Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-02-07
LOCAL BREVITIEs.

HrODaCe court n6AG
Mighty little news these days.
County court is in session this
week.
No new time card last Sunday
as rumored.
A week from to-day is Ash
Wednesday.
Sunday and Monday were real
winter days.
b. N. Brown is making some big
bargains in winter goods.
The thermometer went to zero
last night-the coolest night of the
year.
Bob. Fitzsimmons, the pugilist,
gives a show at Poplar Bluff to-
night.
A. L. Hill brought a car load of
horses and mules from st. Louis
last week.
A diamond drill is now at work
in the Brunot neighborhood in the
south end of the county.
1t doesn't look like the ice
houses are going to be filed with
natural ice this winter.
A little ice on the creeks and
ponds this week. Not enough,
however, to be stored away.
The ladies of st. Paul's Guild
meet at the residence of Mrs.
Stowell Thursday afternoon.
Prof. r. w. Shannon, of Fred
ericktown, will deliver a sermon
at the Fort Hill church tonight.
No. | was three hours late last
Friday. The delay was occasioned
by a freight wreck at Riverside.
The school children are selling
buttons with which to secure funds
to buy a flag to put on the school
building.
The county court Tuesday re-
fused a dramshop license to A. e.
Bisch, holding that his petition
was insufficient.
The grounding had no trouble
in seeing his shadow last Saturday,
so we may expect six weeks of
bad weather now.
will have a bunch of horses
and young mules for sale in from
ton next Saturday. Call and see
me. A. L. HILL
The lecture must have been a
long-winded affair. We hear Of
one fellow who did not get home
therefrom until nearly two o'clock.
DIR. Marshall reports the birth
of a son to Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Lash
ley on Monday, February 4, 1907.
All are well, even to grandfather
Walter Fisher.
John A. Kite has sold his farm,
east of Pilot Knob, and all his
personal property and left Tues
day for California, where he will
ICSlQG LII IOLdlCs
The Sheriff OF Reynolds county
last week took Bill Spaugh to the
Dent county Jail, where he will be
kept until the United States SUI
preme Court passes on his case.
Now it is rumored that we are
not going to have our new depot
at all. That the material which
is piled here is to be shipped away
and the old shack made to do SER
vice for another third of a century.
Louis Miller has resigned as
postmaster in Arcadia. We I'M
derstand that Miss Florence Fletch-
er, who has been Mr.. Miller's as
sistant, is an applicant for the
place.
Most of the time of the adjourn
ed term of circuit court, last Satur-
day afternoon, was occupied in
trying a land case brought here
from Reynolds county on a change
of venue. Decision was reserved
We understand that our city
marshal, Mr.. G. w. Marshall, ha'
purchased the old Bonanza store
building, Just north of the Acade'
my of Music. Price, $3.50. Mr.
Marshall will take possession a
once.
In the matter of Mrs. Abbie Pike
asking for a road through the Lane
of VIM. Fl. Thomson, in the coun
ty court Monday the same wa
continued until March 25th, whel
there will be an adjourned term o
court.
The following attorneys were il
attendance on the adjourned tern
of circuit court last Saturday M
l.. Clardy, Jos. j. Williams, st
Louis; L. F. Dining, De Soto; K
w. Weber, Pennington; John H
Raney, Greenville; r. |. January
C~entreyille.
Wayne county is making a bill
effort to get out Of this judicia
circuit and be tackled on to Judg,
Shepherd circuit with Ripley ant
Butler counties. A bill of tina
kind has already passed thu
Senate, but has not been acted OF
by the House.
Stereopticon lecture on the Lift
of the Savior will be given at tn,
Academy Of Music, Tuesday night
February 18th, for the benefit Q
the Children's Training School