Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-16
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Thomas Beckwith and Clarence johnson
also, that the wheat crop has never beer
known to look so fine at this period of the sea-
son as it does at present, and that many field.
are now seen that would hide a rabbit
THE Peter Hoffman school house
about three miles southeast of Perryville
was reduced to ashes on the night of the sth
T. J. BRAswELL, of Oregon county
will be candidate for reelection to the Of
Zee of Representative to the legislature
THE Jefferson Waterman says it is
rumored that an accommodation train will be
run to Arcadia the coming summer.
FARMINGToN has Ladies' Mission
airy Society of the NJ. E. Church, South. 1t
il an auxiliary to the Ladies' Missionary So
ciety of that church in st. Louis.
PoTosr expects soon to have a hub
and spoke factory.
HORSE stealing is becoming preva-
lent at West Plains.
GEO. BOHAMAN will be hung at
Rolls on Friday, April 21st.
THE HillsborO Democrat of last week
contains an advertisement of an appliance to
prevent gate posts from sagging. We don't
need anything Of that sort down here; our
girls don't hang on the gate.
THE Charleston Courier says Hon,
Messer Ward will not be a candidate for
Congress at the coming election.
THE new house of worship Of the N.
e. Church, South, in Pennington will be
dedicated on Sunday, April I'd. Rev. DR..
M'Anally, of st. Louis, will preach the dedi-
catory sermon.
ZYPITA TAYLOR, a colored woman
who lived in Pennington, was found dead in
her yard on the 9Th inst. Heart disease.
THE Kennett correspondent of the
Maiden Clipper says: "James Baird, of Ar
cadia, arrived here Thursday, and will COM
mence his masonry work in few days"
FROM the Pennington Tunes we
learn tnst Mr.. Robert Newall, formerly fore
man at Syenite, has gone to Graniteville, this
county, to take charge Of the quarries there,
The Syenite company having recently leased
that place place for number of years.
WE clip the following from the Fred
ericktown Democrat Standard: "Mr. George
W. Cline, of ST. Louis, is working an iron
mine in this (Madison) county, near the Elm
stein silver mine. He has struck a lode nine
and one-half feet of solid ore. He has now
sunk perpendicular shaft thirty three feet
feet, and the ore assays 81 per cent. FROM
the prospect, Mr.. Cline's enterprise will prove
to be success.'
THE Good Samariton Society at De
Soto will give an entertainment on the 21st
inst. for the benefit of the poor of that place.
MR.. J. r. BAKER, of East Prairie,
Mississippi county, recently killed panther
that measured seven feet five inches from
the end of the nose to the tip of the tail, and
two feet six inches from paw to shoulder.
The stuffed skin of the defunct animal is on
exhibition in a Charleston saloon.
Mr.. B. G. PHILLIPS, of Oregon
county is the father of sixteen children.
The other day he took twelve of them, to-
gether with four grandchildren, to Alton
and had their pictures taken in a group.
FRESH, ripe tomatoes on the first
day of March! What do you think Of that
for Salem:" cries the Democrat of that place,
and then goes on to say that Mrs. Henry G..
Sankey, at Salem Hotel, has vine that has
grown up during the winter sin the same
box with geranium," and which is bearing
several specimens of tomatoes.
THE De Soto Jefferson Waterman,
of the 18th inst, says: Manager Hoxie has
offered to carry, free of charge, all necessaries
of life to sufferers of the recent high water
Tally one good act in a mean mans life."
Ex-CoNDUCToR Body is making
preparation to open restaurant in De Soto.
THE Maiden Clipper Of the 18th inst.
says the water at Kennett sis subsiding lit
tie, but is yet raging its monstrous sway
through farms and houses" Judge E. j.
Langdon, who has been a resident of Dunklin
county for forty.two years, says the water
has been at least two feet higher this spring
than ever before. For several days the peo-
pie Of Cotton Plant were busy manufacturing
canoes at Judge Langdon's residence for the
purpose of assisting those who were engulfed
in the waves to the only dry ground "a small
island) on Grand Prairie.