Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-02-13

Arcadia Valley Business Mems League
win be held Friday evening, February
II, at the New Willard Hotel. All
members are urged to be present-al-
so any others desiring to become
members.
United States Senator James A.
Reed has sent the REGISTER a small
supply of garden seed for distribution
among its readers. Call at this office,
or dropus a card, and we'll mail you a
package. Better hurry. First come,
first served.
Roy NJ. Eiler, an attorney of st.
Louis, quite well known to a number
of people in the valley as a frequent
visitor on Arcadia Heights, is mem
toned as a possible candidate for May
or on the Republican ticket in t.Lou-
is this spring.
Representative DIR. J.. H. Martin
visited his children at Pilot Knob
Saturday. He reports that Mrs. Mar
tin, who was operated on in the Dea-
coness' Hospital, st. Louis, is getting
along very nicely and hopes to be
able to leave the hospital in a week or
So.
That genial gentleman and our long
time friend, Mr.. August Winkler, OF
Poplar Bluff, was an Ironton visitor
Monday on his way to st. Louis. This
was GUS first visit here in several
years and he was surprised and pleas
ed to see so many improvements at
his old home.
w. H.. Light of Munger was in town
last week and toldu that some whole
sale coffee man in st. Louis had bought
a farm near Munger on which he ex-
pected to make a summer home. Six
other st. Louisians, Mr.. Light says
are contemplating buying farms in the
Munger neighborhood for similar pur.
poses.
Irwin Hatridge, a son of James Hat
ridge, of Belleview, was in town We'd
nesday enroute to Madison, ILL.,, after
a visit with his parents. Irwin had a
good position as assistance superin'
tendent of the Barbar Asphalt Paving
Co., and was formerly paying teller
in a National Bank.-Irondale CORES
pondence to Potosi Independent.
Last Saturday night DIR. z. W. Bliss
received the surprise of his life. The
surprise was a beautiful gold jewel fol
a Past High Priest, presented to hin
by Copestone Chapter, Royal Arcl
Lodge No. SO, of this city. The jewe
is a beauty, fitted in a nice black
leather case, and is a present which
DR.. Bliss prizes very highly.-De Soto
Press.
The new judges of the county court
Messrs. Frank Johnson and M. A
Mouser, are handling the business o.
the court in a business like manner
The good start they have made proves
conclusively that the people of Madi'
son county made no mistake in elect
ing them. The retiring judges, Messrs
Pope and Betten made excellent of
ficers. = Fredericktown Democra
News.
Claude O'Neal, one day last week
was appointed Stenographer to thu
Cashier of the German American
Bank, st. Louis. Claude is a son o
j. O. O'Neal, merchant at Irondale
Mo-, and has been in a st. Louis bust
ness college for one year. He is al
energetic young man, with brigh
prospects for a successful bushes
life, and well qualified in his chose
profession.
In 1912 there were 2,0O6 instrument
filed with Recorder Hawkins. Thi
was a long ways, the biggest bushes
in the history Of the Recorders ofic
in Iron county. The nearest approacl
to this volume of business was in 1916
when all the Murdock- Crumb deed
were filed. In that year, however
the total was but 1852. The record Q
1912 unquestionably shows a live yea
in the real estate line.
G.. H. scholleyer, "Scully" one G
the most widely known drummers i
st. Louis, died at his home, $3.50 Eller
wood avenue, last Friday, at the ag
of forty-seven years, after a linger
ling Illness. The deceased was we
known in Ir%onton, having come her
many years as the representative {
, the Hargadine, McKittrick Dry Good
Co., of st. Louis. He had many friend
all over Southeast Missouri who wi
learn of his death with sorrow.
The ST. Louis Blast Furnace Comp;
ny changed hands during December
eastern capitalists buying the oil
{ plant and will rebuild and start up j
business in the early spring. We al
told that assoon as this furnace start
Pico Iron Mines will be operated agaii
When the furnace was blown out sew
eral months ags the mines here wer
stopped. The Pico ore is of the brow
hematite or limonite kind and is use
extensively in the manufacture of big
grade iron.-Puxico Index.
The change in the local passenge
and freight service of the Iron Mour
, kosx -oslrnod NO taIa p1of