Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-10-04
LOCAL BREVITIES.

NO. was SIX hours late Monday morning.
Letters can now be sent by mail for two
cents.
Agreat many of our townspeople are now
in St Louis attending the fair.
Coke brought from Grand Tower, H., is
being used in the furnace at Pilot Knob.
A lue at the Ironton House was on fire
Sunday night, causing good deal of excite
ment but no damage.
The Iron County Sunday School Association
will hold its next session at Cedar Grove, on
the 18th and 18th inst.
The eighteenth annual fair of the South
east District Agricultural Society opens at
Cape Girardeau on the 9th and continues FIVE
days.
The contents of the editorial page of the
REGISTER may not be very entertaining to
the reader, but are ting to the pub
Usher.
Miss Sophia Weidmann, who came UP from
the South to spend a year at Pilot Knob, be-
gan . term of school Monday on Mable
Creek.
Wild ducks have been quite numerous IN
this neighborhood during the past two
weeks, and great many have been killed by
our hunters.
For the first time in about four weeks,
enough rain fell on Monday morning to lay
the dust on Ironton's streets. Since then We
have had several big rains.
We are informed that no less than seven
passenger trains passed up the road Tues
day morning, loaded with people bound for
St. Louis to attend the fair.
On another page will be found the adver-
tisement of Coleman B. Hill, who has OPEN
ed out an undertaker's shop in the building
north of the Academy of Music.
The st. Louis fair, as usual, has almost de-
populated IrOnton. The Post Office, print
ing Office and two saloons are about the only
institutions running on full time.
The reduction of letter postage one-third
will give us 4 chance to lay by something
for q rainy day: it will save us at least one
hundred and thirty-five cents per annum.
All the miners on Shepherd and Cedar
mountains have been transferred to the mines
on Pilot Knob, in order to supply the de-
mand for the kind Of ore taken therefrom.
Mr.. j. C. Medley and wife, accompanied by
their grand daughter, Miss Annie Coon, and
Mrs. l.. F. Medley, of Piedmont, left last
week for Louisville; KY, to attend the EN-
position.
The Arcadia Accommodation was couple
of hours late in arriving at this station last
Saturday evening. 1t was delayed at Caron-
delet, where an engine aud tender had jump
ed the track.
The st. Louis Ore & Steel Co. is shipping
500 tons of iron ore daily from the Pilot Knob
mines, On contract. The hill looks like a
honey comb, except that the busy bees in
that hive work day and night.
Two Company teams passed through Iron
ton Monday en- route for Bollinger county,
where they will haul hemitite ore from a
mine near Lutesville to the railroad to be
shipped to the furnace at Pilot Knob.
Arcadia Valley Teachers Association will
reorganize for its third years work at Pilot
Knob, Saturday, Oct. 9th, at "A. NJ. A'pro-
gramme of exercises is prepared and prof
liable session is expected Friends of the
cause re invited
Passenger fares on the Iron Mountain road
have been reduced from four and five cents
per mile to three cents. The fare from St
Louis to Little Rock now is S10.35; old rate
was S14.35. From st. Louis to TeNarkana,
$14. 90; old rate, S21.1O.
We are requested to say, for the benefit of
School Directors, that = supply of the latest
revised school law is in the hands of the
County Commissioner to be distributed
among the districts. AS the law makes no
provision for postage, the Clerks would bet
ter send for them.
Prof. Toensfcldt, Principal Of German
school for boys in st. Louis, brought down
a number of his pupils (among them Willie
Schwab) to the Knob and IrOnton Saturday,
and the boys enjoyed themselves rambling
over the hills, hunting, &c. While at Pilot
Knob they were the guests Of MIR. Steffens,
who has established his place as quite a
summer resort
Henry Orrick languishes in the Jail here.
Henry has been carrying concealed weapons
against the peace and dignity of the State;
and now Mr.. VIM. Mays charges the individ-
u,l with taking and carrying away mule
belonging to him. a preliminary examination
for which will be entered into before Squire
Dinger on Saturday next. Paul has an open
eve when he looks sleepy.
Chills and fever got hold of McGinnis,
And he thought he would come to fms,
When at last they grew chronic,
He used Chill and Fever Tonic,
Now he reclined on the top of joys pinnace.
Smiths Chill and Fever Tonic, IL a bottle.
J.F. Smith Co., st. Louis, Mo. Sold at
the Pilot Knob Drug Store.
Carpenters Wanted
Twelve carpenters wanted at once. Apply
En- Erpp SrE.fNR pilot Knob. Mo.