Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-01-09
LOCAL BREvITIES.
Lopez's have a new ad.

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How about the Leap Year Ball?
January Clearing Sale now on
at Lopez's.
Come to the REGISTER Office for
your printing.
County court meets in adjourned
session next Monday.
Matchmaking weather this win
ter? Begins to look like it.
Congressman Smith has a letter
in this issue of the REGISTER.
Saw you ever before such lovely
weather at this season of the year?
The railroad company has re-
moved the switch connections at
Pilot Knob.
Mahara's minstrels at the Acad-
envy of Music, Saturday night,
January 18th.
Reductions in wages are still be-
ing made in the lead belt in st.
Francois county.
Granulated Sugar, 18 lbs. for ST.,
during January Clearing Sale.
LOPEZ STORE Co.
Usual services at the M. E.
Church, Ironton next Sunday
morning and evening.
For Rent-Farm between Mid
dlebrook and Pilot Knob. Apply
to F. Rodach, Middlebrook, Mo.
Work on the new siding lags,
and, after a rain, you must swim
a sea of mud to get to the new sta
ton house.
The present mail schedule is a
snap for the postmaster and the
mail carrier, but it doesn't please
any one else.
To M. G. Spaugh, the popular
monument man at Pennington, we
are indebted for a very handsome
onyx paper weight, presented dur
ing the holiday season.
B. S. Gregory of Fredericktown
WIS in Ironton last week. Bert.
says that the panic certainly hit
Fredericktown a side swipe and
that place is dead as a door nail
these days.
Ironton Lodge, No. 244, K. P,
meets January 10th. Installation
of officers. Smoker and lunch aft
erwards. You will have some
thing good. Fraternally start the
New Year with Friendship. M.
The Moler Barber College, st.
Louis, Mo. certainly offers splen-
did chance for men to learn that
trade quickly. There is little ex-
pense and positions are numerous.
Their illustrated catal ogue ex-
plains fully. Write them.
Frank Reichert gave a dance
last Saturday night,at the home of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Reichert, near Arcadia, in honor
of his cousins, Jake and Miss Cla-
"a Reichert, of Napoleon, Ohio.
About thirty couples we're present
and all report a delightful time.
Ticket sales at the Ironton sta
ton for the month of December,
just passed, we're S42 in excess OF
what they were in December, 1906,
despite the panic and the two cent
law. If every station on the road
makes as good showing we doubt
the ability of the railroads to set
the two cent law aside.
Pink McCarver, SO many years a
resident of Ironton, last week re-
moved, lock stock and barrel, tc
Pilot Knob. Some time ago he
bought the Maschmeyer store
house and residence up there, and
figures that by the move he saves
rent, anyway. The l. O. F. store
room is now without a tenant.
Mr.. Jake Reichert and sister,
Miss Clara, after spending three
weeks with their cousins, Louis
Reichert and family, nea Arcadia.
left this week for their home il
Napoleon, Ohio. They report ar
enjoyable visit and are very much
pleased with the country. Frank
Reichert returned home with them
H. B. Jones has disposed Of hi.
mercantile business in Arkansas
and, with his family, will soon re.
turn to the valley, to make thi'
their permanent home. He ex-
poets to build residence here this
summer. Harry has not been il
good health for some time and HI
hopes residence here will benef
him.
Peter Gerstenmeyer and wife 0
Pilot Knob celebrate their colder
wedding to-day, January 8th
Three daughters, living in differ
ent sections of the country, are a
the old home for the occasion
The editor has known MIR. Ger
stenmeyer all these fifty years
and ventures the hope that he ant
his good wife may live to see theil
diamond jubilee.
Henry Polk was in town Tues
day and told us that the stav'
factory Of the Pioneer Cooperagl
Company on Marble Creek hat
been closed since the last week il
December and would probably re
main closed until the money stu
alton improves. The compan,
has seventeen factories in a hal
dozen states and they have al