Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-18
LOCAL BREVITIEs.

Next Monday is Washington's birth
day.
8 lbs. good green coffee for S1.00 at
Bonanza Annex.
The fight for the post-office may be
said to be fairly on.
Read the notice of the Christian En-
deavor entertainment.
The winds have blown like March
one or two days of the past week.
Business about the granite quaries
is reported to be very quiet just at
present.
Valentines weren't so numerous last
Sunday as they usually are on Febru-
airy 14th.
E. C. Tual is an applicant for the
post-office at Arcadia under the Nc
kinney administration.
Some of the sidewalks are badly in
need of gravel. The property owners
should be duly notified.
A few more days like those of We'd
nesday and the early gardener will
feel like beginning work.
Mr.. Beyersdorff, the attorney, has
moved back to Centreville where he
will make his home in future.
The building north OF the REGISTER
Office is undergoing transformation
this week at the hands of the carpen-
tiers.
The past few days have been IN
usually pleasant for February; the air
balmy and the sunshine bright and
warm.
Ed. Mounce, a young man who sew
eraI years ago lived in this town, died
at his home in Fredericktown last We'd
nesday.
The teachers meeting held in Iron
ton last Saturday attracted a number
of teachers from various sections Of
the county.
The prices for the coming entertain
meut are, reserved seats. 25cts. Other
seats, 20. children. 10. Tickets on sale
at James Drug Store.
The w. C. I. U. meets Saturday.
February 20, 1897. at the residence OF
Mrs. Daisy Wamsley. Arcadia, Mo.
Subject for discussion, Purity"
The advertisement of the Arcadia
Valley Drug Company appears in this
issue. Will be ready for business as
soon as the building can be be put up
and made ready for use.
The people of the nation fully agree
hn ch hn
Mckinley may be the advance agent
of prosperity, but he's a mighty long
ways ahead of his show"
Louis Miller will at once begin work
on the new brick store house on the
vacant lot across the street. He ex-
poets to have it completed and ready
for occupancy in thirty days.
The Clark Manufacturing Company
last week purchased the vacant lots
south of the mill property 1t is un-
derstood that several cottages will be
built thereon for their employees. q,
The latest information indicates that
the rifle range is sure to come to the
Arcadia Valley. The purchase may
be DELAYED another year but there is
Representative Farrar informs US
that the bill requiring telegraph COM
panies to maintain offices at county
seats has been engrossed and will very
likely pass the house with little oppo-
sition.
In the event of the Legislature max
ing an appropriation for the establish
mert of an insane asylum in Southeast
Missouri. our citizens should make ev-
cry possible effort to have it located
in the Valley.
There will be a called meeting of
indian II. A. Chapter, No. al. next
Saturday afternoon at one o'clock and
at $50 in the evening. Work in all
the degrees. Visiting companions re-
quested to attend.
a couple of engines spent greater
part OF the day Tuesday on the Knob
grade testing how many loads could be
pulled over the hill. Twenty-six cars
heavily loaded with coal were taken
over by the two engines.
c. w Tetwiler was in town for a
few hours last Friday on his way home
to Poplar Bluff from st. Louis. Mr..
L. had been to St. Louis to consult an
architect in regard to a $4,000 opera
house which is to be built at the Bluff
this summer.
J. Fl. Clark, register of the Land
Office at Ironton, and Geo. p. Harvey, |
of Caledonia, were in Potosi last Sat
urday, attending the sale OF the Gale |
donia mill property, which was sold |
by the sheriff under a deed of trust. /
Mr. Clark bid in the property for $500. |
The mill was recently sold by Mr.. /
Harvey to j. V. Curtin. of Caledonia,
and the proceeding here was only to
perfect the title P2koSi journal