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

The bazar netted about 800.
Monday was the shortest day.
The turkey is scarce and high.
Masque ball next Monday night.
Lots of hay coming to town these
days.
Make up your New Year resolu-
tons.
Are there to be no holiday we'd
dings?
Butler county voted "wct'' last
Friday.
School entertainment tomorrow
evening.
New steel is being laid on Hogan
Mountain.
Santa Claus is mighty busy just
about now.
1t promises to be a "green"
Christmas.
First-class printing at the REG
lister office.
Kindling for sale at the screen
door factory.
Leave your order with R. Hotson
for fine celery.
Don't forget the Mosque Ball next
Monday night.
Eggs, twenty-five to thirty cents,
and awfully scarce at that.
The public schools are trying to
secure funds to buy a piano.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cain are now dom
iciled in the Wemp residence.
The Christmas trade has by no
means been up to the average.
Shippers are getting better a
service than they did a while back.
Robert Farmer is building a wall
at the pits on the rifle range prop
erty.
Have you paid your city tax?
If you haven't you had better
hurry up.
The Methodist folk cleared over
800 at their festival in Belleview
last week.
A correspondent p%ropounds this
question: "Who stole that hunt
ing dog?"
And 1903 is just about ready to
take it's place among the things
that have been.
Just n week more in which to
pay your state and county tax
without penalty.
A merry, merry Christmas and
happy and prosperous New Year
to all our readers!
One and one-third fare for the
round trip during the holidays.
E. D.. SHATTUCK, Agent.
About fifty employees are now at
work in the screen factory, and the
prospects ara good for a busy sea-
son
One donation of books is already
promised. Think about it and
give the school your good reading
matter.
The boys are organizing another
club. A slot machine for cigars
will be the first piece of furniture
purchased.
There was another big fire in
Flat River last week. This is the
third big fire they have had in that
town recently.
The Baptist Sunday School will
give an indoor picnic at the Acad-
envy of Music Tuesday evening,
December Goth. =
Roy Snyder has purchased a
half-interest in the Blue Store and
will be in charge there after the
first of the year.
What about the entertainment
proposed for the benefit of the
fire department? Has it been
abandoned, too?
A number of stone cutters from
Graniteville boarded the south
bound train here for Little Rock
Sunday evening.
John Ruddock of Bismarck will
drill wells for Aug. Rieke, in IRON
ton, and Louis Miller, in Arcadia,
in>the near future.
Prof. Daugherty and Commits
sioner Buford announce that they
will conduct a summer school
again next summer.
We are still without a regular
mail carrier and the department
at Washington doesn't seem to
care one bit about it.
The drug stores won a big victory
in Wayne county last Saturday.
The county went "dry" by over
five hundred majority.
No one seems to have busted
themselves in preparing Christmas
cheer for the Valleys poor. This
is a duty we should never neglect.
Another special city election will
be held Tuesday, January 9th, to
elect a uccesso to Councilman
Wemp who has removed to Arkan-
sas. >
The safes Of the Frisco and
Greenville railroads at Williams
vile were blown open Sunday
night. 500 was secured from the