Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-01-30
LOCAL BREVITIES.

County court next Monday.
Show Friday and Saturday
nights.
Found-A buggy whip. Call at
this office.
The tramps-they travel in
droves these days.
Usual services at NJ. E. Church,
Ironton, next Sunday.
Contractor Tual is building ice
houses for Col. Jim and MI. R. D..
Lewis.
The 1908 calendar of the Ironton
Manufacturing Company is a very
pretty one.
In the morning, before the wind
got to blowing, Sunday was like a
spring day.
It is said the railroad contem-
plates substituting telephones for
the telegraph.
Next Sunday is ground hog day.
Then we'll know all about the.
weather that is to come.
Stevens & Mossman at the Acad-
envy of Music-two nights-Friday
and Saturday of this week.
To Mrs. Gross of the Arcadia
Valley Bazaar we are indebted for
an attractive calendar for 1908.
Roehry & Grandhomme have
torn down the little frame build
ing, next to the Roehry saloon.
"The Man Behind" at the Acad-
envy of Music Friday night. Com"
plete change of bill Saturday
night.
The local freight goes south on
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday:
North, Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church contemplate giving an oys-
ter supper in the l. 0. o. F. store
room this week.
Wouldn't it be fair to give the
young Highway Commissioners
a chance before criticising the
county court for appointing him?
DR.. Guirey, the new Baptist pas
tor, has leased F. Rodach's prop
erty, next to Mann Ringo, and will
be domiciled there in the near fu-
ture.
The carpenters are putting the
finishing touches on the new offices
in the court house. Delay in Sc
curing supplies has retarded the
work.
j. A. Smith of Marble Creek was
in to see us Monday. Jim tells us
he killed a hog a couple of weeks
ago that dressed 1876 pounds. A
good big porker that.
N Al. Young, who has been en-
ployed on one of the pushers at
Arcadia for over twenty years, was
last week transferred to st. Louis.
where he is running a switch en-
CINE.
Word was received here Monday
from Joplin announcing the death
of John w. Curtis, formerly 0!
I~ronton, in that city. The re-
mains will be brought here for in.
terment.
Strayed-January 18th, from my
farm, seven miles south ofIronton,
an Angora billy goat, branded or
each horn with letter GA" Liber'
al reward for his return. Address
j. A. SMITH, Arcadia, Mo.
MI. and Mrs. E. V. Benson hav'
removed to Annapolis, where Ed
will assist his father in the mer'
camille and lumber business. BE
is a clever young man and hi
many Ironton friends wish hin
greatest success.
Joel Holloman was here fror
Hogan. Saturday. He says tn
present panic eclipses anything
that ever came under his observa
ton. The lumber business, in par
ticular, he says, seems dead be
yond resurrection.
1t begins to look like there i
going to be no ice-making wealth
er this winter. F. Buechsenschuet
got some ice off the pond at Mid
dlebrook last week. That's tn
only ice harvesting we've heard c
hereabouts this winter.
The tramp is becoming impu
dent, If not vicious, and when b
finds none but the women folk
home is frequently forcible in hi
language and sullen in his de
meanor. An example may hav
to be made Of one Of them.
A.. L. Hill, the stock man, mad
a trip to the west end Of the eouI
ty lastsweek. While there he sol
his horse for S135 and came bac
to town with a drove of over on
hundred fine looking hogs, most (
which he will ship to St. Louis.
While at work building an l.
house on Col. Jim Lewis place !
Russelville last Wednesday after
noon Fritz Schacht and Weldo
Tual were thrown to the groun
by d falling scaffold. The forms
had an ankle broken by the fall.