Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-10-23
c BREvITIEs.

Inc PROBATE docket for the NoVem-
Der term is printed this week.
Butter, 60 cents a pound; eggs, 40
cents a dozen. And scarce at that.
A masque ball is planned for Hal
lowe'en at the Academy of Music.
For Sale-Canned Fruit.
Box SO, Pilot Knob, Mo.
DR.. Farmhouse recently purchased
from Fletcher s. Barger a Ford coupe.
George A. Hartzell Monday pur-
chased a "Baby" Overland from Geo.
Wendell, the local dealer.
Game Warden unton is the pos
SCISSOR of an Oldsmobile car which he
purchased in st. Louis last week.
Contractor Chas. j. Tual is remod-
cling the Collins residence in south
Ironton so as it can be used for a no.
tel.
Read the advertisement on the first
page of the sale of high-grade t ock
to be held in Pennington, November
9th.
1t is announced that 300, 900 is to
be expended on the property recently
acquired for the Missouri Home for
Aged, Baptists.
County court was in adjourned ses-
sion for a short time Saturday, levy
ing the railroad tax and disposing of
other business.
w. o. Iohn, an insurance man for
merry of Leadwood, is now domiciled
in the Reese home, just north of the
public school building.
There we're killing frosts last Friday
and Saturday nights, the thermometer
recording 80. There was more than
an inch of rain Sunday night.
H. L. Bell will have to vacate the
Manse when the new Presbyterian
minister arrives next month, and SO
Mr.. Bell is looking for a house.
St. Francois county is putting
crushed granite on the road on Stone
Hill. this side of Doe Run. Automo-
bile drivers say it is hard on tires.
1t is said that petitions addressed to
the county court asking special cleo
ton to vote on road bonds + about
to be circulated. But we hav seer
one yet.
The Signer sale on Marble Greek
last Friday was not largely attended,
and only fair prices were realized,
The sales probably totaled between
$500 and $4,000.
We are indebted to DR.. Marshall fol
a basket of magnificent sweet pota
toes-real Southern Yams-presenteo
to us Tuesday. They were large ones
fine and delicious.
MI. John s. Conway, who has not
been in the best of health recently, is
in st. Louis this week consulting a spe-
cialist. We hope to report an i'm
provement in his condition.
Lionel E. Hartzell left Sunday fCI
Wichita, Kansas, to accept a clerica
position in the offices of the Missouri.
Pacific Railway Company there. We
wish the young man c
Superintendent Hanson, Lorer
Townsend and George Farrar Of
Belleview will motor to Cape Girar'
deau Thursday to attend the South
east Missouri Teachers' Association.
Elsewhere is printed an item takel
from the Potosi Journal telling of thu
robbing of the Bank of Potosi on Wed
nesday morning of last week. Tit
robbers appear to have made goot
their escape.
F. M. Anderson, a long time res
ident of Iron county, died at his home
near Middlebrook, last Friday aged al
most eighty years. The remains were
taken to Goodwster, the deceasedh
old home, for interment.
It is said that Albert Doyle, who ha1
conducted a mercantile business ant
butcher shop in Pilot Knob for some
time past, will open a butcher shop II
one of the store rooms in the Ameri'
can Hotel building in Ironton.
We have a line from our forme
typo, Mrs. Elizabeth Imboden, at Ak
ron, Ohio. She says she is pleasant!
situated, is happy, that Akron is
great and growing city, and that oh
believes she will find it a desirabl
place to live.
County Assessor John I. Marshal
asks that all persons who have no
vet made out their assessment list an
returned same to him, to please do 81
Immediately. He wants to begin max
ing the assessment books and mus
have the lists without delay.
For some reason or other the pros
ecutions for violations of the compul
sorry school attendance law schedule
sor trial in the Juvenile Court las