Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-12-19


week and was very much surprised
to hear that business was good,
real good. When q Democratic
President was elected twenty years
ago that fact occasioned a panic
six months before the election oc-
Cured. Here we are, six weeks
after the greatest Democratic vic
tory in the history of the Nation,
and NO panic yet. The Democrats
are not as bad as they used to be.
We're improving, boys.
Last Thursday and Friday were
as fine winter days as ever con-
duced to the delight of living. The
sky was without a cloud and the
glad sunshine frightened every
prospect. 1t was cold enough to
give spring to the footstep, zest to
the appetite and interest to the
woodpile. May there be many
such days in store for us to Offset
the sleet and snow sure to come
ere spring again smiles upon us!
The State Bureau of Vital
Statistics makes the following re-
port of births and deaths in Iron
County for the months of July,
August and September: Deaths-
from typhoid fever, A; whooping
cough, Q; tuberculosis, 1; cancer,
1; diseases of the heart and cir
culatory system, 2; pneumonia
2; diarrhoea under 2 years of
age), A; accidents, 2; other causes,
g. Total q. Births-July, 10;
August, Z; September, 10. Total
27.
Sunday morning, December 10,
1912, the M. E. Church, South, had
their rally. About go were pres
ent at Sunday school, and rs at
church in the morning. The
pastor at Fort Hill feels highly
encouraged at the results he has
already obtained with his new
charge. The services in the even
ing were especially fine, and the
minister, Rev. j. R. A. Vaughan,
preached two fine sermons that
day. We are glad to have Bro.
Vaughan with us. Xxx.
F. 0. Codding, at the Ironton
Meat Market, desires to inform his
patrons and the public generally
that he is we'll prepared to furnish
all the good things to eat for the
holidays. Turkeys, all other fowls,
beet, pork, sausage, oysters, cram
berries and all kinds of fresh
fruits, In fact, the Ironton Meat
Market is filled to overlooking
with everything that is tempting
to the palate and satisfying to the
appetite. Remember Codding
when you get ready to order the
Christmas spread.
| spent a few minutes last Sat
urday with our young friend, Geo.
w. Clarkson, President of the
Grand Avenue Bank, st. Louis.
George is a mighty genial, affabe
gentlemen and it is always a
pleasure to meet him. His Iron
county friends will be glad to
know that he has "made good'' in
the banking business. The Grand
Avenue Bank has made wonder
full progress in the two years that
Mr.. Clarkson has been in charge
thereof, and the promise for the
future is exceedingly bright.
IT. .HNW-EL Or
Our friend Charley G. Mitchim,
editor of the De Soto Press, is q
candidate for the postmastership
of his city. We are are for. him
1t is ittiug that the ''party pie'
should 90 to the men of the party
upon whose arduous labors
depend the success of the party
and the average country editor
certainly does his part in putting
up the said arduous labors An
other one of our newspaper men
co-laborers, who is for a post
mastership is Louie Jobe of the
Bloomfield Vindicator, and we are
for him too Doniphan Prospect
NeWs.
Our postmaster, F. M. Jones, be.
ing the most fair of any in his
position in the country, and acced-
ing to the custom of ito the victor
belong the spoils," has announced
his intention of giving up the
Winona Office to some successful
man of the Democratic faith at the
end of the fiscal year-Jnne 30th.
1918. Accordingly, applicants are
quite numerous, four already hav-
ing petitions for signers, the ones
not previously reported being
John Copeland and r. L. Norton,
All applicants r perfectly com
potent and it may finally result il
a game of drawing straws to de-
termine the winner.-WinoHa Demo
crdt.
About eight o'clock Monday
morning the fire alarm was sound.
ed and for a few minutes Main
street was enlivened with people
! going northward on the double.
quick. The cry was that the hub.
factory was in flames, but this
happened, fortunely, to be q mis-.
take. The alarm was caused by
the burning out of a due in Mr.
Robert Farmers house, from which
no damage resulted. AS the house
is in the vicinity of the hub fac.
tory, some hasty individual voiced
his excited conclusion that the lat
! ter establishment was in the GRASP
of the fre-fiend, but before ths
crowd got within viewing distance
the soot.fed flames had subsidized.
/ The Fredericktown Democrat
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