Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-25


10th. Invitations will be out in a
few days. The proceeds are for
the Missionary Society's Contin-
gent Fund.
Mrs. H. L. Bell and daughter, of
Belleview, returned home Friday
from New Mexico. Her father, R.
j. Hill, has sold his farm there to
MI. Simmons of st. Joseph, Mo-,
at q profit of $1,000. Judge Hill is
now located in the town of Artesia.
Mayor Robert Rasche has pur-
chased the stock of goods of the
late VIM. G. Fairchild and will re-
move his store and Office to the
building formerly occupied by Mr..
Fairchild. We are glad to have
His Honor for next door neighbor.
A couple of prairie schooners,
with the usual accompaniment of
dogs and half starved looking
horses, passed through town south
ward Monday. The movers wag-
on is not so frequent a sight in this
country as it used to be, not by
a great sight.
The matter of saloon license for
Bismarck has been deferred by
the county court of st. Francois
county until the May term. By
that time it is thought that the
Court of Appeals will have passed
on the matter so that the county
court may act intelligently.
Rev. w. w. Strother left Des
Arc Thursday on q trip to the
Texas Holiness University in
Peniel, Texas, to secure some ad-
ditional instructors for the South
east Missouri University. An ad-
ditional school building will be
erected at Des Arc this summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. T. Mason passed
through Piedmont Monday on their
way to Hot Springs, for the bene-
fit of Mr.. Mason's health. He has
inflammatory rheumatism. Mr..
Mason has just left the Frisco hos
pital where he was under medical
treatment for some time for malar-
ial fever.-Piedmont Bonner.
John T. Baldwin, ST., and fam
lily left Sunday for Oklahoma City
Oklahoma, where they will make
their future home. Mr.. Baldwin
expects to engage in contracting
and building and one of his sons
and a daughter will conduct a
jewelry and notion store. The
REGISTER wishes them success and
happiness in their new home.
On Monday of last week, MI. G.
R. Kendall, the popular grocer.
moved his stock from the place
lately occupied by him down into
the Baldwin building--the Tele.
phone Central. He extends a cor
dial invitation to his customers
and the public generally, to visit
him in his new quarters, stocked
to the brim with fresh, frst-clast
goods.
Prof. w. R. Adams last week re-
signed his position as principal o.
the public school in Arcadia. Mr.
adams lately had a rising in the
head which left him partially dea.
and unfit for school work. He has
been succeeded by Mr.. G. w. Sig
nor, a very capable young mar
from Marble Creek. Mr.. Adam
and wife will leave in a few days
for N~orthssMissouri, where he viii
try farming for awhile.
A deed of trust covering 81 type
written pages was filed with the
recorder in this county this week
1t is given by the Murdock- Crumt
corporation of West Virginia t.
the Big Muddy Coal and Lror
Company, and covers 24,360 acres
{ of land situated in the counties o.
! Iron, st. Francois and Madison
i The Big Muddy reserves the RICH
. to buy any or all the land TO.
mining purposes at a price to b.
determined by the three disinter'
ested arbitrator. The deed O
+: trust is dated November &C., 1908
-Fredericktown Democrat Nea0s.
The amending of the mudhol,
approaches to the Ironton station
is not yet visible to the eye or re
: sponsive to the sense. | have hat
. some notion OF appealing to tn
, Railway Commissioners in this be
half; but, if / did, the Head Attor
ney would soon put me down b.
demonstrating with "facts and fig
ures" that Ironton's station wa
altogether lovely and the ap
proaches thereto firm as rock, leve
as a floor, and their sides delineatet
l by roses, violets and daises. Sc
4 what's the use?
TITS better far to dree the ills We wot OF,
Than hear ~confounding truths we neve
4 thought OF!
Miss Mildred Polk, who has beeI
lin st. Louis for several weeks, &C
" quainting herself with the lates
!, "Fads and Fancies'' of the Mil
! linery world, returned home Sat
! urday. Miss Polk having beel
y connected with the Millinery De
partment of the Lopez Store Go
: for apnumber of seasons, will hav
/. full charge of that department. tn
I. coming season. The stock, whicl
9 was carefully selected by Mis-
Polk, assisted by Mr.. Adolp,
Lopez, has been received and !
being rapidly arranged for tn
opening date, which will be an
nounced later.
d DIED-At her residence, Irontor
l. Mo-, on Sunday, March II, 1909, 9