Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

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the REGISTER Office.
Wood haulers more numerous
than they were last fall.
We certainly have had pneu-
monia weather this month.
Are you going to ''swear off,
when the New Year comesP
Are we going to have any ice
making weather this winter?
We're a little early this week SO
the force can have Christmas.
The Christmas season has made
lots of business for the Pilot Knob
hack.
We are indebted to Congress-
man Smith for the Congressional
Record.
Washington comfy has a rock
crusher, and it is doing much to
solve the road problem.
The man who attends strictly to
his own business, what an admir-
able citizen he is!
Pay your state and county taxes
before January1st unless you want
to pay interest.
Both freight and passenger bus
mess on the railroad is said to be
exceedingly dull.
Poplar Bluff papers say the
freight division is to be moved
from Hoxie back to the Bluff.
We had mud on our streets last
week. The first in quite a good,
long time.
Bob Durham has resigned the
office of postmaster at Piedmont
and will go to Colorado.
The Guessing Milling Company
OF Pennington sends us a very at
tractive calendar for 1908.
Strayed-A two-year-old Jersey
heifer, not marked.
MRS. w. w. Haywood.
The railroad officials have, as
yet, taken no action on the petit
ton asking that No. 10 stop at this
station.
To every reader of the REGISTER /:
A Merry, Merry Christmas, and a
Bright, Prosperous and a Happy
New YearI
Lots of the foreigners at work in
the lead mines in st. Francois
county have gone back home since
the panic came.
Santa Claus has shipped his
usual supply of Candy, Oranges
and Nuts to E. HI. Fairchild. You
are invited to call.
A man can build a house now,
we are told, at a cost of one-fourth
less than a few months ago. That
is tumbling some, isn't it?
Roy Reel, who has had the po-
sition Of night operator at this sta
ton for the past two years, will
take the night job at Arcadia.
Turkeys, at ten cents a pound,
have been plentiful the past week.
Very cheap, in comparison with
aother things in the eating line.
No one seems to know what the
Lemp Brewery proposes doing
with the Arcadia Creamery. Prob
ably sell it at first opportunity.
The flue in Mrs. Hughes resi-
dence on Main street burned out
Thursday afternoon, causing a lit
tie excitement for a few minutes.
The shortest day in the year has
passed. More light coming; for
which every person who works in
a printing Office is truly thankful.
We suppose that the county cans
didate will be backward in coming
forward this year as the primary
election will not be held until Au-
gust.
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Geo. "A. Thomas, the young man
who arrived in Ironton from the
far west a couple of months agoin
search of a wife, is now located at
Dexter.
What has happened to the big
hotel and lake that we're to be built
in the Shut In? We haven't heard
anything of the project for several
months.
The Iron Mountain railroad has
dispensed with the services of a
number Of train auditors recently,
and it is rumored that more will
60 soon.
After several days Of miserable,
rainy weather, snow began to fall
early Monday morning and when
day dawned the ground was well
N covered.
Before adjourning court last Sat
urday Judge Williams made an
order fora grand jury to be en-
paneled at the next April term Of
circuit court.
Thos. Pearsons, charged with
rape, will be tried January 9th.
Judge Williams having been dis
qualified, Judge Killian Of Perry
county will preside.
Last Sundays Republic says that
George w. Kale, Of st. Louis filed
a voluntary application in bank
ruptcy the day before. In the list
Of unsecured claims is Bank Of
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