Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-12-16

Nuts, Fruits and Christmas Delicacies
just received, Special low prices
made to churches and schools in guam
tity purchases. LOPEZ STORE Co.
Although he did not win the decision
Bobby Edgar covered himself with
glory in the debating contest at the
Academy of Music last Friday night.
His confrere, Dewey Pollock, also ac-
quilted himself most creditably.
The Public Utilities Commission has
ordered the Sligo & Eastern Railroad,
in the west end of the county, to make
a reduction in its freight rates. This
matter was presented to the Commits
sion in June last. Large bodies move
slowly.
Ed. and Louis johnson of Belgrade
were here Sunday bargaining for the
Ed. Sawyer farm north of town and
occupied by @. N. Sawyer. They were
back again on Tuesday and closed the
deal. The farm contains about s270
acres,-Bismarck Gazette.
VIM. Morton, the young man who
stole the clothes from a boarder at
the Commercial Hotel Monday night
of last week, was arraigned before
Justice Rasche last Saturday and en-
tered a plea of guilty to petit larceny.
He was sentenced to so days in jail.
Reports from Mrs. Sadie Fletcher,
of Arcadia, who was taken to the Bap-
list ~Sanitarium, st. Louis, Tuesday of
last week, are that she is doing as
well as could be expected. On the adj
vice of her physician Mrs. Fletcher
has left the hospital and is stopping at
the home of her son, Alex, in st. Lou
is.
VIM. Morton. the young man who
was placed in jail last week on the
charge of stealing two suits of clothes
from aguest at the Commercial Hotel,
since he has been in Jail has received
a check from his folk and has paid Mr..
| Wilkinson, the hotel man, the months
board that he owed at the time of his
arrest.
We understand that M. G. Harrison
and family who have been in San
Francisco, California, for the past ten
months, where Mr.. Fl. has been con-
nected with the Missouri Commission
in charge of the State Building at the
Panama Exposition, will return to this
county about the 18th Of this month";
Centerville Outlook.
Mrs. James Buckner, accompanied
by her son, Thomas, of Blaine, Wash
ington, have been visiting their rela-
tives in Iron county for the past
month, and after spending a week
with Mr.. G.. W. Sutherland and family
of Arcadia, will depart for Lancaster,
New York, where they will spend the
remainder of the winter.
A one reel photoplay, entitled, GA
Romance of the Hills, y acted and pro-
duced by st. Louis people, will be
shown at the Academy Picture Theatre
next Saturday night. Most of the
scenes yer photographed in Arcadia
Valley the past summer by Jim Rus
sci of st. Louis, son of Chas. Russell,
deceased, a former resident of the
valley.
g. w. Buford and family were in
Ironton last week, having been in the
south end of the county to visit rela-
tives. Mr.. Buford was recently sent
to Columbus, Ohio, by the Prudential
Insurance Company, but he did not
like it there and is back in Missouri.
For the present he is making head
quarters at Bismarck, but will remain
there until he finds a location to suit
them.
The Town of Arcadia recently ask
ed the Iron County Electric Light Co.
to turn the lights on the streets in Ar
cadia, agreeing to pay therefor on a
meter basis. This the Company re-
fused to do, insisting on SO a month
for each light. The Arcadia folk have
appealed to the Public Utilities Com
mission for relief. On a meter basis
the cost of each light, it is said, would
be $1.90 a month.
Messrs. G.. A. VAIL and Charles F.
Starck of st. Louis, owners of the
electic light at Bismarck, were in
Potosi Tuesday looking over the field
here with the view of supplying the
community with electric light. Their
plan is to bring the current from their
plant at Bismarck over a line run via
Irondale, which would enable them
to supply both towns with current
They claim they can furnish the cur
rent at a low rate On this plan.-Po-
tosi Journal.
The Jimplicute learns that Hon.
Robert A. Anthony, for years con-
nected with the legal department Of
the Iron Mountain railroad, has ten
dered his resignation to take effect
January 1, 1916. 1t cen that the
legal business of the road had increas-
ed to such an extent that it took near
ly all his time to give it proper atten-
tion, thereby crowding out his other
law business; he felt his services here
worth more money than he was re-
ceiving and he accordingly asked for