Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-09-25

to remove the dynamo aud other APP
paratus from the Bismarck mill on
Wednesday and loaded it on a truck
and hauled it to Flat River. This
means that Bismarck will be without
electric lights for some time to come
and to the reader it may seem as il the
town is retrogressing, but we are
about as we'll of without electric lights
as having to put up with the service
which we had been getting OF late.-I
Bismarck Gazette.
Gene hitworth had his face pretty
badly cut last Wednesday by the
breaking of the wind shield On his
runabout. He and Duncan Robinson
were in the Brule neighborhood on a
hunting trip. Duncan had the wheel
and Gene was beside him with a gun
in his hand. The car bumped against
a stump in the road and stopped sud-
denly. The gun went through the
wind shield and shattered 1t. Gene
suffered several cuts, but, fortunately,
nothing serious,
The following is from The Cotton,
California Information of September
18th: "Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Downey
andlittle daughter of Ironton, Missouri,
made friends of theirs living in Cotton
e. 7. Elgan and N. L. Farmer and
B their families and others-a short visit
Sunday. They have been spending 9
+. month on the coast. Mr.. Downey has
two brothers living in San Bernardino,
sisters and brothers living in Redlands
as we'll as in the State of Arizona, and
has a desire to come back and make
his home in California" !
State Game and Fish Warden Bir-
mingham that it is his pur-
pose to most rigidly enforce the law
against keeping imprisoned all fur
bearing animals during the months OF
November, December and January
! If you desire to restrain any u r-bear-
: ing animal of his liberty during those
three months, it will be to your ad-
; vantage to first write Warden Biz
mingham and get his permission to dc
so; otherwise you are liable to have a
: heavy fine assessed against you.
: r. M. GOT of near Mountain View
Arkansas, arrived in Centerville
Tuesday. Mr.. Golf is manager OF the
Lee Hub Factory lea that place, and
? says he has been very busy the past
few months. The timber in the
northwestern part of Arkansas, Mr.
Golf thinks, ia not 80 good as the tim
Q Der in Missouri. And, Mr.. Golf says,
9 that part of the state ia very, very
Q rough, almost inaces sible in places
r Mr.. Goff buys sll Of his timber in the
: %bIock-hub lengths-for which he pays
e from 16 to "a cents, each. He vii
remain a week before returning
o Centerville Outlook.
MIR. S. R. Lichliter and family mo-
tored to Ironton from Murphysboro
9 Ills, in their Hudson super six las
Friday, making the trip in abou
eight hours. Their register showed
a 1925 miles. They were visiting Mrs
Lichliter's brothers and families
Messrs. Edw. and Walter Masterson
h They report the roads much better il
al Missouri than in Illinois. They say
sr the rock-bottom roads are the only
t. kind. Mr.. Lichliter is one of Illinois
Of expert farmers, farming about 2O'
Z acres. He praises the tractors very
highly. They left for home Tuesday
% by the way OF St. Louis, where the.
"a will leave their car and take the trail
* for Murphysboro, On account OF tn
N mud in Illinois.
" Elvins correspondence in Flat Rive
r. News: "Jas. G.. Newman who ha
: lived practically all his life in Ironton
ly Mo-, has accepted a position as bales
man in Miller's Store. For a perio'
m of 10 years, he was employed as
salesman in the Gay & Kindell Store
D. in Tronton, having gone into the EN-
as ploy of this company when only
ns boy. Mr.. Newman is a nan of ex
k. ceptional qualities, both as a bushes
o. man and a citizen. Mr.. Miller ha
w been fortunate to ecure his services
nd For the present he will board here
but contemplates moving his famil
nd here in the future. His wife and tw
little sons, Paul and Jim, Jr., hi
10 brother-in-law, Marcus Yount, an
Miss Katherine Bush, all of Irontor
%. accompanied him here Sunday, br
H. returned to Ironton the same day"
y. Thos. Hart, who left here about tie
n days ago for Detroit, Michigan, write
he "Dear Editor-I will write q few line
d. to your paper to let my Iron Count
friends know that we arrived safely
Of Detroit, Michigan, September It'll
"a We stopped at Festus twenty fol
ID hours, and also in st. Louis twenty
N, four hours, leaving st. louis at