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

home grown potatoes nave sup
piled the market thus far, but it is
said that some will have to be i'm
ported in the near future. The re-
tail price has been 81. The i'm
ported article will probably cost as
much as SIPS.
For SALE CHEAP-Two traction
engines, 27-horse power, in good
condition; only been in S four
months. Apply or correspond for
further information to John H.
Brod, Jr., 406 Fullerton building,
st. Louis, Nc.
Mrs. Mollie Gay, accompanied
by her daughter, Miss Alice Gay,
and her granddaughter, Miss Ruth
Pruitt, of Ironton, returned home
Monday from a visit with the
family of Mr.. Robert Tetley.-
Pennington Times.
Miss Mary w. Russell and
brother, Howard, LETT last week for
Pittsburgh, Kansas, where they
will make their future home. Geo.
H. Russell is engaged in truck
farming at Pittsburgh, and Howard
will Join him in that business.
Senator M. R.. Smith of Farming
ton was here Monday looking
over the situation with a view of
entering the race for Congress in
this district. Mr.. Smith will an
nounce definitely whether he will
make the race or not by the end of
the week.
Ben. Brooks, a well known citi-
zen of the west end of the couaty,
was found dead in the woods near
Goodland last Saturday. Brooks
had gone out with his team to haul
a load of wood. He was found
lying on the ground near by where
he had cut some wood.
Many friends here will be sorry
to hear of the serious illrejs of
Mrs. j. A. Markham at her home
in Pittsburgh, Kansas. Miss Fan
ME has been out there for some
time but will return here soon for
her mother, and then they will give
up their home here and all live in
Kansas.
Born-To Sergeant and Mrs. w.
w. Reese at Jackson Barracks,
Louisiana, on Sunday, February
%, 1904, a girl. We are pleased
to announce that mother and child
are doing nicely and Grandpa
Rieke, way up here, struts around
very proudly. The REGISTER ten
ders congratulations.
/ have just received the finest
line of WALLPAPER samples to be
found in the United States-many
of them imported-and at prices
that can not be beat. In order to
introduce this fine line | will take
orders for the next thirty days at
wholesale price. Call at my office
and see them, or drop me a card
and I'll send them to you.
MRS. Fl. O'BRIEN.
Sheriff Polk and Constable Mar
shall went to Potosi one day last
week to see Chris. Yarbrough, in
Jail there on the charge of horse
stealing. They say that from the
description furnished he is un-
questionably the man who stole
the horses from Chas. Russell on
Crane Pond several weeks ago.
Yarbrough will likely receive a
seven year sentence in Washing
ton county.
Messrs. Frank Mullin and j. L.
Conway have formed a partner
ship under the firm name of the
Iron County Realty Company.
These gentlemen will conduct a
general real estate business and
will be glad to confer with all peo-
pie who want to buy or sell real
estate. They have both had a
great deal of experience in the
realty business, and your interests
will be we'll taken care of if in
trusted to them.
Albert Hill, who has opened a
butcher shop in the Alberts' build
ing, says we were misinformed in
our statement last week in saying
that the Clark & Baldwin Manu-
featuring Company were interested
with him in the meat market. Mr.
Hill says that while he has made
arrangements for the G. & B.
coupons to be accepted at his shop
yet the manufacturing people are
not interested therein. We cheer
fully make the correction.
There were two men stored away
in the city bastile Saturday, tc
sober up, and ten or fifteen Others
parading the streets that should
have been elsewhere. We dom
mean by telling these that we are
kicking over the sale of Peruna
and other such rotgut booze, but to
show certain civic righteous yahoos
that their guarantee during the
local option campaign was a fake.
and the drubbing we got for pre-
dieting this very thing was unjust
Campbell Citizen.
We are reliably informed that
attorney Polite Elvins of Elvins
will seek the nomination for Con-
gress in this district, and are
pleased to note the fact. There is
a well defined policy among Mis-.
souri, Republicans, to put forward
the young men of the party ane
trust to their enthusiasm and yea.
to make vigorous campaigns, which
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