Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-20
LOCAL BREVITIES,


LOCAL BREvITIEs.
..Old Times" will appear again next
week.
Whose house-plants have suffered
this time?
A touch of winter this week shows
that the old fellows back, though
sprained, is not broken.
The mild weather which preceded it
makes the present cold snap peculiar
ly disagreeable and hard to bear.
Hay for sale at my stable, by the
bale or by load, delivered.
w. w. HAYWOOD.
Some needed repairs are being made
on Shepherd street. The gullies are
being filled up, and the boundaries of
the sidewalks more fully defined.
If neat gravel walks were substitute
ed for those plank footpaths in the pub
lie school yard, the beauty of the prem
ises would be considerably enhanced.
The stated monthly meeting of Star
of the West Lodge, No. 1873, A. F. &
A. NJ, will be held Saturday night this
week. A general invitation is extend
ed to all transient members of the
craft.
Rev. DR.. Morton has been quite ill
with a touch of pneumonia, but, we are
glad to state, is now convalescent. His
pulpit was filled last Sunday by DR..
James.
The Southeast Gleanings is the name
of new paper whose second number
has just been issued. 1t is edited by
Guy r. McHenry, and is published
twice month.
Thos. B. Pruitt had slight runaway
last Saturday, we understand. The
horse he was driving felt his oats and
wanted little exercise, and he took it
without serious results.
The jackson Students" had their
"Day" last Tuesday, and we under
stand everything passed off very pleas
antly. Rev. J. Will jackson was pres
emit, returning to Sedalia yesterday.
The cloth-making machinery for the
wooden mill was, we understand, ship
ped about a week ago, and will prob
ably be here this week. The engine
and boiler are now being put in posi-
ton.
The Ladies Aid Society of the M. E.
Church, South, Belleview. No, will
give an Ice Cream and Oyster Supper
at the school house in Belleview, Mo-,
on Tuesday. February 25, 1896. Ev-
erybody invited.
A team, with boy and girl in the
wagon, Tuesday about noon, became
unmanageable, and ran at high speed
from Lopez's granary to the school
house lot before it could be stopped.
Nothing broken and nobody hurt.
The three boys that burgIarized the
Bonanza will complete their ninety
days. sentence next Monday. They
all say that so soon as released they
will make this county ''scarce," and
HE themselves to other fields and pas
lures new. They are all under eigh-
teen years of age.
VIM. A. Tetwiler of st. Louis, Mo-,
who has been spending part of the
winter here the guest of NJ. A. Doty.
left Wednesday for Los Angeles. for
an indefinite time. Mr.. Tetwiler is
delighted with Southern California
and we hope he will decide to locate
here.-Colton, Calf, Ne'os.
Albert Quick last Tuesday finished a
thirty days' sentence imposed by Un-
Gle Sans agents, he the said Quick
having been found guilty of selling
whiskey without license, the probes
sional term for which, we believe, is
"boot-legging." Mr.. Quick is resi-
dent of Bloomfield, when at home.
The announcements of T. B. Pruitt,
M. Claybaugh and John l. Marshall
all candidates for the Office of City
Marshal-appear in this issue OF the
REG1sTER. The election will be held
on Tuesday, April 7th. next. We com
mend all three aspirants to the best
wishes of the voters OF the City OF IRON
ton.
The railroad section men are en-
gagged in ballasting the road through
the Valley with tailings from Iron
Mountain. These tailings make hne
road-bed. and it is said that, SO con-
strnoted. it is very durable. We hear
that the company will proceed at once
to lay some ten miles OF new steel
taking in all the heavy grades between
Middlebrook and Hogan.
We hear incomplete rumors OF q
scran in the lower end OF the county
near the old NJ. Collins farm-between
some party from Madison and another
of th;s county. The unusual phase OF
tho flgbt consists in the fact that the
Madison aonnty man used q pair OF
brass knuokles-a miserably cowardiy
and contemplate thing to do. Tne
aoht is said to be the fag,end OF an oia
feud that induced Q shooting saraPe q
year or SO ago.