Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-01-30

Frof. U. e. MCGEE, formerly of Pilot
Knob, nov living in Chaffee, Mo-,
writes us that they want a 'live wire"
mar to take charge of the newspaper
in that town. If you happen to have
knowledge of such a one, the Profess
sor win be glad to hear from you.
The Woman's Home Mission Society
met with Mrs. Allen, Thursday, Jsnu-
airy %. 1t was a very pleasant and
profitable meeting. Rev. j. R. A.
Vaughn gave an interesting and in
structive talk on the subject of "Tith-
ing" We hope Bro. Vaughn will
meet us often. The Society will met
at Mrs. Aspley's, February 10, 1918.
During the past ten days we have
received our mail from Sabula but a
couple Of days, on account of the high
water. 1t has rained almost every day
and night during that time. The
carriers on that route have had a
slough" time the past month on ae-
count of the deplorable condition of
the roads, ice and the high water
C~enterville Outlook.
Recorder Hawkins issued the fol-
lowing marriage licenses the past
week:
Harrison Helms and Maude Hedrick,
of Goodwater.
Emory Wright and Pearl Cox, War
rem Store.
Arch Ketcherside, Sabula, and Mel
lie Clanin, Marble Hill.
John Fl. Hamilton and Mamie
Meadows, Des Arc.
w. Fl. Bradley has lately had quite
a lot of work done on his ice house in
the hope of perfecting it SO that he
will have no trouble in keeping hat
summer time luxury next season.
His latest plan has been to line walls,
floor and ceiling with three-inch slabs
of concrete, back of which is packed
several inches thickness Of crush ed
cork 1t is held that the cork is a
conductor of neither heat mol cold and
that ice can be Kept thus without the
necessity of packing it in saw dust
Van Buren, Current Local.
Jones & Jones (Langdon and Byron
Jones) is a new firm of attorneys here,
with offices in the Lee Shelton build
ing. The senior partner recently
passed the difficult examination of the
State Bar Association; his brother has
studied, in st. Louis and here, for
several years, and will complete his
course, soon. Thew are sons of the
late R. H. Jones, have been raised in
an atmosphere of land law and titles,
and will devote much Of Uh cir time to
this branch of aw.-Dunklin Demo-
crat.
Mr. Thos. P. Fitz of Des Arc was
here Saturday and left with us a diary
kept by his father, James Fitz, in Vir-
ginia, from 1926 to 1880. 1t is an in
terestipg document, indeed, and COW
ersthe period of both the Mexican and
civil wars. Scarcely a day passed but
what some entry was made. Mr.. Fitz
also showed us a volume of poems,
"Galaxy of Poetic P%ictures," publish
ed by his father in 1857. Very natur-
ally MI. Fitz prizes the book and the
diary very highly and wonld not part
with them under any consideration.
The Enterprise has changed hands
again. The new man at the helm is
Mr.. T.. P. Pigg, of Pennington. What
the policy Of the paper will be has not
been announced. The new editor was
an ardent Bull Mooser in the recent
campaign in st. Francois county being
the nominee for Assessor on that
ticket, and he bitterly fought the G. O.
p. all along the line. Mr.. Pigg as
tablished the News at Pennington
thirty years ago, but Of recent years
has devoted most of his time to the
telephone business.
Our former fellow citizen, Mr..
saddle" Markham, has become a
stock man in his present home. The
following is taken from the the Pitts
burg, Kansas Daily Headlight of jan
uary 22d: 81, A. Markham, a farmer
near Pittsburg, sold to the Hull 81
Dillon Packing Company yesterday
seven hogs which brought him the
neat sum of $172. 65, or an average of
1874 IS each. This speaks well for
| Crawford County as Il swine raising
section, for besides the price, it was
said at the packing house that the
hogs we're the finest ever raised in
this section of the state.
Our representative, DIR. Martin, ar
rived from Jefferson City with his
family last Thursday. Mrs. Martin
/. has been in very poor health since
. they have been in Jefferson City and,
( after ar examination, an operation
: was deemed necessary. Mrs. Martin
was taken to the Deconness' Hospital,
Q st. Louis, Sunday, where she will be
operated on this week. The babies
q will be kept at the home in Pilot Knob
a while the mother is in the hospital,
where Mrs. Martin will probably have
! to remain for a month or mor The
DR.. hopes to get back to Jefferson
City to his legislative work within
the next week. We will be glad to