Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-11-12
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The potato yield is not large.

published this week.
Probate court was in session a
couple of days this week.
The burning of the leaves has
made many bonfires the past week.
Foot ball doesn't seem to be cut
ting much ice in the Valley this
fall.
The city fire, pump should be
kept somewhere in the central part
of town.
There are several thousand dol
lars of county school money on
hand to loan.
Remember the bazaar in Deem
Der as the time to buy your Christ
mas presents.
The Budwesier band serenaded
friends over the telephone n
night last week.
The city council held a meeting
Monday night and transacted
routine business.
Don't forget the Maccabees ball
at the Academy of Music on
Thanksgiving night.
Bishop futile will hold services
at st. Paul's church next Sunday
morning and evening.
Very few Of the passenger trains
have been on time since the new
schedule went into effect.
Capt. Byers insists that we have
better fre-fighters in Ironton than
in any town in the country.
Everybody is complaining at
the very miserable freight service
afforded at the present time.
The present train schedule is
most unsatisfactory to people who
want to travel on the branch road.
The telephone line has been
completed to Arcadia. There will
be no more construction until next
spring.
Two light shocks of earthquake
we're felt here Wednesday OF last
week between one and two o'clock
in the afternoon.
Mrs. Blemel will remove to
Pennington in the near future and
assume charge of the Hollis House,
a hotel in that town.
Judge VIM. Volner of Reynolds
was in town II day last
week and sold 500 worth of clover
seed to T. S. Lopez & Sons.
The Bell Telephone Company
had a man here Wednesday locat-
ing the route for the proposed
through line through this county.
Judge Hampton intends moving
back to Annapolis this week and
will probably resign the Office OF
Probate Judge in the near future.
Work at Iron Mountain has been
discontinued and no men are at
work there now. 1t is said that
work will be resumed in the spring.
Mr.. Vernon Galster, the musical
prodigy, will introduce his very
funny musical act "The Musical
Cow" with Eiler's big show, Nov.
oath.
Rev. w. A. Humphreys, who is
located at Festus this year, spent
q few days with his parents here
during the week.-Charleston Enter
prise.
We learn this morning that the
post-ofice at Pilot Knob was
broken into last highland the safe
blown open. About $500 in money
was taken.
A special city election will be
held December 9Th to elect a mem
Der of the city council to succeed
G.. A. Buckley who has moved out
of the city limits. <"
The Melroy Bros. Minstrels, in
whose talent there are a number of
Ironton's colored thespians, are
billed to appear at the Academy OF
Music Friday night.
A. D. Shattuck, station agent at
this place, is expecting his mother
and sister here from Denver in a
few days. They will be located
in the Lopez cottage.
MARRIED At Ironton, Mo-,
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 1908, by w.
G. Fairchild, j. p, William Bohan-
nan, of Belleville, Ills, and Minnie
Gibson, of Bismarck, Mo.
VIM. King was last week
awarded the contract by the county
!. court for building the new foot
bridge at Pilot Knob for S125. II
will be built without delay. .
Mrs. Blemel has sold the Blue
Store and restaurant to Mrs. Fin
niemore, a sister of Mr.. Louis
Miller of Arcadia. Mrs. Finnie-
more will take charge at once.
Jacob Grandhomme will remove
to st. Louis about the first of the
wear, and his bartender, Harry
Holland, will assume charge of the
saloon at present conducted by
him.
Burglars entered the store of w
E. Bell & Son, at Belleview, Sun
day night, and got a lot of tobacco.
dry goods, etc. This is the second
time this store has been burglar
lied recently.
"Sailor JEAN" with his trolyette.
stopped in Ironton an hour yester.
day. He is making a tour of al
Az oop;ta1c ~ tho TTpitad Statae