Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10
LOCAL BREVITIEs.

The Lenten season begins Febru-
airy 13th-early.
The city council meets next
Monday evening.
Sunday and Monday were as
balmy as spring time.
Is there going to be any ice
making weather this winter?
Collector Whitworth has been
busy with the taxpayers the past
two weeks.
The Baptist Ladies can give you
excellent bargains in the clubbing
magazines.
The Spaughs are now very much
opposed to capital punishment.
C-e-r-t-a-i-n-l-y!
w. T. O'Neal has sold his resi-
dence in north Ironton to Thos. D.
Jones, the new treasurer.
The creamery at Arcadia is
closed down. All the milk re-
ceived is shipped to st. Louis.
Junior League meets at the M.
E. church Sunday, January 18th,
at 2 P. NJ. Orpha Davis leader.
BoRN-To Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. R.
Gay, Ironton, Mo-, Monday, Janu-
airy s, 1907, a boy. All are well.
The railroad company has had
to close several offices lately be-
cause of the scarcity of operators.
a.. Winkler is building a cottage
on Shepherd Mountain side, just
east of the former residence he
built there.
Rev. H. j. La Tour, of Bismarck,
will preach at the Baptist church
next Sunday, morning and eve
ming, at the usual hours.
All shippers are complaining of
a scarcity Of cars. The hub factory
here says that it is next to inn
possible to get cars to ship logs in.
Worlds Work, Delineator and Nc
CEare's Magaaine-all three for three
dollars from the Baptist Ladies'
sent to the same or different ad-
dresses.
Quarterly conference was held
at Fort Hill church last Saturday
and Sunday. The presiding elder,
Rev. May, of Pennington, was in
attendance.
Quite a force of men are at work
on the old Langdon farm in Rus
s~ellville building a new lake there.
Other extensive improvements are
contemplated.
The residence of DR.. G. w.
Farrar, Jr., in the south end, has
been reprinted and the appear
ance of the structure has been
much improved thereby.
The four Arcadia boys, Paukand
Lehman Sitton, Louis Sielenger,
and Louis Miller, Jr., after a two
weeks vacation, left for st. Charles
Military Academy Monday.
Our young friend, R. L. Farmer,
who has been located at Tornton,
Arkansas, for several years past,
is now in the employ of the Bliss
Cook Oak Company at B~lissville,
Arkansas.
Representative G. HI. Polk has
named H. A. Nall as his clerk at
Jefferson City during the present
session of the Legislature. Mr..
Nall left for Jefferson City last
Saturday.
To Mrs. May Tong Scott the
editor is'indebted for a copy of the
New Year edition of the Dallas
Morning NeaOs. 1t is a great paper
and gives every evidence that
Dallas is a great town.
Contractor Chas. j. Tual has just
completed a handsome and COM
modious porch around Mr., Ed
CARS home. Like all the work
done by Mr.. Tual it is honest and
up to the specifications.
st. Paul's Guild will meet at the
residence of Mrs. Mann Ringo,
Thursday afternoon, at half past
two o'clock. Business of import
ance will be transacted and every
member of the Guild is urged to
be present.
Herman Trauernicht and family
spent the holidays at Middlebrook
with Mrs. Trauernicht's mother,
Mrs. L. Block. All the latter's
children were present and took
New Years dinner with her,
Huntington NeWs.
Mrs. j. w. Worsnop, who had
been in a sanitarium in st. Louis
for several months, returned home
last Friday. She is much better
now, and strong hopes are enter
tanned for her complete recovery.
DEXTER Messenger.
The case against Amalek and
John Brooks, convicted OF murder
in the first degree in our circuit
court last April, was argued in the
Supreme Court last Friday. "A
decision will probably be rendered
within the next month.
Sheriff Fits, Of Reynolds coun-
ty, passed through here Tuesday
evening on No. 1 having in charge
Bill Spaugh, whom he was taking
to Centreville. The hanging, it il
said, will take place about ter
o'clock in the morning.