Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-11-19

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favorite singer, IL years of age.
will appear between acts with
Eiler's Ten Nights in a Bar-Room
Co., Nov. oath.
The freight service is most miser.
able on this road at present. Il
the local chooses to come one day,
it comes; if not, it just waits until
the following day.
A fund of S13.S5 was subscribed
by the business men last week fol
the negro boys who gave the alarm
of fire when the the Bonanza came
near being destroyed.
Miss Mamie Roehry entertained
a number of friends Tuesday eve
ming = the occasion being heI
seventeenth birthday. The hours
passed most delightfully."-.
The granite quarries, the saw
mills and the factories all say that
they will have to suspend opera
lions unless they can secure better
a service from the railroad.
Chas. j. Tual is tearing down the
old Tong property on Knob street,
which he purchased some time
ago, preparatory to building him
a new home on the premises.
For SALE-At a bargain, my
household and kitchen furniture
and dishes. Must be sold at once,
Apply at once at the Blue Store.
MRS. l.. BLEMEL.
There will be an adjourned
meeting of the ministers on Mon
day, Nov. 23d, at 4 P. M, at tine
Office of Rev. Geo. Steel.
w. S. Acomb, Sec'y.
The section men were last Fri
day notified of reduction in thei1
wages of from S1.40 to S1.25 pei
day. All along the line they re-
fused to work and walked home.
The series of meetings at the
Baptist church closed Wednesday
evening of last week. The attend
ance on the meetings was good and
considerable interest was shown.
The people on the Belmont
branch have received word from
the railroad company that there is
prospect of an immediate i'm
provement in their train service.
Mrs. Blemel has been a neigh
Dor of the REGISTERS for a good
many years, and she has many
friends here who are loath to see her
depart. May success and happi-
ness attend her in her new home.
The ladies of the Second Baptist
church, Belleview, Mo-, will serve
can Old Fashion Supper, on
Saturday night, Nov. 9th, from 6
to 10, in the Masonic Hall. Adults,
% cts; children, Is cts. Come one,
come all.
Rev. Humphreys tells the REG
lister that he is very pleasantly
situated at Festus and likes his
new surroundings very much. But
for all that he says he often thinks
of the lovely Arcadia Valley and
his many friends here.
A train crew captured a live deer
which had got tangled in a wire
fence, south of Piedmont, week
before last. The deer was taken
in custody, brought to Piedmont
and sold to some man who pro-
poses making a pet of it.
The burglarizing of the post
Office at Pilot Knob last week re-
calls the fact that within the past
year the post offices at Arcadia and
Middlebrook were also robbed, but
up to the present there has been no
clue leading to the guilty parties.
Jacob E. Grandhomme says that
we were misinformed last week
when we stated that he would re-
move to St. Louis the first of the
year. He says he has no idea of
leaving Ironton and will be found
business at the old stand.
STRAYED-From the saw mill of
G. Smith, at Smithboro, Rey-
olds county, Mo-, two mules; one
a heavy-set, mouse-colored mule;
the other is a largo black, with a
crippled right front foot. A reason
able reward will be paid for their
recovery.
A warrant was issued for l.. j.
Keenan, on Thursday of last week
charging him with an assault with
intent to kill on Josh Moon at
Pilot Knob the day before. Keen
an was held for the circuit court on
a $1,000 bond which he promptly
furnished.
Mrs. M. j. Chamberlain met with
quite a painful and serious acct
dent Tuesday of last week. She
was walking across a newly
scrubbed floor and slipped and fell.
Her shoulder was badly bruised
and for several days she was UNI
able to leave the room.
If some of the railroad officials
would spend a few days at this
place and see for themselves how
thoroughly inadequate is the
station here to the business trans.
acted at this point we are quite
certain there would be no more
delay in giving III that new depot
There have been no develop.
ments in regard to the safe blow.
ing at the Pilot Knob post-offict
Wednesday night Of last week. I
is thought that a couple of strang-
ers who wer loaing about the
town for a day Or two previous
we're probably the guilty parties