Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
LOCAL BREvIrIEs

494 49,
Did Santa Claus remember youP
How about that holiday weddingP
The hub teams were plentiful Tues
day.
Are you going to watch the old year
out?
We didn't have a white Christmas.
after all.
The thaw is more disagreeable thar
the snow.
Make your good resolutions mex
Wednesday.
Monday and Tuesday were busy
days in town.
We had our Christmas weather g
week too
The ice put up the past week Ii
about ten inches thick.
County court has been in continuous
session since December I'd.
For the first time il many months
the roads are quite muddy.
A very fine Regina music box at
Henry Adolph's. Call and hear it.
Ills like summer as compared with
the Arctic weather we had last week.
Too much Christmas this week, We
suppose, 10 talk about electric lights.
The schools are closed and the resi-
dent teachers are all home Cor the
holidays.
Business men are predicting unusu-
ally quiet times for q while after the
first of the year.
How many logs do you suppose come
to Ironton in the course of a year on
the hub wagons?
II there has been q single train on
time the past week, no n has any
record Of the fact.
The Iron County Bank will not be
open for business on New Years day
that being a legal holiday.
We ask our correspondents to kindly
have their communications here not
later than Tuesday evening.
B. &. Billings of St. Louis was in
Ironton last Monday canvassing tor
the Republican campaign book.
Fl. Adolph. the ieweler, is ove
stocked with Xmas goods of all grades.
Prices in consequence are very low.
This is Christmas week. The in
dulgent reader will kindly overlook
any short comings in this weeks paper.
The children of st. Paul's Sunday
School had a Christmas tree al the
residence of Mr.. Reagan Tuesday
afternoon.
A very handsome and convenient
calendar ia that issued by the Clark
Manufacturing Company for 1902. 1t
is all right.
The railroad company has erected a
tank at the railroad bridge, from which
the engines are supplied with water
these days.
johnson had about thirty men at
work putting up ice the past week.
He says he has plenty of ice to last all
next summer.
Owing to the very cold weather the
attendance at the spelling contest last
Friday night was not large. Net re-
ceipts were about $40.
No, we hardly think the cold
weather is all over. There will prob
ably be plenty of il between now and
the gentle spring time.
The big stave plant will not be re-
built in Poplar Bluff. A location will
probably be made farther south, where
timber is more plentiful.
The drummers say that about all the
merchants are buying these days is
hay aud corn. As a result business in
other lines Is a little slow.
Eggs are thirty cents a dozen this
week-the highest price in years-and
exceedingly scarce at that. All fall
eggs have been high and scarce.
Henry Adolph has a most elegant
selection of Chritmas goods. he asks
YOU to call and see him and is sure
O will find something to please you.
The holiday card issued by the pas
eouQ6r Q6paftuioub Vi suO misoOuiA
Pacific Railway. is a long ways the
incest Christmas card we've seen this
year.
A concert company. consisting OF
fourteen people. will be at the Academy
of Music the evening of January LIST.
The company comes highly recon-
mended.
n. B. AXE. who has been located at
Little Rock. Arkansas, for the past
year or more, will soon leave for San
Antonio. Texas, whore he will make
his future home.
The railroad company had q school
of Instruction for employees at Arcadia
Sunday night. giving instructions in
the standard rules. which will go into
effect next Sunday.
The last week was probably the
coolest ever known here in December.
II began to moderate Saturday morn
ing. though. and sunny skies and
balmy air followed.