Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-01-18
LOCAL BREVITIES.

DIR. Strong was called to Hogan
Monday.
The outlook for ice this winter seem:
to be anything but encouraging.
A slight wreck occurred at Tip Tor
Tuesday, blockading the track for 8
couple of hours.
j. n. Bishop has commenced the
erection of house on the lot just west
of his present place of abode.
West Plains now has four banks; il
that town can support that many Iron
ton ought certainly to keep up one such
institution.
The dancing school will be inaugu.
rated at the Academy of Music this
evening. About fifteen or twenty
couples are expected.
Next Monday is the date of the meet
ing of the College Committee at Bis
marck. Some definite action will PROB
ably be taken at that time.
BoRN-To Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard
Peck, Ironton, January IA, 1894. a
girl; to Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Seitz.
Middlebrook, January 18th, girl.
All doing we'll.
1t is rumored that the contests for
Office at the tie coming city election in
the spring will be numerous, and that
there will be many aspirants for every
position to be filled.
The new wire being put in along the
Iron Mountain road will be used strict
ly for Memphis business. The gang
are travelling fifteen miles day and
will soon be through.
1t is stated that the railroad com
pany intends building ..Y" at Area
dia for the convenience of the Accom-
mediation train. 1t is something that
has long been needed.
Again there is talk of the Arcadia
Valley Mill being opened and operated.
The destruction of the mill at Bis
marck by fire last week, may hurry up
such a consummation.
BORN To Mr.. and Mrs. j. n.
Bishop, Thursday, January 18th. 1894.
boy. All parties are happy. but more
especially the father, who halls the ar
rival of voter with more than usual
JOY.
The Clarkson Saw Mill Company Is
extending its railroad, which leaves
the Iron Mountain at Leeper, to Rey-
nolds county, with GAINESVILLE as its
destination. That town is counting on
q big boom.
Mrs. NJ. j. Chamberlain and her
pupils, assisted by an excellent male
quartette, will give the grandest con-
cert ever heard in the Valley. The
exact date has not yet been determined
on, but full particulars will be forth
coming.
Geo. w. Cartys-a former resident of
the county but who has been absent
for about ten years past and is now en-
gagged in railroading at Winnemucco,
Nevada, gave us a call last Saturday.
Mr.. Carly, we are pleased to say, is
prospecting in the West.
The Poplar Bluff Democrat says that
an individual from Texas was beaten
out of $500 by three card monte men
on an Iron Mountain train one day last
week. The fellow seemed to have
plesty of money, though, and viewed
his loss philosophically.
A half dozen genuine Australians,
direct from the Midway Plaisance,
were passengers on a south-bound train
one day last week on their way to the
mid-winter exposition at San Francis
CO. They carried their musical instru-
ments with them and were making I'M
earthly noises.
At the March term of the County
Court roadoverseers for the ensuing
year will be appointed, the former
law, providing for the election of road
overseers at the annual school meeting.
having been repealed. The court will
probably be governed in the appoint
ments by the petitions presented.
These are the words in which the
editor of the Dunklin Democrat refers
to a preacher and evangelist quite we'll
known here: ..Rev. Ben Deering, the
preacher, politician, lobbyist and tenn
perance lecturer, IS at West Plain. He
is the man who looks less like preach
er than any other man in the state"
The Oldest inhabitant hardly re-
members so mild a winter as the pres
GnG one. anu III VIC uO uoe ha'S . Ae~NA
cal change there will be no ice har-
vested this season. Still our dealers
have quite supply left over from last
winters crop, and this may keep that
commodity from soaring way into
fancy prices during the heated term OF
next summer.
The fire at Bismarck was very
hard blow on Mr. A. ID. Boss, formerly
of this county. In addition to losing
fine mill which cost $4,000, there were
seven thousand bushels of wheat and
seven hundred barrels of flour stored In
the building, making the total loss to
him in the neighborhood of 5000
Not dollar of insurance on either
building or stock.
The editor is in receipt of an invita- |
ton to the wedding of Miss Maud Eth
elyn Hurlburt and VIM. H. Hudson,
which will take place at the home OF
the brides parents, Kimmswick, Mo-.
February 18th The bride is we'll |
known in the Valley and we join a host
of friends in wishing her happiness and !
prosperity. The young couple will
make their home in Winfield. Kansas. !
The following appears in the LES
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