Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-03-25
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A. P. Farris is driving a new Ford
car.
Some real spring days the past
week.
Lots of garages and repair shops
in Irontcn.
Thirty cents a gallon for gasoline on
local market.
Hot Time Minstrels at Bismarck
Friday evening.
1t was too veto plant Irish potatoes
on st. Patrick's day.
Freight service mighty unsatisfac-
tory and slow these days.
Fire on Shepherd Mountain NJ onday
night, and quite a lot of it, too.
1t is said the big rains in March will
make good fishing this spring.
Pair of Mules for sale, cheap. See
E. j. Hitzmann, Bismarck, Mo.
March weather thus far has been
''true to form"-different every other
day.
Remember the Baptist Home with
an egg donation for Easter. Every
body.
Wayne county has $12O, 900 avail
able for good roads in the nexttwelye
months.
Not a single sale advertised for the
April term of circuit court. This is
unusual.
Cottage in Ironton for rent. Ad-
dress R. B. Lindsay, 1869 Park avenue,
st. Louis, Mo-.
sHELP WANTED-Girls to Learn Shoe
Making. Apply at international Shoe
Company, De Soto, Mo.
Wanted-A girl to do general house
work. No laundry work. Apply to
Mrs. L. A. Davis, Arcadia, Mo.
The REGISTER is indebted to Rep
resentative Keith for a copy of the
"Missouri Blue Book" for 1913 20.
Some fishermen at Lake Killarney
last week. A few perch were secured
by the luckier ones, but it is too cold
yet.
The debating team in the Ironton
High School goes to Cape Girardeau
Friday to debate. Good luck to our
debaters.
Some gravel has been put on the
streets the past week or two. Gravel
haulers are scarce and hard to get
these days.
1t is announced that Earl Peck,
superintendent of the light plant,
will reIinquish his position in the not
far distant future.
Democratic Mass Meeting at the
courthouse in Ironton on Saturday.
April 10th. Every Democrat in the
county is urged to attend.
Mrs. T. D. Jones has been seriously
ill at her home in this city the past
week, bnt is now on the road to re-
covery, we are glad to say.
E. j. Britton, formerly of Center
vile, is arranging to open a barber
shop in one of the rooms in the
Academy of Music building.
The docket for the April term OF
circuit court is about an average one
and if all the cases are tried court
will be insession q week or more.
Mr.. Huxley, the Dodge dealer from
Fredericktown was in Ironton last
week. Read the advertisement oil
the Dodge car in this. weeks paper.
Automobile dealers in Southeast
Missouri who drive their cars home
from Detroit say they can get a much
quicker delivery that way than ship
ping by freight.
Al car loaded with parcel post fol
Texas was burned or the fast mai
train at Hematite about ten days since,
The car and contents were totally de-
stroyed, it is said.
The power house Of the Big Muddy
Coal & Iron Company whichWa de-
stroyed by fire the morning of Marcel
18th will be rebuilt at once, we are
glad to understand.
For Rept--Four rooms Of my cot
tage in Ironton, furnished or unfur'
nished. For further information
write Mrs. M. Haywood, 441s Enright
avenue, st. Louis, Mo.
The REGISTER is sorry to hear of the
death Of Coco. Orchard, postmaster,
at Poplar Bluff, last Saturday. Mr.
Orchard was stricken with apoplexy
a few days prior to his death.
Mrs. j.. s. Conway was called to st
Louis last Wednesday by the an
nouncement that Mr.. Conway's con
dition was no better. His physician
however, says that he will recover.
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