Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

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Oliver Stricklin of Reynolds county
and Willie HARRISON Of Iron county.
Byron Kendall drove up from Iron
ton Saturday, bringing a load of peo-
pile for the Belmont Branch. While
here he also spent an hour OF so with
his grandho other, Mrs. B. Polk. AL
though only IA years Of age, Master
Byron handles an auto with ease and
is a careful driver.-Bismarck Ga
zette.
From the Piedmont Banner: "Geo.
Clarkson, president OF the Grand
Avenue Bank IN st. Louis, who owns
the Clarkson iron mines near Clear
water, has leased to Edward Goltra,
a big iron magnate of st. Louis. Mr..
Goltra intends to put these mines in
operation soon, which will mean a
great deal to this communi ty."
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert M. Knapp, of
Shawano, Wisconsin, have been visit
ing his brother, R. A. Knapp, and
wife. Mr.. Gilbert Knapp is enthu-
siastic over our climate and scenery.
He says he would rather live here
than any other part of the country he
has visited; which means much, as he
comes from the picturesque hill and
lake region of Wisconsin.
Last Monday Mr.. Emil Roehry
came down to visit his parents here,
and with him were H. Q. Uhubbuck,
Vice. President and General Manager
of the Illinois Traction System, VIM.
H. Thomson, Jr., and 1. Baugh-
man, of st. Louis. The party spent
two days hunting, with success, bag
ging a fine lot of quail. They will re-
turn to the city tomorrow.
An automobile visitor to Bismarck
Sunday tells US that the road for a
mile, between Iron Mountain and Bis
marck, this side of the st. Francis riv-
er bridge, is strewn with broken bot
ties, unquestionably placed there with
malicious intent. Not an occasional
bottle here and there, but scattered
all along the way. Pity but the often
ders could be apprehended and pun
ished.
Sheriff Blue was called to Des Arc
Monday to quarantine several houses
wherein are confined parties said to
be suffering from small pox. In all
there are said to be five cases in the
town. Two of the houses quarantined
we're those of J. W. Cooper and John
Seals. The contagion is supposed to
have been brought from Piedmont
where there have been several cases.
The disease is in mild form.
Mrs. E. D. Kitchen, a reader of the
REGISTER living at Webb City, Mo-,
has been kind enough to mail us a
copy of last Saturdays Joplin Globe,
telling of the Democratic celebration
held in that city and vicinity the night
before. The parade was five miles
long and there were more than a
thousand automobiles in line. It is
said to have been the greatest demon.
stration ever held in Southwest Mis-
souri,.
The Bank of Arcadia Valley is At
ting up a directors oom that promi-
SEES to be a model of elegance and
genuine good taste. The walls have
been paneled with oak, on the mission
order, and the effect is most pleasing
and artistic, in rare and happy conso'
nance with the bank fixtures and the
cashiers room, When completed ant
furnished 1t will, indeed, be handsome
and luxurlous--a credit to the institu'
ton and lite directors,
The remains Of Dooia West, the
seventeen-year-old daughter OF Chas
West, OF south Ironton, were brought
here from Fulton, Mo-, last Saturday
and Inferred In the cemetery at Blaol
Mountain church, in Madison county,
the following day. The young lady
was In attendance on the Missouri
School for the deaf and dumb at Full
ton, having been a student In that In
stltntlon for three years, Her dealt
was rather sudden, resulting from thu
measles, The beFeayed family have
sympathy In their aiiIotlon,
Michael Walter, for many years |
resident Of Pilot Knob, died at th'
residence Of bic daughter, Mary Wal
ter, 81, Louis, Thursday, November
ID, 1915, At ila0 O'Clock A, A., aged 7
years, II months and ~ days, The
deceased lived ~ Pilot Knob To-
many yeaFs, being foreman Of lh'
section At that place t0F q long time
A son aud daughter survive him, ThI
Temalna were brought here aatuFda,
nnon and the funeral held irom The
oonyent Chapel that afternoon, inter
msnt being made IN tho X, +, eeme
terry, May no resi- IN peaeel
We this week printed the QlFeul
Court docket taF tho November term
W pamphlet form foF distribution
among The lawyers, court ofielala en-
alheFs Interested, by Clerk u, q, Ito
we'll There aFe 10 eaaes on the docket