Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-04-06
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

WCll Oh lily
See the Reese Land and Lumber
Co.'s ad. on first page.
Elmer Newman has a business
card in this paper. Read it.
Four Sows with their filters for
sale. GEORGE STARK, Arcadia.
The screen factory is the best
lighted place in town these nights.
Mrs. Woodside is receiving new
Hats this week. They are daisies.
Jake Tins new residence, west
of Mrs. Edwards, is we'll under
way.
Several ears of ore are being
shipped from Pilot Knob each
week.
!. The measles have about had
their run in the valley for this
season.
March went out neither as a lion
nor a lamb-rather betwixt and
between.
1t seems now that there will be
"nothing dom" at the ice plant
this season.
Harry Patton went to Omaha
last week where he will play ball
this summer.
We understand that the screen
factory has all the orders it can
fill for this season.
1t is said that the screen factory
has orders for 81 cars of screen
doors and windows.
Jacob Baltisser is completing
his store building in Pilot Knob,
which he started last fall.
"The Widow McCarty" at the
Academy of Music, Friday, April
Nth. Particulars next week.
Men Wanted-Common laborers.
Wages S1.50 per day of 10 hours.
Puxico Iron Co., Pilot Knob. Mo.
Browns new storehouse now in
course of construction will be the
first concrete building for Ironton.
County court will name the
county depository for the ensuing
two years at the regular session in
May.
Mr.. Levi S. Oren, who lives west
of town, last week set out about
eighty fruit trees. Dynamite was
used to make the holes.
The county board of equaliza-
ton is in session at the courthouse
this week. The result of their
deliberations will be printed next
week.
The Legislature passed q law re-
quiring all passenger trains to stop
at county seats. This ought to
give Ironton mighty good train
service.
Work has been finished on the
digging of the basement for B. N.
Browns new building. Getting
through the "hard pan" was slow
and laborious work.
Mrs. John Schwab has purchased
from James M. Logan the cottage
on Shepherd street, just back Of
the Blue Store, and will make her
home there in future.
Some of the Southeast Missouri
towns are arranging to sprinkle
the streets with oil this summer in
effort to keep down the dust. Why
shouldn't Ironton try the scheme?
Mr.. Henry Rapp, who has been
at the Mullanphy Hospital in st.
Louis for the past two months, is
recovering from a very serious
illness and will soon be able to
come home.-Lead Belt NeaUs.
Valley House formerly Omaha. J
Rooms and board. Large airy
rooms for families. Table supplied
with best the market affords. One
half block south of courthouse.
MRS. 0. Ell. FLAGG, Ironton, Mo
MI. Edgar Perry, the REGISTERS
old "Tunnel Drifter," was yester-
day elected Police Judge Of De
Soto, capturing a majority of all
the votes cast, although there were
two good men running against
him.
The Business Mems League
Luncheon and Smoker, deferred
from last week, will be held at the
I. o. o. F. Hall tomorrow Thurs,
day. evening. Several gentlemen
from st. Louis will be present and
address the meeting. All are in
vited.
AT the school election held here
yesterday, for County Superin-
tendent Burnham received 13G
votes; Daugherty, 68. The fol-
lowing vote was cast for school
directors: Damron, Ill; Rudy.
1903; MARI, SO; Gay, A; remainder
scattering.
It was rumored last week that q
new time card would become eff.
fective Sunday and that trains
Nos. rs and rs would be put or
the road again. But the change
did not come and now 1t is stated
there will be no changes in the
immediate future.
David Myers,of Ironton, stopped
over in Pennington for a shor
visit with his nephew, 0. J. May.
berry, and family the first Of the
week. He had been to Charleston
to attend a meeting of the South
east Missouri X. Of p. Associa'
tion.--Fdrmington News.