Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-03-06

X. Il. nj last wednesday DouBnt
from Joseph Madlinger the fifty feet
of ground and the building just north
Of the telephone exchange on Main
street. Price, 1920. 1t is the old
Begley home and half Of the ground
belonging thereto. Mr.. Madlinger re-
tains fifty feet on the north side ofthe
house.
A letter from a former Ironton boy,
Geo. W. Hughes, son Of Mrs. M. E.
Hughes, apprises us that he is now To-
Gated in Los Angeles, California. He
is associated with the Morrow Realty
Company, in Los Angeles, and would
be glad to have any Of his Missouri
friends who visit the Golden State,
look him up.
Recorder Hawkins has issued the
following marriage licenses the past
week:
Walter Chiffon and Lima King of
Brunot.
Ernest Bates and Iva Hall oil Gran
iteville.
John Martz and Mrs. Lula Bushre of
Silver Mines.
There appears to be no scarcity of
men out at Mine La Motto nor at the
Federal either at this time. Men are
coming in every day and report work
in the Lead Belt as hard to get, being
five men for every job. 1t is reported
that the smelter at HerculaneUm has
laid off a good many men lately.
Fredericktown Democrat-News.
Judge w. N. Evans came home last
Saturday night from Iron county,
where he held a special term of court
for Judge E. M. bearing. He left
Tuesday for Kenneth to hold court for
Judge Walker and try a former bank
cashier of Campbell for receiving de-
posits when the bank was in an insol-
vent condition condition. = West
Plains Gazette.
A proposition to increase the tax
levy in the Ironton School District
Is cents on the hundred dollars val
uation will probably be submitted to
q the voters of the district at the cleo
, ton in April. The present levy is 40
, cents; the proposition isto increase to
90 cents. 1t is stated that the addi7
tional tax is necessary to run the
school as at present conducted.
} At it's meeting Monday night the
city council concluded to submit a
> proposition to the voters at the cleo
t ton in April taking into the corpora
: ton quite a lot of territory west and
south of the present city limits. II
f is proposed to take in the property OF
F. Mullin, O. J.. Newman and Mrs.
b Hills, on the west and the places OF
DIR. Marshall, the Emerson home and
q T. d. JONES' on the south.
t Judge Byrd Duncan, accompanied
t by Mr.. and Mrs. James Johnston, are
enjoying a delightful s%ojourn al
0 Miami, Fla, and making frequent
short excursions into the beautiful
: country surrounding that place. II
is likely they will make a journey to
8 Havana, Cuba, and probably spend
several days touring that Island
They expected to be absent about one
month.-Poplar Bluff Republican.
The attention Of the ladies is direct
Y ed to an article taken from a recent
issue of the Post Dispatch telling Of
things in the millinery world. The
n article in question has much to say
g of Ora One, the world famous design
er and trimmer, who trimmed two
hats for Mrs. Woodside on her recent
IS visit to St. Louis. These hats will bt
on exhibition at Mrs. Woodside's
spring opening which will occur soon
DR.. H. P. Reed, of Stanley McOor'
mick College, North Carolina, wal
g elected President of Marvin College
Fredericktown last week. RI. ReeC
fucceeds DR.. @. M. Gray, who resign
after ten years. work. DR.. Gray's res
# ignation goes into effect in June whei
p his takes charge. The nev
e president is an A. B. from Wesleyan
l. College, Kentucky, a D. D. from Van
derbilt and an A. M. from Chicago
q University.
T. R. Douglas, Secretary of the Mis-
d souri, State Corn Growers Association
writes Mr.. George Stark, owner of tn,
Ie Stark Farm, at Arcadia: "Your peel
OF cowpeas won the Worlds Champi
st onship at the National Corn EXPOSE
ton" Mr.Stark, naturally, feels yer.
much elated yer winning the world
championship. We congratulate him
Is He tells US that he can not begin to I'll
K the orders for cowpeas that are nov
pouring in OF him.
a. Jas. Webb of st. Louis was an Iron
ii ton visitor last Friday. Mr., Webb re
<, Gently traded his residence in st. Lou
is for a farm near Murphysboro, Hi
le nois. He intends to make his home
on the farm and expects to remove
:. thereto this week. Because of ill
health Mr.. Webb has not been on hi
III run as passenger conductor on tn
Iron Mountain since last June. He /
n. much improved now, though, and ex
,e poets to go to work 500
or There will be FIVE eclipses durin