Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-12-03

Freeman Martin is back at his
old avocation-that of driving a
team for the hub factory. Free
man says that the show business
is all right for a little while but
when it comes to a lifetime Job
he'd a great deal rather tie-up with
the mules than stand in front of
the foot-lights.
We hear complaint of some un-
earthly noises on Shepherd street
late last Saturday night or early
Sunday morning If there is a
repetition of the offense every one
of the guilty parties will find them
selves in trouble. The .neighbors
do not longer propose to have their
sleep and rest disturbed.
The Missouri Pacific Railway
Company is just about to locate
combined shops somewhere on
the system. The management says
that after these shops are located
and in working order, there will
be no scarcity of cars. The ship
per certainly hopes for a speedy
location of the shops, then.
The executive committee of the
Horticultural Association has
called a meeting of the people to
examine into and consider the
proposition of planting a number
of acres of fruits, and all are in
vited to come and discuss the mat
ter in full. The meeting will be
held on December 10Th, time and
place will be given later.
A number of people have sub
mitted bids for carrying the mail
from the post-o Office to the depot
and the award will probably be
announced this week. The job
here before has paid about fifty
cents a day. 1t seems to be UNDER
stood that most of the bids sub
mitted this time will be consider
ably in EXCESS of that amount.
Freeman Martin and the other
talent" from Ironton that have
been travelling with the Melroy
Minstrels, "blew in" home last
Sunday evening, cold and hungry.
The Melroy combination has gone
the way of most of the CHARM
stormers"-busted The Ironton
stars will likely resume their
former occupations and forsake the
foot-lights.
Thanksgiving was mighty near
as cold this year as that day ever
gets to be in this part of the count
ry. There was no special cele-
bration of the day. The various
churches held union services in
Presbyterian church and Rev.
Triplett preached the sermon.
The factories were all closed that
day; most everybody ''laid Off"
The usual shooting matches took
place, and that's about all there
was to the day in the Valley.
MARRIED-At the home of the
brides mother in Ironton, Mo-,
Thursday evening, November 26th,
1903, w. j. Tual, of Arcadia, and
Miss Ada G. Farmer, Rev. w. A.
Humphreys, of Festus, Mo-, offc-
iating. The ceremony was wit
messed by none but the immediate
members of the families of the
contracting parties. Mr.. and Mrs.
Tual are now located in a new
home in Arcadia. The REGISTER
tenders it's congratulations and
wishes this young couple every
happiness.
P. G. Walton, Iron Mountain
trainmaster in this city, has issued
an order for all switchmen en-
ployed in the Hoxie yards to re-
port to DR.. Victor Caldwell at their
earliest possible convenience, who
will conduct a physical examina-
ton of each of them. DR.. Caldwell
has examined several and reports
a small per cent of the men ex-
amined as being unfit for the rail-
way service. Some few cases of
color blindness, has been found and
a few who were disabled from ac-
cidents received in the employ of
other roads.-PopIar Bluff Citizen.
Ed. Allen is visiting his parents
in this city. He and "a friend of
his came here for a few days hunt
ing and last Friday night they came
home after a days hunt and
started upstairs to their room, on
the steps was a box containing
smoking tobacco and after putting
out the light Ed. started up the
steps and stepped into the box of
tobacco, throwing him on his side
against the bannisters, fracturing
two ribs and putting him to bed.
He has suffered intense pain and
it will be some days before he will
be able to get around again.-Fred-
ericktoaUn Democrat ews.
MARRIED.-James w. McCor-
mick and Miss F%lorance L. Russell
were the principals in a pretty we'd
ding ceremony that occurred at the
home of G. G. Russell, father of
the bride, two miles south of Bour-
bon Sunday afternoon. Rev. L.
B. McCaslin pastor of the M. E.
Church tied the knot. A dainty
collation. was served to the numer-
Gus guests who witnessed the cere-
mony. The groom is a young
business man of st. Louis. The
bride is the handsome daughter of
G. G. Russell, a well-to-do farmer
of our community. The young
couple will live in st. Louis. We
extend congratulations.-Cuba Re-
VieW.
The bride in the foregoing article