Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-01-21
LOCAL BREVITIES.

A revival meeting is In progress
at the M. E. church in Ironton.
The local option election in
Wayne county will be contested.
w. w. Haywood is reported quite
sick with pneumonia at his home.
A recent census shows that
Fredericktown has a population of
2374.
The Arcadia Valley Grocery
Store has a new advertisement this
week.
With each passing day the
chance for ice this winter grows
less and less.
Eighteen pounds of granulated
sugar for S1.00 at Arcadia Valley
Grocery Store.
There are JUNIORS of several we'd
dings that are to take place in the
very near future.
A farce comedy company at the
Academy of Music Thursday and
Friday evenings.
Every once in a while now there
are JUNIORS of politics that will be
in the springtime.
An extra gang has been laying
new steel between here and Pilot
Knob the past week.
IA brand new, up-to-date diction-
airy was added to the public school
library n day last week.
When you want first-class print
ing let us hear from you. We are
well prepared to please you.
A.. Rieke has, for the present,
abandoned the idea of putting up
his new house on Main street.
DR.. w. j. Smith has been con-
fined to his room several days by
sickness but is improving now.
The best flour on earth for sale
at the Bell Store and Arcadia VAL
ley Grocery Store. Try a sack.
The screen factory is a very busy
place these days and some very
handsome doors are being turned
out.
BoRN-To Mr.. and Mrs. Lee
Davis, in Arcadia, on January s,
1904, a son; and died on January
Is, 1904.
Chas. Dalton has gone to Ken
nett, where, it is said, he is think
ing of engaging in the commission
business.
Show at the Academy Of Music
Thursday and Friday nights.
Opening bill, "The Irishman's
Troubles"
Notwithstanding the scarcity of
eggs in the local market a number
of cases are shipped from here to
st. Louis every week.
The young people will give a
dance after the show Friday night.
All the dancers of the Valley are
cordially invited to attend.
The heirs of the late j. w. Han
cock of Pilot Knob were recently
allowed a claim of $500 for sup
plies appropriated by the soldiers
in war times.
Jacob Grandhomme and E. D.
Shattuck have engaged in the
commission business at De Soto
under the firm name of Grand
homme & Shattuck.
A lot of new and handsome day
coaches are being put on the local
trains. They ire equipped with
electric lights, fans and everything
modern and desirable.
Saturday, was payday with the
telephone construction gang. "A
number of them came to town that
evening, loaded up and were with
out q job Monday morning.
The Clark & Baldwin Manufac-
turing Company Monday bought
from DR.. H. M. Jones forty acres
of timber land located near the old
Mulligan place, east of town.
The holder of ticket No. ia is
entitled to the sewing machine
not ticket No. ID as stated last
week. Please call and get same
without delay. FL. w. ADoLPH.
Remember that all specimens
for the mineral display from Iron
county must be in the hands OF
the local committee by February
list. Do not delay sending in your
specimens.
Will Kaths, the railway mail
clerk, has an offer, we understand,
to enter the mail service in the
Philippine Islands. He has not
VET determined whether he will
accept or not.
THE construction gang of the
Bell Telephone Company, build
ing the line from st. Louis to
Poplar Bluff, moved from Belle
view to Reagan's Hill, west OF
town, last Friday.
The Bell Telephone people have
some mighty big wagons with their
construction people. One wagon
was driven through here last Friday
that is said to afford cots or beds
for over seventy men.
The REGISTER this week issues a
supplement containing the speech
of Hon. HI. B. Halves, delivered in
st. Louis last Saturday night. Il
is q most able effort and well worth
the most careful perusal.