Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-01-14
LOCAL BREVITIEs


Seven inches of snow Tuesday
morning.
Barnhouse's for rubbers and
overshoes.
A good many of the trains late
these days.
Hay is unusually plentiful in the
local market.
Wood has beenin great demand
the past week.
One touch of winter makes our
wood-piles all akin.
Best coasting and sleighing we
have had in four years.
Prof Needham is now domiciled
in the Shapleigh house.
Is anybody going to try to put
up any ice this winter2
Probate docket for the February
term is printed this week.
A pianola has been on exhibi-
ton at the drug store for several
days.
1t is said that a bakery will be
opened in the Christ building in a
few days.
Has Hadley reduced the price OF
coal oil to Ironton consumers?
We haven't heard of it.
Two and three engines have
been attached to all the passenger
trains since the snow fell.
Mr.. Crumb of the Murdock-
Crumb Co. has leased Chas. New
mans cottage for the summer.
Saturday we thought the win
ter weather was gone, and Sunday
it came back, worse than ever
A local option election is on in
Mississippi county. The county
has been dry the past four years.
A travelling show was at the
Academy of Music Friday and
Saturday nights. Business, poor.
Miss Effe Baldwin delightfully."-
entertained a number of the young
people at dancing Saturday eve
ming.
The thermometer registered nine
degrees below zero Tuesday morn
ing-the coolest weather in several
years.
Again there is talk of a mann
moth summer hotel on Shepherd
Mountain, and a trolley line up the
mountain side.
The K. P. boys had a lunch and
smoker at Whites, after lodge.
Friday night. The occasion was
enjoyed by all.
The values that B. N. Brown is
giving this year in clothing are
truly remarkable. They are the
best that he has ever given.
Lee Barger's residence is near
ing completion. It is a handsome
structure, and the site is one of the
most desirable in the valley
DR.. Smith, at the Sanitarium has
contracted to feed one hundred
visitors for two weeks during the
Baptist assembly next summer.
We have a lot of mules for sale
or trade. All kinds, all prices.
WENTWORTH & HILL,
Ironton, Mo.
Old residenters recalled that the
weather Monday was just like that
we had on the day of the local OPP
ton election twenty-one years
ago.
If you think there is any scarci-
ty of timber in this section go and
see the saw-logs that Alex Buckley
has bought during the past month.
It is truly remarkable.
Farmer T. P. Russell spends most
OF his time on his alfalfa farm at
Hayti, which is quite a success.
He says that beats politicing.-
Cape Girardeau Progress.
Our old friend, Horace Pease,
writes us fromsIdaho that he just
can't get along without the REGIS
TER. "Like a letter from the old
home, every week." he says.
With seven inches of snow al
ready on the ground, it began.
showing hard at seven o'clock this
"wednesday morning, and looks
like it would keep it up all day.
Ladies who have not yet pur-
chased their winter cloaks will
find it to their interest to call and
inspect the big bargains we are Of
fering. LOPEZ STORE Co.
Mr.. Stowell promises to write a
letter from Batesville, Ark, for
the REGISTER, in the near future.
Mr.. Stowell is a most pleasing
writer and we will be glad to hear
from him.
I have a complete line Of RUB
bers for Men, Women and Chill
dren-prices right. Also, blankets
all wool and cotton blankets
price very lou.
E. T.. FARMHOUSE.
Iron Lodge, No. 1O7, 4. o. o. F.,
will install officers Saturday night,
January 10th. A full attendance
is desired. Lunch after lodge, and
a good time expected.
E. i. FARMHOUSE, Sec'y.
But little interest was manifest