Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-12-27
q ~BREVITIES.
Happy New Year.
Are you ready for 1918?

AEO you teooy WI ASAo.
A very quiet AMI orderly Christmas,
The merchants did a rushing bust
ness Saturday.
The income tax man will be in Iron.
ton next week.
Rabbits were selling at two for a
quarter the past week.
The Christmas turkey sold for TWEEN.
ty.six cents on foot in Ironton.
William Desmond in "The Iced Bull
let" aud "The Iron Claw" next Tues
day.
Annual meeting Of the Stockholders
Of the Bank of Belleview Valley, Sat
arday, January 9Th.
Marguerite Clark, as "Helen of the
North" a comedy and the Ford
Weekly next Saturday.
Preaching by the pastor of the
Methodist Church next Sunday morn
Ing at Fort Hill, and at Union at night,
Lawson Henry is now at the Filing
ton Aviation Field, Houston, Texas
where he expects to be stationed fol
the winter.
This is Christm as time. The indul.
gent reader will be good enough to
overlook the shortcomings of this
weeks paper.
The Community Christmas tree. al
the courthouse Monday evening at.
tracted a large crowd. Christmas in
the valley was quiet.
With eggs selling at fifty cents, su.
gar scarce and high, and whiskey
hardly none at all, the Christmas egg
nogg was a decided luxury.
After several days of very milo
weather it grew colder Monday nigh
and when Christmas dawned the
ground was covered with snow.
The teachers and stude nts in The
Ironton High School last week sub
scribed for s166 of the War Savings
Certificates. A creditable showing.
Oscar Haywood, OF Ironton, recent
ly enlisted in the Aviation Branch O
the Signal Corps, and is o at Kelly
Field, San Antonio, Texas. May b,
achieve fame and fortune!
Mrs. j. NJ. Reel had the misfortune
to fall on the snow at her home il
north Ironton Christmas day aud sus
= tanned a fractured hip. The suffere.
is resting as well as could be expect
ed.
Mr.. A. I. Willard, local agent, ha
presented us with n of the Contra
States Life Insurance Company's cal
endars for 1918. 1t is a large and ser
viceable calendar and most accepta
bic.
Married--At the courthouse, Iron
ton, Mo-, Saturday, December 22d
1917, Leroy c. Osbornan and Myrtle Hat
tie Singleton, both OF Piedmont, Mo,
o. W. Roop, Judge of Probate, oilici
ating.
Married-At the courthouse, Iron
ton, Mo-, Saturday, December 22d
1917, Elmer Ebert, of L%esterville, an
Miss Clara MCGOWAN, Of Irondale
Mo-, o. w. Roop, Judge OF Probate
officiating.
Mrs. l.. II. Davis left yesterday b,
train for Arcadia to spend the holi
days with her daughter, Mrs. Board
man. Rev. Davis will drive throug
and Join NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Demo
crat News.
Ash has been his custom every Christ
mas for several years past, Mr.. Il. A
Nall, Of Jefferson City, remembers
the editor with q box Of most excel
lent cigars. Our sincere thanks an
assurance Of appreciation.
We received a letter from on
friend w. N. McClurg. He stated tina
they we're we'll pleased with thei
home in st. Louis. Mr.. McClurg ha
been employed at Madison, Ills, sine
leaving Bismarck. Bismarck Gazette
L. G. Eastman, Ironton's first-clas
baker, last week did some advertiser
in the REGISTER. The following Sal
urday his entire stock Of bread we
sold before noon and forthwith b
had to start on another batch. VIII
says it does not pay to advertise?
Sam Middleton, the popular repre-
sentative OF the Thiebes Piano Com
pany Of st. Louis, was an Ironton vii
itor last week. Mr.. Middleton wi
make regular trips to Ironton here
after and asks all his friends in Iro
county whs are in need Of anything
the musical line to see him betoi
making any purchases.
Recorder Hawkins the issued til
following marriage licenses the pa
week:
Geo. w. Thompson and Alma MI
Clurg OF Belleview.
Elmer Erbert Of Lssterville ar
Clara MCGOWAN OF Irondale.
Leroy o. Osborn and Myrtle HIATT
Singleton Of Piedmont.
Haskell Tinker and Mary Welsh
Patterson.