Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-01-11
LOCAL BREVITIES.


Hard to find-the prophet who sal
this would be a severe winter.
A week of prayer was inaugurate,
at the Presbyterian Church Monda
evening,
Another pusher crew was put t.
to work last Friday. There are thre,
crews working now.
Judge Emerson last week received
about five hundred trout from the
government fisheries.
The Fredericktown paper is doing tn,
blowing now; we will do ours after thu
school is located in Arcadia Valley.
U. S. Commissioner Fox expects tc
hold court several days this week, ex
aiming offenders against the federal
laws.
County court held an adjourned ses.
sion Monday last and awarded Thos.
Talley the poor farm for a year from
March 1st.
The young folks are making efforts
to secure a dancing teacher from St.
Louis and receive instructions in all the
latest figures.
Again it is rumored that the Arcadia
train will be taken off the road: those
best posted, however. state there is no
foundation for the report.
The st. Louis papers recently stated
in their kilograms from Washington
that changes will be made in both of
the land Offices here during the pres
ent month.
Another telegraph wire is being
stretched along the Iron Mountain
road. The gang doing the work were
in town Monday night, and numbered
fourteen men.
d. F. Martin, at one time sheriff and
collector of Iron county, but now of
West Plains, was in Ironton last week,
seeing old time friends. Mr.. Martin
is now circuit clerk of Howell county,
and Is prospecting.
Mr.. Hotson says when the boys were
out the night before Christmas they
threw his pillow over the fence and
broke it. The repairs will cost So and
the boys ought to help him out.
1t is said that changes will be made
in the two land offices here in the
course of the next few days. Who
will be the appointees is the question,
but it seems to be understood that the
changes will occur without delay.
The REGISTER is in receipt of a very
pretty Calendar from WOolman. Lopez
& Co. tanners, at ST. Louis. Messrs.
Geo. and Adolph Lopez of this city are
members of this firm and it gives us
pleasure to state that they are pros
pering in the business.
Bismarck was visited by a destruc-
tive fire Monday morning about three
o'clock. The large roller mill of ID.
A. Boss, and several adjacent dwellings
were destroyed. The flames were first
discovered in the mill, but people are
at a loss to account for their origin
there at that hour.
Last Saturdays papers in the dis
patches from Washington stated that
S. Z. DeHaven from Missouri, who
held a $1,000 clerkship in the Indian
office, had been promoted to a $1,000
Job. 1t seems that the report which
was circulated several weeks since that
Mr.. DeHaven had been let out in the
cutting down of forces was without
foundation. We congratulate him on
his advancement.
Last Saturday while number of men
were engaged surveying ground for
the proposed college, deer ran into
the field and right up to the men.
The animal had one leg broken by
shot, but as the law on deer went In
force the first of the year. OF course no
(N one, tried to receive any venison
and the deer disappeared as if swal-
lowed I'D by an earthquake. AT least
it was soon lost to view, so we are told.
One day last week No. so carried an
extra coach carrying forty federal
prisoners to the penitentiary at Sing
Sing, n. Y. They had been sentenced
by the u. S. Judge at Fort Smith. Ark,
for offenses committed in the Nation,
and all received long sentences. They
were a hard-looking lot, too, and near
ly all carried ball and chain. In the
crowd was one boy but little more than
twelve years old convicted OF train
wrecking.
A Young reader sends us the follow
ing and says that he plucked it from a
scrap book of one of his young lady
friends:
The naked hills lie wanton to the
breeze;
The fields are nude. the groves I'M
frocked;
Bare are the sh:vering limbs OF shame
less trees;-
What wonder is it that the corn is
shocked!
Mr.. f. nj. Smith gave an old-fash-
toned New England dinner at his
famous ..log cabin" at Graniteville on
last Saturday evening. in honor of Miss
Rankin, a guest of the family. Every
thing was served in the style OF our
ancestors, and, through the attentive
kindness of the model host. was really |
81 feast long to be remembered. After |
the spread serenade was rendered by |
the assembled guests to the host, and
the evening proved an exceptionally |
pleasant one.
The Directors of the Boatmen's Bank
ara very much elated over the splendid !
showing which that old and popular
institution makes at the closing OF the