Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-02-12
IrOnton. Missouri,
THURSDAY, FEB. 10, 1920.
O B%REvITIEs.
Saturday is Valentine day.

Certainly some warm and pleasant
weather the past week.
DIR. j. FL. Martin, of Pilot Knob, is
driving a new Chevrolet.
Because of the influenza MI. Schafer
has closed the picture show.
Maybe the light man beautifully and
artistically cussed the past week!
The first teachers' examination will
be held this year March 9th and 9th.
No further developments are re-
ported in re ference to the Ironton
p~ostofice.
Remember you must make return
of your state income tax before
March 1st.
The rain Monday was accompanied
by thunder. This is said to mean
frost in May.
About fifteen subject to the federal
income a made returns before Dep
uty Stivers when he was in Ironton
last week.
Mrs. Weber, relict of the late Harry
Weber of ~Graniteville, died in Akron,
Chic, last week. The remains were
brought to Graniteville for interment.
The influenza situation in Granite
vile and vicinity is reported as most
serious and nurses are badly needed.
Here in the valley conditions are inn
proving.
Mr.. E. E. Evans was called from
Redmondville last week because of
the fact that his wife, son and daughter
were sick with influenza. They are
all improving.
Sheriff Blue went to Steelville last
Friday after Otis Cayringer, charged
with b%urglarizing a residence at
Enough in the west end of the county,
several months since.
There is no further information as
to the reported sale of the Arcadia
Valley Enterprise. Mr.. Carson has
an option on the property. That is
all that has been done 80 far.
Mrs. Woodside was taken quite sick
with ptomaine poison while in st.
Louis about ten days since. She
came, home but was sufficiently re-
covered to be able to return to st.
Louis Sunday.
The Hot Time Minstrel show which
was to have taken place in the
Academy of Music last Friday night
was postponed because of the in
fiuenza. Due notice of the per-
Torrance will be given later.
Mrs. CLARA G. Delano and Miss Flora
are spending a few days with Lewis
Delano and family in Bonne Terre.
They expect to leave in a few days
for Laurel, Mississippi, to spend some
time with John 7. Baldwin, Jr., and
family.
Geo. L. Moore, an old Ironton boy
who has been located in Texas for
the past twenty years or more, will
go to Denver, Colorado, about the
first of March where he will be locat-
ed as general agent of the Texas q
Pacific railway.
Grand Lecturer McLachlan will
hold lodges of instruction in Star of
the West Lodge, No. 1873, A.. F. q
A. NJ, Wednesday and Thursday,
February 18th and 19th-Rfternoon
and evening, bothdays. All brethren
urged to attend.
Must be sold within fifteen days, 8
acres of land, the north half OF b
northwest quarter of the southeast
quarter of the southeast quarter, Sec
tion 81, township IS, range 3 east.
First offer gets it.
r. N. DANIEL, Junction City, Kans.
It ia said that q man with a team
has been stationed at the railroad
crossing just this side Of Middlebrook,
for several weeks past SO as TO be on
hand and ready to pull automobiles
out of the mud rs they attempted to
drive by. And it is said every auto
mobile stuck and had to have help.
It is said that train No. 4 has been
on time just once since the present
time card became effective Decem-
Der 21st. People who live along the
Iron Mountain certainly are tolerat-
ing rotten service these days. The
Iron Mountain does not compare
with what it was thirty years or more
ago.
The patrons Of the Iron County
Electric Light and Power Company
have had to put up with many in
dignities in the past eight years but
the treatment accorded us the past
week was the rottenest and rankest OF
all. The Public Service Commission
will probably give its approval, how
ever.
Thirty five acres, / 1-2 miles from
Ironton, Mo-, Court House. High
School, Good House, water and some
fruit, log barn, 20 acres tillable, 10
acres open timber, some rocks, B
acres pasture, enclosed; rest make
good pasture. Near Arcadia Heights.
Inquire of owner, J.. 8. Anderson, No.
2, Ironton, Mo.
Mr.. Ell. B. Jones is probably by ar
the biggest income tax payer in the
county this year. Mr.. jones' federal
income tax this year is, we under
stand, about $1,000. Mr., Jones re-
Gently sold his farm lands in Arkansas
at a pretty good price and that is the
occasion of the heavy income tax
against him.
E. B. Inner, born and reared in
Pilot Knob, died OF influenza at HE
home, 1862 Finney Avenue, last Fri
day afternoon. For twenty wears