Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-12-18
LOCAL BREVITIES.
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on the road Sunday.
For Sale-1s17 Ford. Come In and
see it. WENDELL BROS.
DIR. Gay has bought a Baby Over
land from Geo. Wendell, local agent.
Capt. Geo. Gay, who has been two
years overseas, is expected home to-
day.
Fletcher & Barger are expecting
another shipment of Ford cars this
week.
The roundhouse at De Soto was
considerably damaged by fire one night
last week.
Iron county proposes to keep up
with the procession. See the vote for
good roads.
The boys and girls were skating on
the creeks and ponds several days
the past week.
Oh, what an awful drouth that was
the United States Supreme Court in
ficted on the land last Monday!
The Girls Glee Club will give o
minstrel show at the Academy of Mu-
sic, Monday night, December 22d.
Turkey Match at the tie yard, Ar
cAdia, Christmas eve and Christmas
day. ]. F. ROBERTSON.
Hogs may be lower on the market,
but we haven't found the price Of
pork in the butcher shop much cheap
or.
Recorder Hawkins Monday issueda
marriage license.to George Grenia OF
Irondale and Grace Meyer of Gale
donia.
We have had some real winter the
past week; three or four nights the
thermometer registered close to zero.
1t is much warmer now.
Now let everybody constitute him
or herself a committee of me to see
that we get the full benefit of every
dollar expended on the road.
Our morning mail from st. Louis
was three or four hours late several
days the past week. Held at Union
Station for eastern connections, it is
said.
Social and Dance by the Fife and
Drum Corps at the Academy Of Music
Christmas night after the picture show.
Everybody invited.
Mr.. G. A. Hartzeli, who has charge
of the Evans saw mill at Redmond
Vile, was in ~sIronton Saturday. Mr..
Hartzell says they have plenty of
timber to run two years.
For Sale-A residence on College
street, Arcadia. Six room house.
Two acres of ground. Also a Bunga-
low on Arcadia Heights, and a 4O-acre
Farm. Apply to G. W. Durfee, Area
dia, Mo.
Ollie Fox is carrying his arm in a
sling-the result of trying to crank
his Ford car last Sunday. Oliver says
his arm isn't broken-only fractured;
but he received a jar that made him
see stars all the same.
Strayed or Stolen-One red COW,
about 8 years old; marked two splits
in the right ear and one split in the
left ear. l will pay for information
leading to it's whereabouts.
W. H. RoEHRs, Belleview, Mo.
Miss Minnie Croker of Ironton has
won a place on the South Missouri
girls basket ball>team at the Chilli
cothe Business College and played in
the opening game against the North
west Missouri Club last Thursday ev
ening.
DR.. w. E. Harral has recently been
appointed consulting surgeon to st.
Johns Hospital, st. Louis. DR.. Har-
raj is another OF the Iron county boys
who keeps steadily forging to- the
front. Our congratulations and very
best wishes.
Mr.. Eastman, the baker, who is an
early riser, tells us that the lights are
never on at five o'clock in the morn
ing, in accordance with the present
schedule. Let the schedule be observ-
ed to the letter or abandoned. No
shillyshallyiug.
Edwin Codding and Byron Kindell
arrived home Sunday from Columbia,
Mo-, to spend the holidays. Because
of the coal shortage the University
suspended operations about a week
earlier than was formerly intended.
School will reconvene January 9th.
Sunday before last a stranger at
tempted to secure change for what
purported to be a 500 bill at Immer's
confectionery In Arcadia, but the bill
didn't "look good" and Mr.. Inner
refused to take it. 1t had evidently
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