Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-03-04
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

Teachers examinations Friday and
Saturday.
Some ducks on Lake Killarney the
past week.
Minstrel show Friday night. Dance
afterwards.
The ~groundhog's reign for this year
is almost at an end.
Certainly snow storms were numer-
Gus in the February just gone.
How barren and unsightly are the
valleys hills, shorn of their timber.
March weather is rarely ideal. Let
US hope this year will be an excep-
ton.
For best pictures, bring or mail
your Kodak films to j. o. Cottle, Area
dia, Mo.
It's a cinch, now, that we'll have to
depend on manufactured ice next
summer.
The saw mill men are all prospecting
these days. Prices for lumber sway
out of sight"
Read on the first page of some
bargains Gene Whitworth will offer
you next Saturday.
The early gardener will soon be
getting busy. Likewise the fisher
man become restless.
Place your order for a tailor made
suit at Lopez's Wednesday or Thurs
day of next weekday.
A civil service examination of ap-
plicants for postmaster at Arcadia
will be conducted Thursday of next
week.
Hot Time Minstrel Show at the
Academy Of Music Friday night. A
free dance after the show. A big
time for all.
Several mornings last week without
any light service. Why not live up
to the schedule agreed upon or do
away with it altogether?
If we have more or less cold wealth
er throughout March perhaps we'll
have a fruit crop this year. It GER
tainly would be welcome.
A nine year-o old daughter of Chas.
West, who lives in the old Zwart resi-
dence in Ironton, died Monday night
of influenza after a brief illness.
At the meeting of the City Council
in.February the last of the $4,000 city
bonds issued in 1914 for street i'm
provament we're paid off, SO Dur city
is now out of debt.
W. P. Wemp, formerly of I%ronton,
who has been conducting a hotel at
Alexandria, Louisiana, for several
years past, recently disposed of his
interests there and has retired.
DIR. Parker, an old resident Of
Reynolds county, died at the home of
his son, Alonzo Parker, on Marble
as SICOh5 pOubu " llOhbOhs 41OhA0y
morning, at the age of 81 years.
Mrs. Harriet Farmhouse, mother of
DR.. E. L. Farmhouse, celebrated the
ninetieth anniversary of her birth
last Saturday. Mrs. Farmhouse is
probably the Oldest person at present
residing in the valley.
Miss E. ]. Kraft, of the Red Gross,
who gave instructions here in Home
Nursing and Hygiene, writes that she
is very pleasantly situated at Crystal
City, but Iron county still heads tn
list.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Mackley we're
here from Desloge last week in theil
new Stephens Silent Six car. 1t is a
very fine car and probably the only
one of the kind in this section of the
state.
Apples, five cents apiece. Some
what different from what it used tc
be years ago when most any one
would let you go to his orchard ant
help yourself without money ano
without price,
Had some real winter weather the
past week and q night or two the
mercury lowered close to the zero
point. While the air wa sharl
March entered rather lamb-like
How will it depart?
Any one witnessing the killing Q
Mr.. Monroe Black on railroad cross
ing February 10th, or knowing any
fact material to this killing, pleas
call at my office, Telephone Exchang'
Building, Ironton. Q. L. CARSON.
Louis Miller of Arcadia is putting
the finishing touches OF three resi-
dences which he has been construct
ing at Bertrand, in Scott county, tn
pa,t few months. Each n OF tn
structures cost in the neighborhoo
OF : $1,000.
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