Iron County register., 1883-06-14
CLOSINGOF MAILS.
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Still plenty Of rain.
Jas. Baird is running brick yard over in
Arcadia.
The post-office building has a new awning.
Louis Miller, designer and builder.
Wheat may fail; corn may not turn out
We'll; but full hay crop is assured.
Payday at Pilot Knob made last Saturday
alively time for the merchants of the two
towns.
guess" the names of the high contracting
parties:
The weak, piping voice of the be!ated ice
man has at length grown into an exulting,
stentorian cry.
The Sixth Annual Commencement Of Ar
cadia College will be held on the Goth and
9th Of this month.
Hugh Smith. Esq, of Poplar Bluff, is put
ting in the new machinery for the Ironton
Manufacturing Company.
The first fruits of the bicycle fever are cuts
and bruises. Broken limbs and serious in
juries come with the second stage of prac-
tice. After that, weariness, digust and dis
use.
The thanks of our better half are hereby
returned to Mrs. H. NJ. Bradley for a basket
of very fine Strawberries. The fruit was
home-raised, fresh, and of especially fine
favor.
J. L. Batterton, of the Bluff Citizen, went
mp the road Monday. Rumor hath it that
he goes to st. Louis to secure him a better
half. If this be true, we say, Good luck,
Johnny?
The ladies of the Aid Society will give an
Ice Cream Entertainment at the Academy of
Music, Thursday evening, June 18th, 1881,
to which they solicit the kind patronage of
the public.
The strawberry season is about over for
this year. Up to the present, the lowest
price paid In these parts was fifteen cents
per qnart. Arcadia Valley is a better mar
bet for fruit growers than st. Louis so far as
prices go.
4 new time-card went into effect on the
railroad last Sunday. The only important
change is that in the time of No. 4. That
train now passes Ironton ut 9:54 A. NJ, and
the mail for it closes ut $50. Its old time
was LAO P. NJ.
Judge Emerson has received a cordial in |
vitation from IA committee to deliver an adj |
dress at a celebration in De Soto next Satur-
day, the 10th inst, but he has declined. He |
persists that he will do no more talking be-
fore next fall or winter.
VIM. Hills, ESQ, accompanied by his sis |
ter-in-law, Mrs. Thos. Newman, departed |
for London, England, last Monday. Thos.
Newman, Esq, went with them SO far as ST.
Louis. We wish them happy voyage, u
pleasant visit, and safe return.
Louis Miller has the honor of having |
drawn the plan for Emerson's new stable.
He has produced one of the prettiest struc-
lures of the kind in the State. Baldwin
Bros. did the carpenter work, and w. III.
Pierce put the fancy touches of paint on it.
All are local workmen.
A heavy rainstorm with hail accompani-
ment, driven before high wind, deluged
this portion of the planet Tuesday afternoon.
The thermometer fell from S6 to 66 degrees,
tho wind arrows pointing due north. One
and one-tenth inches of rain fell during the
heaviest part of the storm.
Mrs. S. Ii. Delano, accompanied by her
daughter, Miss Ellen, and Freddie, her
grandchild, leave to-day, for Elmira, n. y,
to attend the commencement exercises Of the
Female College at that place. Miss Hattie
f. Delano, who has been a pupil there for
five years, graduates next week.
The examinations ut the Middlebrook pub
lie school will be held on Thursday and Fri
day of this week. An exhibition will take
place next Monday evening. This school has
been very prosperous this year, W ith an at
tendance of seventy five pupils, and the ex-
animation and exhibition will possess eX-
interest.
A Mr.. Haeffner, living on the Hutchins
place two miles south Of Ironton, is sorely
afflicted with dropsy. Last Friday, DIR. W.
C. Patton, assisted by DR.. Baird,tapped him
and took from him three and one-half gall
Ions of water. The patient withstOod the
operation unusually well, and, rs might be
e Npected, experienced great relief. He is :