Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-01-11

Doniphan has broom factory.
t A Literary and Musical Society has bee
' organized at Iillsboro.
Potosi is to have hall with q stage al
complete, in the near future.
Fredericktown has public library, whicl
at present contains 800 volumes.
Both at Fredericktown and at Farmingtol
the young have organized Library Associa
lions.
The Eminence Argus says great depreda
tons have been made among pigs on Curren
river by bald eagles.
A young lady residing in the southern par
of Perry county has just finished quilt that
contains 1,743 pieces.
The Good Samaritan Society of De Soto is
credited with distributing $235.75 during
1882 to the deserving poor.
The Maiden Clipper estimates the number
of acres of land in Dunklin county that were
planted in cotton last year at from q, 900 to
30, 900.
| Mr.. Louis Houck, of Cape Girardeau, read
| a paper OH ''The Federal Courts" before the
| Bar Association of Missouri which met re-
| Gently ut Sedalia.
The Alton school challenged the West
Plains school for spelling match, which
took place during the holidays. The Alton
school was beaten.
Mr.. Thos. H. Moore has returned to Pop
lar Bluff, and is making arrangements to 20
In partnership with Mr.. w. F. Neal, in whose
store he was formerly clerk.
A Dramatic Club has been organized at
Doniphan, with Baxter Broadwell, ESQ.,, as
its President. The club proposes to give an
entertainment about once a month.
The editor Of the jackson Cash Book the
other day in company with two other sports
men, went out shooting, and succeeded in
bagging AZ quails as a resolt of the hunt.
From the West Plains Gazette we learn
that Mr.. NJ. Patton, formerly a citizen of
Ironton, has purchased a meat shop at West
Plains. He commenced business on the LIST
Of January.
The Salem Monitor says the Nova Scotia
Furnace Company paid, the other day, over
81 800 taxes on its property in Dent county.
Nearly all this property has been brought
into the county within the past three years.
A teachers institute has been organized at
Pennington, to be known as the est. Fran
co.'s County Teachers Association" Prot.
r. NJ. Hunter is its President, Prof. H. c.
Davis, Secretary, and Miss E. A. Carleton,
Treasurer.
A 9-year-old boy was arrested in Madison
county last week, charged with manning an |
animal. The boy had struck cow with an |
AK, and inflicted . bad wound. He was
taken before Justice, and the fine and costs |
amounted to $50, which his father paid.
The Iron Mountain correspondent of the |
Times says Mr.. A. j. Sypher |
killed deer son the ice, a few hundred yards
from the Shore" and then coolly waded In
the water up to his neck, breaking the ice
ian inch thisk) as he went, to get the game.
The Marble Hill Herald says: "a cow be-
onging to George w. Miller, who lives near
on Tuesday night of this week,
gave birth to three calves. This may appear
% be an incredible statements but our in
ormant, Fred. c. Shell, WAS there, and saw
he cow and Calves"
The Van Buren, Times says Deputy United
states Marshal Wheeler stopped In that town
he other week, having in custody one, Sad
er, Of Shannon county, charged with selling
eaf tobacco IN the hand. two years ago. Mr..
adler was taken to st. Louis, and, after be-
ng lodged in Jail over night, was released
he next morning, to get home the best be,
ould. IL
The De Soto Waterman says: Zone Of the
lost remarkable incidents we have ever heard