Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-09-30

spent the past week. with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Herman Trauernicht, and
family and with other friends here.
She is inner Goth year, but we are
glad to say, she is enjoying fairly
good health.-Farmington News.
The Indian Summer is close at
hand, and soon hill, mountain and
valley will be clothed in beauty.
The tints on the leaves will be given
by Natures hand, and she never
violates the rules of harmony Of color.
Yellow, red, green and purple are
blended in restful delight.
F. E. Calison, who last spring sold
his farm on Marble Greek and went to
Chicago to live, returned to Iron
county last week, bought back his old
farm by paying $1,000 more for it
than he received less than six months
ago. He says Iron county and the
Ozsrks r good enough for him.
1t is told US that one visitor to the
Iron Mountain Presbytery in session
in Ironton last week came out fat
footed, tooth and toe nail, for the
League of Nations in a talk he made
before that body. OF course what
the speaker said was most heartily
endorsed by all save those blinded by
pa~rtisanship and prejudice. :
Rev. and Mrs. H. E. Stone will de-
part to-day for Dallas, Texas, where
Mr.. Stone will engage in ministerial
work. In the two years that he has
kbeen here the reverend gentleman
has made many friends who wish
him every success in his new field.
Rev. stones successor here will be
chosen by the Conference now in ses-
sion in Poplar Bluff.
Contractor Jake Dinger is this
week finishing the club house he has
been building for the members of the
Scullco Club, st. Louis, on Lake Kill
larney. The formal opening, we
understand, will take place next
month and the members are prepar-
ingfor a real good time. The Scuilco
Club promises to become quite an
acquisition to the community.
Mrs. Alice Chase Nugent and son
and daughter, Ormond and Rosalind,
of Seattle, Washington, are spending
a few weeks in the valley. This is
Mrs. Nugent's first visit to her girl
hood home in thirty years or more
and she finds many changes and but
few faces that she knew in the days
so long gone by. Time has dealt
kindly with Mrs. Nugent and she is
enjoying good health.
Let everybody take especial notice
that on Sunday evening of the second
Sunday in next month the Installation
Service of the pastor of Ironton Pres
byterian church will be held. Rev.
Sellheim of Desloge will preach tina
Sermon and Rev. H. D. Maness Of
Doniphan will charge the pastor, and
Rev. r. T. Fulton will charge the
church. This will be a very interest
ing service and all r especially in
vited to attend.
Van Buren, Current Local: "Mr
and Mrs. w. H. Bradley, who left
week ago for Lexington, Mo-, where
their eldest son, Guy, has entered
Wentworth Military Academy as a
student, returned home Monday. They
spent a few days at Slater, Mo-, as
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. W.T.. Hoskin'
and stopped off at Ironton on theil
return for a visit with Mr.. Bradley
mother and sisters who reside In thai
city.
The sidewalks which skirt our street
are not, in some instances, a source
of pride to the citizen jealous of the
neat and orderly appearance Of thu
town. They are overgrown witt
) grass and weeds and he who picks hi
: way over them must look we'll t.
his steps at places If he would avoi'
8 the splotches placed by the patien
t cow tethered there to browse on tn
: grass adjacent. That ought not b.
permitted. A loosiug of the ordinanc
I in one particular breeds disregar'
for it in others. Let us enforce thu
law or do away with it.
i The anniversary of the battle o
: Pilot Knob, September 9th, passe'
q without any observation of the da,
whatever. In fact, there has bee
no attempt at a celebration for near
ly fifteen years. The one big cele
Q bration of that event was. in 1SS2-th,
o eighteenth anniversary of the battle
: There was monster attendance o,
It that occasion and people came fror
y every where. On two or three ami
versaries about twelve or ffteei
years ago several meetings were he'll
a.