Iron County register., 1883-04-26
IRONTON MO-, THURSDAY. APRIL 26. 1888
SOutlheasteriDgs.

! A Charleston boy captured "A bull frogs in
one day, recently.
A two-s story addition to the railway sta
ton at Cape Girardeau Is being built.
Work has been commenced on new Court
House at West Plains, Howell county.
Salem butchers are unable to supply the
demand for ''first-rate beef" it is said.
The Union says some of the Perry county
| people have the "Washington Territory fe-
ver."
Col. j. W. Fletcher is building brick hotel
| at De Soto, the ground plan of which is 4S
by 60 feet.
| There are now five prisoners in the Scott
county jail-three white men and two col
ored women.
A company has been formed to build a
plank road from Piketon, Stoddard county,
to Oran, Scott county.
Murry Phillips, of New Madrid county, re-
Gently sold 5000 worth of cattle to couple
of Galatia ulls.) men,.
| From present indications Scott county will
soon have another railroad, which will run
through or near Benton.
| A representative of the Simmons Hard
ware Co., of st. Louis, has presented 3OO-
pound bell to Maiden church.
Scott county has 3,O5s children Of school
age. She gets s, 293.S5 out of the annual ap-
portionment of State school money.
| A Mr.. Moore, of Perry county, recently
paid Mr.. Louis Nauman, of Ste. Genevieve
county, 81 ,275 for twenty-five head of cat
tie.
| The late Grand Jury in Dent county re-
turned forty-two true bills of indictment, a
large number Of the same being ''liquor
cases."
! Fifty members have been added to the
Methodist Church at Charleston during the
past thirty days-the result of a~'protracted
meeting"
Public school opened at Poplar Bluff OH
Monday Of last week, with Prof. g. w. Reg
Assistant.
A tract of land containing lat acres, lying
one mile west of Sikeston, and belonging to
the heirs of David Hunter, was sold recent
" for 81, ,5Ol.
The Democrat says 1t is certainly disheart-
ening to be at the Court House in Salem dur
ing q rainstorm and see the amount of water
that pours in on the plastering, floors, furni
ture and records.
! There has been 81 100 paid in by the share
holders in the Building and Loan Association
OF Cape Girardeau, 400 has been loaned
out on interest, and there Is now 81 200 in
the treasury, according to an exchange from
| that city.
At the late session of the Perry County
Circuit Court special Judge was elected to
try the case of the State w. Chas. +. Roy,
for perjury. Judge Fox was disqualified
to try the case as he was a relative, by mar
riage, to the defendant.
A bank corporation has been organized at
West Plains, with H. T. Smith as President,
and j. L. Thomas, Cashier. The style of the
corporation is "West Plains Bank" 1t has
a capital stock of $15, 600, and it will open up
for business on May 1st.
From the Jefferson Democrat we learn that
three little children, while playing in the
woods near Hillsboro the other day, ate of
some plant which poisoned them, and caused
them to nearly vomit themselves away; but
they are getting all right.
Dunklin county is not in the so-called cot
ton belt-indeed, there are but three or four
counties in the Southeastern part of Missou-
ri that pretend to raise cotton at all-and yet
that county can (says q correspondent with
favorable season, ship 10000 bales Of cotton
a year.
The Board of Directors at Dexter has or
dered a meeting Of the voters of that school
district on May 9Th "to vote upon the ques-
ton of issuing bonds for the amount OF
s., 900, to bear 8 per centum interest, and re-
deemable in five years, for the purpose a
school house,"
Fifteen of the seventeen bondsmen of Geo. |
w. Arnold, late Collector of Scott county,
have paid the latter's deficiency. When Mr.. |
Arnold made his last annual settlement there
was shown to be 11,475.Os due the county;
but he having since paid s., 500. y Of the de- |
felt, the amount his securities had to pay in |
to the Treasury was $S,976.36.
Mr.. Wash Nifong, Of Madison county, it is |
reported, will soon start from Sikeston, Scott |
county, with about /, 200 head of cattle for
w WyOHAiuS AcIEitOFy. ne HaS ABOUT GU neaO /
in Cape Girardeau and Madison counties,
which he will add to his drove as he passes |
through that section. The greater number
of the cattle, it is said, has been contracted /
to parties in the Territory, and Mr.. Nifong
will probably put the balance ON ranch Of
his own.
John Cunningham and Mary Alley, living
in the south part Of Howell county, went to
West Plains the other day for the purpose
of obtaining marriage license. As the
young lady was not of legal age, and did not
have the consent of parents or guardian, the
Clerk could not issue the license. Mr.. Cum
then went to the Prosecuting At
torney, who "laid the following plan, which
worked like charm" The young lady was
to 60 before the Probate Judge
and choose the attorney for her guardian:
which she did, and he was appointed. The
attorney gave bond In the sum of S2O0 fo, b;s