Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-12-26
LOCAL BREvITIES.

Some hub logs being hauled to
town.
Beautiful Furs and Fur Sets at
Lopez's.
1t has been an unusual fall for
automobling.
Lots of people in town every
day last week.
Looks like it is going to be a
green Christmas.
The picture show did a rushing
business last week.
Eggs, twenty-five cents, and
seem to be plentiful.
Wiring the houses for electric
lights proceeds slowly.
Our merchants seem to hav We had
a good Christmas trade.
The ~postofice has been swamp
ed with Christmas packages.
MI. G. w. Marshall has a big
pile of wood in the l. o. o. F.
yard.
Go to Yount & Polk's, the Wall
ley Meat Market, for your Christ
mas meats.
For Sale-Or option $50 acres of
lead land in Township "a. Inquire
at this Office.
Lest we forget: "The Arcadia
Valley Development Company
what about it?
Truly remarkable how much
wood has been and is still being
hauled to town.
Arcadia Valley Booster Envel-
opes printed at this Office. Send
in your order now.
Fresh Pork at Codding's Meat
Market, in bulk, COUNTRY style, at
IL liz cents a pound.
The Town of Pilot Knob is con-
sidering the proposition of build.
ing a concrete calaboose.
What about the proposition to
place an electric light on the bridge
between here and Arcadia?
"East Lynne" at the Academy
of Music Thursday night. 1t is a
beautiful and touching story.
The railroad company, it is said,
will install electric lights at the
Ironton and Arcadia stations.
Grandma Block of Middlebrook
will entertain her children at a
Christmas dinner Wednesday.
Wanted-Men to workin timber;
good wages. Apply to
VIM. O. HUFF, Chloride Mo.
A new dynamo has been re-
ceived at the electric light plant.
A largerone than first installed.
For Sale-A range and heating
stove. Cheap. Apply to Mrs. A.
Q. Bowel, Emerson Park, Ironton,
Mo.
Circuit court was we'll attended
last week, considerable interest
being manifested in the cases on
trial.
The hunters this season have
secured little game. Not in years
has game of all kinds been so
scarce.
Some farmers living on the st.
Francis river say that the cement
used in the Shut In dam has kill
ed many fish.
A st. Louis man vas in town
last week looking over the situa-
ton with a view of endeavoring to
establish a saloon here.
Our people generally were favor
ably impressed with Judge Evans
and liked very much, indeed, the
way he presides in circuit court.
1t looks like we'll have to make
import our ice for next summer.
It's about time the Arcadia ice
plant was changing hands again.
Miss Mary Steel, John Steel and
sddiss Lucy Frost will arrive Satur-
lly from Cape Girardeau to visit
ev. and Mrs. George Steel.-Lead
PeLt Nevs.
Our town is now fairly we'll sup
lied with granitoid walks. The
walks and the electric lights are
Ehe greatest improvements made
jim Ironton in many years.
Len Sutton informs us that he
will 60 to Thomaston, Alabama,
about the first of the year. He has
accepted employment there with
a lately organized screen factory
~ Mrs. w. J. Lee, of Arcadia was
JAILED to st. Louis last Friday by
a,,,te death of her mother, Mrs. Sui
E,saEan. The deceased spent most
the past summer in the valley.
Aouis Miller, R. E. Purkiss and
has. j. Newman returned Satur-
Eay from Doniphan, Mo-, where
they have been employed on a
building being constructed by Mr.,
Miller.
John T. Baldwin,, Jr., who has
been in the employ of a lumber
company at Memphis for some
time past, will go to Chicago about
the irst Of the year and engage in
the lumber business.
Judge Evans, while on the bench
here last week, made the statement
that thirty nine years ago he
walked throuOh ~Tronton on the rail-