that the heavy rainfall would prove
disastrous to the track. The north
bound passenger trains did not get
through until after daylight.
A number of civil engineers have
been in the city for the past week sur
veying and making other arrangements
to raise the grade of the road through |
the Valley, IN an endeavor TO get out
of the waters way in future.
New England in Pilot Knob is now
totally devastated as TO houses and has
been fenced, plowed and made into a
good large meadow. Thus are the in
FAINT industries pushed along under pro-
tection's guidance and fostering care.
Brannon, the unfortunate individual
who had a leg broken by the cars near
Hogan, about month since. IS still