Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-01-02
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

gu u0AG Wooks
The winds blew Monday like
they do in March.
Christmas in the valley was quiz
ct and most peaceful.
Did you watch the old year ou'
and the new year in?
The colored minstrel troupe Wis
tied Potosi Saturday.
If you haven't paid your taxes
they are delinquent now.
Wild turkeys are said to be nu-
merous on Shepherd Mountain.
Wonderful after Christmas bar
gains at B. N. Browns, Ironton.
Mo.
The county court will appoint
the highway commissioner Janu-
airy 18th.
When you want good printing
done promptly come to the REGIS
TER office.
About as warm weather the past
week as was ever known in the
holiday season.
Contractor Tual is at work this
week building the two new office
rooms in the courthouse.
The popular st Louis druggist,
MI. L. A. Seitz, mailed Is a very
handsome calendar for 1908.
Christmas is past and now is
the time to buy cheap all infants,
child's Misses, or ladies' cloaks.
J.. The indulgent reader will over
look the papers shortcomings this
week. We've been taking Christ
mas.
w. T. O'Neal & Son, general
merchants at Frankclay, send the
REGISTER quite an attractive cal
endar for 1908.
M. E. Church.. Ironton. Morn
ing subject: Building under diff
fculties. :" Night, "He speaketh."
|. v. MAXEY.
1t is proposed by the county
court to spend considerable money
on the roads this year. Well, the
roads certainly need the money.
We want all our correspondents
to send us a letter every week, if
they can. We want to make the
paper unusually interesting for
1908.
F. M. Semands, so long a con-
ductor on Iron Mountain railroad,
with headquarters at Hoxie, Ark
ansas, is now located at De Soto
again.
We have been reliably informed
that Senator Garter M. Buford OF
Ellington, is a candidate for con-
gress in this district Centeruille
Outlook.
Haywood Scott, son of Prof. j.
B. Scott, formerly of this city, was
Monday appointed Circuit Judge
of the Jasper County Circuit by
Gov. Folk.
The new time card prophesied
for the first of the year failed to
materiaiize. Perhaps, after all,
our train service is not to be furth-
or curtailed.
Circuit court convenes in adj
iourned session next Monday to
try Thos. Pearsons on the charge
of rape. Judge Killian of Perry
vile will preside.
Sheriff Marshall went to Jeffer-
son City to-day, taking with him
Mike Hughes and Ned Belcher,
each sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary for burglary.
Aug. Trauernicht says that he
likes his present position, station
agent at Riverside, very much. He
tells us that the railroad yards
there are soon to be lighted with
three arc lights.
Since the night Office was closed
the Ironton station is a dark and
lonesome place after dark and the
man who gets on or off the night
train is all by himself. The COM
pany should maintain a night Of
fee here.
James Newman, we are told, has
retired from the contest for the
Ironton post office. Failure to Sc
cure the endorsement Of ex-Con-
gresham Rhodes is said to be the
cause of Mr.. Newman's retiring
from the race.
A friend in the southland writes
81 understand that there are some
fools in your country who do moi
believe there is a panic in the land
to-day. Let them come down into
this saw mill country and see
what they would call it,"
Howard Lindsay writes us that
he will graduate from the st. Lou
is College of Physicians and Sur
geons next spring, and will locate
in st. Louis or East st. Louis. He
sends a letter on Socialism, which
will be printed next week.
DR.. Ben Schwab Of Sapulpa, Ok
lahoma, was here last week to take
his father, Mr.. John Schwab, out
home with him. Schwab, pere, has
been in poor health for some time,
and he makes the trip in the hope
that it will prove beneficial.
Uncle Billy Terrill, an old resi-
Jart diad at hic hona naor Pr1,1o