Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-10-18
q BREVITlES,

day afternoon.
Get your Flsvo Flour free at the
Picture Show next Tuesday.
JOS. H. Haven, at Graniteville,
wants twenty wood. choppers.
Circuit court convenes next Monday.
The docket is printed on this page.
Four rooms, furnished, for light
housekeeping. Apply to Mrs. G. d.
Alexander, Ironton, Mo.
Read on the fret page of w. D.
Fletcher's public sale of stock at
Belleview, Saturday, October 9th.
Red Cross entertainment at the
Academy Of Music, Monday evening,
October 29th. Particulars next week.
We are indebted to our old friend,
Mr.. VIM. IL. Delano, for a bushel OF
excellent pears presented to US last
week.
i. Lost-Sunday, October l4th, a gold
brooch, crescent and flower with small
diamond. Return to this Office and
receive reward.
Several hundred men have been
"laid off" at the mines at Flat River
this week, owing, it is said, to a de-
cline in the price of lead.
Rev. N. B. Henry Monday brought
to this office q monster beet-welgh.
ing, with top, nine pounds and three
ounces-grown in the parsonage gar
den.
Florence Labadie in "His Life and
Hers" 1.-THE Iron Claw" No. s, "Jer.
ry on the job" cartoon comedy, and
"Picturesque Sports in Manila and the
PHILIPPINES" Thursday.
Mr.. Otto Lueddecka, Iron county's
expert and scientific fruit grower,
near Pilot Knob, "cleaned up" on APP
pie premiums at the Piedmont Tri-
County Fair last week.
Local fans manifested much inter-
est in the New York and Chicago
Worlds Championship ball games the
past ten days. Sentiment, locally,
seemed pretty we'll divided.
Wanted to Exchange-My cottage
and two lots in Kansas City, Kansas,
for house and lots in Pilot Knob. For
full particulars address Mrs. Ellen
Powers, S43 Hathaway street, Cincin-
natl, Ohio.
Robert Patton was here a couple Of
days last week from Eldorado, Kan.
sas, n of the booming oil towns
Bob says business is humming out
there. Plenty Of work for every body
at good wages.
Sheriff Blue was summoned to Doyle
in the west end of the county Sunday
to investigate reported cases OF small
pox there. On his arrival at Doyle the
sheriff was informed by the attending
physician that he had diagnosed the
disease as chicken pox.
Our weather the past few days hat
been quite warm. In marked con
trast to last week. Last Friday NIGH
the low point was 16; the high poin'
Tuesday was 81. Quite a change il
three days. 1t is very dry and a goot
rain would be most welcome.
MI. A. G. Light of Munger has pur.
chased from the heirs of the late Jno
Newman the dwelling Just south Of
DR.. Marshall's home. Consideration
>70O. Mr.. Light recently bought sew
euteen acres Of land, east Of the city
limits, from Judge H. b. Jones.
Mr.. =. w. Wilkinson has leased thu
New Commercial Hotel for another
year and will continue to have charge
OF that hostelry. He expects to taxi
charge Of q hotel in Fredericktowl
the first of the year but does not in
tend to leave Ironton at that time.
Married-At Ironton, Mo-, Sunday
September 80, 1917, Monte Eaton Of
Bismarck and Laura s. Jones Of Gran
iteville. Also, at same place, Satur
day, October 18th, Cecil swafford Q
Flat River and Julia Rub of Mann
Esquire Rasche officiating in both in
stances.
Dogs have been "doing their bit
quietly In the trenches and on tn
battleHelds of Europe since the wa
began. They are being sent from tn
best kennels to be trained for thi
service. Miss May Thomson has re
Gently sent one Of her fine collie
from Arcadia kennels.
The three daughters OF Mr.. an
Mrs. Z. O. Tual, Of Arcadia, all wo
premiums In the needlework exhib'
at the Piedmont Fair last week. Mil
Eugenia was awarded first premium
for the Ibest hem stitched handkel
chief; Miss Hazel, second premium
Miss Julia captured the second pre-
MUM for quilting.
Carter Blanton, who lives on 4
y Roehry's farm on Marble Greek, abo,
ten miles south Of Ironton, last Thurs
day presented 10 with Q peck Of I
fine Irish potatoes 90 VI ever say
They were Of the Burbank variety an
fifteen Of them weighed 1917 pound