Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-12-21

OF OF AnnapoHS.
Thos. E. Crogan and Clara P. KEEL
ton of st. Louis.
DR.. w. ]. Smith left Monday for
Kirksyille, Mo-, taking with him Hen
bert Stevenson, son of Mr.. and Mrs.R.
H. Stevenson, of Des Arc. A year or
more ago, in a foot ball game, the
young mar suffered an injury to his
spine. He goes to Kirksville for oste-
opathic treatment. Friends hope he
will be greatly benefited.
Circuit Court adjourned on last Sat-
turday evening after being in session
all week. The grand jury completed
itswork Saturday at noon and was
discharged, as was also the petit jury.
The grand jury had a large number of
witnesses before it and we understand
that either nine or eleven indictments
were returned Outlook.
The people interested in bonding
the county for good roads held anoth-
er meeting at the courthouse Satur-
day afternoon. The attendance was
fair and the enthusiasm unbounded.
The present plan is not to call an cleo
ton to vote on the bond issue until
the voters have had ample opportuni-
ty to fully inform themselves on the
subject.
On Thanksgiving da. fire destroyed
a barn on Frank S~lepicka's farm in
Flatwoods, and a lot of fencing, The
barn was filled with hay and grain,
and all was consumed. Also, the
fencing ON Mr.. Hawkins farm was
destroyed. The fire was communicate
ed from the woods, all the hills sur
rounding being lighted up with the
burning leaves and trees.
There was a snow fall of three and
a half inches last Thursday. The
fakes came down steadily all day
long. That night it grew cold and
the thermometer registered fifteen
below zero. Then the weather be-
came warmer and in the next three
days about all the snow disappeared.
Sunday night there came another
snow of an inch and a half.
Newton, the two-year-o old boy OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Tins, has been Sc
riously i'll the past week with what the
attending physician has diagnosed as
d%iphtheria. The child first had the
measles and the throat affection fol-
lowed. A rigid quarantine has been
enforced and it is hoped there will be
no communication of the contagion
The little fellow is improving.
STRAYED-From the range, two,red
steers, two years old. One marked
swallow fork left ear, upper crop in
light ear, label in left ear, "Wm Nc
McClue, Williamsville, No." label in
right ear, .sW, D. Fletcher, Arcadia
Mo-" Other not marked, but label ir
right ear "W. d. Fletcher. Arcadia,
Mo-" Address
W. D. FLETCHER, Ironton, Mo.
Sister Monica, one of the first five
nuns who arrived at Arcadia when the
Ursulines acquired the College prop
erty in 1877, died last Friday at the
age of "a years. The remains were
inferred in the convent cemetery the
following day Every student at the
institution in the past forty years
cherishes kindly r~ecollections of thii
good woman and will learn of hel
death with sorrow.
Cotton, California, "Information''
"Mrs E T. Elgan of San Jacinto i
visiting during the week among Col
ton relatives aud friends, having ac'
companied Mr. and Mrs. Carl EIgar
on their return last evening from a
weekend stay at the Elgan rancl
home, Mrs. N L Farmer and little
daughter, Wilma, who have been Wis
iting there since Thanksgiving, wer'
also of the home returning party"
The U. s. Civil Service Commission
has ordered an examination under the
civil service rules of applicants TO.
appointment to the postmastership a
Irondale, made vacant by the dealt
of the late incumbent, j. @. O'Neal
The examination will be held in Potos
on Saturday, January 18th, Appli
cants must reside in the territor
supplied by the office. The compen
sation of the postmaster at this ofic
was $618 for the last fiscal year.-Po
tosi Journal.
From the DeSoto Press: "Robt
B. Munroe, who was convicted at tn
September term of circuit court @
receiving deposits at the Jefferso
County Bank with a knowledge tina
the bank was %insolvent, was on Mon
day denied a new trial by Judg
bearing and then sentenced in &C
cordance with the jury's verdict. A.
appeal to the supreme court was tax
en-, and Mr.. Munroe's attorneys ar
confident that the highest court wi
set aside the verdict when the case
reviewed, several years hence"
The new time card on the railroad
effective last Sunday, affords vale
people fastest train service they hav
ever enjoyed from here to st. Lou
and return. On the present schedul
! a passenger can leave Arcadia on tn
Sunshine Special at S:52 A. NJ, reach