Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-23
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

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The railroad continues to do a big
freight business.
We had another snow Monday, but
1t didn't stay long.
Milton Laughlin is very sick at his
home with pneumonia.
Do not forget the Rummage Sale at
the camp, January 30th.
Be sure to secure a souvenir at the
Gipsy camp, Thursday evening.
The screen factory shipped five cars
of screens the first of the week.
Ground hog day will soon be here.
Then we'll know about the weather.
There will be services in the Pres
byterian church next Sunday, both
morning and evening.
The Clark Manufacturing Company
has a fine lot of logs on marlborough
to last all summer through.
Is there going to be- a new fence
around the courthouse this spring. Ii
not, tear the old one down anyway.
Theo. F. Rudy, who formerly lived
at Pilot Knob, is reported very Ill with
pneumonia at his home in St. Louis.
Northern White Seed Oats-the best
in the market, for sale by E. M. Logan
at the Belleview Roller Mills, Belle
view, Mo.
You may see the past live in the
present and enter the future at the
Gypsy encampment, Thursday evening,
Jan. 80, 1902.
Rev. T. A. Waterman has gone on a
missionary tour. He expects to have
preaching services in various places
during the week.
Chas. P. Harviell of St. Louis was in
the Valley Thursday. He that day
sold his storehouse in Arcadia to S. P.
Ringo. Price, $1,700.
The entertainment and supper for
the benefit of the Presbyterian Church
ioou SuhooJ oSohihSs "Go " esShNS
and proved a very successful affair.
John Dooley, who was seriously
wounded in the famous Dooley-Harris
feud battle at Doe Run, in August
1900, died in Pennington last week.
The A. M. Alcorn farm, in the west
end Of Iron county, was sold at trus-
tees sale Saturday. A. H. Bay, who
held the mortgage, bid in the property
at $175.
Nelson Campbell has an auction sale
OF household and kitchen furniture,
farming implements, stock and feed at
his farm on Marble Creek, next Tues
day, January 28th.
Ten teams went through town We'd
nesday, moving the machinery of the
St. Louis Stave and Lumber Co. from
Black River to Marble Creek. This Is
the same plant that vas at Arcsdia.
Oscar Hart of Reynolds county
pleaded guilty in the United States
District Court in St. Louis, last Satur-
day, to selling liquor without paying
government license. He was sentenced
to thirty days in the Iron county jail.
Mayor Wilson informs US that the
smallpox situation in town is very
much improved, there being no new
cases and that the quarantine from Miss
Conway would be raised about Monday.
Elsewhere in the county the disease is
rapidly giving way.-Farmtngtom NewS
The section men-most of them
have gone to work again. In some
places they receive $1.25 per day, in
others, ITO. So the company has
won out on the strike. There isn't
much prosperity In that, is thereP
$1.10 a day on the section. And the
company with more business than 1t
can attend to.
A new bank was organized at Bis
marck Monday The capital stock il
$40, 600. G. T. Tullock has been
elected president. The bank will have
quarters in the new hotel building. A
cashier has not yet been chosen. We
understand that Prof. r. E. Wilkinson
has an application in for the position.
We should like to see him get the
place, for we believe he would make q
competent and careful cashier.
The deep we'll on on the Asylum
grounds was completed last week, and
MI. I. j. Short was chosen the dis
interested party to test the water flow
Mr.. Short made the test the first Of the
week. He informs us the water flowed
at the rate of 1000 gallons an hour fol-
for the full "a hours OF the test, and In
his opinion the we'll will supply twice
that amount steadily. The well is SIC
feet deep.-St. Francois Herald.
No. 5 ran into the engine Of
freight train at Jordan switch abouI
midnight Thursday. The fireman or
the passenger train, named Wagner,
received injuries from which he died
the following day. L. M. Taylor, the
~.sengineer had his hands badly LAGER
ated. Dr.. Marshall, the local sur
geou, was summoned and took the mer
to the hospital at ST. Louis Friday
Wagner was very weak from loss d
blood and died the following day. The
wreck was o~ccasioned by the passenger
funnipg BY a flag put out BY the
freight crew,