Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-24
LOCAL BREvITIES.
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AOOAL DhEtl1lEos
Wood is in great demand.
Down to three degrees last night.
A pretty severe winter it has
been.
Somewhat of a winter this has
been. Eth?
The deep snow put business out
of business.
The wood hauler has been much
sought after the past week.
The schools, the banks and the
7 post-ofices observed Washing
toms birthday.
County court holds an adjourned
session to-day to do some busi-
ness with the road overseers.
The Remembering of the school
districts, recently done by the
county court. is printed on the
first page.
An immense cistern, we are told,
will be built on Arcadia Heights
at once to supply the Assembly
with water next summer.
In years to come they will tell
you about that awful snow in
February, 1910, and the thermom-
eter going to twenty -four below
zero.
For SALE-A horse four years
old, and a mare three years old.
Horse we'll broken to driving, and
the mare to riding. Apply at this
office.
The manager of the Ironton
Telephone Company requests that
no calls for Central be made after
ten o'clock at night, except when
the case is urgent.
Thos. Hill of Ironton was here
the first of the week. He recently
sold his farm near that place and
contemplates moving to Bismarck.
-BismdrcE Gazette.
If a fellow could have stored
away some of the snow surplus of
the past week and kept it until the
~sweltering days of next summer,
wouldn't it have been fine?
1t is said that the Arcadia
Heights people have concluded to
abandon the old road to the hill,
and will build a new one-due
east from the Ironton station.
VIM. McClurg of Belleview this
week purchased of Mr.. Huff a half
interest in the livery stable at this
place. He will move his family to
this place in the near future Bis
marck Gazette.
A flue in the residence occupied
by DR.. Trauernicht burned out last
Friday night about nine o'clock.
For a while considerable fire shot
out of the chimney, but no great
damage resulted.
The Murdoch Crumb surveyors
who have been about three miles
west of Hogan for a week or more,
will move nearer Hogan in a few
days. Then they expect to go to
the Flatwoods vicinity.
We are sorry to hear that DR..
Patton is reported as being in
very poor health at his home in
Cape Girardeau. 1t is said that he
is thinking of removing to CAL
ifornia in the near future.
The drawing of the Crumb-
Murdoch lands will take place next
May. A vote by the shareholders
was taken on the question, and
they decided that the drawing
shall then be held. The time set
is propitious.
The awning in front of the
Albert building was crushed to
the ground by the weight OF the
snow some time Wednesday night.
1t is fortunate that the accident
happened at a time when no one
was passing.
Put up the COWS, lay granitoid
walks, and tear down the ram
shackle, unsightly fences, if you
would beautify the town. Mud
and splotch and painless pickets
are not pleasing to the eye of the
citizen or the stranger within our
gates.
Rev. E. L. Spiller closed his
p~astorate at the M. E. Church,
North, here Sunday. Mr.. Spiller
has been transferred to a Con-
ference in the northern part of the
State. The church here will be
supplied until the annual confer
ence meets in March.
The Frisco railroad, it is an
nounced, is making a strong eff
fort to get the Baptist folk to move
their Assembly tabernacle from
Arcadia Heights to some point on
the Frisco about sixty miles from
st. Louis, and to that end have
made the church people some at.
tractive offers.
Robert Everette Muse, who died
on January 21st, held d certificate
ia the Court Of Honor for $1,000.
The completed claim proofs we're
forwarded to the society on Feb
ruary 9TH. A warrant for $1,000
was received from the society by
Recorder Gus A. Schwaegerie on
February 10th in full payment Of
the claim.-De Soto Press.
Ligon Jones, who used to live at