Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-12-07

-(Q8T1IOu county GSIlm8te9 HeT corn Cr0n
at 8, zoe, 900 bushels.
-Fredericktown boasts Of a novelist in the
person Of q 1O-year-old girl.
An hot-house orange tree in Charleston
mas tWenty-one oranges on 1t.
Cotton is being shipped from Dexter,
Stoddard county, at a lively rate.
The contract has been let for building an
opera house at Louisiana, Pike county.
"A steam furniture factory has been es-
tablished at Poplar Bluff, Butler county.
The corn crop Of New Madrid county
this year Is estimated at 2,O0O, 600 bushels.
"A Macon county man sold this fall 5000
worth OF apples from n fortY-acre orchard.
Butler, Bates county, is waking up to
the necessity Of having more manufactures.
,a Joplin. J9| Jasper county, is to have paint
81, 600.
There are enough acorns in Oregon coun-
ty fatten 1000 hogs for every farmer in the
county.
Over A,50o bushels Of apples have been
shipped East this season from Washington
county.
deau proposes to have a capital stock of
$10O, 900.
Three new towns have Just been laid of
In Perry county. They are all located BY q
medical spring.
"A District Fair Association has been or
ganized at Cameron, Clinton county, with q
capital of $4,000.
Apples will be scarce at Hamilton, Cald-
well county, because the farmers sold OF too
closely to shippers.
spelling schools are reported to be all
the rage this fall in the neighborhood of Mon.
ticello, Lewis county.
There were 104, ,1sO acres put in corn in
Charlton county this year, and the crop is
estimated at 8, ,O6,O0O.
"A little steamboat makes weekly trims I'M
and down Black river between Poplar Bluff
and some point below.
There were recently sold in the counties
OF Butler, Stoddard, Mississippi and Scott
S7O,967 acres Of swamp land.
Supreme Judge Sherwood Is having built
on his farm, south of Springfield, what Is said
to be the finest residence in Greene county.
Mrs. Barbara Ditzler, widow, residing
about eight miles from Jefferson City, gath
cred 900 bushels Of corn from i've acres, this
year.
One hundred and eight acres Of land in
r!atte county lying seven miles east of Platte
City, IN the prairie, was recently sold ut $35
per acre
-Wel!sville, Montgomery county, claims to
be handling more corn than any other station
on the Wabash line between st. Louis and
Kansas City.
Stephen Bird, Of Birds Point, Mississip-
pi county, raised two crops of potatoes and
good crop Of corn on the same piece of
ground the past season. Ii
All the towns and cities Of any size I'm
the Southwest, It is reported, will have rep
st. Louis on the 11th inst.
The Hamilton District Fair Association.
having secured over 81 900 in subscriptions.
has purchased grounds and commenced max.
Ing the necessary improvements.
I'm some counties in the State. grand iuries
are pushing alleged Road Overseers to the
wall, indicting them for spelling roads. when
the law contenplates that they should have
them repaired.
Benjamin Childer, Of Oregon county. ia n
man nifty years old. He has raised six chil-
dren to maturity, and his medical expenses
aoI tne tWenty-Iour years he has lived In that
county has been just So.
Women seem to take about ~ much In
terest In horse-racing in Perry county az the
men. AT recent race in that county there
were 800 people in attendance, 900 o1 whoa
being OF the gentler sex.
Mr.. Heller, Of Cape Girardean county.
rents farm OF only thirty acres, on which
nc has raised this year 3OA bushels Of wheat,
iOo bushels Of harley. 500 bushels Of potatoes,
besides plenty Of bay, oats and other feed.
The work Of rebuilding the Randolph
county court house viii soon commence: Cit
cost to the ooaanty--and it Is to cost not less
than $a0tgD0-the county donating $lO,OOO In
snranee held on old house, also the grounds.