Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-10-11
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The new Court House at West Plains
is about completed.
A Madison county boy last week
caught a large gray fox.
A new fence will soon inclose the
public square at Van Buren,.
Horse thieves are getting to be quite
numerous i'm StOddard county.
Scott cOunty's new Court House,
which is now being erected at Benton,
will cost &c. 400.
The foundation is laid and the brick
work has commenced OH the school
house at Dexter.
An earthquake shock was very dis
tinctly felt at Hillsboro on the 18th
ult., at 1880 A. NJ.
Last week Madison county sent
burglar named Ford up to Jefferson
City for two years.
In Stoddard county the other day a
man aged 81 was granted license to
marry o woman of 40.
The Maiden Clipper says cotton.pick-
ing has now commenced:quiteg generally
throughout Dunklin county.
Howell county is to have fair. 1t
will be held at West Plains Oh the 26th'
9th and 18th of this month.
Offers of IS cents cash on the dollar
are being made for Ripley county war
rants, through the Doniphan Prospect
Office.
The hog cholera, or some other swine
malady, is said to have been very fatal
among the hogs in the vicinity OF Bis
marck.
The Oregon county fair, which open
ed at Thomasville on the I'd and closed
on the 4th, is said to have been great
success.
Seven persons have recently gone
from jefferson county to Jefferson City
to learn the shoemaker's trade. Two
years each.
John C. Brown is building large
pond four miles north of Van Buren,,
in Carter county, and will stock it with
German carp.
A newspaper is to be started at Crys-
tai City. twill be run i'll the interests
of Crystal Glass Plate Co., whose prop
erty it will be.
A series of meetings have been go
ing OF at Bonnie Terre for some time
past, and up to the I'd inst. there were
sixty-one conversions.
J. G. Towson, of Stoddard county,
has about seventy stands of bees, and
he has obtained l 300 pounds OF honey
from them this season.
At late term of the New Madrid
County Circuit Court thirty persons
plead guilty to indictments for gaming,
and were fined $40 each.
The Presbyterians have secured lot
near the Central Hotel in Poplar Bluff,
and they will proceed at once to lay
the foundation for a new church.
The first bale of Stoddard county cot
ton was sold on the 18th ult. by J. l..
Jones, who lives near Exchange, to a
Dexter firm at Ok cents per pound.
Perryville has only one newspaper
now, w. H. Booth having sold the
Union to J. b. Hilmes, of the Sun,
who has consolidated the two papers.
The Pennington Times says: "The
Miss Hill who is creating such a sensa-
ton i'm the West by claiming to be the
wife of Senator Sharon. is a Cape Girar-
deau lady,"
There seems to be an abundance of
small game in Reynolds county. The
other day in about two hours time
Squire Butcher bagged five squirrels
and six ducks.
The Grand Jury in session at Fred
ericktown last week recommended that
the old Jail at that place "be torn down
as the first steps towards the erection
of new one"
Two gentlemen from Leavenworth,
Kas., have gone into the hog-raising
business In Oregon county. They now
have 4lO hogs, and will soon increase
their herd to ! 900.
Hon. T.. D. Walker has recently
made two fish ponds on his place near
Pennington. He will soon stock one
of them with German carp and the
other with mountain trout.
For the next two years George Dom
aldson and George Rocker will reside
at Jefferson City; at least Judge Thorn
as wants them to stay there that length
Of time for robbing Mr.. HeatOn, of De
Soto.
The Bonnie Terre Reporter of last
Friday says: last Sunday Is persons
were baptised in Big river at Pigg's
f,r.3 l,x, tho Rev RraaUoIl EHaots of