Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-13
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ty cost S45O.
THE District Fair at Cape Girardeau
is in full blast this week.
THE De Soto depot is improved with
new floor, seats and paint
A HUNTER in Reynolds county kill
ed 257 squirrels in ten days.
In Scott county the corn crop is much
better than it was supposed to be.
DEER are reported to be scarcer than
usual in Jefferson county this season.
THIRTY-THREE squirrels were killed
in one day by Wayne county hunter.
GOLD RATTLER,"a deer-hound, died
in Charleston recently from snake bite.
THE Cape Girardeau Fair offers five
thousands dollars in premiums this week.
Iris reported that corn can be bought
for sixty-five cents per bushel, in some parts
of Crawford county.
THE Southern Methodists of Rolla
their building scheme.
AT late meeting Of the stockhold-
ers Of the Cape Pottery Company, the capital
was increased to 100000.
THE Town Board of Steelville has
raised the saloon licenses from twenty dollars
to fifty dollars per annum.
THE iron on the Cape Girardeau rail-
road will be finished to the town of Lakeville
nv the mildIa of this werk
JUDGE TRAsK, of Steelville, shipped
one hundred and fifteen head of hogs to the
st. Louis market, last week.
THE premiums offered by the mana
gers of the District Fair at Cape Girardeau
have always been paid in full.
THE corn crop in Ripley county is
said not to be so short after all. A number
of farmers will have corn to sell.
GARFIELD is the name of a new sta
ton on the Cape Girardeau Railway. 1t is
located seven miles west of Delta.
THERE is a carpenter located at
Charleston whose height is reported to be six
feet and seven inches, barefooted.
THE old public school building in
Hills5oro has been torn down, and work on q
new one Ia to commence right away.
THE Pennington Fair only paid six
ty cents on the dollar on the premiums offered
this year, on account OF the drought.
THERE will be barbecue at Bis
marck-ou occasion of laying corner stone of
new Protestant Church-next Saturday.
DIR. MCCLELLAN, of Oregon county,
says he has an apple and cherry tree in
bloom; both of which had borne fruit tn Q
year.
Mr.. ANDREW J. HARvIELL has tax
en- possession, in Poplar Bluff, of the black
smith and wagon shop lately purchased by
him from Mr.. Henry Turner.
THE authorities of Stoddard county
{ fer 200 reward for the capture and delivery
of John H. Harper, who killed Am morose Sni-
der at Bloomfield on Sept 9th.
A FARMER in New Madrid county
claims that he would have gathered eight hun
bred pounds of cotton to the acre il squirrels
had not damaged good deal Of it.
THE oldest citizen Of Butler county,
ex-Courty Judge John Gillian, died in the
poorhouse at Poplar Bluff, the other day, and
was buried at .he county's expense.
In some of the cotton-growing coun-
ties of the Southeast squirrels go into the
feds, cut off the cotton balls, and open them
for the seed, thus wasting the cotton.
A RATTLEsNAKE killed near New
Madrid measured six feet and four inches in
length alter the head and rattles were taken
of It. had sixteen rattles and button.
THE doctors at West Plains entered
into an agreement not to give a prescription
for liquors of any kind without first receiving
25 cents therefor; patients under their treat
ment being excepted.
AT the last term Of the Circuit Court
the following were elected to represent Stod-
years for bigamy; Ramsey % years and Walk
er % years for murder.
A NEW steam-power machine in JEFF
ferson county threshed, the past season,
90, $50 bushels of whe At, 1,96S of oats and "a
of rye. There was good run Of custom, but
the crops were all small.
A CoLORED man in Dunklin county
was chopping down a tree: and as 1t was fall
ing, q large buck came along and was struck
and knocked down By the tree. The buck was
then killed by the colored man with an
Ak.
THE Atkinsons-father and son-at
Gayoso. Pemiscot county, have been SEN
fenced to be hanged on the 2Sth Of this month.
They were convicted of mur Ter IN the first
son for the murder Of his wife,
aud the father as an accessory.
THE consolidation of the New Mad
r.d Narrow Guage with the Texas aud st. Louis
road having been accomplished, Maj Geo. b.
Clark says he and his associates will now give
their undivided attention to their drainage en-
terprise ani other public work.
THE Hillboro Democrat says the
fruit prospects In that vicinity for next season
are not very f,ttering at present. Many oil
the trees-espec:ally the apple--are now In
full bloom. Toe long dry spell, fol wed by
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