Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-12-30

pound over to the q. s. District Cour
in st. Louis.
The union services of the Epwortt
League and Y. P. S. C. E. IN the Pres
oyterian church Sunday evening wa:
well attended. The exercises were ap
propriate to the season and each fea
tnre OF the programme was exceedingly
wei rendered. The entertainment wa:
universally declared success.
The senior and junior return thank:
70 the progressive and enterprising
hrm OF Gross & ToIleson for a couple
OF boxes of most excellent cigars pre-.
sented on Christmas day, with the
compliments of the season. In the
language of the immortal Rip, may
Messrs. Gross & Tolleson, both Live
long and prosper"
There was a dance down on the
st. Francis river in Madison county
Christmas eve night. WhIskey was
there In profusion and some of the
| merry-makers engaged in a fight.
John Walker, a young man, suffered
the worst injury, receiving several
cuts on the head with a knife. He
was not badly hurt.
Christmas in the Valley was a very
quiet and uneyentful day. Some of
the boys grew a little hilarious toward
evening, but there was no Earring or
quarreling. At night gang got to-
gether and tore down and moved few
signs, but it was tame and quiet in
comparison with like celebrations of
old. The world moves aud times and
people change.
The entertainment given by the pu-
pills of the Pilot Knob public school
| for the benefit of the library fund on
Thursday night of last week attracted
a crowded house. a most interesting
| programme had been arranged and the
rendition won universal praise. The
net receipts were about $50. Prof.
Hawkins, Miss Fairch!ld and the pupils
are to be congratulated on the success
attending their efforts.
Some prospecting for lead will be
done in the western end of the county
next spring. St. Louis parties have
leased the old Silver Cliff mine about
twelve miles west of here, and it is un-
derstood they will put several men at
work there in the spring. This is the
same property that was prospected by
several of our citizens fifteen years or
more ago. The mine is said to have
every indication of lead in paying
quantities, with good prospects for sill
yer.
The Bazaar having proved such a
decided success the ladies of st. Paul's
| church have concluded to establish Il
| Fair and Bazaar as a regular annual
event to take place in December, about
the sixteenth. They feel that the ex-
! perience gained in this first attempt
will enable them to make a second one
more satisfactory to themselves and
every one else. In March the pro-
gramme will be published so that all
those wishing to take part can choose
in what lines and have time for pre-
paration.
The eighth annual session of the
Southeast Missouri Colored Teachers
Association convened at the colored
school house in this city Tuesday
morning. Prof. w. B. Brooks of Jack
son, president of the association, call
ed the convention to order, and w. A.
Gunnell of Pennington acted as secre-
tary. Papers were read by A. I.
Lewis of De Soto and Mrs. B. Eulen-
berg of jackson, followed by a general
discussion of educational topics as per-
tanning to the colored race. The as
ISOLATION elected officers for the ensu-
ing year and adjourned Wednesday.
There were in attendance about twenty
teachers from the various counties of
the Southeast.
In speaking, editorially, of the rife
range, last Saturdays GlObe-DemOcrdt
said: The Arcadia rifle range of l.
200 acres situated about ninety miles
south of St. Louis, will make an i'm
portaut addition to the military re-
sources of jefferson Barracks, with
which it has direct rail connection.
The news-by the way, published ex-
clueively in the Globe Democrat
the Secretary of War has decided on
the purchase of this tract for target
practice was read with much pleasure
by all interested in the barracks, and
tudJ le 10 say Uy All MlSSOuFiduS. NJ
doubt the new rifle range will become
famous place in training our soldiers
in craftsmanship"
The Secretary of War last Thursday
issued an order for the purchase of the
Arcadia rifle range. The Secretary's
report, with that of the army surgeons
and other interesting matter relative
to the range, is published on our first
page, being taken from the Washing
ton dispatches to the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. This action of the Secreta-
ry seems to finally settle the matter,
aud the deal will now likely be closed
with as little delay as possible. just
as soon as the order is received here
officially, the abstracts of title will be
prepared, and after they are passed on
by the L. s. Attorney, the purchase
money will be paid and the deeds will
be delivered. Without some unforeseen
hitch the rifle range question may at
last said to be settled.
Sundays Post Dispatch told a singu-
lar story of an old man, who gave his
name as W. S. Noyes, tottering into
into the North End Dispensary the
day before and reciting a mysterious
tale of hardship and woe. The old
man said that be lived only for one
thing-revenge, and when that was
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