Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1921-02-03

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Farms, Stocks of Merchants, or any
thing of value, through the Farmers
& Merchants Exchange. Want ads
are free. Grishsm Building, FEEDER
icktown, Mo.-Adv.
Word was received in Ironton
Monday of the death that day at
O'Fallon, Ills, of Mrs. Mary Grimm,
wife of August Grimm, former resi-
dents of Ironton. The remains will
arrive in Ironton to-day (Wednes-
day. for interment.
David Joseph Moore, son OF the
late Sebastian l.. Moore, formerly a
we'll known travelling man in South
east Missouri, died at his home in
Charlottesville, January 81, aged 80
years. Interment was made at the
old home at Perryville, Mo.
Mrs. Conway, widow of the late
John s. Conway of %Ironton, who has
been conducting a rooming house in
st. Louis the past four or Ave months,
has disposed of her interests there
and gone to Piedmont to make her
home with her mother there.
The property in Hicks Addition,
Des Arc, advertised to be sold at
trustees sale last Saturday, was not
sold, the owner of the property ap-
plying fortan Injunction to stop pro-
ceedings. The matter will come up
for adjudication at the April term Of
circuit court.
The De Soto Republican makes the
astonishing statement that the ex-
penses of that town have been "just
as great or greater' than they were
when the city had licensed saloons.
The Republican wants a commission
form of government for the old town,
and says it will require something
like that to keep the old town from
bankruptcy and ruin.
Mrs. Fannie Bust bearing, aged
50 years, wife of Judge E. M. Dear
ing, died at her home in Potosl, Mo-,
Wednesday, January 26, 1921, after
an Illness of several weeks. She is
survived by her husband, two daugh-
tiers, and other relatives. Iron coun-
ty friends extend their sincere SYM
pathy to Judge bearing in his great
afliction.
Mrs. Albert Brookshire and little
daughter, and Miss Dollie Whitson
left on last Saturday, the former to
spend a few weeks with Mr.. Brook
shire at Cover, Mo-, where he is en-
gagged with'a law firm, and the latter
to her home at Lebanon, Mo. Mrs.
Laura Mccormick will occupy their
residence during their ABSENCE
Pennington News.
Rev. John Ford, until recently a
| resident of Iron county, was here one
day last week, having business at the
office Of the recorder. Rev. Ford,
who lost one of his lower limbs while
working on the railroad here several
years ago; has bought the L. A.
Roach farm les Coldwater, and has
again become q citizen of Wayne
county.-Greenville Sun.
Word came to town last Wednes-
day afternoon that the residence on
t the Potter Farm, just west Of town,
was ON fire. Several people hurried
) to the scene in automobiles and found
, the roof blazing in several places.
The flames were extinguished before
!, any great damage resulted. The orr
, gin Of the fire is ~unaecounted for,
} No n was on the place but the col
ored care-taker. -
The number OF newspapers, both
} daily and weekly, in Missouri have
greatly decreased in the last year
, due mainly to the high cost Of paper
) and labor. Cameron formerly had
two dailies, but now has only one,
r the other having become a weekly
Hannibal, a city of IS, 900, saw M o.
I two daiies die, The Bethany Demo-
crat, one of the Oldest papers in Har'
rison county, has died in the last
month along with the Westbro En-
terprise, published at Westbro by
D. E Williams for twenty years, anC
a number of others that cannot be
spared.
Recorder Hawkins has issued the
following marriage licenses since oul
, last report:
; William P. Davis and Abel Schrol
, of st. Louis.
' John Fortner and Mary Miller Of
} Iron Mountain.
Carl Helm and Elsie Kurgis of st
Louis.
James T. Jones of Brunot and Opa,
King of Minimum.
) John L. Graft and Hazel B. Moore Of
Bonnie Terre.
Raymond Swofford and Bessie
Adair of Annapolis.
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