Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-29

The Seitz Refrigerator has capaci
ty of 400 tons of ice and Gambrinus
liquid is hauled in by the car load.
The Seitz Soda Water works hav
added Mineral and Settler department
and will be brisker than ever thi
year.
The gentlemen also deals in lumbe
and in cattle, and it would be Difficult
| to think of that enterprise he is not il
some way connected. His residence
i an abode of peace and plenty, and hi
farm is excellently cultivated, whil'
his live stock show excellent care.
Michael Seitz is one of the most en-
terprising and public spirited men il
tier of counties and he has gained
the compliment from all who know
him that s.his word is as good as !;
bond" He is deservedly popular as {
public benefactor and socially as al
ever gracious gentleman.
F. Rodach, formerly merchant, bu
retired, still lives here. He made lots
of money and has it yet, and is recog'
nized as one of the richest men in Iror
County.
Middlebrook is a wonderful little
place, more ways than one. 1t is the
highest point on the Iron Mountain
Railway between St. Louis and Tex
arkana-Gads Hill not witwithstand.
ing, 1t has the purest water and the
grandest health-giving ozone, and is
in the most famous granite region OF
the State.
Middlebrook is the shipping point
for two quarries requiring about ten
cars day the year round.
The only industries employing men
are those of the Seitz Company, the
Trauernicht Tailor Company and the
quarry Companies.
1t would be an advantageous point
for many other industries, and there
Is not a sweeter place to live; and
when the children of to-day grow old,
they will be able to sing wi Bobbie
Burns
''We twa haze padded in the burn,
And pu'd the gowans fine,
An we'll tax RIGHT guild willy-wacht
For the days O. auld lang syne.''
Middlebrook is better known through
Missouri, Arkansas. Texas, Montana,
Oregon, Washington and California
than it seems to be by some of its near
neighbors, The reasons therefore are
easily explained. ''Oh, Middlebrook
you are talking about" says an old
citizen of Iron county; eyes, it is a
fine place. but no business, he con-
tinued. 1t is so near he thought he
was familiar with it, but he is not.
IF ho ~
States mentioned have their clothes
made at Middlebrook.
AS Worth of Paris is to the ladies
and lords of London. to the officers of
the army and nobility and gentry of
Europe, so is Trauernicht of Middle
brook, Missouri. to the citizens of
many States.
The man who takes from natures
bosom its granite beauty and carves
it into imposing grandeur, loves good
material we'll fitted The man of the
mines and the railroad man are i'm
bued with the same taste in dress; hence
the Middlebrook tailors have gained,
by their ability to satisfy, rich pat
and comfortable competency.
John c. Bruno became rich, and is
now retired, and he began in as small
a shop as the little buildingin Green
Vile, Tennessee, which still bears the
sign, ..Andw johnson, Tailor" Six
teen years ago William Trauernicht
became partner of Brune's, and he has
now a palatial establishment. The
firm is Trauernicht and Brother, and
their custom tailor trade reaches
$4,000 year. 1t does not seem to
matter where the men go to-the Allan
tic or the Antipodes-they send their
orders to Trauernicht's, and they have
about dozen frst-class tailors busy
all the time.
People smiled sixteen years ago at
William Trauernicht's venture. He
has made more money probably than
any other Knight of the Scissors, in the
State. south of St. Louis.
Officially. he has been postmaster
fifteen years, and was railway agent
two years, and owns lovely property
IN Middlebrook-all property there is
lovely.
He was born at Pilot Knob, raised
at Iron Mountain and chose as a per-
nanent home Middlebrook, between
The two.
He is interested in lead mining on
Flat River, and has never an idle min
ate, but has the happy faculty of COM
Dining business and pleasure, and max
ng the cloudiest day bright one.
Middlebrook has not only the main
line of the Iron Mountain, but its
oy,if ho
Lyles, is kept almost constantly at the
wires. With little space OF time be-
tween calls, he darts to the green lot
along the platform, and he has
its verdure borders, placed
4 flower globe in the centre and along
The fairy walk are violets and verben-
rs and kaleidoscope coloring of
lowers. just peeping, near young trees
it for Brownie woods.
Mr.. LYles has been railroading a
1ozen years. with the Iron Mountain
md Wabash. He is an Ohioan by
birth, came south in 1888. and the
more he sees of the Southern Country
he better he likes it. He is Buck
sye who could not be better liked, and
s business to the core. and Chester
ield in courtesy. JAMES CARswELL.
1t must be good article that will
induce man to go forty miles to get
t. Mr.. E. r. Swetnam, of Fairfax
Station, Va, says; a party came forty
niles to his store for Chamberlain
Cough Remedy and bought dozen
bottles. 1.-The Remedy is a great fav-
,rite in this vicinity,'' he says land has