Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-09-28
Missouri News.

Springfield wishes to gobble up Nortl
Springfield.
/ -Sedalia would be happier if it had a new
court house.
jay Gould is said to have 1900 EN-
pl0yes in this State.
! Clinton has telephone and now yearn
| for an electric light.
| Political speeches are the order of tn,
day in Jefferson City.
| -CaboOl is the name Of q new railroad
| town in Texas county.
Columbia has had a colored fair, para.
doXical as it may sound.
Kansas City wants to steal the county
seat from Independence.
-Schell City Is out of debt and has S219 81
in the corporation treasury.
Kansas City is busy putting up build
fngs at Government expense.
The tobacco crop promises large yield
In most of the river counties.
-Carrollton supports four newspapers
1t Is to be hoped in good shape.
There is crying need for steamboat
and a first-class hotel i'm Osceola. Egg
The ladies outnumber the gentlemen at
the Normal School in Kirksville.
One Vichy Springs hotel building has
been turned into u school house.
The Chronicle says Webster county has
plenty OF everything except hogs.
The Oscar Wilde Sporting Club, of sIa-
ter, have pigeon shooting matches.
johnson county claims to have harvested
2,5OO,OOO bushels of wheat this year.
CRANKY will soon have a HIGH School
journal published within its limits.
The railroad debt of Cass county is about
$1,000 900. Big mistake somewhere.
Rich Hill aspires to be the champion
telephone city in Southwest Missouri.
Rich lead ore has been discovered on s.
l.. Montgomery's farm, near Monticello.
Mexico is going to be illuminated with
fifteen gaslights, when there isn't a moon.
"A new Jail in course of construction at
Shelbina is a source of much pride to the cit
liens.
Barton and Lawrence counties are breed
ing the Norman and Clydesdale horses
largely.
The Synodical College at Fulton has
over 100 pupils, and was never more pros
porous.
Immigrants are pouring into Southwestern
Missouri from all directions and by all con-
veyanceS.
One farmer near Rich Hill has 1900
bushels of wheat in his bins, and won't sell
ut s. cents.
The Pierce City Empire notices that large
numbers of sheep are shipped over the iris
co railroad.
Milan wants twenty-five new houses.
According to that some parties must be
camping out.
Rich Hill talks of rolling mills, foundries
and machine shops. Gas she will soon have
in abundance.
The colored Baptists of Mexico are try
ing to "remOve" their pastor; two attempts
have been made.
There are dark hints of favoriteism in
the awarding of the first prize at baby show
at the Edna fair.
"A young lady in Mexico has brought suit
against a German butcher for 10000, on u
charge of SANDER.
Washington sells its new bonds to the
local bank at a less premium than was Of
fered by outside parties.
The st. Joseph public schools are said to
be greatly overcrowded and the need OF add
ditiOnal room quite urgent.
Over 100 carloads Of baled hay, costing
upwards of $4,000, were shipped from Brook
field during August Of this year.
The towns which got in the way Of the
in Bates county are now suffering
from the after clap-ruined crops, etc.
Lawrence county has 6,527 children Of
school age, of whom SO are cOlOred. EX-
pended for teachers last year, SIS, 1858.
The Southern tier of counties all have
sufficient mast to fatten all the hogs in each,
but a little corn is always needed to make
solid pork.
Marshal is to have gas works as soon as
they can be built. The ground has been
bought and preparations for work nearly
Robert Gibson, of Macon county, Is said
to be the oldest man in the country. He was
excused from military duty in 1872, it is said,
on accout OF age.
The Linn County Baptist Association will
be held with the grove Hill Church, about
twelve miles north Of BrOOkfeld, beginning
on Saturday, 30th inst.
-Clarksville pushes to the front with two
catfish, weighing 1870 and 200 pounds respec-
lively. Amy citizen will show the doubter
where they were caught.
A widow farmer near Holden has sold 100
bushels of pears, 200 bushels of apples and
and large quantities of plums and cherries,
this season, from twelye-acre lot.
"A hack is making daily trips between
Loveland, the western terminus of the
Springfield and Memphis railroad, and West
Plains, the county seat Of Howell county.
For the best Sewing Machines, go to the
Agency of the Genuine Singer, one door south
Of the REGISTER office, Ironton.
,19,n JAMES WEI CHI AGENT