Iron County register., 1894-02-01
LOCAL BREVITIES.

LOCAL BREVITIES.
The lenten season is only a weel
away.
Next Monday is regular term O.
Probate court.
The hoop business seems to be at
an end for this season.
Nelson Creath has taken up a little
red pig; owner can have same bv pay.
ing charges.
The epidemic of the ..grip" seems to
be subsiding. although there are yet
numerous sufferers.
Our old friend, Chas. Maschmever,
speaks to the REGISTER readers. Sec
his new ad. on this page.
The REGISTER is obliged to w. w.
Hinchey. of the Division Superintend
ent's Office at De Soto, for recent faYors.
The Kelley graduates at De Soto have
formed a club and give regular enter
tainments for the edification of the
people of that town.
Rev. DR.. James held no services Sun
day night in order that his congrega-
tion might attend the lecture at the
Presbyterian church.
Rev. Duty had quite large congre-
cation Sunday night to hear his lecture
on benjamin Franklin" 1t was quite
an interesting discourse.
VIM. Trauernicht, tho jolly, whole
souled, big-hearted tailor from Mid
dlebrook, was in town this week see-
ing customers and friends.
Why is the crank on a hand organ
like the waltzer on the ball room floor?
Turning the crank starts the music;
starting the music turns the crank.
BoRN-To Mr.. and Mrs. B. Fox, on
Monday, January goth, 1894, a boy.
The mother and child are doing splen-
didly and the father is proud and
happy.
The young people had a fine time
skating after the cold spell last week.
Judge Emerson illumined the park
Friday night, and all enjoyed them
selves hugely.
Mrs. A. Roehry entertained a num-
Der of friends at an afternoon social
Monday. The occasion was the hostess
birthday, and the guests all had a
pleasant time.
Messrs. Baldwin are repairing the
Newman dwelling house, which they
recently acquired, and Mr.. Jno. I.
Baldwin expects to occupy the proper
ty in the near future.
The people best posted on the ques-
ton seem to think that the Conference
is sure to remove the college from Gale
dOnia. That being the case Arcadia
Valley is sure to oe in the fight.
A passenger engine blew up in the
yards at Poplar Bluff last Saturday
morning. Fortunately no one was
hurt, but things in the immediate vicin-
ity were considerably shaken up.
In the matter of securing the college,
Mr.. A. G. Simpson, formerly of the
Valley, but now of Chicago, agrees to
give ten acres of land as site for the
institution. 1t is generous offer.
ID. H. Mckenzie, of Sabula, was in
town Monday, appeared before the
County Clerk and was duly commits
stoned as School Commissioned for this
county. He will make an efficient Of
fcer.
Mrs. Weathers of Arcadia had the
nisfortune'last Sunday morning to fall
on the snow and break one OF the
bones in her ankle. At present she Is
getting along as we'll as could be ex-
pected.
THOMPSON Blanton of the Flatwoods,
while driving some stock up from the
river a few mornings since, ran into
drove of thirteen deer. Venison
surely oughtn't to be scarce in that
section.
The Fredericktown Democrat says
that candidates for county Offices Will
be very numerous over there this year.
The outlook for a large number OF
candidates over here, seems to be very
fair, too.
Although the ice on the ponds dur
ing the recent cold spell was three or
four inches thick our ice men dld not
reap much Of harvest. Chances are
that they will not have another op-
portunity this winter.
There will be a meeting of the Exc
cutive Committee of Iron county Amer
lean Bible society at parsonage OF M.
E.. Church ON Saturday, February Sd,
at 2:30P.M.
w. H. HORNED, President.
Quite a number of the boys went TO
Iron Mountain Sunday to skate on the
lake. The ice was not strong and three
of the boys went into the water: II IL
hadn't been for some timely assistance
there might have been a drowning.
Considerable local interest was man
ifested in the Corbett-Mitchell fight at
Jacksonville last Thursday. Coroett
was the favorite, but there were not
90 many Mitchell men after the ''scrap"
was over as there were the day before.
The Arcadia Valley Mill has been
leased and will be opened and operated
as soon as the property can be PLACED
in repair. The rails on the spur which
have been taken up will be put down
again, and connection made with the
main track as heretofore.
The dancing school, under the direc-
t;on of Prof. z. l.. Grahame. of st.
1T, Ia snropressino niasly and the