Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-09-27
IRONTON MO-. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. 1888
South neasterlngs.

A bank will soon be opened for busi-
ness at De Soto.
The Steelville Literary Society has
been reorganized, and will hold meet
ings every Friday evening.
The people of Jackson have raised
the money to buy all the land and right
of way for the railroad to Allenville.
A New Madrid school teacher was
fined $26 for whipping one of his pupils
excessively for fighting and swearing.
West Plains people estimate that the
population of their town has increased
at least one hundred in the last six
months.
The Grange at Bloomsdale, Ste. Gen
evieve county, has disposed OF its prop
perty in that place to Rev. A. Huttler
for $359.0O.
Several small post offices in Craw-
ford county have recently been bur-
glarized, stamps and small amounts of
money being taken.
Twenty thousand acres Of real estate
will be sold at the next term Of the
Wayne County Circuit Court, which
commences Oct. 1st.
Last Thursday was general holiday
in Madison county, and the picnic Civ
en- by the Gun Club at Frederickto town
was grand success.
The county officials Of Mississippi
county sent car load of 1,400 water
melons to the penitintiary at Jefferson
City for the convicts.
Eight teachers are employed in the
Cape Girardeau city public school, all
of whom, except the principal, Prof. }.
II. Van Amburg, are ladies.
John Marsden plead guilty to hog
stealing, in the Jefferson County Cir
cult Court, last week, and was given
two years in the penitentiary.
Fishing in Black river-near Pied
mont, at least-has been entirely ruin
ed. Parties have been killing fish of
all sizes by the use of dy Mantle.
The Sheriff of Jackson county, Ark.
while pursuing horse thieves into
Dunklin county, last week, was seri-
ously shot while disarming them.
The Benton Record and Benton E:r-
press are now under one management,
s. Henry Smith being sole proprietor
ofthe latest hyphenated paper in South
east Missouri.
At DeSoto, on the 18th inst, Thos.
Davis was shot on the street by some
unknown person. On the same day,
tramp kidnapped the little son Of John
Freich. The cries of the boy drew help,
and the tramp escaped.
State Senator Oliver, of Cape Girar-
deau, was pretty seriously crippled at
Middlebrook last week. In attempting
to board freight train while the cars
were being coupled, his left foot was
caught between the draw-heads and
badly mashed.
The shotgun offered as premium
by the Fredericktown Gun Club for
the best rife shot was won, on the Goth,
by John Oest, of Fredericktown, and
the rifle offered as premium for the best
shotgun shot was won by Mr.. Ham
mond, ofDe Soto.
Closing & Bro, proprietors Of the
Pennington Mills, have made some
important improvements in their mills.
They have built an elevator IL by 40
feet in dimensions and three stories
high, and have added cupola Is by 40
feet and IL feet high. The elevator
has four large bins with total capaci-
ty of 5000 bushels.
A call has been issued by Bro. Ma
brey, of the Doniphan Prospect, re-
questing the editors and publishers Of
newspapers in the Southeast to meet
at Cape Girardeau on the 9th Of next
month, for the purpose of organizing
q press association, and for the trans
action of such other business as may be
deemed expedient and necessary.
Dress Reform.