Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-19
LOCAL BREVITIES.

April 9TH, 1908.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Lent begins next Wednesday.
The wood wagons were kept busy
Monday.
Guess the grounding knows his
business.
The frat sleigh of the season was
out Monday.
All shippers are complaining of the
shortage of cars.
Nobody got mad on Valentine day.
This is unusual.
An empty wagon is a load on the
roads these days.
The greatest issue before the people
to-day is better roads.
The extremely bad roads have made
the hub hauler scarce.
Many a house plant was nipped in
the bud Monday night.
In later years our coolest weather
seems to come with February.
Since the cold weather began the
trains have been running late.
Already they are saying that we
will have no peaches this year.
Eight degrees below zero Monday
%night-the coolest of the season.
Won't we all be glad when the
gentle spring time does come againP
The county Collector makes his
settlement with the county March 23d.
The pusher men got 40 benefit of
the recent increase in pay to trainmen.
Ironton's pool room has closed.
The tables have been taken to Granite
Vile.
Arnold aud Christy-they are names
no more in favor in this lovely Valley
of ours.
1t is said that the contest for the
Ironton postoffiee will likely be settled
this week.
Sunday night service at St. Paul's,
1880 o'clock. Sermon: The Gospel
in I%ronton."
Travelling these streets at night
with plenty of mud and no light is
abominable.
With no card room, no pool room,
Ironton may be said to be getting very
good, indeed.
1t is said that the Syenite Granite
Company proposes putting in a crusner
without delay.
BoRN-To Rev. and Mrs. Mason at
Salida, Colorado, on Thursday, Febru-
airy 9Th, a boy.
There Is talk of the electric light
plant in Piedmont being put in opera
tion nee again.
Many of the trees broke down under
the heavy weight of ice and snow the
first of the week.
March 6th-mark the date-Dr.
Milbank will preach in the evening at
St. Paul's church.
Eggs are more plentiful and cheaper
than they have been at this season for
several years past.
Not in thirty years have the roads
in Iron county been as miserable as
they are at the present time.
There were more worthless checks
in Ironton the past week than there
have been for a long, long while.
The Arcadia boys gave a dance,
complimentary to their friends, at the
Academy OF Music Tuesday night.
The demand and price for lumber
is good, but the roads make 1t almost
impossible to get to the railroad.
Let the people who are talking O.
building a 5000, 900 sanitarium in the
Valley be given every encouragement.
t
VIM. Blue and .sPop" Thomas OK.
pect to start a saloon in the Crews
building in Ghermanville In the near
future.
+ ruary II, 1902, the thermometer
req Nred six degrees below zero,
IT, ne day, 1908, eight degrees be-
low zero.
Mrs. Ed. Hutchins died at her home
in Arcadia Monday, after a long ant
painful illness. The funeral occurred
the following day.
The dance given by the Maccabee,
at the Academy Of Music last Frida.
night was we'll attended and PROVED
a very pleasant affair.
One of the hub factories had orders
for forty-one loads Of wood Monday
The blizzard seem to have caught lot
OF people without wood.
Service Friday night at St. Paul
church 1880 o'clock. Will do you
soul as much good, II not more, than
dance at the Academy OF Music.
Clarence N. Jones has lately set GU
Sc sral hundred shade trees on hi
place In Russellville. He propose
having a miniature forest out there.
The Individual who had no none,
invested In the g~et-rich-quick concern
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