Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-03-17

for some most delicious ice cream
presented last Thursday. And
when we say delicious we mean
all that the word implies and more,
too.
INDIAN Chapter entertained To-
cal Masons and their families with
a supper at the Academy of Music
Tuesday evening. Mrs. Finni-
more had a most bountiful spread
and the hours passed very pleas
antly.>
To Howard Lindsay, of St.
Louis, the REGISTER is indebted
for a years subscription to Labor,
a paper published by the Socialist
party in st. Louis. The publica-
ton contains all the news of the
labor world.
DIED-At his residence, near
Ironton, Mo-, Tuesday, March 10,
1904, at 5:15 P. NJ, Fl. G. Twomey,
aged Al years, 4 months and days.
Funeral from residence at 2:30 P.
NJ, Wednesday. Interment in
Masonic cemetery.
The Iron County Realty Compa-
ny is arranging to make a COM
plete abstract OF the lands in Iron
county. This is something that
has long been needed and is no
little undertaking. Work will be
commenced at once.
Service will probably be held at
st. Paul's church next Sunday
evening, at the usual hour. No
tice viii be posted in the post
Office Saturday, if services are to
be held. Do not wait for the ring
ing of the bell, as it is out of order.
P. w. Whitworth last week had
a shed built for his thorough
bred sorrel colts. OF course the
stable is not as fine as the 100000
structure "Teddy' wants built
adjacent to the White House for
his horses, but it serves the pur-
pose all the same.
The Killalee building on Second
street in Pilot Knob was torn down
last week. John Schwab bought
the lumber and had it hauled to
his recently acquired home west
of town. The building vas not
an old one, having been erected
in the early eighties.
Word was received here last
week announcing the death in
Murphysborough, Illinois, March
Sd, 1904, of Mrs. Sarah M. Carlisle,
aged II years and 25 days. The
deceased was a sister of Mrs. Julia
James of this city and made her
home here for many years.
Mrs. Sadie DENLY wishes the la
dies to know that she has just re-
turned from st. Louis where she
made herself familiar with all that
is new and novel in spring and
summer dress-making. She asks
her patrons who want spring
gowns to call and see her without
delay.
Fl. Martin Williams of St. Louis
was in Ironton last week in the in
terest of VIM. Randolph Hearst
who seeks to be the Democratic
nominee for President. Mr.. Will
liams is one of the best informed
politicians in the State and has
visited our town many times in
the past thirty years.
Taken up by the undersigned,
seven miles southeast of Ironton,
in Arcadia township, one gray
mare about II or II years old
about Is hands high, shod all
around; also two mare mules one
year old, one dark iron gray,
nearly black, the other, bay color.
j. T. BLANToN.
City and school election April
9Th. In this district two school
directors are to be chosen to sue
ceed Messrs. Whitworth and
Wemp. In the city election a
mayor, marshal, city attorney and
three councilmen are to be elected.
The councilmen whose terms ex-
pire are Messrs. Collins, Ringo
and Farmhouse.
A. report from Columbia on the
fruit outlook is very encouraging.
DR.. j. G. Written, profession OF
Horticulture in the State Univer-
sity, says that the prospects for a
large crop of all kinds of fruit this
yearar unusually good. Peaches
are injured in some sections
but the State as a whole will have
enough to supply the demand I'M
less something unforeseen hap
pens.
Mr.. Munger, who runs a store
Just across the line in Reynolds
county, near Munger p~ost-of1ice,
has lived in that immediate neigh
borhood for about seventy-iive
years. He was born within a short
distance from where he is now re-
siding. He recalls the time when
Cyrus Russell, who came to the
Valley here from Connecticut in
the early forties, was his nearest
neighbor, and his nearest store
was at Potosi. Among his pos
sessions is a clock that has been
running eighty years. There is
only one metal wheel in the clock.
General Manager Hammond OF
the Frisco went north in his
special as far north as Cedar, some
five miles north of the Iron Noun
tain junction with the Frisco, and
will return today. Cedar is some
twenty-five miles this side of St
Louis. They expect to have the