Iron County register., 1919-12-25
Ohas. W. HolIoman Of Hogan was a


one night last week, killed by wolves.
Thos. East, who lives on Marble
Greek, ten miles south of Ironton,
was in town Tuesday with.a wolf hide
he had skinned from wolf trapped
few nights previous. East claimed
the wolf weighed 100 lbs. Some wolf.
j. II. Jones leaves tomorrow for
Kansas City to spend Christmas with
Mrs. Jones and their son, Paul, and
also to be present at the marriage of
the latter on December 9th to Miss
Edith Oliver of Kansas City.-Farm-
ington News.
Complete returns from the election
in Iron County, December 18th, show
$50 votes in favor of the road bonds
and 296 against. The votes from Blk
by precinct, which was not given last
week, was 4s in favor of the bonds
and against.
A diamond drill has been at work
for several weeks past on the farm of
1 VIM. Huff, this side Of Glover. A
depth of more than 500 feet has been
attained, but no announcement made
as to what has been discovered. 1t is
said that local and st. Louis capital
are backing the proposition, More
than thousand acres of land in the
vicinity have been optioned, it is un-
derstood.
Recorder Hawkins issued the fol-
lowing marriage licenses the past
week:
Alvin Korber of Pennington and
Adalina Bieser of New Gutenberg.
Roy R. Rice and Ethel Shrum of
Graniteville.
Samuel E. Twomey of Detroit,
Michigan, and Catherine May. Ander-
son of Ironton.
James Guy Bean and Fay Johnston
of Caledonia.
Robert H. Boring and Anna Lee
Ross of Flat River.
The Post Office at Glover was con-
sumed by fire at about $50 yesterday
morning. Mr.. G W. Scoggin, the
Postmaster, our informant states, had
built fire in the stove and gone to
the depot Not long after his arrival
: at the station some one discovered
} that the office building was on fire
Most all of the books and furnitur
were taken out before the building
+ fell in. The building had no fues.-
CenterviHe Outlook.
have received from my orchard in
Louisiana small shipment of new
crop pecans which I will dispose of a.
the regular market price. These nut'
are the large, cultivated paper-shel
variety. The shell is as thin as ar
egg she'll, and the kernel is all kernel
with no cork in it. The flavor o
these nuts is delicious. You do no
!, know the taste of real pecans unles
yeu have eaten of this variety. LIE
me know how many pounds you wan
while they last. MILFORD RIGGS
The following is from last week.
Piedmont Banner: "The local post
Office was the scene Friday of a civi
service examination for postmaster
for Annapolis. The examination wal
held by examiner ]. w. Gibbs, car
0 rier out of the Piedmont office. Two
applicants appeared and were exam
ined. They were Florence McOol
a and Mrs. Brigetta O. Gunter of An
n napolis. The examination paper
r have been forwarded to Washington
and it is expected that our neighbo
village will soon have new post
a master"
g From the Poplar Bluff Republican
!, ''The largest engine ever run over th
r Missouri Pacific, in this division, pass
y ed down the line this morning pulling
No. 5. This engine is new type il
q this part of the country, the sam
b however, as used in the Pennsylvania
8 lines, and is known as the $1,000 class.
0 1t is monster; it not only differs in
]. size from other engines on the road
but it is a self stoker--which Insurer
:, easy life for the fireman; he alls the
! box, and the rest is easy; to use
:, ruralism, it "helps itself to what is il
sight" The giant engine will pul
Nos. 1,2, 8, and 4, 5 and 8, running
from st. Louis to Hoxie."
A young man from Pennington
after securing marriage license
from Recorder Hawkins Wednesday
morning of last week, climbed into
his automobile and ran it into one o
the posts supporting the porch il
front of Adolph's jewelry store. Th
= post was demolished but the car wa
? not badly damaged and the occupant
: were fortunate enough to escap,
without scratch. 1t is not know
y whether the accident was the resul
of the young mans thus early repent
's ing of his folly and desire to d.
r something desperate or whether jus
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