Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-07

4 Sam is behind with Commits sioner Fol
| over nine months. Officers who re
ceive salaries are paid promptly
Why should not officers who receive
| fees be attended to with the same dis
! patch? There is a suspicion that GER
| tain officers in the Treasury Depart
ment are playing into the hands Of
favored attorneys at Washington. De
| laying accounts, they hope will neces.
state the employment of one of these
gentlemen; then division of fees will
be in order. The attention of Mr..
Dockery is called to this matter.
Under the heading, 1.-The New-Com-
ers in JAIL" the Bastile Poet thus eel
ebrates the recent additions to Sheriff
O'Neal's family:
First was shoe-stealer, who lived in cave.
By coming to Jail his life was saved:
Fifty days in Jail he must stay,
Before he can go his way.
Next are hay-stealers two;
One has fifty dollars the other forty-two;
To pay their fine they will try,
Then again on their road they'll high.
Then come the man who ties did make,
Got his timber out of Uncle Sans brake;
To pay his fine he did fail,
So the Judge says thirty days in Jail.
There's the man who thought to make farm,
But only Uncle Sam did harm;
So there's no use to hollow or shout
Its sixty longs days before you get out.
Now comes the Washington county whiskey
man,
XUbo tbovrbt e. ,,aI-a -.,ol.
The judge says, ''Ten dollars and cost"
So now in Ironton Jai! he's lost.
And last are New Madrid Whiskey's two,
Who lost their jugs and fiat boat, too;
They've got the cost and ten dollars fine,
But they seem to stand it without whine.
About twelve years ago Henry Barn
house, Esq, located in the Valley and
started a small grocery business. His
success is a monument of what rigid
economy and strict attention to bust
ness will do to bring success. Not
withstanding the hard times and the
depression of business in the Valley,
caused by the shutting down of the
mines at Pilot Knob, he has piloted his
enterprise through the breakers and
over the quicksands SO skilfully that
the year 1895 finds him with a -four
ishing trade. After he started with
his small stock of goods, some time in
the year '93 or 'S4. he soon found that
he could make it pay and purchased
the building he was then occupying.
Year by year he added to his stock I'M
til he now occupies two large build
ings and can accommodate the public
with anything from fsh-hOok to Il
silk dress. Mr.. Farmhouse has the
rare and necessary faculty of carefully
noting the wants of the public, as well
as those changes in its taste and pref
erences that are always taking place.
So that when you want some article
that is not usually found in the stock
of the ordinary store, you will be di-
rected go to Farmhouse. Mr.. Barn
house has associated his two sons with
him recently, and has added a dry
goods department, he retaining over
sight of the whole. From the grocery
department you will be accommodated
with oranges and lemons from Florida;
bananas from the West Indies; as well
as other kinds of tropical fruits. He
keeps on hand supply of mackerel,
Goldfish and halibut, and game in seas
on. Also, full line of patent medi-
cines, and perhaps the most complete
stock of smoking and chewing tobacco
in the Valley, embracing nearly every
brand that is now made. A full line
of canned goods is always kept in
stock. Mr.. Farmhouse makes coffee a
speciality: he has on hands now seven
teen different grades. The most tas-
tidious user of the berry can be suited.
He has in this department a full line of
teas, sugars, and cutlery, and supplies
the youth with school books. In fact,
you will find very few articles in the
general trade that you cannot be sup
piled with at his emporium. In the
brick building adjoining his old stand,
you will find complete assortment of
dry goods and notions, laces, perfum-
ery-of which latter article he keeps a
full supply of the finest brands in the
market. Also, in this department he
takes orders for tailor made clothing.
His book of samples shows from one
hundred and fifty to two hundred diff
ferent kinds of cloth, from which you
can obtain single garment or an en-
tire suit, and in the event the article
does not come up to representation.
either in quality or fit-if it doesn't sat
isfy-you will not be required to take it.
The room which he occupies as a dry
goods store has it's floor covered with
nice bright linoleum, and is fitted up
in excellent style. 1t is one of the
pleasantest places in town at which to
call, and Mr.. Farmhouse and his sons
take pleasure in showing you their
stock. He wants his old friends and
patrons to call on him and examine for
| themselves: in which event several
parties will have pleasure: you who
| call, and the gentlemen who receive
you. 1t gives US pleasure to pay this
small tribute to one of Ironton's most
| deserving and unassuming citizens.
tGsg may he tarry with US!
Buckingham's Dye tor tue WHISPERS
| in the best, handiest, safest, surest,
| cleanest, most economical and satisfac-
| +o.r dro avar invented II iS the pan-