Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-01-28
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Sleigh bells in the air!

out Ill Tile SHOW.
County court meets in regular
session next Monday.
The wood hauler has been in
great demand this week.
Blank deeds all kinds and blank
notes for sale at this office.
1t was so cold Tuesday that the
hub factory closed down for the
day.
Mr.. Delano says that this is the
coolest January we've had in five
years.
The show at the Academy Of
Music three nights last week was
not SO bad.
Piedmont says they are going to
have some railroad shops in the
near future.
st. Paul's Guild will meet at the
residence of Mrs. Mann Ringo this
Thursday afternoon.
The young people had a dance
at the Academy of Music after the
show last Friday night.
The heavy rains last week made
the creeks higher than they have
been for many months.
Collins & Smith have moved to
the store building previously oc-
cupied by Mrs. Thomas.
Tuesday was the coolest night of
the season, the thermometer going
down to ten degrees below zero.
1t is rumored that there will be
one, and possibly two more grocery
stores in Ironton in the near future.
The snow last week was welcome
to the wheat. The prospects for
wheat are not especially encourage
ing.
The heavy rains last week broke
Mr.. Johnson's dam and he was not
ready for the cold weather that
followed.
AS soon as the weather will per-
nit the telephone people will move
their camp from Reagan Hill to
Tip-Top.
Mr.. Haywood escaped the attack
of pneumonia that threatened him
last week but is now suffering from
e%rysipelas.
The bad weather of the past
week has somewhat interfered with
the building of the telephone
southwark.
Edward E. Cain was around
town last Friday morning "cuss-
ing the man who wrote "'beauti-
full snow"
1t is again announced that the
Pennington electric railroad has
been sold to Chicago parties and
will be hurried to completion.
No. 1 was two hours late in
reaching here Monday evening.
The delay was occasioned by the
engine failing to make steam.
Latest from the REGISTER devil:
"Why is the REGISTER Office on
Saturdays like, an Irish wake?
Because there is the devil to pay"
A special train composed of
sleepers and observation cars went
south over the road Saturday even
ing, bound for the City of Mexico.
The first real genuine snow of
the season came last Thursday
night and the day following af-
forded the first sleighing OF the
winter.
Fredericktown claims to have
shipped n hundred and fifty cars
of hub timber the past five months.
And most of them have come to
Ironton.
Mrs. Gross has just received an
attractive line of Buckeyes new
spring shirt waist materials, rea-
sonable in price, beautiful in colors
and fine texture.
The REGISTER is prepared to do
all kinds of printing on short notice
and guarantees satisfaction. Call
on us when you want anything in
the printing line.
No. 7, the south-bound fast mail
train, was over four hours late
Tuesday morning and we did not
get our st. Louis papers until
nearly eleven o'clock.
Lopez's have been very busy the
past two weeks marking all goods
down to cost and less. Their clear
ing sale is going to be the genuine
article and no mistake.
MARRIED - At Ironton, Mo-,
Saturday, January %, 1904, by w.
G. Fairchild, j. p, Edwin H. Holt,
of Van Vert, Iowa. and Elite Q.
Daniel, of Piedmont, Mo.
The snow that came Thursday
night and supplemented by the
snow Sunday night and Monday
gave us the biggest lot of snow
we've had in several years.
Forty new locomotives, it has
been announced, have been pur-
chased for the Iron Mountain rail-
road. Perhaps when they come
our trains will run on time.
Harry Byers arrived home from
California Sunday night. He was
lust a little more than three days
on the road from Los Angeles and
rras uaru clad To pet back home