Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-12-27
LOCAL BREvITIEs

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stiff frost.
A bright, happy and prosperous
New Year to all!
The last call for taxes before the
penalty attaches.
The schools are taking the usual
Christmas holidays.
A number of Christmas trees
were brought to town.
Will you watch the old year out
and the New Year in?
Business at the granite quarries
is said to be exceedingly dull.
Though cold, Sunday was as
fine a winters day as one could
desire.
The young people had a dance
at the Academy Of Music Wednes-
day night.
The Baptist Sunday school have
their mid-winter indoor picnic at
the church to-day.
We told you all the time those
wedding bells would peal during
the holiday week.
The hunters say that rabbits
were never more plentiful than
they are this season.
The man who builds the fires
these mornings makes a quick job
of it, in self-defense.
The postmaster and the express
man are not in tears because
4 Christmas has gone.
BoRN-To Mr.. and Mrs. Lee
Davis, Of Arcadia, on the 18th
inst, a ten pound boy.
The local banks will not be open
for business New Years Day
that being a legal holiday.
Rev. Aspley, at one time in
charge of Fort Hill church, is very
Ill with pneumonia, at Flat River.
There is said to be a probability
Of the screen factory changing
hands and another industry started
there.
What has happened to the bill
in Congress that was to make q
national park Of the Pilot Knob
battlefield?
If you want printing Of any kind
be sure and call at the REGISTER
Office. We do the best at reason
able prices.
After January list no more free
riding on the railroadfor the news.
paper men. Pretty tough, but we
guess it's all right.
lMiss Pattie Andrews has beer
compelled. to use crutches the pas
two weeks, being crippled from
fall from her horse.
The gentleman who has traded
for the Webb property at Brult
will make his home at Ironton.-
Belleview Bonner.
One day last week Anderson
Rust went out west of town ant
killed a fine deer-the second ont
he has captured this season.
A brakeman on the local freight
named Myers, was run owe ant
killed at Piedmont Tuesday. W.
have not heard the particulars.
%n
County court meets next Mon
day to settle with the outgoin,
officers. The new county cour
will meet the first Monday in Janu
ary.
The Christmas trade in thi
town this year has been prett,
good, thank you! The jade
clerks will freely corroborate thi
statement.
This is Christmas week. View
all been taking Christmas, and tn
indulgent reader will kindly over
look the shortcomings in thi
issue Of the paper.
The postmaster is going to max
an effort to have the mail Gran
moved nearer the depot, SO that
will be more comfortable for tn
carrier waiting for the trains thes
cold nights.
There is probably more lumbt
being shipped from the stations
Ironton, Arcadia and Middlebroo
than eyer before. And twenty-fy
years ago people said that u
timber was all gone.
Representatives. lect Henry Pol
v will leave the latter part OF II
week for Jefferson City. 81
legislature convenes ON Janua1
I'd, and MI. Polk. wishes to be {
hand a few days before the opel
ing.
MARRIED-On Christmas morl
ING at the home Of the bride
mother, in Cantwell, Mo, Mr.. ia
=. Henderson and Miss Esse Su
IVAN, formerly Of Ironton, Re
III II. J.. La Tour, pastor Of Bismart
Baptist church, officiating.
Robert w. Ayres, one Of u
purchasers of the Shapleigh pro-
erty. has been in Ironton sever
days, accompanied with sever
friends from the city. The pro.
ertv, now a desirable residenc
viii be improved and occupi'
during the summer months.
Sunday night an extra freig