Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-06
LOCAL BREVITIES.

LOCAL BREvITIEs.
Eggs are becoming more plentiful.
The city and school elections are
but a month away.
The announcement column Tor l9O2
commences this week.
Some gravel has been put on the
streets the past week.
Is the courthouse yard and fence to
be improved this summer
WANrED-Lumber and log teams at
Smiths mill, Smithboro, Mo.
The Ironton Manufacturing Com
pany is putting in a new pump.
March didn't come In like a lamb so
we suppose it will go out all right.
A revival meeting was inaugurated
at the Methodist church Sunday ever
ing.
Train loads of oranges from Cali
fornia pass north on the road every
day.
The we'll drillers will begin work
on a we'll in the school house yard
this week.
The REGISTER hopes that "Uncle
Joe" will regularly furnish US news
from Arcadia.
The Palmer plant, a big timber
factory at Poplar Bluff, burned down
Tuesday afternoon.
H. B. AXE is now located In Dallas,
Texas, where he is engaged in the
brokerage business. I
Prof. Ogier entertained the members
OF the school board and the teachers at
dinner Monday evening.
We understand that the county
Democratic Central Committee will be
called to meet March 29th.
The screen factory has shipped
about twenty-five cars of screen doors
and windows 80 far this season.
Mr.. and Mrs:-L c. Chambers and
baby arrived from Cuba, Mo-. last
evening on a visit to Ironton relatives.
BoRN-To Mr.. aud Mrs. Geo. M.
Kinks on Friday, February %, 1902, a
i. girl. Mother and child are doing we'll.
The City Financial Statement will
be published mex week. 1t was
handed in Monday. but is crowded out
this week by the Personal Assessment
List.
Tuesday was a regular March day
cold, windy and forbidding. 1t was
made especially unpleasant by con-
trast with Mondays s%pringlike bright
ness.
Latest news from Mr.. w. A. Ryan
at Potosi is that he is much better than
he was last week, and hopes are now
entertained that his life may be pro-
longed for some time.
Judge Jas. D. Fox OF Fredericktowr
was visiting ~Ironton friends this week
The J Judge is at all times a most agree
able and entertaining gentleman, ant
his many friends here are always glat
to see him.
Miss Utica Reagan most delightfully."-
entertained a number Of young PEG
pie Friday evening. Those who were
60 fortunate as to be present declared
the occasion a very successful ant
pleasant one in every respect.
The subject at Fort Hill church mex
Sunday morning will be paul a
Rome" text: Acts, 1928. No ser
vice 10 the evening on account of tn
revival. All cordially invited.
w. A. HUMPHREY, Pastor.
The adjourned meeting OF the citi
zens OF Ironton to. complete the organ
ization OF a Provident or Benevolen
Association, will be held at the court
house at 1870, Thursday evening
March 6, 1902.
GEO. STEEL, Chairman.
The last of the personal assessmer
is published this week. The return
made by some people is hard to under
stand, and a perusal of the persons
assessment list 10 this or any othe
county, will convince anyone that tn
present system is a fraud and a farce
Mr.. A. f. Shapleigh Of St. Loui'
who used to spend a portion of th
summer in the Valley, died at hl
home in ST. Louis last week, at th
advanced age OF ninety.three. Th
deceased was the father Of Mr.. h. v
shapleigh, who has a summer hom
here.
The case OF the Baldwin he'll
against the 4. M. Davidson estate wa
decided In the Supreme Court on Tue
day, against the Baldwin heirs. Th
case had been In court ten or twelv
years, and involved about $4,000
The suit was founded on a claim th'
while administrators Of the Baldw'
estate T.. NJ. Davidson had bought ce
tain lands at his own administrator
sale, at less than their value.-Po
lar BUFF Republican.