Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-16
LOCAL BREVITIES.
'sPhantom Foe. "-Adv.

Potosl has organized a band with
twenty or thirty members.
Our light bills keep on going up but
We have no Nights in the morning.
Some high winds the past week.
Temperature very mild for December.
Eggs, rs cents. And the price
seems a fixture, too, for the present,
at least.
The wood sawyers say that they
just can't catch up with their work,
hustle they ever so much.
There is still lots of travel on the
railroad, Notwithstanding business in
other lines is letting up. y
The corr yield is not proving as
good as had been anticipated and ev-
cry few days a car is imported.
You haven't got more than two
weeks in which to pay your taxes If
you wish to avoid penalty and costs.
The house of Geo. Tullock, c%olored,'
on African Boulevard, was destroyed
by fire at an early hour Sunday morn
ing.
Flour, Feed, Meat and Groceries at
5 per cent above cost until after
Christmas at the Depot Grocery
Adv.
Congressman Rhodes has been
made chairman of the Congressional
Committee on Mines and Mining.
Quite an important place.
Who is the ''PhantOm FOe??" ADV.
Bishop Johnson filled the pulpit in
st. Paul's church, I%ronton, Sunday
morning. The Bishop %journeyed to
Poplar Bluff in the afternoon.
J.. Arthur Francis, county treasurer
elect, has leased the old Elliott home
in west Ironton and will be domiciled
therein after the first of the year.
A wagon belonging to W alter Olive
of Roselle was quite badly damaged
by a local freight engine while switch
ing in the Arcadia yard last Frida J
morning.
Thos. B. Pruitt has had the hide Of
the catamount killed by j. F. Pease a
couple of weeks since tanned. G. W.
Marshall did the W ork and it makes 6
very desirable fur.
Hon. Redmond Black writes the
REGISTER he is now located at 7O'
East Miller street, Jefferson City
where he expects to remain until the
Legislature adjourns.
n DON'T you forget the Masquerade
Ball at the Acad' my of Music Monday
night, December 9th. Admission
81 per couple. Supper, extra. AID
mission to the gallery, 25 cents.
The Lutheran Ladies' Bazaarin the
basement of the Presbyterian church
last Saturday was a decided success
in every sense, the receipts being
considerably in excess of 5000.
w. D. Fletcher has shipped GU
about all his stock. He says the pres
emit condition of the market is no
conducive to sound sleep if you hav'
too many cattle or hogs on hand.
There will be an auction sale o
Household Goods and Kitchen Furni
tare at the Jail residencein Ironton OF
Saturday, December 18th, commenc
ing at 10 O'Clock A. M. Terms, cash.
The Missouri Pacific is laying off
lot of men at their shops at De Soto
We are told that 100 were laid off the
first of this week, with a p%robabilit.
of more being Observation-Disclosures
Gazette.
1t is rumored that one or two aspir'
ing statesmen have aIcovetous eye OF
the Ironton p~ost-ofice. Evidentl.
the partisan view is that Civil Service
will be an irridescent dream unde
the Harding regime.
Louis Dettmar, who has been EN-
ployed in the Lead Belt a number o
years, recently purchased what !
known as the Ramsey farm at Roselle
and is now d~othiciled thereon, wher,
he expects to make his future home.
The now triumphant hen her struttini
ways
P~ursues, high blest of Fortune tickle
Why should she not, when every egi
she lays
Knocks out, alas! a shining nickel?
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Muse have tb'
sympathy of a host of friends in D
Soto on account of the death of thei
. dear little girl which occurred at thei
home IN st. Louis last Friday. TIL
remains were brought to De Soto TO
interment.-De Soto Republican.
will furnish, on order, costume
and Mosques for The Masquerade Bal
Please apply in good time, so tina
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