Iron County register., 1899-03-30
LOCAL BREvIrIEs.


The Arcadia public schools closed
last Friday.
Try the REGISTER for all kinds OF
job printing.
Millinery opening at Lopez's Satur-
day, April 1st.
Snow and sleet in profusion the last
days of March.
They tell Us there will not be any
peaches this year.
March has been a terror on the
streets and highways.
Mr.. Jabobs intends putting a soda
fountain in the drug store this summer
County Court is in session this week
settling with the Collector and Treas
urer.
The county board of equalization
will be in session at the courthouse
next week.
A. P. Vance expects to remove his
family to one of Judge Emerson's cot
tages this week.
Owing to the very inclement weather
there was no meeting of the Literary
Society last week.
Wanted-A good girl for general
housework. Small family and good
wages. Apply here.
The 2Sth day of March furnished
snow and sleet, and icicles hung from
the caves of the houses.
Rev. Mccormick, the newly appoint
ed Methodist minister, arrived last
week to take charge of his work.
Jacob Grandhomme intends opening
a grocery store and market in the
Giovanoni building across from the
courthouse.
The Masonic Hail at Belleview was
destroyed by fire last Thursday night.
The origin of the fire is unknown In
surance, $500.
w. T. O'Neal's little boy, Jessie,
has been very sick the past few days
with diptheria. He is much improved
at this writing.
The young people of the Valley will
give a dance at the Academy of Music
Monday evening. All the young peo-
pie are cordially invited to attend.
Preaching at NJ. E. Church in Iron
ton I'd and 4th Sundays at 7:30 p. NJ;
Graniteville ID and 4th Sundays at II
A. NJ W. r. MCCORMACK. Pastor.
Battery L, Sixth Artillery, of which
Ed. Killalee of Pilot Knob is a member.
has been ordered from New York to
Manila. They will embark April 1st.
The railroad is doing an immense
freight business. Twenty-seven trains
passed over the road Sunday night.
This is said to eclipse all previous
records.
Walter Craven left. yesterday morn
ing, for Kansas City and points In the
South, to look out a business location.
We hope he will meet with success
Licking Net0S.
G. A. Byrd, the colored barber who
has held forth in the Academy OF
Music for the past year, left Tuesday
for Covington, Tennessee, where he
will in future reside.
George Couuor, the negro who shot
and killed Henry Block of this county
in a saloon 10 st. Louis last November,
will be tried for murder in the ST.
Louis court this week.
The spring session of the Southern
Convocat1on of the Diocese of Missouri
is TO open at Rolla on April 18th. The
Rev. A. Britain has been appointed to
give two addresses on the occasion.
The B. Y.P. L. and Y. P. S. c. E.
will have union meeting at the Pres
byterian church Sunday evening at
6.15 O'Clock. H. E Melhado will act
as leader. All are invited to attend.
The Circuit Court docket for the
term which meets April oath, Is probao-
ly the lightest in the history OF the
county. From present indications all
the business can be completed in two
days.
J. s. Jordan, Corning, Ark, came
in Yesterday looking for some cheap
lands. During the palmy days OF the
7O's MIR. Jordan was prosecuting at
torney of Iron and Reynolds counties.
-AHors HisSouriGn.
The Sixth Missouri, now stationed
in Cuba, will be mustered ou.- There
are quite a number of Southeast Mis-
sourians in the Sixth, the Doniphan,
Kenuett and Bloomfield companies be-
ing in that regiment
The appearance of the interior OF
the station at this place has been great
1v improved by a brand new walnut
top telegraph table. The linemen are
also stringing the wires on the new
poles recently erected.
The REGISTER last week 1naoVert-
antIy said De Soto would vote on
proposition to increase its school tax
to ..eighty cents on the dollar
should have read ''eighty cents on the
hundred dollars valuation"
Mrs. j. W. Clarkson of Grandin
stopped off here last night and was the
pnest of Mr.. and Mrs. c. o. Fisher.
Mrs. Clarkson performed the duties OF
nostmistress during w. A. Spence's
term in office, and is well known TO
many of our citizens. She left this
morning for Hot Springs. Ar k, to De
absent several weeks.-Poptar Bta.t
Citizen.