Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-01-20
LOCAL BREvITIEs.


week.
Read of the public school Athletic
Meet.
Some real ce-making weather the
past week.
The cold weather has put a damper
on business.
Still no night mar at the Ironton
station. Why2
There is a fine lot of ice on Rainbow
Dam in the Shut.In.
F. Buechsenschuetz at M~iddlebrook,
we understand, has his ice house about
filled.
The Holiness College at Des Arc
will be sold at trustees sale next
Monday.
Sure, let the combined Methodist
college be located at Arcadia. An
ideal location.
The north bound Sunshine Special
stops at the Arcadia tank every morn
ing for water.
For Sale-A<good work horse. APP
ply to 0. E. Saner,on Pearl Hill farm,
east of Ironton, Mo.
A lecture given by DR.. r. W. Gay
before the Mothers and Patrons Club
is printed on our last page.
Recorder Hawkins Monday issued a
marriage license to Otto Anderson
and Pearl Marler Of Ironton.
Mr.. J. R. Harris, who has been quite
sick with pneumonia at his residence
in north ~Ironton, is said to be improv'
ing.
Wayne county is considering the
proposition of holding a special cleo
tion to vote bonds for road improve
ment.
If the wanton waste of timber here
abouts continues it will not be a great
many years until firewoood becomes
a scarce article.
An attempt is going to be made K
send the west end timber thieves tx
the penitentiary. 'Twould be a mos
wholesome lesson.
Next week we begin the publication
of a most interesting serial story
ssThe Lone Wolf" Do not miss the
opening chapters.
Rev. HI. Q. Harting, of Flat River
pastor of the Lutheran church at PHO
Knob, wal a caller Monday morning
A very pleasant and affable gentle
man he is.
Mrs. Johanna %Symonds, sister o.
Judge Carly, last week purchased
from Henry Arnold, of Illinois, wha
is known as the old A. N. Hunt farm
southwest of Arcadia.
The remains of the late Jas. A. Har
ris, who died at his home between
Ironton and Pilot Knob Wednesda.
morning of last week, were taken tt
Annapolis for interment the following
day.
Collector Burnham's total collec
lions for December were $685. 27. u
The amounts belonging to the variou
funds we're: school, $13, 274.83; road
SIS, 1O2.4 40; county, $40, 750.50; state
$4299. 80.
1t has been a cold week. Thursda.
night the thermometer went down t,
2 degrees below zero-the coldes
night of this winter. 1t has been coll
ever since but the promise now is TO
warmer weather.
Ed Masterson has had c~onsiderabl
trouble trying to maintain the dam b,
the old ice house on Stout's Cree
this winter. No sooner does he ge
the dam in shape than along come
some high water and washes it away
A letter from the west end of th,
county to Ironton coming by way c
Sligo, the Frisco railroad and st. Lou
is, is some times more than d week o
the road. Coming by way of Edge
hin it reaches its destination in tw
days.
Mrs. R. w. Shattuok, mother of E
d. Shattuck, is not improving at ali
having been confined to her bed sine
Christmas at the home Of her SOL
91s fremont street. She is eighty
three years Of age.-Poplar Bluff Re
publican.
Although we have had a week 0
unusually cold weather the ice is nc
thick enough to justify putting uI
On the Emerson pond there is abou
four and three quarter inches. On tn
creeks the ice Is not more than tw
inches thick.
Three or more sacks of mail, throw
from the morning south-bound trai
at(the Ironton station the past weel
have been broken open and the cor
TENTS OF the sacks rendered worthless
HOW much longer are our people go
ing b tolerate this a~bomination?
County Treasurer Jones is payin
4ff all outstanding county warrants
He figures that when all the warrant
have been cashed there will be $500
left in the treasury to meet this year
expenses A most satisfactory condt
ton ana on which our officials are I
congratulated.
Mr.. w. r. Edgar, Sr., who had bee