Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18

Rev. Fuller Swift is organizing a
brass band among the boys of the
Baptist Sunday School. They ex-
pect to secure a set of intruments
soon. So, we'll have plenty of
music this summer.
LooK!-Registered White Wyan-
dottes' Eggs for Matching, $3.50
per Is; ESQ per 26. Call or adj
dress, "Ironton White Wyandotte
Poultry Farm" one mile west of
Ironton, R.. F. D. No. 2.
Mr.. Fitz tells us that about two
hundred acres of land on the out
skirts of Des Arc sold last week
for about twelve hundred dollars.
Pretty good price that and shows
considerable confidence.
Circuit Clerk Jessie Hawkins of
Iron county vas in Steelville Mon
day transacting business and Wis
iting his friend, j. S. Stafford.
We acknowledge a pleasant call
from him. SteelviLle Ledger.
John 7. Baldwin, ST., returned
last week from a months absence
in Kansas, Oklahoma and other
points in the west. Mr.. Baldwin
has concluded to locate in Oklaho-
ma City and will shortly remove
there.
John w. Bergman is the DEM
ocratic nominee for Mayor at the
city election to be held in Poplar
Bluff next month. Iron county
friends join the REGISTER in wish
ing him success. He would make
a splendid mayor:
For SALE-15 acres of improved
land, lot A of the North West Quar-
ter of Sec. six, in township 49,,
Range, 4 East, within a half mile
of the Courthouse at Ironton, Mo.
Write to G, H. Hatch, sole agent,
M~acksville, Kansas.
Everybody is cordially invited
to attend a Temperance Mass
Meeting at the Courthouse on Mon
day evening, March 22nd, at 1880
o'clock. A suitable program will
be arranged.
COMMITTEE.
The hub factory was forced to
shnt down Monnay for want of
timber. The wet weather has
made hauling timber next to i'm
possible. Some fear that it will
not be able to get sufficient timber
to run a great deal this SPRING
Ellington Press
Mrs. Lula Gillian Woodside has
returned from the city, where she
and her sister, Miss Bessie, were
last week, selecting a stock OF
Spring Millinery. She has now on
display as fine a lot of Hats, Waists,
Skirts, ETC., @s one would desire.
She invites the ladies to call and
see them.
Mrs. M. B. Bradley has been in
st. Louis the past two weeks with
her son, Hugh, who is there for
medical treatment. Monday he
underwent a surgical operation at
Mullanphy Hospital. We UNDER
stand that he survived the opera
ton nicely and we hope to report
his early restoration to perfect
health.
Last Saturday Mayfeld Huff
caught in a steel trap which he
had set near the mouth of one OF
the tunnels on Pilot Knob a large
wild cat, or catamount. The ami
NAL was striped, black and gray,
four feet from tip to tip, and
would weigh probably twenty
pounds. "A great many of the
varmint make their homes in the
tunnels on the hill.
The people of Bismarck were
very much shocked to hear, on
last Sunday morning, of the sud-
t den death of Mr.. A.. H. Wagley
J bne of the best known citizens Of
this city. Mr.. Wagley had been
confined to his bed the past two
weeks but it was not thought that
his condition was serious. Stom
. ach trouble was the immediate
cause Of his Observation-Disclosures Ga
zette.
The legislature has passed the
law requiring every county in the
state to have supervision of the
public schools. The salary of the
supervisor in Iron county will be
about S700-$400 of which is paic
] by the state, the remainder by the
, county. Mr.. Polk worked hare
against the passage Of the law
In so doing he reflected the will O
his constituency. Iron county
, has no need of such a. law and il
, not likely to be benefited very
j much thereby.
Elijah Masterson of Arcadia
was arrested last Wednesday or
the charge of selling liquor with
out license. Masterson spent the
night in Jail and the next day gave
bond in the sum of $500 for his
appearance at the next term Of
: circuit court, with VIM. A. Fetch
! or and R G. Knight as sureties.
The prosecuting witness against
Masterson is Marshal Mcdowell,
the young man who was tried fol
breaking a plate glass in Louis
} Miller's store house.
!, Through the courtesy of Con-
!, gresham Smith the REGISTER has
a few copies Of the year book is
sued by the Department of Agri-