Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-01-21
LOCAL BREvITIES.

No ice put away.
No city election this year.
The hub factory was idle all oil
last week.
The snow has interfered with
the log haulers.
Sunday was a great day fol
coasting and sleighing.
The hunters have been out in
numbers the past week.
Rabbits were brought to townin
great numbers last week.
A county school commissioner
to be elected this spring.
More sleighs in evidence the past
week than at any time for years
past.
All kinds of sleds and sleighs
were brought into use the past
week.
Archdeacon Walton held servi-
ces in st, Pyul's church Tuesday
evening.
Fred. Fisher has purchased a
part of A. K. Sutton's farm, west
of Shepherd Mountain.
Joe Madlinger says he will re-
move to Ironton when the spring
time comes, gentle Annie.
The "bum'' engines on the Iron
Mountain have made all trains late
since the cold weather set in.
The evening train, south, now
carries a dining car, and no longer
stops at Bismarck for supper.
This world is all fleeing show
To mans delusion given;
Sometimes it's rain, sometimes it's snow,
But still we're glad we're livin'l
Lee Davis of Arcadia bought the
auto piano, which has been on ex-
hibition in the drug store the past
week.
There is consolation in the
thought that Winter has run more
than half his b~oisterous career for
1908-9.
H. M. Collins says that he finds
Arcadia a fine place in which to.
reside and he is much pleased with
his new home.
w. T. O'Neal was here from st.
Francois county last week. Bill
says business is exceedingly quiet
in the lead belt.
Big Cut in Price on all ladies'
and children's cloaks and coats,
and on mems and boys o~vercoats,
at B. N. Browns.
The Sheriff now has his Office up
stairs in the courthouse, in the
room formerly occupied by the
Highway Engineer.
A grand jury will be impaneled
at the April term of circuit court.
The present law requires a grand
jury at least once a year.
An attempt will be made to pass
a law during the present session
of the Legislature to prevent the
killing of quail for the next five
years.
The dealers in rubber shoes and
arctics have done a mighty good
business the past week. So true
it Is that "one mans meat is an
other mans pizen."
The hub factory is running again
this week, and will likely continue
right along unless extreme bliz-
zardy weather shall again force it
to suspend temporarily.
In the town of Elvins, st. Fran
co.'s county, the curfew bell rings
at eight O'Clock, and boys under
fifteen years of age are expected to
be at home by that time.
This has been a hard week on
Brer Rabbit in the Ozark Noun
tains. Out about Springfield it is
said that he is a ''drug on the
market at one cent a piece.
This is sure a "dry'' old town in
all shades of the adjective's mean
ing. However, with the advent of
Taft and his promised prosperity
there may come amendment.
The Ozark Banner, at B~elleview,
has ceased publication. G. G. Ker-
lagoon, Jr,, the publisher, has gone
to Illinois, where it is said he has
employment as a bookkeeper.
We hear as yet of no aground
and lofty tumbling' incidental to
the ice-clad streets and sidewalks;
but one foot forward and two feet
back has been the rule for pedes-
TRANS the past week.
1t is understood that a PROPOSE
ton for an increased tax will be
submitted to the voters of the Iron
ton school district at the annual
election in April-4to secure funds
to build an addition to the school
building. 5sl
Wanted.-A three or four room
house in, or within one-half mile
of Ironton-to occupy On or about
March 1st. Please state rent and
particulars. Address A.. H. Nc
Cormick, 2216 Chippewa street,,St.
Louis, Mo.
Fred. A. Twomey has the prom
Use of a clerkship in the State Sem
ate during the session Of the Legis-
lature. Fred is q most worthy
young man and loyal Democrat,
and mo haua M dnnhk will nrnua