Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-16

III. b. Jones writes us from Arkansas
that he wants to build him a house in
the valley and again make this his
home. He has not determined just
yet where he will locate. We will be
glad TO welcome him.
Why not subscribe for one or both
of those excellent magazinesP The
Dslinedtor aud Ladies' Home Journal,
each, n dollar a year. The Baptist
ladies have the agency ard are de-
sirous of your worthy patronage.
Ironton Tent No. 1862, X. o. T. NJ,
was visited, on Tuesday evening, by
G. r. X. Slr knight w. A. Sommers,
who installed the new officers for the
ensuing year, and also held a school
OF instruction.
HOWARD E. MELHADo, R. K.
The dance at the Academy OF Music
last Friday night, it is said, proved one
of the pleasantest affairs OF the kind
held in the valley for years. There
were in attendance about forty couples
and they all had a good time.
The residence and smoke, house on
the Jasper McCallum farm on St.
Francis river was destroyed by fire
Monday. A couple of families we're
living in the house and they succeeded
in saving some Of the contents,
Lee Usher and Marley Plnkley got
into a racket in the north end of town
last Saturday evening, and Pinkley
had IN arm broken. The two Spaugh
boys, Arthur and VIM, also mixed up
in the scrap, put were not hurt.
The Congressional Committee for
this district has been called to meet at
Bismarck, Friday, January oath, to
determine manner aud place of nomi-
mating the Democratic candidate for
Congress in this district this year.
Both our hub factories are said to
have enough timber on hand to sup
ply them all next summer, and they
will not buy a great deal more timber
just at present. There was seventy
six wagons at one Of the factories one
day last week.
Our citizens were very much alarmed
last week by the report that there were
twenty. cases OF small pox in Farm
ington. From all reports there is
small pox In nearly every portion of
st. Francois county and if the desease
doesn't reach here it will be almost
miraculous.
The members of the family of the late
Mrs. M. j. Beard, desire the REGISTER
to make due acknowledgment for them
to the friends who did all that could
be done to ALLEVIATE the distress of the
afflicted in their hour of sorrow.
Words are inadequate to suitably ex-
press the family's sense Of obligation,
but in their hearts it will never be
obliterated.
The roadmaster was here Tuesday
offering the section men $1.25 per day
as an extra gang If they would return
TO work. That is 81. 25-the wages
they are asking for-but with no
promise of a steady job Some of the
men accepted and some refused. There
have been no section men at work for
two weeks, and in ONE places the
track is in need of attention.
Ia November last Mrs. Roebbel,
who lives in the Flat Woods, had a
gallon Of peach butter, a gallon Of
whiskey and a turkey stolen from her.
She sought high and low for the
offenders, but could get no trace. One
day last week she got evidence that
one Ed. Smith had knowledge of the
facts of the case. Smith was arrested,
brought before Squire Fairchild We'd
nesday morning, pleaded guilty and re-
ceived a sentence of twenty-five days
in jail.
Capt. A. B. Sloan surprised his
friends in Kenneth Tuesday by drop
ping in to spend the day with them.
Capt. Sloan, who is now a 1st Lieu
tenantin the regular army. is stationed
at Fort Sheridan, Ills. with the Twen-
ty-ninth Infantry. 1t will be remem-
bered that he was principal OF the Ken
nett schools and county school CON
missioner at the beginning of the war
with Spain. He went to Cuba as cap
tain of Co. l, Sixth Mo. Vols, and
afterward saw service in the Philip
professionalism County Mail.
DR.. Hugo Suma and wife of ST. Louis
were in the Valley the first of the week,
looking after some improvements they
contemplate making on their summer
home in Russellville this spring. The
DR.. visited the REGISTER Office Monday
and presented the editor with a box Of
very fine cigars-a Christmas present,
he said. He also left US $5. co. to be
divided equally with the public school
libraries in I~rontop and Arcadia. The
DR.. is a most elegant gentleman and
takes a lively interest in all matters
pertaining to the valley.
An enterprising concern in Indiana
has been perpetrating one OF the
greatest frauds on the public known in
many years. They advertised what they
called "red albumen," a preparation
which they claimed would Gauge hens
to lay in any season Of the year. On
account OF the scarcity OF eggs In the
last few weeks thousands of people all
over the country have fallen over them
selves in their desire to secur this
great invention. The concern was
making all kinds of money when the
postal authorities investigated their
methods and declared them fraudulent.
.Dr. Brown Of this city has received
numerous inquiries for "red albumen'