Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-06
LOCAL BREvITIES.

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The ice is eight inches thick.
The sleighs were out last week.
Probate court meets next week.
St. Valentine one day next week.
Well, we'll have plenty Of ice next
summer
DR.. Wicks is arranging to build him
an ice house.
Well, we've had enough cold weather
j. for one spell.
The school board had a meeting
Tuesday night.
Collector O'Neal is after the delin-
quent Taxpayers.
The hot summer days will ever up
this zero weather.
Let US hope the passing wagon has
lost its steely ring.
We've had more snow and sleet this
winter than for years.
See change in the Ironton Manu-
featuring Co. 8 ad advertisement.
The cold weather paralyzes business
and makes news awfully scarce.
Everybody will have. or ought to
have, plenty Of ice next summer.
There's been more sleighing the
past week than we've had for years.
The Baptist Ladies' Aid Society
meets with Mrs. s. P. Ringo Thursday
afternoon.
All the ice-houses are flled-put it
down to the credit Of the uncongenial
Frost-King.
August Rieke has been at home sick
several days the past week, but is i'm
proving now.
The ice houses that did not get in
on the cold weather in December were
filled last week.
The ground hog says we are going
to have six weeks more OF genuine
winter weather.
The Clark Manufacturing Company
shipped in over four hundred cars OF
timber last year.
Judge bearing was in town last Sun
day evening on his way to Wayne
county to hold court.
The weather thespast four or five
days has been the coolest siege we've
had in several years.
Miss Pearl Conway celebrated her
sixth birthday last Saturday by enter
tanning a number of her little friends.
A friend suggests that we advocate
street cars along with street lights.
He says we will get one as oon as the
other.
j. R, Wentworth has resigned as
superintendent at De Soto and Mr..
Tyler of the central division will sue
coed him.
De Soto has given up the idea oil
w%aterworks for the present. The
whole town has been torn up Over the
proposition.
One NJ. w. Daugherty poses as the
best Crokinole player in this part o.
the world. And one j. Lopez insists
that he is hard tt beat.
LosT-Last Thursday evening. g
watch charm-gold-Elks badge, with
the letters ''B. P. D. E." Return fol-
reward to Price Ringo, Arcadia.
The Baptist ladies decided, at 8
recent meeting of their Aid Society, tt
hold an apron and necktie bazar dur
ing strawberry season In May.
Rev. j. H. Dew, State Evangelist
will inaugurate a series OF meetings a
the Baptist church next Sunday. The
public is cordially invited to attend.
There seems to be an opinion tina
the county primary will be held on thu
same day Of the Congressional primar,
June 7th. THAT would mean a shor
campaign.
The we'll drillers recently completed
q hundred and fifty feet we'll for DR.
H. NJ. Jones. They are now at worl
putting down a we'll for Louis Mile
In Arcadia
A conductor by the name of Hurle.
fell off his caboose at Hogan last Fri
day evening and badly fractured hi
leg. He was taken to the hospita
that evening.
Farmers insist that unless there ar,
lots OF rain between now and planting
time, there will be no use trying to grow
anything. The ground is too dry nov
for the seed to terminate.
Governor Bob Taylor was ADVERTISED
to lecture in several towns in tn
Southeast last week and failed to shov
up. Kennel and Pennington wer,
among the disappointed burgs.
ID. Hardy, who was for many year
Superintendent OF this division Wa
last week appointed General Superin
tendent OF the Missouri Pacific Rail
road, headquarters at St, Louis.
Our genial postmaster now lick
stamps at the sound OF the bell. TIL
REGISTER predicts there will be nj
coating on his tongue when the sur
goes down at evening on the l4th inst