Iron County register., 1915-11-04
LOCAL BREvITIEs.


Teachers Meeting at Belleview next
Saturday.
A year of drouths and floods this
surely has been.
Quite lot of cattle still in this
section, we are told.
Twill go down in history as one of
the mildest Octobers ever.
P. T. Ivester of Marble Creek will
move his saw mill to Arcadia.
County court transacted routine
business Monday and Tuesday.
The timber thief seems to ply his
trade unmolested. More's the pity.
Tuesday night at the picture show,
Vivian Martin in "The Wishing Ring"
Mr.. J. F. Schroeder OF the Bismarck
Gazette was an Ironton visitor last
Friday.
See the advertisement of Knox
Goodykoontz, the automobile man
from Caledonia.
The mining prop seems to be the es-
pecial ambition of the local timber
thieves these days.
It is intimated that in consequence
Of the very wet summer the Thanks
giving turkey will be scarce.
The thermometer dropped from 6S
degrees Tuesday to % degrees We'd
nesday morning. Rain is badly need
ed.
Miss Lucille Prince, of st. Louis, a
former Ironton girl, and Mr.. Richard
Powell, of Chicago, will be married
Christmas. Valley friends tender
best wishes.
G. w. Kanouse has sold the Com
mercial Hotel to d. w. Wilkerson OF
Lib ourn, Mo-, formerly of Freder-
town. Mr.. Kanouse will devote his
time to Valley Inn.
Sam Mitts, who nearly twenty years
ago was in the barber business in
Ironton, but for some time past in the
ins urance business in Fredericktown,
was an Ironton visitor Friday.
VIM. King, the tie and timber man,
last Thursday removed his family
from Belleview to Ironton and ia now
domiciled in the Baldwin property, SO
long occupied by Mr.. Bond.
Little Miss Hazel T ual of Arcadia
who was in Fredericktown Sunday,
tells us that there were twenty five
arrests made in Fredericktown for
Halloween pranks Saturday night.
Mrs. F. Rodach, of Middlebrook,
who has not been in good health fol
some time past, is now in the Luthe-
ran Hospital, St. Louis, and her condi-
tion is regarded as serious. We hope
to hear of an early Improvement.
The REGISTER will gladly be one of
twenty contributors to put up $40
each to provide for the immediate re-
.oiling of Main street. The street bad
ly needs the oil and the benefits re-
sulting would be great. What do you
say?
In the event that the Rev. DR.. Full
Ter Swift, erstwhile pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Ironton, succeeds
in breaking into the ministry of the
Episcopal church, we suggest one W.
HI. Crumb Of Chicago as most fitting
senior warden.
We received card this week from
Rev. George Steel in which he states
that both he and Mrs. Steel are
well, but miss their Flat River friends
and their cheerful greetings. Their
address is 4161 Delmar Blvd, st. Lou
is. Lead Belt News
Herman Lueddecke of Pilot Knot
was in the Office Monday morning an6
told US that he had a cousin, just q
years of age, in the German army, who
was killed in France in September. A
sad commentary on our boasted civili'
cation and Christianity.
We are very glad, indeed, to report
that Mrs. s. P. Ringo, who underwent
a surgical operation in the Missouri
Baptist Sanitarium, st. Louis, Monday
OF last week, is getting along very
nicely and hopes to be able to leave
the hospital in couple Of weeks.
DR.. w. O. Patton of Cape Girar-
deau, Mo-, announces that he hal
opened offices in the Cahoon Building
Spanish and Broadway streets, Rooms
21O-11. Speciality, Surgery. Iror
county friends wish the DR.. well OF
his return to the active practice.
Mrs. Stevenson and Miss Lovelac'
Of Des Arc have been visiting friend
here. The latter has been In schoo
at Nashville, Tenn, preparing for ser
vices as Missionary to Africa. Sh'
expects to leave for there as soon a
the matter can be arranged Fred
ericktown Democrat-News.
Recorder Hawkins issued the fol
lowing marriage licenses the pas
week:
Edward zweifel and Frances Flors
Kowska of st. Louis.
Simon John Phegley and Mary Ag
mes Reid Of st. Louis.
Joseph O. Stewart and Lena Rus
sell OF Belleview.
An annoying blunder occurred Il