Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-08-16
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If you see little knot OF JACKSON
ians anywhere on the streets you can
bet YOUR bottom dollar that they are
talking railroad. The topic Is on every
tongue Book.
The track on the narrow guage road
at Willow Springs is completed, ana
cars will be running to the South Mis-
souri, Land and Lumber Co.'s saw-mlll
in a few days Vest Plains Journal.
Wheat is not coming to market very
rapidly for this season of the year.
The farmers seem to be masters of the
situation, and they are garnering up
their wheat, waiting probably for bette
prices or more convenient season for
hauling.-Cdpe Girardeou Courier.
AS fine corn as we have ever seen
grow is over on Black river. The fields
at a distance look like a vast black
cloud, the corn is so tall and dark.
We do not exaggerate when we say
that we saw as many as six ears on a
stalk and never less than two.-Pied-
mont Leader.
Hang Long, the Celestial, picked up
his wash-tub, flat-irons and rice sticks
last Friday and departed for Pierce
City. He intended going to Rolla, but
after reading the Herald of last week
and inferring that the people of that
place never have washing done, he
changed his mind. - Vest Plains
Journal.
James E. Wilson, of Big River, kill
ed a rattle snake a few days since, 8! feet
in length. It had seven rattles. He
found it in his lot, when he had just
finished stacking hay. David Chance,
who lives few miles from Wilson, had
previously killed one that was 44 feet
long and had thirteen rattles.-Hills-
6oro Democrat.
The contract for furnishing the addi-
tional furniture for the Normal School
was awarded last Saturday to the Ex-
celsior School Furniture Manufacturing
Company, of Cincinnati, their bid
iS7S9) being the lowest. They insure
the furniture to stand the usual wear
and tear of school furniture for twenty
years, and give bond in the sum of fl i've
thousand dollars for the fulfillment of
the contract.-Cdpe Girardeau Cour-
ier.
Two pretty birds from the blackjack
hills of Bollinger were the other day
brought to Jackson and placed in Mr..
VIM. J. PENIS cage. One is a male
and the other a female, related to one
another as uncle and niece. They had
been discovered flocking together in a
way not sanctioned by the laws of NOR
atty and the State of Missouri, and
were therefore brought hither and
turned over to Mr.. Penn. They now
occupy separate cages in his aviary.-
Cdsh-BO0E.
Judson Randoll has gone into the
dairy business, and says it pays better
than plOughing. He has seven cows,
and made from them 200 lbs. of butter
from the goth of May till the 4th of
August, clearing $4,000, besides having
all the butter the home folks used. He
feeds the unused milk to the hogs, and
is delighted with his first two and a
half months work in this business,
having the cows, calves and hogs, all of
which can be turned into the needful at
any time.-Cdpe Girardeau NeaDs.
Last week Eddie Roussin killed, on
his fathers farm, in Creek Nation, a rat
tie snake measuring four feet in length
and having eleven rattles and q button.
We were about to say something about
it's size, when Mr.. VIM. Mounts dropped
in and said he had the skin of q rattle
snake that hand employed on Nick
Counts farm inIPerry county had killed
not long since, that measured four and
a half feet aud had twenty-one rattles.
The man who killed his snakeship was
binding wheat at the time, and came
very near picking the reptile up in his
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Ptaindeatr.
Messrs. Nlckery & Henry, on Tues
day of last week, delivered to Messrs.
Braymer & Durham, Of North Missouri,
$50 head of cattle, in compliance with
q contract made on the Goth of June.
Mr.. Mickey Informed us that he at first
tried to buy the cattle in Butler county.
but the farmers here were too slow for
him to trade with; as he would have a
forfeit to pay if he did not have 2Oo
head by the 3Oth of July, he went
over into Ripley and Oregon counties
and got fifty head more than the con-
tract called for. The delivery was
made at DonIphan.-Popldr Bluff Cit
izen.
We have in our town q man who
was bitten by q mad dog in his time.