Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
LOCAL BREvITIEs

oNeJs
Lopez's take the editorial page
this week.
About all the city visitors have
left the valley. !.
Come to See the REGISTER Office
for your printing.
The foliage stays green remark
ably late this autumn.
The dust has been something
horrible the past week.
Mahara's Minstrels at the Acad-
envy Of Music Thursday night.
The general opinion seems to be
that the balloon ascension was a
fake.
Jack Frost is somewhat tardy
in making his appearance this
season.
A handle factory, to work about
fifty men is being established at
Irondale.
Fredericktown is compelling
property owners to build granitoid
sidewalks.
We are glad to state hat Miss
Belle Bradley, who has been quite
i'll, is improving.
Rev. Worsnop has been made
pastor of the Grand Avenue
Church, st. Louis.
The opinion seems to be that
there will be a light vote polled at
the election Saturday.
Miss Leila O'Neal, Sunday, en-
tertained Mr.. Russell, OF Farming
ton, and Miss Mamie Shanks, Of
Kansas.
Don't forget the fall and winter
opening at Mrs. Woodside's mill
linery parlors next Friday and
Saturday.
Well, next Saturday determines
whether we will have licensed sa-
looms in the county for the next
four years.
About two thousand miners in
the lead belt in st. Francois coun-
ty have been discharged in the
past two weeks.
The county court last week offer
ed a reward of 500 for the arrest
and delivery of Anderson Rust to
Sheriff Marshall.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. E. D.
Shattuck, Sabula, Mo-, Sunday,
September goth, 1907, a boy. All
are well and happy.
The butchers compla in that hogs
are very scarce in this community
OF course, the butcher refers to the
four-legged variety.
The lectures at the Academy Of
Music this week are very interest
ing. You are certain to be enter
tanned if-you attend.
"A big circus visits some Of the
towns on the Belmont branch this
week. Ironton's circus days seem
to be a thing of the past.
There will be a prayer service
at the Presbyterian church this
"Wednesday evening at 1870. A
good attendance is urged.
The papers south of here say
that the squirrels are migrating a
present and are more plentiful
than they have been for years.
A small force of men are now al
work at Iron Mountain repairing
the dam and reservoir, preparatory
to doing SO me mining in the neal
future.
An exquisite and charming dis
play Of millinery at Mrs. Wood
sides. Opening next Friday ant
Saturday. Ladies, don't fail tt
attend.
MARRIED-At Pilot Knob, Mo.
Thursday, September rs, 1907
Emmett B. Reagan and Mrs. Ami
Christ-both of Iron county j. s
Luthy, j. p, officiating.
The local option campaign thi
time is in strange contrast wit
the one held twenty years ag'
when the contest was very bite
and much feeling resulted.
The plat of the Holiness town
Just north of De Ac, was filed witt
the recorder recently. About 3
acres are laid off in lots and tn
town is called Bethlehem"
The block system recently inau
guarated on the Iron Mountai
railroad is said to be working
most satisfactorily and it is hope
will prevent collisions in future.
The mail carrier is in hopes tina
when the new depot is complete
that the mail crane will be move
thereto. Such a move would max
his job a much ~pleasanter one.
The screen factory buildings ar
still abandoned and deserted an
fast falling into decay. II the,
are not looked after before lon
they will be practically worthless
The hub factory OF w. j. LIE
which has been in operation q
Brule, this county, for q numbe
Of years past, will be removed t
another location in the near fu
ture.
We understand that w. J.sLe
will move his Sligo hub factory t
near West Fork post office, in thi