Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-18
LOCAL BREvITIEs.
Thanksgiving a week from TO-DAY.


An average of forty-ive trains are
passing over the road every twenty
four hours these days.
Mr.. Cameron. an employee at the
Clark hub factory, had an arm frac-
tured while at work Tuesday.
Losr-A scar-faced, white Bull Ter
rier. Return to Mr. A F. Bond,
Ironton. and receive suitable reward.
Union service on Thanksgiving day
will be held at the NJ. Z. Church, Iron
ton, at IL o'clock A. NJ. All are in
vited.
Mr.. Moore writes entertainly and in
structively of his trip to Wyoming.
The REGISTER hopes to hear from him
again.
The Arcadia Valley w. C. r. U.
meets at the residence of Mrs. Rosie
Hodges next Saturday, November goth,
at 8 P. NJ.
The reader who s'skfps" Judge Rus
sells letter this week misses a good
thing. All the letters are good; this
number especially.
A few cars of iron ore are being
shipped from the Knob these days.
Most of them go to the furnaces in the
vicinity of East St. Louis.
For RENT-Lower floor in 1. o. o.
F. Hall. Ironton. One of the best
business locations in town. Apply to
Geo. Schultz, John Albert, or L. b.
PruItt.
The curfew ordinance is now in
force. The city authorities have made
arrangements with the Clark hub fac
tory to blow the big whistle at $50
O'Clock in the evening. and after the
sound is heard representatives of the
rising generation are no longer to be
seen on the streets.
Following are the signal service
readings at this point for the week
ending Nov. 10th, showing the highest
and lowest temperature recorded each
day: Nov. 10th, IS, 20; 18th, 80, So;
18th. 60, "a; 18th, 81, Sc; 18th, 73,
So; 18th. 73, So; 10th. Is, %. Rain
fall for the week, %.
The young men of the Valley will
give Social Dance at the Academy of
Music at Ironton, Mo-, Thanksgiving
eve = Wednesday, November oath,
1897. Invitations will be issued.
Music by Profs. d. NJ. McKinny, r. HOl-
loman and H Davis. Tickets, iuclud-
ing supper, per couple, 1925.
One or more diamond drills will
soon be put to work in the south end
of the county. The promoters are
chiefly st. Louis parties who seem to
be confident of finding lead and lots OF
it. We certainly hope they will not
be disappointed. Most of the drilling
will be done between Annapolis and
Des Arc.
The individual who went around
town last week endeavOring to raise
bonus for the proposed sash and door
factory met with little encouragement.
People who helped pay bonus to the
wooden mill of unsavOry memory and
have nothing to show for it, aud work
men upon that structure who are still
mourning loves labors lost, are little
shy OF subscription lists.
s. Z. De Haven. formerly teacher at
Pilot Knob and we'll known to many OF
FGaQSTS.
his home in La Grange, Kentucky,
.we have put Mr.. Goldbug aud Re
publican in Kentucky to sleep forever
more" Mr.. De Haven is practicing
law and we are glad to learn is pros
Dering. He expects to pay his Iron
county friends visit in the course OF
the next month.
The green-eyed monster got the up
Der hand of Columbus Cooley, color
cd loafer about town, last Saturday
night and he proceeded to give his
..steady," Dadie Whitener, a damsel
of dusky hue, a good thrashing. Dadie
made complaint to the officers the 1oi-
lowing dav and Columbus was taken
in custody. He had trial before
Souire Fairchild Monday and was Civ
en- a Jail sentence of twenty-one days.
The entertainment given for the
benaft of the NJ. f church at the
Academy of Music on Friday night OF
lost week was well attended and prov
"a a very successful affair. The pro-
oramme was happily selected and eX-
eantionalIy we'll rendered. Mrs. j.
II Iones. who had charge of the en-
tartsinment. has been universally com
nlimeuted and praised on the success
attending her efforts. The gross re-
ceipts were about $50.
Miss Rose Jones of Arcadia has re-
.,,.rsd from a visit of several weeks in
Ga1da, Mo. While in Maiden, we
iaorn from the Dunklin NeOS that Miss
Rosa took prominent part in an en-
tertaiument given before the South
aost Missouri Medical Association In
sossion in that town. A solo rendered
Miss Homes, won't You be My Lit
~ CjrI?n seems to have been an espe-
cisIIv happy hit. and the young lady
go the highest praise from the large
81 crit,cal audience in attendance. 1t
rss universally declared one OF the
mos. popular features of very pleas
ing programme
M one can appreciate more than L
A. che kindness and goodwill that was
oUnrassod by the people of Ironton and
o"a,nY,nity in my behalf. | shall ever
faaI grateful to the young ladies, young
rr,n.Ismen, and all others, for the ac-
So. ;rterest that they took in making
~ arareises of the evening both IN
t tn9 and instructive. Especially
A. r snnreciate the earnest efforts OF
0o ri Tonas for the careful and