Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-02-28

sun Setting OUT large quantities OF
lumber for the Cobalt Co., q job ht
has been working on since Novem'
bef.-Fredericktown Democrat News
We are glad to be able to announce
that the factions contending for diff
ferent routes for the proposed St ate
Highway through Iron and Wayne
counties have agreed to quit fighting
and will cheerfully abide by the &C.
ton Of the State Highway Board.
Several new cases of smallpox are
reported in the Spitzmiller, Childers
and other families living west of Iron.
ton, the past week. The authorities
think, however, that the situation is
now well in hand and it is not likely
there will be many more new 81
On the first page see print a small
pox curt sent by a lady friend from Hot
Springs, Ark. know nothing of its
virtues, but the lady sending it passed
through the scourge several years ago
and is in consequence interested in
the prevention ard cure of the
disease.
The Ironton High High School team
will debate with Sikeston for the hon
ors of Southeast Missouri in the audi.
forum of the State Normal at Cape
Girardeau, Friday evening, March s.
Here's our sincere wishes that Iron
ton may come out of the contest GOV.
cred with glory!
Daugherty Bros. we're trying out
their new Ford Truck Tuesday after
noon, and it got away from them run
ming into Whitworth & Madigan's
hardware store and smashing one OF
the show windows. The damage tc
the building was possibly $50 and to
the a about $40.
The death of Henry Edison, aged
So years, occurred at the home Of his
daughter in this city Thursday night
at 9:45. The funeral will be held Sun
day morning at ten O'Clock, conducted
by Rev. M. I. Webb of Woodriver
Ills. Interment will be at Belleview
Bismarck Gazette.
Recorder Hawkins issued the fol,
lowing marriage licenses the pas
week:
Roy Farris and Matte Gregory o
Washington county.
Charley E. Harvill of Elvins ant
Stella Langley Of Flat River.
Richard Callison of Arcadia ant
Amanda E. Shy of Sabula.
Private Ralph Omohundro of Fort
Sill was here this week visiting hi.
sister, Mrs. Adrian Steel. Ralph hal
developed into a real man, s feet, /:
inches tall, and weighs about ISL
pounds. He looks "every inch 1
soldier'' and is anxious to get te
France and in the fight.--De Sot,
Press.
Our old friend, Edgar Perry, is
candidate for Police Judge at the city
election to be held in De Sott
in April. Ed is remembered b,
old residents of the valley as thu
editor of "Tunnel Driftings" in the
REGISTER thirty years and more age
when things on Pilot Knob were
booming. We hope he will win GU
in the election.
A jury in Justice Rasche's court las
Friday decided the gray mule ease be
tween T. d. Jones and Ellery Orr il
favor of the former. Last year Orr
gave Jones a chattel mortgage on {
gray mule. About a month ago Jones
took a mule away from Orr claiming
it was the II on which he held mort
gage; Orr insisted that the animal OF
which Jones had the mortgage was
dead. The jury could not sec it tina
way.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Morris took
their daughter, Miss Virginia, to St
Louis Wednesday morning and place.
her in the Missouri Baptist Sanitariun
for treatment. She recently under
went a surgical operation for an alb
cess which had formed just above ant
back Of her right eye. This did no
afford complete relief and it is likel,
a further operation will be necessary
Harrington News.
From the Flat River news: CDR
Geo. Steel, whom many will remem
Der as having lived here for three
years, as pastor Of the First Baptis
Church, writes that his two younges
sons are In the service Of Uncle Sam
Roy is in the Marine Corps and Johl
with the Aviation Corps, both volun
teers. An older son, Adrian, now
resident OF De Soto, is a veteran o
the Spanish American War"
Mrs. Woodside is home from a weel
in st. Louis where she attended tn
Style Show at the Odeon and familiar
izod herself with the new ideas Il