Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-01-12
LOCAL BREvIT1Es.

The wind blew like March all
day Tuesday.
VIM. Hall put up some four-inch
ice last week.
Remember A. Rieke & Son sell
on time payments.
Show at the Academy of Music
next Monday night.
A great many people suffering
from grip and colds these days.
Big bargains in heavy winter
merchandise of all kinds at Lopez
Store Co.
Piedmont has five miles of gran
itoid walks. Wish Ironton could
say half as much.
Big After Christmas Bargains in
%overcoats, cloaks and underwear
at B. N. Browns.
Another cold wave coming, it is
announced in this "wednesday
mornings papers.
The Puxico Iron Company has
suspended operations at Pilot
Knob for the present.
Celia Hardin, one of the oldest
colored residents of the valley, was
buried last Thursday.
What has happened to the ice
plant man in Arcadia? Has he de-
serted us for good and ever?
1t is said that a car load of
whiskey in jugs was shipped from
Poplar Bluff Christmas week.
Are we going to have any more
ice-making weather this winter?
Some of the prophets say we are
not.
Sheriff Marshall Tuesday arrest
ed VIM. Brewer at Annapolis on a
capias sent him from Reynolds
county.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Durfee, of
Arcadia, Mo-, and James Cody's
family were guests of Mrs. Michael
Finnerty this week-Waterloo, Ill.,
Times.
AT the meeting of the city coun-
Gil Monday evening settle ment
was made with the collector. To-
tai tax collected for the past year
was S1016.05
"Big Bob" johnson, a we'll
known colored man, died at the
home of his father in this city
Monday night, after quite a pro-
longed illness.
Geo. G.. Fox, of Jonesboro,
Arkansas, was in Ironton Sunday.
He accompanied his mother, who
had been visiting in Arkansas for
the past two months, home.
Our young friend, DR.. w. G..
Patton, is now located at Thayer,
Mo-, for the practice of his pro-
fession and is, we are glad to say,
much gratiied at the prospect.
We wish to thank our patrons
for favors extended us in 1910, and
wish them a Happy and Prosper
GUS New Year.
A. RIEKE & Son.
Rev. Chas. E. Edwards, Presby-
terrain minister of Ironton, will
preach in the Union church, at
Pilot Knob, Sunday January 18th,
at o'clock P. M. All are invited.
Geo. w. Clarkson came down
from st. Louis to attend the bank
meeting the first of the week.
Mr.. Clarkson is vice -president of
the Grand Avenue Bank in that
city.-BismdrcE Gazette.
Last week we said that George
Love OF the west end of the county
had bought the Wesley "Sisk''
farm, near Des Arc. 1t was a slip
of the pencil. Mr.. Love has pur-
chased the Wesley Stevenson
farm.
The bell at Fort Hill was rung
loud and long about dusk last
Friday evening. Some people
feared there was a fire in the
suburbs, but the tolling was to
notify the public that a revival
meeting was in progress on the
hill.
Last week we printed a very ex
cellent paper on discipline, read
at the recent teachers meeting in
Ironton by one of our young lady
teachers. This week we print
something from the pen of Prof,
Connally. Read it.
AT a meeting of the board of de
rectors of the Boatmen's Bank, st.
Louis, Tuesday Mr.. w. H. Thorn.
son, who has been cashier of thai
institution since 1870, was elected
vice president. Mr.. E. M. Hub
bard vas elected cashier.
w. T. O'Neal was here from
Frankclay last week. MI. O'Neal
tells us that he enjoyed his visit tc
California last fall very much and
in future, he has about made w
his mind, that ne will spend his
winters in q warmer cline thar
Missouri.
Henry Stockwell and wife o1
Reynolds county are in jail here
serving out q four months SEN
tence for assaulting a woman il
Reynolds. About a year age
Stockwell served a sentence from
this county for carrying concealed
weapons.
Mr.. @. E. DeMier has returned
to his home in Arcadia ate