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

The Clark & Gay Manufacturing
Company + arranging to move
their hub factory at Lesterville te
. Ellington out on the Leeper road
G. A. Buckley has the contract fol
putting up the building.
Tual Bros. have purchased the
stock of general merchandise Of
w. G.. Whitworth in Arcadia,
They will move their stock OF
goods to the building heretofore
occupied by Mr.. Whitworth.
Sunday night was the coolest in
six years-the government Their
memeter at Mr.. Delano's register
ing eighteen below zero. Some
of the thermometers about town
showed twenty-five degrees below.
o. j. Buford seems to be all
alone in the race for county school
commissioner. Mr.. Buford has
made a good officer and if he gets
through without an opponent ii
will be a well-deseryed compli-
ment.
Henry Adolph attended the bus
mess meeting of the Southeast
Missouri K. P. Association held in
Cardwell week before last. The
celebration will be held at Poplar
Bluff in June-exact date to be
d~etarmiuad later
Mrs. Sarah j. Campbell of An
napolis, widow of James w.
Campbell, last week received a
pension, the back pay amounting
to 1918. The pension was secured
through the efforts of S. Kitchell
of Annapolis.
Tom Short accidently shot his
little son, Obey, last Saturday
morning while out hunting rabbits.
Twenty-six small shot entered the
boys body, wounding him pain
fully, but not seriously.-St. Fran
co.'s County Eagle.
On Monday morning the Their
mometer registered eighteen de-
grees below zero. The same day
six years previous the thermometer
went to twenty-six degrees below
the coolest weather of which we
have any record in this section.
From last Fridays Republic we
learn that Miss George Search,
formerly of this place, and Albert
Hunter of New Madrid, yer the
day before united in marriage.
The BRIDES many friends in the
Valley wish her ever Happiness.
Miss Ruth Kinney, of Arcadia,
was the guest of Thomas HI. Glib
son here last week. While here
Miss Kinney rented a room in the
White building, which was former
ly the city hall, and will open a
millinery store here in the spring.
Lead Belt News.
Judge H. G. O'Bryan is in Col
orado this week looking after the
interests of local stockholders in
the notorious Brotherhood gold
mine. 1t is feared that Charles
toms liberal investments in that
mine are about to go glimmering.
charleston Enterprise.
The Jaquith store house and
residence on Main street in Pilot
Knob has been sold to Mrs. G.
Amelung. The price is under
stood to be $3.50. The building is
a good brick, and probably cost
five, times as much as the purchase
price here named to construct it.
County court adjourned Satur-
day until March 18th, when an adj
journed term will be held to settle
with the collector, draw the petit
jurors for the April term of circuit
court and attend to such other
business as may be necessary.
The proceedings are published
elsewhere.
Bill Moore, who has been carry
ing the mail from the Pilot Knob
p~ost-ofice to the trains, threw up
his Job last week and for several
days they had no mail carrier.
Mr.. Charlton of the mail service
came down from st. Louis Satur-
day and arranged for William
Just to take the job.
I will sell at public sale at my
place, known as the Lott farm,
three miles east Of Ironton, on Sat
urday, February Is, 1905, all my
personal property consisting Of
horses, mules, colts, milch COWS,
steers, calves, hogs, farming i'm
Elements, household and kitchen
furniture, and a lot of loose and
baled hay and corn.
JOHN Dixie.
1t is said that all the money has
been subscribed for a $50, 900 hotel
in Ironton and that the structure
will be built without delay. Two
or three locations on main street
are mentioned, but just the exact
spot has not yet been determined.
The REGISTER sincerely hopes that
there is truth in the report for we
certainly need a hotel in Ironton.
1t will be Of Is much benefit to
Ironton as anything we can think
of.
We note the fact that Sam Mitts,
has sold his place here to George
Talent, of jackson, and Samuel
will go down there and take charge
Of the Talent barber shop, which
he took in on the trade. We are
sorry to see him go away from
here and wish to inform the jack
son people that no nicer or reliable
a Christian young man could be
found than Sammy -FrodoSicLfoapn