Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-12-25
q BREvITrEs.

A quiet Christmas it promises to be.
An attempt at snow Monday morn
ing.
Mr.. Dresser has established a tie
yard at Sabula.
The picture show has been doing a
: 'lend office" business.
Some slush and mud in the wake of
Mondays snow storm.
A recent census shows thirty-fve
business houses in Ironton.
Geese are bringing from $3.50 to 50
piece. Pretty good prices.
Remember the Shooting Match at
Arcadia to-day and to- morrow.
Parcels post business in and out of
Ironton the past week has been rush
ing.
Prosecuting Attorney Damron was
called to Des Arc Tuesday to try a
law suit.
The weather has been far too warm,
the merchants say, for an ideal Christ
mas trade.
superintendent Burnham announces
a teachers meeting in Ironton for
January 18th.
! Three very attractive cobblestone
bungalows are being constructed on
Arcadia Heights.
Brush the leaves off your side
walk. To permit them to remain is
unsightly and slovenly.
Have some furniture for sale, or
will exchange for fire wood. Address
Box SO, Pilot Knob, Mo.
North bound trains are running
late. No. 4 did not pass here Mon
day until nearly ten o'clock.
A Merry, Merry Christmas and
Bright, Happy and Prosperous New
Year, to every REGISTER reader.
The entertainment to be given al
the Valley Inn by the ladies of Fort
Hill Church has been definitely post
poned.
When the snow came Monday nigh
there was hope of a. "White Christ
mas" but it seems to have gone
glimmerin.'
The printer is thinkin' of Christmas
The indulgent reader will be char
table with the shortcomings of thiI
weeks paper.
Rev. DR.. Power, the new pastor 0
the M. E. Church, arrived from Colo
RADIO last Friday and preached his frs
sermon Sunday.
A number of plumbers are again a
work on the new structure at Arcadii
College. The carpenters will probabl.
finish their work this week.
Secretary of State Roach last Thurs
day issued a certificate of incorpora
ton to the Ozark Hog Ranch Co., o
Tronton. Capital stock, $4,000.
Recorder Hawkins Monday issued
marriage license to Geo. Blue an'
Azille Mari. The ceremony will oc
cur Christmas day. All happiness tt
them!
M. HI. Keesling of Brule came t.
Ironton last Thursday with thirty 81:
turkeys for which he received $S2.5O
They were fine birds and brought tol
prices.
A snowless winter is said to bring
,wheatless summer; bit I won't quar-
rel with the Weather Clerk if he wi
hug the boundary line 'twixt the tw
conditions.
My friend, w. HI. Webb, Of Bixby
has kindly furnished me with notes c
his travel in Old Mexico. They ar
interesting, and / will give them plac
Of soon as the "holiday rush. is over
Mr.. Cordell, who has been Twin
west of Pilot Knob for the past yea
and more, will open a photograph ga
lery4in the Nichols building, south {
the courthouse square, about the fir
of the year.
Robert Hill left Tuesday to spen
Christmas with relatives in Chicag'
u He says he hopes to find Union me
more plentiful in the Windy City tina
he did at jefferson City at Thanks
giving time.
@. @. Lasbley, who has been ava
from Ironton for seven or eight year
arrived last Saturday on a visi
"Lumn thinks the town has improve
quite a lot. He is making his hon
in Dunklin county.
Says the Brunot correspondent
the Greenville Sun: "Mrs. H. ]
Griffith and son returned to the
home in Bismarck Thursday. 1t
rumored that they intend to moy
back to their country home Januai
let.
DR.. and Mrs. K. W. Houston dc
parted Monday evening for st. Lou
to attend the funeral Of Mrs. O. ]
Houston, wife OF DR.. Claude D. Hou
ton, whose death occurred Saturda
December goth, 1918, at Balmorhe
Texas.
Mr.. j. P. Portheus, the electric lig
man, was here Monday. He tells
that plans are now under way to sui
stitute the gasoline engines how
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