Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-16
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

Of winter weather we are all sicl
and tired.
The Staying Of the rabbit goei
right along.
The hub haulers have been busy
the past week.
Next Wednesday is Washing
toms birthday.
The slush and the mud have
been annoying.
There was a dance at the Acad.
envy Tuesday evening.
Bismarck will have a telephone
system in the near future.
An effort is being made to or.
ganize a bank at Caledonia.
Everybody has enough sleigh
ing and skating for one year.
Shows this February are as COM
mon as spring showers in April.
Business, both freight and pass
enger, on the railroad is exceed
ingly dull.
The REGISTER does the best oil
printing on short notice. Give us
your orders.
Taking care of the smallpox pa
TENTS cost the county in the neigh
borhood of $500.
The demand for wood the past
few weeks was considerably in
excess of the supply.
We hear rumors of another bus
mess change to take place in town
during the coming week.
The farm of F. w. Hempelmann
is advertised at trustees sale in
this issue of the REGISTER.
A car of corn was imported last
week. It is the first car that has
been shipped in in some time.
About seventy-fve men are en-
ployed at Iron Mountain these
days, washing and loading ore.
We have some Arcadia news
this week. We hope our CORE
spondent will favor us regularly.
The Recorder Wednesday issued
a marriage license to N. A. Jordan
and Miss Ollie Ruble of Des Arc.
The residence of Louis Schwaner
on Second street in Pilot Knob was
last week bought by Ed. Waters.
Now that Ironton is going to
have SO many improvements why
can't we have the new depot, too?
A special carrying George Gould
and friends into Texas and Mexico
passed over the road last Saturday.
Next Wednesday, February ed,
being alegal holiday, the Iron
County Bank will not be open for
business.
On the first page will be found a
letter from Rev. Stowell, giving
figures in reference to the cost of
the rectory.
Herman Rieke last week pur-
chased from L. G. Chambers the
vacant lot on Main street north of
the Haller store.
The Junior Guild of st. Paul's
church, Ironton, will present ''That
Oxford Affair."" March I'd. Par
ticulars next week.
The only observation of Lincoln's
birthday was the closing of the
commission house, as there we're
no market reports that day.
DR.. G. A. Auerswald was called
to st. Paul the first of the week on
account of the death of his brother,
Herman.-De Soto Republican.
If the Valley gets all the prom
ised improvements this spring and
summer, we'll certainly be 'slying
high" Let the good work 60 on.
A bill has been introduced into
the legislature requiring all pas
senger trains to stop at county
seats. The law will be a good one.
The slaughter of rabbits has
been something tremendous. New
er before were there so many
"bunnies' on the Ironton market.
1t has been a number of years
I, since the snow remained continue
ously on the ground for SO long a
ime as it has during the past six
weeks.
We understand that Mr.. Hugh
Steel, late of Colorado, and some
parties in De Soto are considering
the adyisability of putting a first
class lumber yard in the Valley.
It is now stated that the new
bank will have temporary quarters
in the Office building Of the Iron
County Realty Company. A
building will be erected in a short
time.
Services will be held in st.
Saul's church (Episcopal) Sum
day, February Goth, as follows:
Holy communion and sermon at
II A. M; Evening prayer and SER
mon at 1880 P. M.
We learn that quite a lot OF deer
wers killed in the extreme west end
OF the county right after the heavy
sleet fell lastmonth. The deer were
caught in the valley, dogs put on
their trail and it was impossible
for them to get away, the sleet max
Ing the mountain sides impossible,
Some fifteen or twenty we're killed
in this way.