Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-02-09
LOCAL BREvIrIEs.
,now ended the skating.

Probate Court convenes next Mon
day.
The music of the sleigh bells is il
the air.
The lenten season begins next Wed
nesday.
Rooms for Rent-Upstairs at Henry
Adolph's.
Sunday brought out the sleighs in
profusion.
Who said the grounding wasn't a
weather prophet
They tell US the cold weather of the
past week has destroyed all hope oil
peach crop the coming season.
There will be services next Sabbath
in the Presbyterian church. Rev. A.
B. Brown of st. Louis, will fill the
pulpit.
The thermometer registered fifteen
degrees below, Tuesday night-the
third time this winter the mercury has
contracted to is.
Henry Max of Wayne county, who
is in Jail here on the charge of murder,
will be taken to Greenville for trial
during the present week.
ployed on the manganese mines, south
of town. 1t is possible considerable
work will be done there this spring.
Mr.. l. G.. Whitworth, Sr., slipped
and fell Saturday and broke one of the
small bones just above the ankle. We
are glad to say he is getting along
very we'll and hopes to be out again in
a few days.
Our old friend, P. II. Jaquith of
Pilot Knob, met with painful fall
about ten days ago and has since
been confined to his room. He has
been kept to his bed ever since, but
we hope to hear of his early recovery.
All members of the Arcadia Valley
Literary Debating Society are request
ed to be present at the next meeting,
Monday evening, February 13, 1899,
as business of Importance will be
brought before the Society at said
meeting.
the screen factory are considering the
advisability of adding to the plant
machinery for making ak handles, etc.
1t is said the second growth hickory
SO abundant in this section is the finest
timber in the world for handles.
DIED-At Burgundy, Mo-. Saturday,
February 4, 1899. Edwin, little son of
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Sumpter, aged one
year, two weeks aud five days. The
bereaved parents have the sympathy
of the entire community in their af-
Fiction. Y.
The thermometer last night registered
twenty-one degrees below zero. Mr..
Delano says that in the twenty years
he has been acting as recorder for the
weather bureau, last night was the
coolest. The lowest reading previous
to last night was seventeen degrees
below-several years ago.
Following are the signal service
readings at this point for the week
ending Feb. Z. showing the highest and
lowest temperature recorded each day:
Feb. 1st, 35,-15; I'd, 80, 0; Sd, 3d. 20;
4th, 10, 10; 5th, 10, 10; 9th, 10, IL;
7th, 81, 2. Rainfall, so; snowfall, 81
inches. w. II. DELANo, Observer.
A wandering printer who has been
in the Valley for couple Of weeks
past was taken into custody by the city
Marshal Tuesday on the charge of sell
ling goods without license. As it was
evident the defendant had no intention
of violating the law the Mayor released
him on payment of the costs OF the
Marshall.
James Brown of Annapolis was ar
raigned before the U. S. Commissioner
on Wednesday of last week on the
charge of selling liquor without pay
ing federal license. He waved pre-
limiuary, and sent to St. Louis for
trial. The following day in the Dis
trict court he pleaded guilty and was
fined SO and costs.
Some ten thousand acres of land in
Iron, Wayne. Madison and Bollinger
counties were sold in st. Louis the
past week. About z 900 acres OF this
land is located in Iron county and is
said to embrace fine mineral prospects
aud timber. 1t is the body OF land
known as the Emerson lands, and was
sold to Illinois parties about year
ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. F. Walsh of Gran
iteville drove into town in sleigh
Tuesday afternoon. 90 starting home
the sleigh was turned over near the
screen factory aud Mr.. and Mrs. Walsh
were thrown out Fortunately, though,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walsh escaped injury.
The team started to run but were cap
tured a short distance north OF the
railroad crossing.
Ed. Perry was here from De Soto
Saturday making some repairs on one
of the pusher engines. Mr.. Perry was
at one time in the employ of the Ore
& Steel Company at Pilot Knob, and
was for many years faithful cores
pendent of the REGISTER. He is now
EMPLOYED in the railroad shops at De
Soto and is prospecting. A true man
and steadfast friend, may the best
things in life be his!
A man about forty-five years OF age,
medium size, dark hair and mustache,
literally streaked with gray, claiming
to be stationery dealer, registered at
the American House in this city last
Friday evening under the name OF A.
Pew. and said he would be in town I'M
til Monday. He slipped away on the
noon train Saturday, however, without