Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1922-12-14

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home in Decatur, Illinois, November
Both, 1922, quite suddenly from APP
polexy. The deceased was So years
of age and had been in the grocery
business in Decatur ever since he left
Iron Mountain % years ago. He is
survived by a widow and number of
children. Many old friends in Mis-
souri, learned of his passing with sor-
row.
Jesse B. Jackson a former Iron
county boy, writes from Kansas City
under date of December 8th: "We
could not think of doing without the
REGISTER, tut have just been neg
ligent in sending in our renewal. We
are always glad each week to read
the home county news. Of course,
Jackson county is our home county
now, but nevertheless old Iron coun-
ty remains in our memory. We are
getting along fine, working every
day for Uncle Sam in the post Office"
Geo. M. johnson has gone to An
napolis to work in the mines. George
reports that there is every evidence
that the mines at Annapolis have
s'come to stay" He says the i'm
provements being made there look
like they are being put in for all time.
The company has recently completed
a large reservoir which will be filled
with water from Big Creek and sup
ply the mines. A large concrete
smokestack, 40 feet high, has just
been finished. Many other improve
ments r under way.
Mr.. Jesse Pease Monday of last
week received a message announcing
the death of bis brother in-law, Mr..
Robert E. CLARK, Sunday morning,
December Bird, of neuralgia of the
heart, at his home in Huntington, In
diana. Funeral was held at 2 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon at the Central
Christian Church in charge of the
Masonic order. About thirty-three
years ago deceased was an engineer
on the Iron Mountain railroad and
since 1889 has been engineering on
the Chicago & Erie.
It is announced that the contractor
on the road project from Ironton,
north, to Belleview and beyond, has
suspended all work until spring. The
road is left in a most horrible condi-
ton to go through the winter with.
When the real bad weather comes
they will be absolutely impossible
with car or wagon, and almost i'm
passable on horse back. 1t was a
grave mistake to tear the road all up
in the fall with no prospect of com
pleting the job before the bad weather
of winter set in.
Elvins correspondence Flat River
News: "Mrs. w. T. Bollinger and
children of Elvins and Mrs. A. A
Meador and two daughters, of Flat
River motored to Arcadia Saturday
afternoon to attend the program in
honor of the formal opening of the
new bank in Arcadia, to be known al
the Arcadia Valley Bank. An elabor.
ate program was given, with ar
orchestra from St. Louis furnishing
music. o. r. Robinson of Arcadia il
cashier of the new bank; he is
brother-in-law to both Mrs. Bollingel
and Mrs. Meador."
The st. Louis Star 'wrote up" the
poor farm in Jefferson county a few
days prior to publishing it's extrava'
giant and u~nwarranted statements
in regard to the Iron county institu'
ton. The Stars writer evidently
drew just about az strongly on his i'm
agination in telling the Jefferson coun.
ty story as he did in ~narrating IRONS
The following is from last weeks
Hillsboro Democrat: "The county
judges visited the county farm lasI
Tuesday at noon and were there Ions
enough to give the place a good in
spection and question the wards. They
saw NO traces of vermin and were
told by the inmates that they were
never bothered by anything of the
kind"
In speaking of the progress Of the
work on the Old Folks Home the
Baptist Home for December says
"The open fall weather has beer
favorable tt operations. Not q day
has been lost. Some work has beer
done every day. We hadfondly hop,
ed, possibly without reasonable fonn'
dalton, to eat Christmas dinner in the
new building, aud occupy for the win
ter the two lower stories. But Their
have been delays, chiefly inthe matte
OF getting material for the heating
plant on the ground, until now w
: shall not try to occupy the new plac
before spring. We do not complain
VIZ only congratulate ourselves an