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

'get-LOgetn6rf movement OF all
the people in the Valley.
1t is limited that there is a pos
sibility of a number of the fast
mail trains now running out of st.
Louis being discontinued. The
railroad officials are saying that
it does not pay them to run the
trains since the government has
been shipping the magazines by
freight.
F. A. Twomey was slightly in
jured in a wreck on the Missouri
Southern railroad at Ellington
last Tuesday about noon. The
wreck was occasioned by the train
breaking into. Fred sprained his
wrist and was somewhat bruised.
Several people sustained slight
injuries.
The entertainment given at the
Arcadia College on the afternoon
of Thanksgiving day for the bene-
fit of good streets in Arcadia was
thoroughly enjoyed by all in at
tendance. The good sisters who
provided the entertainment and
the young ladies who participated
were all highly complimented.
Strayed-One COW from Pilot
Knob, black with white head and
chest with ends off horns, cropped
off mark; smooth crop off of both
ears, two swallow forks in each
ear, small bell on. Any one Civ.
ing information will be literally
rewarded. j. HI. KELLEY,
Pilot Knob, Mo.
To our longtime friend, Mr..
Jesse E. Pinkley, of Lewistown,
Montana, we are indebted for one
of the handsomest and most
unique calendars we have seen
for many a day. The calendar is
an advertisement of Mr.. Pinkley's
"Big Stone Barn." tFire Proof
and Sanitary" MI. P. has our
thanks.
After living in Ironton for forty
years Mrs. d. A. Pilley last week
vacated her home, which she re-
Gently sold, and has gone to Ar
cadia where she will spend a
month with Mrs. Hatten. About
the first of the year Mrs. Pilley
expects to go east with her grand
son, Lieut.. Frank Delano, to make
her. home.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. A. Davis, OF
Arcadia, have the sympathy of the
community in the death of their
little son, Archie Hall, aged eleven
months and two days, which oc-
Cured Sunday evening, December
Sd, 1911, at $3.50 o'clock. The
funeral occurred Tuesday after
noon and the remains were in
tered in the X. P. cemetery.
Mr.. w. j. Poythress, a very
genial gentleman from the Tar
Heel State, is spending the winter
in the valley. Mr.. P. is general
agent for the celebrated Baldwin
pianos, and is a great believer in
the superiority of those celebrated
instruments. We take pleasure in
assuring our readers that Mr.. Poy-
thress and the Baldwin piano are
worthy of their most careful con-
sideration. +
Mrs. Mike Owens entertained
the Finch Club Saturday after
noon. Mesdames Ben Gockel and
Henry Gockel, A. P. Behrens, A.
M. Robertson, and Miss Hepstet-
ter, of st. Louis, were present.
Remembrance, were presented to
each guest by the hotsess. Mr..
and Mrs. Owens leave to-day for
Springfield, Mo-, to take charge OF
a large hotel.-Jackson Cash Book.
The following is reproduced
from the Washington, D. c., Post
of December Sd: "The engage
ment of Mrs. Maude Edgar ZURICH
and Mr. Joseph Lee Parks, of New
York, was announced last week at
the home of Capt. and Mrs. Will
DUR Willing, of Washington Bar
racks, where Mrs. Zurich is a house
guest. Mrs. ZURICH is the widow
of Lieut.. Anton Zurich, Fourteenth
United States Cavalry. The we'd
ding will take place in st. Louis
in January"
1t is said that the prison ply
stefan in the state penitentiary
has recommended that Bill Spaugh
be pardoned, because of ILL
health, and that the pardon will
probably be issued Christmas.
Spaugh has been in the penitenti-
airy about five years. His crime
was the murder Of Sheriff Polk in
1905. He was tried and sentenced
to be hung, but Folk, who was
then Governor, committed the
sentence to life imprisonment. II
was q brutal, cowardly and ma
licious murder and Spaugh's pa
role OF paTuOn aU CnlS blme Woulu
be an outrage on justice.
At the meeting Friday evening,
December list, of the Arcadia
Improvement Association, it was
voted that all the people of the
Arcadia Valley be thanked for
their generous patronage of the
entertainment at the Arcadia
College or Ursuline Academy, and
to the sisters of the Convent for
their kind services in preparing so
splendid an entertainment and al
so the participants, who enter
tanned us SO we'll. Also wish to
thank the Arcadia public school
children for their services in
selling tickets and the Misses
Ringo and Shane for their efforts
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