Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-02-03
Q BREvITfEs.


Timber stealing must stop.
What about a summer hotel?
Lopez's tell of the Big Clearing Sale.
Bob, our mail carrier, has a new
y wagon.
Numerous possible candidates men
tioned.I
Several thunder storms in Decem-
Der and January.
Mrs. M. B. Bradley has been quite
sick the past week.
Some rainy weather and gloomy
days since the New Year.
Some fine logs are being received
at the saw mill in Arcadia.
Mr.. Edgar's condition improves.
He is now able to be around the
house.
An eclipse of the sun tomorrow
(Thursdry3 morning between 9 and IL
o'clock.
Lopez's Big February Clearing Sale
starts Saturday, February 9th, and
continues IS days.
The Holiness College property at
Des Arc is again advertised for sale on
Saturday, February 26th.
IT'S gronndhog day. Dawned cloudy,
but the sun shone before noon, so we
may look for six weeks of winter.
Some Of our Democrats are going to
st. Louis to-day to see the president
on the occasion of his visit to the city.
Overseers for the seventeen road
districts in the county r to be APP
: pointed by the county court next
week.
The Fredericktown papers seem to
be somewhat exercised over the pros
pective removal of Marvin College
from that town.
Bad roads have seriously retarded
the lumber business since the first of
the year and the mills are behind
with their orders.
Poplar Bluff wants a Hamilton
ton Brown shoe foctory, but is having
some difficulty in raising the $4,000
necessary to secure it.
After the rain ceased Sunday it grew
cold and the pasttwo days have beer
like winter-in marked contrast tc
the two weeks preceding
The water Sunday was hardly as
high as last August and Marshal Fish
er says our streets were not nearly sc
badly damaged this time.
Geo. G. Orchard of Poplar Bluff, U.
s. Deputy Marshal, was in town Sat-
urday to attend the preliminary hear
ing of the west end timber cutters.
Notwithstanding we grew pretty
fair crops last year corn is already
being imported. Two cars were ship
ped into the valley the past week.
Herbert, Joe and Enoch Bartol
pleaded gully to timber stealing il
Squire Rasche's Court Monday ant
were each sentenced to forty days in
Jail.
Harry R. Holland has applied fol
letters of administration on the estat,
of his father, the late Judge H. R
Holland. The estate Is worth abou
$500.
Mr.. Delano tells us that on a.
average our weather vas five per cen
colder in December than it was |,
January. We would hardly hav
thought SO.
Wayne county people are petition
the county court to order a specia
election to submit a proposition o tn
voters to bond the county for 5000. 90
to build roads.
G.. A. Buckley of Ironton spent Sun
day night with his sister, Mrs. Ere
Schmitz and family. He went to 81
Louis Monday where he had been call
ed on the Federal jury.-De Sot
Times.
The mail carrier from Sabula t
Centerville came near being drowneI
in Big Creek, at Sabula, last Thurs
day. The team and rig were washe,
down stream, but finally landed 0
the other side. A lady passenger an
child escaped without injury.
Eugene Whitworth, who is with th
Simmons Hardware Company in s
Louis, came from st. Louis Saturda
evening to spend a day with his pal
ents, but had to prolong his visit o
account of the high waters. Gene
NJ held in high esteem by his employer
The total personal assessment /
lIron county for 1915 is $40, 1ps, a
against @879, O93 for 1914. When it
taken into consideration that the wv
years past were drouth years and
great deal Of live stock had bee
shipped out the showing for 1915
good.
Bonnie Terre Correspondence
Flat River News: "The st. Joe Lea
Company are drilling the whole
Bo9ytown. They have drills all ov,
town and are running them day an
night. II is almost an assured ia
that this year will be a banner yeI
for Bonnie Terre; and the busine
outlook is good. Two months ago