Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-19
Marble Creek will have a post Office
soon; w. L. White, postmaster.

Marble Creek will have a post Office
soon; w. L. White. postmaster.
Mr.. John N. Horn has leased the
Braun Hotel, until recently The Home,
and will shortly open the building to
the public. Mr.. Horn is we'll known
to the public and we do not doubt will
secure his portion of the patronage.
The building is too good to stand
empty. and we trust and believe that
Mr.. Horn will be successful in making
the hotel first -class in every respect
st. Francois Herald.
All orders for costumes for the
masque ball must be given to j. Lopez
by Saturday, Dec. 21st. No one will
be admitted to dance hall unless they
are masked. The balcony will be re-
served for white persons only. No
one will be allowed to remove mask
until IL P. Nj. Any n wishing to do
so will have to retire to the ladies' or
geutlemen's dressing room. Admis-
sion to balcony, 25 cents.
Preparations are about completed
for the entertainment to be given at
Masonic Hall, Belleview, Monday eve
ming, Dec. %, 1901. Among the inter-
esting features of the program are "a
KISS 10 the Dark" 1.-The Deacon's
Tribulations," and a ''Red Hot Mes
sage" besides a few humorous recita-
tions. An oyster supper will be served
after the literary program. The pro-
ceeds are to be used for the school
library. Come and spend the evening
with US, help US laugh and eat oysters.
o. j. BUFORD.
The commissioners of Insane Asylum
No. 4, composed of j. D. Allen of But
Ter, Judge j, F. Green of DeSoto and
w. M Wells of Marble Hill. met in st.
Louis last Saturday and allowed bills
aggregating So, 900 on the work now
under way at that institution. The
roof is being placed on the laundry
building and brick work on b dining
room and kitchen is progressing. The
contract calls for the completion oil
these. buildings by the 1st OF March
next, when it ia hoped that the Asylum
will be formally opened and ready to
receive inmates. 1t is said the COM
missioners contemplate holding a re-
ception at the time of the formal open
ing.-Fdrmington Times.
The Ladies' Birthday Almanac for
1902 is being distributed 10 our city
this week. This publication achieved
great prominence IN September by Its
accurate prediction of the Galveston
storm. The New Yorb Times Sept.
18th, said: s.Galveston's disastrous
storm was predicted with startling &C
curacy by the weather prophet, Andrew
jackson DeVoe, in the Ladies' Birth
day Almanac Issued 10 Chattanooga.
Tenn, last January" 1t Is so differ
emit from the ordinary cheap patent
medicine almanac. that 1t has become
very popular, and now has a circulation
o: Is. ZOO. 900 copies, annually. Our
readers who have not received a copy
of the 1902 edition, can get 1t from
their merchant Or by sending their
address to the Ladies' Birthday Alma
nae, Chattanooga, Tenn.
The charges made by the Pacific Elk
press Co. are simply outrageous; II
they don't get all that Is coming to
them and a little more, we are no
Judge. Last week we received a pack
age from st. Louis weighing 80 pounds,
and the express charges on 1t was 40
cents, that was all right, as the dis
tance from st. Louis to Fredericktown
is 1O4 miles. This week we had oc-
casion t o ship 8 package weighing 20
pounds, and the rate 20 Delta, 90 miles
south of Fredericktown OIL the Iron
Mountain railroad, was SO cents. ten
cents more than it cost to get a pack
age weighing five pounds more from
ST. Louis, and St. Louis is 81 miles
Delta. Is it any wonder the people
are calling for a law to regulate the
charges of these piratesp-Fredertcb-
toUn DemocTGt-N eUs.
A tramp ran into a printing Office
and said that a man had just swallowed
a two-foot rule and was dying by inches.
The editor started out to learn the par
ticulars of the death and meeting a
doctor told him about the case. He
said that was nothing. that he once
had a patient that swallowed a Their
mometer and died by degrees. A
couple of bystanders then Clipped In:
One said it reminded him OF a fellow
down in Kansas who swallowed a pistol
and went off easy. The other said he
had a friend in New Jersey who swal-
lowed a pint of applejack and wento OF
in good spirits. We once heard OF a
man who ate some horse meat and died
of nightmare. We once asked an old
German il his son.. who had swallowed
N +ano maaeDra had died by inches,
and he replied that his son event oud
10 the alley and died by the yard
Poplar Bluffs big stave factory was
destroyed by fire Sunday morning.
The following, telegraphed to last
Mondays Republic, tells of the con-
a~agration: This morning at B o'clock
the plantof the H. d. Williams Cooper
age Co., the largest factory OF its kind
in the world, vas discovered to be in
flames. The fire, which was of an in
cendiary origin, started in the offices
and was famed by a strong wind. 10
a few minutes the flames spread to the
factory and were beyond control. The
plant had a well-equipped fire depart
ment Of it's own, composed OF en-
ployes, but, as none were on the
ground at the hour, little effort was
made to check the CONGREGATION. The
city fire department responded and
succeeded in preventing the fire from
spreading to the Iron Mountain yards
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