Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-03-05

nine hours, q
March 4th. At all stations where
a night and day office is maintain
ed, three operators must be put to
work.
Every Saturday afternoon dur
ing Lent the young ladies of st.
Paul's Church will have on sale a
fine lot Of homemade candies at
the Baldwin book store. The pat
ronage of the public is respectfully
solicited.
At the annual school election to
be held April 7th "a proposition
will be submitted to the voters of
the Ironton district to annex the
farm of Mr.. Stoner, east of town.
The property is now in the Pilot
Knob district.
The local option election in, st.
Francois county will be held next
Saturday. The contest is warm.
From what we have heard we are
inclined to the opinion that the
county will go dry. But it is hard
to forecast an election.
Mrs. A. M. Madigan is confined
to her room with a badly sprained
ankle, occasioned by a fall which
might have terminated much more
seriously. 1t will be several weeks
before she will be able to walk
without the aid of crutches.
We are told that Paul Patton is
still suffering from the stabbing he
received at the hands of w. j.
Brownfeld in Hillsboro a couple
of months ago. While Mr.. Patton
is able to be up and about, he is
by no means fully recovered.
We see in Tuesdays Post Dis
patch that in the general reduction
now being made in all the depart
ments of the Missouri Pacific Rail-
way Company VIM. R. Edgar, Jr.,
has lost his position in the legal
department under Mr.. Clardy.
We trust that the suspension will
not be for long.
Miss Gays room in the Ironton
school closed this week. Monday
morning a couple of George Gays
boys developed a throat trouble
that has many of the symptoms of
diphtheria.y Miss Alice had come
in contact with the boys, and the
board, at her request, closed the
room for a week.
There will be an all-day w. G.
t. U. Institute held,in Ironton, on
Thursday, March IL, 1908. 1t will
be conducted by Mrs. Lora S. La
Nance, the w. @. T. U. Lecturer
and Organizer. She will also lee
ture on Wednesday night and
Thursday night, March 18th, 18th.
Place Of meeting will be ANNOUNCE
ed later.
The party asking for an electric
light franchise in Ironton wants
the city to obligate itself to pay
him 1920 a year for street lights
alone. Modest fellow that! The
amount he asks for is several hum
dred dollars in excess of the total
revenues of the city. The council
should, and likely will, sit down
on the proposition good and hard.
Geo. Davis is now Chief Dis
patcher for the Mexican Central
Railroad at San Luis Potosi, Mex
leo, at a salary of $3.50 per month.
Good for George! He is one of
the Ironton boys who is forging
steadily to the front. For the past
year or more he has been dispatch
ing trains for the L. & G.. n, but
quit there about two weeks ago to
take the job with the Mexican Cen
trail.
Mrs. H. B. Jones and children
arrived from Arkansas Thursday
last. Temporarily, until their new
home in Ironton rs completed,
they will reside in the Price cot
tage in Pilot Knob. We are very
sorry, indeed, to hear that Mr..
Jones has been in very poor health
again and suffered greatly the past
month. He is now in Hot Springs
where he will remain for some time
if the baths prove beneficial.
Louie CHASER, who has been sell
ing jeans pants throughout South
east Missouri for Sd long a time
that the mind of man runneth not
to the contrary, and who is well
known in every town and hamlet
from the peak of Pilot Knob to the
Mississippi bottom lands of New
Madrid and Pemiscot, has his own
way of telling what the panic has
done to his trade. A fellow com.
mercial traveller tells US that he me-
Mr.. Chaser n day recently anc
greeted him with "Good morning,
Louie, how's business?' Glasel
raised his hand deprecatingly and
said Ssh! Speak r~everently of the
dead!"
=. Are you one of us? II not, why
not? Who? Why, the X. p, Of
! course. They served blue points
: on the half shell, also, celery ant
chicken; and just as soon as thu
, blue points were served, the boy
3 began a-pickin'. Geo. Schultz't
and Doc Marshall's appetites were
something great and I pity thu
poor woman who will ever be thei
: mate. IT'S true thatthis is leap yea
. and some foolish girls will say,"I
you take us, George and Ira, W,
will feed you night and day!'
The Knights of Pythias Away
/. knew it. and they generally al