Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-09-28
LOCAL BREvITIES.
Business mighty dull.

oPe an Opening, saturday,
September Both.
County Court is in session at
adjourned term.
The docket at the October term
OF circuit court will be light.
1t rains mighty easy these days,
and vegetation keeps a humpin'.
The old-time cordwood wagon
is beginning to be again in evil
dence.
The Cleaners will meet with
Mrs. Frank Mullin Thursday,
October 9TH.
Main streets highway is a little
rough = in places. Is there no
balm in Gilead?
The Ironton delegation to see
President Taft when he was in St.
Louis last Saturday was small.
County Superintendent Burn
ham will hold the first Teachers
Meeting of the fall at Goodland,
October 14th.
When the COWS are up
And the fences down,
| will have my wish
For an unsplotched town.
The supplemental report of the
auditors on sFthe books'' is pub
lished in this issue. Comment
upon conditions, etc., will follow.
Postofice Inspectors, j. S.
Blough and w. H. Lewis, inspect
ed the Ironton Office last Wednes-
day afternoon and Thursday
morning.
The Pilot Knob public schools
have an enrolment of 40. OF
these 80 are in the primary de-
partment under the charge of
Miss Dora Hinsdale.
Wanted-Man past 80 with horse
and buggy, to sell stock condition
powder in Iron county. Salary
$40 per month. Address 301 Unity
Bldg, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Mr.. G. L. Harris OF Crane Pond
was al Ironton visitor Monday.
He recently bought the Buford
farm, and will make extensive inn
provements thereon. The REGIS
TER wishes him success.
Lost-Sunday, September 18th,
1911, in the road somewhere be-
tween Ghermanville and Arcadia,
a mans blue serge coat and boys
blue linen coat. A reward of 81
will be paid for their return to this
Office.
Mrs. Lulu Gillian Woodside
will have her Fall Millinery Open
ing next week, full particulars of
which will be given in the next
issue Of this paper. Mrs. w. has
engaged the services of a st. Louis
trimmer.
l hear that a Springfield (Mo.)
doctor, now in the Valley, has a
Murdoch Crumb lot which he
bought for a patent medicine pre-
scription. Which of the parties
to this transaction was "stung,"
and how badlyP
A dwelling belonging to Leslie
Yount, two miles west of Ironton,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday
night about eight o'clock. 1t was
occupied by a man named Thomas
and it is reported none of the con-
tents were saved.
The Rev. DR.. will not prosecute
his slanderers (?) for criminal
libel but he raj mighty busy in
st. Louis last week trying to get
the federal authorities to take cog
nizance of the Thornton circular.
Fuller doesn't relish Justice at
home where he is known.
There are too many dogs in this
. town-license or no license. They
are a nuisance to the ear at night,
and an offense to the nose and
eyes during the day. They have a
partially for the porch posts and
house orner all too pronounced
for cleanliness and decency. An
ordinance restraining dogs of all
degrees might consistently follow
those against the hog, the horse
and the sidewalk s%plotching COW.
Contractor Louis Miller of Ar
cadia has placed a carpenters lien
for $3.50. on the lodge building
of the Country Club. The price
to be paid for the building was
$3.50, and he claims to have re-
ceived only S700 to date. The
work was completed about a year
ago. Iregret the legal contest and
hope the matter may be speedily
adjusted, for the lakes the, thing.
Ali else must be made to give way
to it's speedy accomplishment.
A meeting of the creditors Of
the Arcadia Valley Manufacture
ing Company was held in st.
Louis Monday afternoon. The
company represented their liabil-
tiles at about $4,000 and assets at
possibly $4,000. They offered to
settle with all creditors at 35 cents
on the dollar. The creditors we're
not satisfied with the showing
made and the meeting was adj
journed until Saturday, Septem-
Der Both, when more information
is expected.
DR.. VIM. G. Patton, of Thayer,
was welded in st. Louis last week
to Miss Lenore A. Wilcox, Of
Bloomington, Ill. DR.. Patton,
whose home formerly was at IRON
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