Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-04-04
LOCAL BREvITIES.

Brown has a new ad.
Well, we had the Easter frost.
Nothing doing in the high school
line.
Never saw SO many Easter hats
before.
Butter has been a scarce article
the past month.
Henry Polk has sold his store
on Marble Creek.
All kinds of shoes for everybody
at B. N. Browns.
There were plenty of eggs for
Easter, and cheap, too.
The painters are the busiest peo-
pie in town these days.
Pie plant is on the market, and
the pies are mighty fine, too.
The County Board of Equaliza-
ton is in session at the court house
this week.
Not so very long now until the
strawberries. We hope there will
be lots of them.
Palm Sunday was a much bet
ter day on which to display spring
toggery than was Easter.
And Daugherty, he laughed so
loud and long you could hear him
all the way from Piedmont.
The first strawberries of the sea-.
son-imported from Arkansas
were on the market this week.
The fruit is reported to have
been badly damaged by the frosts
of Sunday and Monday nights.
Closing exercises at the Pilot
Knob public school Friday eve
ming. Admission, fifteen cents.
A.. L. Hill has leased the Christ
bakery store and residence, and
will occupy same the latter part of
the month.
Hicks certainly lost his reputa-
ton as a weather prophet in the
month of March. He wasn't any
where right.
We are told that DR.. Summa has
purchased the Kinney property
adjacent to his summer home in
Russellville.
Rev. w. B. Hays, P. E., will
hold services at Fort Hill church
next Sunday morning and evening.
All are cordially invited.
For RENT-My house in Pilot
Knob; a six-room house and large
garden. WIN. JUST,
Pilot Knob, Mo.
Last Fridays Post Dispatch con-
tanned the announcement of the
death of Mrs. Burke, who recently
removed from Graniteville to st.
Louis.
David Kendall, who has been
taking are of the Phelan place in
Russellville the past year and a
half, will move back to his home
in Ironton the first of May.
The local demand for horses and
mules is greater than was ever
known before. Quite a number of
car loads have been shipped in
and still there is a scarcity.
MARRIED-At st. Paul's church
Saturday, at 6 P. M, the Rev. H.
A. Stowell officiating, Mr.. Adam
S. Curry, of Vandalia, ILL.,, and
Miss Beatrice Casey of Roodhouse,
Ill.
A. M. Madigan, of Arcadia, is
in receipt of a letter from Fred
Cain, who is living at Fowler, Col
orado, announcing the birth of a
girl baby on March 10Th. All are
well.
With the returns in from Des Arc,
Arcadia, Ironton, Pilot Knob,
Graniteville and Belleview Geo.
l.. Smith is fourteen ahead in the
race for County School Commits
sioner.
The official statement of the Iron
County Bank is printed this week.
The totals are over S205, 000-eigh-
teen thousand dollars more than
in the last statement published in
November.
The railroad officials are insist
ing that they will not submit to
the two-cent a mile law passed by
the late Legislature. Perhaps,
after all, then, there will be no
cheap riding.
Mr.. Cooper, the Des Arc brick
layer, has charge of the brick work
on the new building south of the
REGISTER Office. Mr.. Cooper is an
expert in his line and always does
the most satisfactory work.
J. w. Allen says that the state
ment in the last issue of the REG
IsTER that he had sold out his
monument business was an error.
He has discontinued business for
the present, but has not sold out.
Mrs. II. o. Davis, who has been
in st. Johns Hospital, st. Louis,
for the past two months, writes
the REGISTER hat she is now
much improved in health and
hopes to be able to return home in
a short time.
Poplar Bluff and Pennington are