Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-12-29
LOCAL BREvITIEs.
Quiet Christmas,

Are you ready to "swear off''P
The Christmas trade was only
fairly good.
Will you watch the old year GU
and the New Year in?
/ shall tell you about my Christ
mas presents next week.
1t ssaid the new time card will
be in force next Sunday.
The Iron County Bank has issu-
ed q very attractive calendar for
the New Year.
Big After Christmas Bargains in
overcoats, cloaks and underwear
at B. N. Browns.
Quite a lot of ties coming to
town. Mr.. Dreessen tells us that
he received 5000 last week.
The holiday ball at Graniteville
Friday night was we'll attended
and thoroughly enjoyed by all.
Chas. Patton is building q black
smith shop on his Recently ac-.
quired property in south Ironton,
To the Guessing Milling Co., OF
Pennington, we are under obliga-
tions for a fine large calendar for
1911.
4 If our evening train from st.
Louis is discontinued it will put
the evening papers out of business
In the valley.
j. R. Pratt, of Ruble, Reynolds
county. has leased the residence OF
Geo. Gay in west Ironton and will
remove his family here this week.
To Mr.. G. w. Collins of Crane
Pond we are indebted for some
very fine large apples presented us
last week. Mr.. Collins certainly is
an apple grower.
1t is said that the Holloman
farm, just south of Arcadia, that
was sold last spring to an Iowa
man, has been sold again, the
price paid being $50 an acre.
Our long time friend, MI. q. E.
DeMier, the veteran station agent
at Arcadia, is in the Missouri Pa
ciic Hospital, st. Louis. We hope
for an early improvement in his
condition.
Big Reduction in Hats. Every
Ladies' and Misses Hat in the store
cut from one third to one-half in
price. Now's the time to buy-re-
member we do not carry them
over. LOPEZ STORE Co.
r. E. Gunton will be a candidate
for Enrolling Clerk of the Senate
when the Legislature assemblies in
Jefferson City next month. DR.. E.
L. Farmhouse will probably hold a
~clerkship under Senator Buford.
It is rumored that the first of the
year passenger trains Nos. 25, 26,
425 and 410 will be pulled off and
that Nos. 8 and 10 will do the local
work. No. 8 will leave st. Louis
about 6 P. M, it is said.-Bismdrck
Gazette.
Mr.. P. w. Whitworth, who has
been in very poor health for sew
eral months past, was taken to st.
Louis Tuesday morning for treat
ment. We are very sorry to hear
that his condition is considered
most serious.
MI. K. S. Honeywell, a mason,
ia a new conner to Ironton. Mr..
Honeywell is from Harlan, Iowa,
and n of the Murdock-C rumb
victims. He makes a specially OF
all kinds Of cement work and
guarantees satisfaction.
To our young friend, George
Fox, of ~Jonesboro, Arkansas.
trainmaster of the J%onesboro,
Lake City and Eastern Railroad,
we are indebted for a copy Of a
very handsome pamphlet, "Sixty
Miles Through the st. Francis
Valley"
Conductors S. w. Andrews and
j. ". Webb returned last week
from an extended hunting trip in
the extreme Southeast, made in
company with some three or four
others. They report a pleasant
time. Small game was plentiful
but deer rather scarce.
VIM. German, who has lived on
the Camp Nine farm for a number
OF years, has moved to Ironton.
He still retains an interest in the
orchard property, but the place
will be managed the coming sea-
son by the purchaser OF a portion
of Mr.. Germans interest.-Green-
nile Journal.
DR.. Chas. l.. Blanks called to
see us last Saturday. The DR.. hat
been located at Mexico, Mo-, fol
the past two years and is making
a speciality in the treatment Of the
eye, ear, nose and throat. We are
glad to learn that he is prospecting
and likes the Mexico country very
much, indeed.
Miss Lillian Steel will depart
this week for her home in st.
Louis, having resigned her posi-
ton in the Taylor town school
Miss Steel has been a teacher II
the Flat River schools for severa,
years and has rendered most sat
isfactory service. There is sincere
regret on the part of the board q
directors and patrons on account
Of her resignation which was oc-
casioned by the i'll health OF hel
mother with whom she will live liz