Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-04-21
LOCAL BREvIrIES.

Read Lopez's new ad.
Have you seen the comet?
Brown has a new advertisement.
Middlebrook wants a school
teacher. Read ad.
Circuit court next week. Docket
published in this issue.
A ground-soaker Friday night
and Saturday morning.
The S2.35 Ladies' Spring Skirt
at Browns is a wonder.
A dance and reception at the
Orrick House last Saturday night.
Piedmont will have a Street
Fair next September. Success to
it!
The opinion seems to be that
Ironton will have granitoid walks
soon.
The circuit court docket is a
very light one and the term should
be brief.
The county board of appeals
will be in session at the court
. house Monday.
Prof. London, of Des Arc, began
a singing school at this place last
night.-CenteruiHe Outlook.
The $3.50 train, No. %, Friday
evening was late about two hours.
Cause: a "bucking" engine.
The granitoid sidewalk is a
thing of beauty and a Joy forever.
Let us have it without delay.
The Ironton Basket Ball girls
have challenged Doe Run to play.
them next Saturday afternoon.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. A. g..
Russell, near Ironton, Saturday,
April is, 1910, a boy. All we'll.
If you want the best in Paints,
Oils and Varnishes, buy the Sher-
win-W Williams Brand at Lopez's.
A Mr.. Black, recently from
Chicago, now occupies MI. Roeh-
ry's house on the mountain side.
The census takers began work
Friday. Thirty days is the time
in which the job is expected to be
completed.
Piedmont is finally getting rid
of the epidemic OF smallpox that
has infested that town for several
months past.
A hotel Inspector visited the
valley last month and we under
stand reported all our hostelries
vs. about complying with the law.
Fred A. Twomey has gone to
Oklahoma City, where he will
again engage in street a work.
Many friends in Ironton wish him
we'll.
T. E. Kimber stocked his farm,
west of Pilot Knob, with $500 bass
and croppie one day last week.
Mr.. Kimber expects to have a fine
fishing place in a year or SO.
Dr.. w. G. Patton has returned
to Cape Girardeau from California
and is much improved in health.
1t is possible that he may make
his home in California in the near
future.
The Pilot Knob public school
will give an entertainment Satur-
" day night, April 23d, at the school
house, for the benefit of the IL
brary. Admission, Is cents. All
invited.
1t seems to be the opinion that
the county campaign will open
with circuit court. 1t is a long
time until August, however, so
there's no special occasion for
rush, boys.
With spring we'll advanced we
had snow, more or less, all day
Monday, and it was a cold and
most disagreeable day. To be
certain, the snow melted as it
struck the ground.
Iron county now has five whole
sale beer depots. One at Granite
Vile, one at Middlebrook, two in
Ironton and one in Arcadia. The
state gets $500 license out Of them
the county not a cent.
Work is progressing very sat
isfactorily on the reservoir on Ar
cadia Heights. The water will be
pumped from the hub factory, as
was done last year, and then piped
all over the Assembly grounds.
The action of the Iron county
/ board of equalization in raising
the valuation on wild lands seems
IA to have been pursued by the Other
counties. In Washington county
the assessment was raised to S2.5(
per acre.
Poplar Bluff is shaking hands
with itself. The Dalton Adding
Machine Co. will not move tt
Z Quincy, ILL.,, Notwithstanding the
big bonus offered by that town
G@ The Blufities have good cause foI
their citation.
Miss Mildred Polk, who was IL
st. Louis last week buying mil.
linery for the Lopez Store, re-
turned Saturday. The ladies are
invited to call and inspect the new
shapes, trimmings and novelties
now on sale.
#W t.Us.D f Na.uN4a
Mittie Reagan Stanley died a
her home near Fredericktown