Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-10-24
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

The foliage Is gorgeous.
The water supply is still very short.
Bishop futile will visit Ironton No
vember 26th.
The sos most excellent Eve cent
cigar-for sale by all dealers.
A wreck at Riverside delayed No. 81
about three hours las: Sunday.
The hub factories are getting lots of
logs these days-both by rail and wag-
on.
The editor says the Home Sketches"
have not been dlscoutinued-only post
poned.
The rains, thus far, have not been
sufficient to help anything but the els
terms
Ironton should have waterworks and
electric lights. We need them, and
need them badly.
The screen factory resumed opera
lions last week aud will probably be
busy until next summer.
We hear of another wedding real
soon, and it's not q case of maiden fair
and callow youth, either.
The hunting season is at hand. The
birds are said to be quite plentiful and
the turkeys are not scarce.
The courthouse fence and the court
house yard should receive attention
some time before spring.
From wrecks and other causes nearly
every passenger train on b road has
been late the past week.
VIM. Bowen, 8 popular railroad man
of St. Louis, has about decided to
make his home in Ironton.
P.W. Whitworth of Ironton was
t~rsnsacting business in Poplar Bluff to-
day.-Poplar Bluff Citizen.
Fredericktown claims two thousand
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. five hundred more
than the government census gives.
Collector ONeal is prepared to re-
ceipt you for your tsxes-city, county
and state. Call early and avoid the
rush.
Ed 0. EdAFCul1Q lie uOn IO&dSCA AZ
St. Louis. having a position in the au-
ditor's Office of the Missouri Pacific
Railway.
Mr.. Curry has re-modeled the Dr.
Farrar building and expects to have
his grocery store opened by the end OF
the week.
The apple yield this year is fair.
The fruit lie % so large but it has
fewer defects than it has had for several
years past
Mrs. Helen S. O'Brien is arranging
to open q real estate Office in the south
room, lower floor, of the Academy of
Music building.
Ali shippers are complaining of the
scarcity of cars these days. The rail-
road seems to have more business than
Ii can handle.
The two troops now at the rife range
will probably return to the Barracks
tomorrow. No more troops are ex-
pected here this fall.
The telephone station was recently
closed in Pilot Knob. No o to take
charge of the same was the reason for
abandoning the office.
Circuit court y next Monday.
The docket is published in this weeks
REGISTER. and is the smallest docket
In the history of the county.
Along with electric lights and water
ork we need q street sprinkler and
local telephone system. Let's move
about and get up-to.date.
Mrs. C. f. SchmItz last week sold
her residence in west Ironton to Miss
Mary Russell who will make her homo
there in the near future.
Ovine to come changes being made
In the grade on the Arkansas division
the day passenger trains are late from
w 10 four hours every day.
The editor departed yesterday for
Ashyille, North Carolina. He may be
absent only q couple OF weeks and then
he may prolong his stay q month or
more.
WORK In the granite quarries is very
on;et these days. The use of Yitrifed
brick instead Oh &E1oAsO Po
ST. Louis has badly demoralized the
block trade.
The we'll drillers completed DIR.
w;ok,s we'll last week. They went
sirtv-6ye feet aud have fifty feet of
wster. They are boring q well at the
-four mill this week.
DR.. G. w. Farrar. Sr., was severely
k,cked and quite badly injured by bis
horse last Saturday. Considering his
are the sufferer 10 doing rs well as
could be expected.
Hon. Edward Robb Of Perryville was
Ga Tronton Wednesday looking after
his nolitical interests. The Congress
sional ight next year may be interest
ing before il finishes
Ii0on Jones was here from Macon,
Mo 10 look after his property inter
asa last week. He jet shows eviden-
caa of the severe accident be met with,
few mouths ago. in being thrown
from n carriage.-Dsnksin Democrat.