Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-09

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Mrs. Louis Miller, Corresponding
Secretary of Ladies' Baptist Aid Soci-
ETY., would like receive your address
for magazines-new or renewal.
Promptness a specially. Phone %,
Arcadia, Mo.
Hold-ups, murders and robberies
are still on the increase. An era of
~wickedness is upon Us. John Barley
corn used to be accused of being an ac-
complete in all evil deeds; but now he
can prove an alibi.
Ironton friends will be sorry to
hear that Oscar Haywood was held
up and robbed of $50 on the streets in
st. Louis one night last week. Oscar
was cnly a short distance from home
when the robbers touched him.
Sheriff Blue says that the first hobo
that he has had apply to him for a
nights lodging in two yeors put in an
appearance about two weeks ago. In
dications are, however, that they will
be plentiful before the winter is gone.
Otto Rieke left to-day for San
Francisco, California, where he will
again enlist in the army. Otto has
.Fserved over seventeen years and after
about eight more years of service will
be entitled to retire with a good PEN
sion.
@. P. Damron is improving the
tract of land this side of Pennington
which he bought about a year ago.
He is building a house and barn on it
and arranging to stock it with live
stock .-Fredericktown Democrat
News.
DR.. w. J. Smith was called to Kinks
vile, Mo-, last, Saturday night by the
serious illness of his sister, Mrs. Sarah
Ivy. He returned Monday night and
reports his sistsr as slightly improved,
but has little hope of her complete
recovery.
Hides are nov down to seven cents
a pound, but there is no noticeable
decline in the price of shoes-about
the same as when hides were bringing
sixty five cents a pound. Another of
the inexplicables of the present day
commercial world.
The weather the past week has
been much diversified. Some of it as
fine as could be asked, and other
threatening, but really not so bad.
Seldom we reach the second week in
December without having some snow
There has been practically none thus
far.
The railroad company has cut out
the practice of selling tickets OIL the
Sunshine Special to points south Of
Bismarck where stops are made
They are now using their new engines
the $500 class, and the train does moi
always stop for water.--Bismarch
Gazette.
Flat River correspondence in Farm
ington News: "Mr. and Mrs. VIM
Depew, of Ironton, were called here
last week on account of the serious
illness and death of their little grand
daughter, Hazel Depew, the little
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Depew."
Still men are being thrown out o
employment all over the country an(
the idle men are increasing by thu
thousands. We do not know what
3 the trouble is but if Cox had beer
elected every little Republican shee
in the u would be telling just VIII.
it was happening.
} The REGISTER had a call last Thurs
day morning from two of its mos
loyal friends, E. H.. Amelung, o
/ Cincinnati, Ohio, and H. J. Amelung
/ of Granite City, Ills. Both are form
or Pilot Knob boys and we are glad tt
say that time seems to be dealing
r most kindly with them.
1t seems to us that there should b.
. enough work in the valley and ada
cent territory to afford a good Twin!
I for a timer. And it certainly woult
, be a convenience to the public gen
, orally. Hardly a house in the com
munity that doesn't need more or les
attention from the timer.
4 If the fellow who says that the frs
three days of December r indica
tive of the kind of weather we ma,
expect for the next three months o
/, winter knows anything of what he !
talking about, then December, Janu
airy and March should be very agree
able, not to say wholly desirable.
On the first page Of this weeks pa
: per will be found an item taken from
the st. Louis Times telling of the Ma
: Wy Gross being conferred on Paul E
= Morris of st. Louis. This young ma,
formerly resided in Iron county an,