Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-12-24

W. "a y AOco W hhoSAoOaA1G
why anyone in the Valley wants
to import bread from st. Louis.
The bread baked by our home
baker, Joe Madlinger of Pilot
Knob, is far superior to any of the
st. Louis bread. And Joe should
have the home trade.
STRAYED FROM THE RANGE-Two
yearlings-one Steer and one Heif-
er-both red; marked with smooth
crop OFF the right ear. Liberal re-
ward will be paid for information
leading to their recovery.
S. E. BUFORD,
Bellevicw, Mo.
Our faithful Des Arc correspond
ent, T. P. Fitz, had the misfortune
to break his leg while loading hubs
at Des Arc Monday. 1t is reported
that the fracture is up near the hip
and this renders the fracture all
the more serious. We hope he
will soon recover from the accci-
dent.
DR.. Gay reports the birth of five
girls the past week: Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Wise, Silver Mines, Deem
Der 10Th, girl; Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Reagan, December 18th, twin girls;
Mr.. and Mrs. JEFF. Ashlock, Deem
Der Goth, girl; and MI. and Mrs.
Chas. Gillian, Arcadia, December
10th, girl.
j. j. Brown of the school of
Mines at Rolla, was here last week
arranging to get some specimens
from this section for the Missouri
mineral display at the Worlds
Fair next year. Among the speci-
mems from this section will be a
boulder of magnetic ore weighing
several tons.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Straszer
was here last Saturday with Geo.
Patterson and Willie Patton, of
Shannon county, both charged
with selling whiskey without Uncle
Sans license. They will be given
an examination next Monday. In
the meantime they are languishing
in durance vile.
MI. Wallis, the official inter-
prefer for the courts in st. Louis
county, spent several days of the
past week here with a view of pur-
chasing a farm somewhere in the
community. He looked at several
pieces of property, but we have
not learned whether he has de-
cided to purchase or not.
Mr.. j. E. Sloan, of Belleview,
was in town Monday and called at
this Office to renew his subscrip-
tson. Nh. Sloan states that he
gathered a corn crop this fall from
56 acres of ground that would aver
age go bushels to the acre.. He
owns n of the finest farms in
Belleview.-Potosi Journal.
The Pemiscot county recorder,
Mr.. Green, permitted a deed of
trust to be satisfied without the
presentation of the Cancelled note,
which later turned up and had to
be paid. The owner of the land
sued the recorder for 1854, and
Judge Riley decided that Mr..
Green should pay it.-Southeast
Missouridn.
The different prizes to be award
ed at the Masque Ball, Dec. 2Sth,
have been presented by the follow
ing leading firms: II. S. Lopez &
Sons, H. w. Adolph, Arcadia VAL
ley Drug Co., and Clark & Baldwin
Manufacturing Co.'s Store. The
patrons of the Masque Ball can
rest assured hal the prizes will be
something nice and valuable.
Wife-John, have you visited
the school yet?
John-No, WHEY, | have been
too busy. How are Dick and Har-
ry getting on, anyhow?
Wife-Well, John, for the life Of
me [ can't say, for | have never
been over, but have bought two
tickets and told Mr.. Malugen that
you would pay for them.
Will you, John?
The Clark & Baldwin Manufac-
turing Company are putting in a
hub factory at Munger, about
twelve miles west of Ironton. The
machinery will be taken from the
plant here and put out there.
There is an abundance of hub
timber in that vicinity. The fac
tory will be got in operation as
soon as possible. The hubs will be
shipped from here.
w. L. Moore, Chief of the
Weather Bureau, has notified
Postmaster Bishop that in future
this Office will receive Emergency
Warnings" of storms, hurricanes
and cold waves of unusual severity.
These warnings are telegraphed
and the Postmaster will arrange to
have them bulletined at the post
office, Whitworth's store in the
south end of the town and Lopez's
in the north end.
The p~ost-office department at
Washington has not yet taken any
action in reference to carrying the
mail to and from the office to the
trains. AS long as Postmaster
Bishop cal find some one to carry
the mail at the old contract price,
fifty-three cents a day, we will
suffer no inconvenience, butin case
he cannot we will have to do with
out mail until the department at
Washington sees fit to act.
Prizes awarded to competitors at
the recent bazaar given by the
ladies of st. Paul's as follows: