Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-06-01

vice greatly.
While driving from arcadia last
Friday afternoon Mr.. d. L. Spencer
fell from a buggy, dislocating one of
his wrists and was badly bruised and
scratched up. His injuries, fortunate
ly, were not serious.
A letter from Arthur D. Robinson,
a former Graniteville boy, advises us
that he now has a clerical position in
the Fred Harvey Service at Winslow,
Arizona. The young man is getting
along finely and says he likes Arizona
very much.
Recorder Hawkins issued the fol-
lowing marriage licenses the past
week:
Harrison A. Vance and Bertha A.
Signer of Arcadia.
Vester Lewis of Sabula and Irene
Sheriff. of Arcadia.
The ladies of the Baptist church de-
sire to return their most sincere
thanks to the good people of the val
ley for the liberal patronage extend
ed at the Parcel Post Sale held in the
OdpCIlOnb vi lIO CAuIGA Adou cAoI .
The gross receipts were $50.
Our Roselle correspondent was in
town Tuesday afternoon and inform
ed us that he had new potatoes for
dinner that day. They were of the
"Early Rose" potato, planted March
18th. He wants to know if Bulletin"
our Annapolis correspondent,can beat
that?
Mr.. J. H. Roblee, who is spending a
few days at his summer home, was a
caller Monday morning. Mr.. Roblee
informed us that he had been made
chairman of the committee to enter
tain the Vermont delegation at the
Democratic National convention in
St. Louis in June.
j. H. Haven has been awarded the
contract for carrying the mails from
Ironton to the Silver Mines and re-
turn six days in the week. He will
receive therefor $625 per annum. He
has been receiving 1929 for carrying
the mail three days in the week. The
new service becomes effective June
1st.
Mr.. L. G. Todd, the we'll known
travelling man, and family motored to
the valley Sunday last. They return
ed Tuesday morning but will be back
here in the course of a week or two
to spend several months in their
bungalow on Arcadia Heights, as has
been their custom for a number OF
years past.
We are informed that Mr.. Chas. p.
Damron and family, who left Ironton
last fall to go to Newport, Arkansas,
are arranging to remove to Freder-
icktown, Mo, where they will make
their future home. They did not en-
Joy good heath in the swamp coun-
try and are coming back to the rocks
and hills of Missouri.
County Superintendent Hanson at
tended the Commencement Exercises
of the Des Arc school last Thursday
night. He says the program was an
excellent one and reflected credit on
students and teachers alike. The Des
IArc district is arranging to build a
three-room school house, brick
veneer. 1t will be ready for occupancy
about the first of the year.
Early last spring Miss Ethel Miller,
a young lady of Des Arc, filed suit in
the circuit court here against Fred
Lewis, a we'll known young farmer in
that section, asking $4,000 damages
for breach of promise of marriage.
The case was compromised and did
not come up for trial at the April
term of circuit court. Last Saturday
the parties principal were united in
marriage. A happy solution of the
difficulty.
Attorney General Barker last week
gave it as his opinion that the failure
Of the Ironton School Board to provide
a polling place in Arcadia for the late
school election did not i~nvalidate the
High School bonds for $50 900 voted
ed at that election. State Auditor Cor
don has since registered the bonds ano
the Board this week advertises in the
REGISTER for bids for the same. The
board will take no action deciding or
a site for the building until the bonds
are sold.
Z Rev. v. o. Penley will hold servie Ell
in st. Paul's church, Ironton, Sunday
morning at II O'Clock; also a celebra-
tion of the Holy Communion. There
will be no evening service, as MIR. Pen
lev has to return to De Soto that aft
ernoon to arrange for a trip to Colo
, RADIO, where he has been summoned
! to perform the marriage ceremony
for a couple of his former parishon-
, ers. Mr.. Penley expects to be absent
Ill -tz.AL VIC xuiph htra n pIno INF
; Tourney and safe return.
The daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. 9,
Collins attended the High School
, graduation exercises of their sister
Miss Virginia Collins. Among them
were Mrs. ii. E. Homan, Mae and Ina
, Collins, of Marquand; Mrs. j. T.
Dunn and Mrs. M. Willett, Sabula;
Mrs. A. F. Blanton, De Soto; and
Mrs. G.. s. Smith, Clarksville, Mo,
There are nine Of the Collins sisters
but only two at home, Virginia and
! Hazel. The two Collins brothers,
Hartford, at Sabula, and Albert al
Qulin, Mo-, could not be pr esent.
Mrs. M. e. Hughes Monday morn
/, ing received a telegram telling of the
death OF her son, Geo. w. Hughes, in
the Santa Fe Railway Hospital, Los
, Angeles, California, Sunday after
noon. Hardening Of the arteries was
; given as the cause of death. The de-
ceased was nearly sixty years of age
and a widow and three children and
T, mother mourn his demise. Old friends
in the town where he spent his boy
hood DAYS learn of his death with
sorrow. To the bereaved we extend
our sympathy. Interment will be
made at Los Angeles to-day (Wed
nesday.)
Mrs. Sarah j. Belmar, Of Jackson
2 Mo-, asks REGISTER to help her locate