Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-12-07
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

"School Notes. on first page.
Brown has a Christmas adver-
tisement,
The De Soto smallpox scare is
s%ubsiding.
Christmas presents of all kinds
at Browns.
Thanks giving was quiet enough
in the valley.
Arcadia Valley must have a
summer hotel.
There was no school Thursday
and Friday last.
The music of the wood saw is
heard in the land.
Lopez's are headquarters for
fine Holiday Goods.
Summer and winter days, both,
again the past week.
Art Entertainment at the public
school building next week.
About seventy-fve men are now
employed in the mines at Pilot
Knob.
Teachers Meeting at Ironton,
Saturday afternoon, December
9th.
Wanted-Furs of all kinds;
highest prices paid at Gay &
Kindell's.
Ties are about all there is here
abouts to the timber business
these days.
Brer Rabbit has been catching
thunder from the local Nimrods
the past month.
Genuine Southern Plantation
Molasses-something very fine, at
Lopez Store Co.
DR.. Farmhouse expects to have
his drug store open and ready for
business in a short time.
Mr.. Delano tells US that the Mo-
vember just gone al the coolest
since 1888-twenty-three years
ago.
Max Basler will leave the last of
the week for Lilbourn, Mo-, where
he expects to work in a scree
factory.
Eight box cars in a freight
train were wrecked at Tip Top
last Thursday, blockading the
track for several hours.
Two cars of machinery and sup
plies from the ere factory were
shipped to Lilbourn last week,
where Mr.. Burhen has another
factory projected.
DR.. j. Ell. Martin, Of Pilot Knob,
has been in Colorado the past
mouth. We understand that the
Dr.. is seeking a new location in
the western country.
Mr.. L. E. Toler, formerly Iron
County's Highway Engineer, has
been appointed deputy surveyor
of Mississippi county. Mr.. Toler
is also surveyor for Madison coun-
ty.
Our readers should not overlook
the serial story, "My Lady of the
North" the opening chapters of
which will be printed in our issue
Of December 18th. 1t is a most in
teresting story, we'll told.
Some gypsies, who had been
camped east of town for several
days, wendell their way north
ward through town last Friday
morning. There were ten or a
dozen wagons in the caravan.
Just as soon as we can get eight
more to take a membership, in the
Arcadia Country Club we will go
to work on the Shut-In road.
w. J. SMITH, Local Agent,
Ironton, Mo.
The Woman's Missionary So
ciety will meet with Mrs. Jelly on
Wednesday, December 18th, at 8
P. M. This will be the annual
election of ~oficere and a full meet
ing of members especially is
urged.
The cold storage plant at River
side, owned by the Parsons, to-
gether with IL 900 bushels of APP
pies, was destroyed by fire a few
days ago. The plant was valued
at 10,000.-&. Francois County Re-
publican.
Milo A. Case and May Whitmer,
both of st. Louis were married in
Ironton Thanksgiving day, Rev. j..
T. Self officiating. The couple
seemed very DESTROYS of kee ping
the fact of their marriage a Sc cret
and out of the newspapers.
The fve-yerr-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Amelung, of Pilot
Knob, died Tuesday morning,
November 28, 1911. The remains
were Inferred in the Pilot Knob
cemetery that evening. The be-
reaved parents have much sym
pathy in their sorrow.
"A. O. Crews, who last week sold
his bakery shop to James Conan,
of Hasco, Mo-, accompanied by
his wife, left Wednesday for st.
Louis for several days visit with
relatives after which they will go
to Birmingham, Ala, for al TX
tended visit.-Fdrmington News
Valley parents have been some
what alarmed the past week be-
cause of d%iphtheria. Tuesday
morning of last week the fve-
year-old son of Mr.. Herman Anne