Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-05-15

20 Services 1t st. Paul's Church next Sunday,
morning and evening. q
Nos. and now carry two fruit cars each
between Judsonia, Ark, and st. Louis.
II you want No. article Of ice cream, go
to Mr.. Hotson's parlors. They are the COST
est rooms in town.,
The Arcadia Valley Mill Company are
building granary to their mill, ON the north
side. It is thirty-six feet wide by twenty
six feet long, and three stories high.
- The Ironton REGISTER of last week states
that Hon. II. L. Clardy will be candidate
for re.elecslon.e II such Is the case it Is safe
70 say that he win be his own successor
Reynolds Outlook. fisa
There was q small wreck at Tip-Top last
Thursday. Trains were not delayed, and no
: damage done besides the derailing OF several
i ears, and the tearing up the track for some
thirty or forty feet. - o3s
The following gentlemen were last Wed
nesday elected directors for the Academy of
Music Company for the ensuing year.
re g. A. Moser, J. n. Bishop, F. Rodach, A.
Roehry and j. T. AXE. 80 4.-f. -.
J The call for the Democratic State Conven-
ton to nominate State Ticket ia published
in this issue. The convention to select del
egates to the National Convention will be
held on the oath day Of June. a.@ s8"5i
Wallace's bridge-gang will be with us for
some time yet, as it will take them fifteen
days to fnish the bridge between, Ironton
and Arcadia, afterwhich they are to repair
the one between here and Pilot Knob.
81, After a severe and dangerous illness
of one week's duration, Mrs. AXE last
Sunday ''took turn for the BETTER"
and has been steadily improving up to
= date. . .,s.F I.sf y.
A large party Of Eastern capitalists went
down the road last Wednesday night: They
were ON their way to Texas to invest in
"Lone- Starr real estate. A party of excur-
sionists, also, went south Thursday, bound
for California.
During friendly scuffie, last Sunday, be-
tween Lude Baldwin and Harry Jones, they
fell down, and the small blade of an open
pocket knife was ran entirely through the
left hand of Lude, the knife entering the
back Of the hand.
j. s. Wallace's carpenter gang, we under
stand, are going to overhaul and repair the
depot here. They may improve the looks
and convience of it little, but in our opin-
ION nothing but brand new one could be
any great Improvement. 4i 7te-f j.
Always alive to the demands Of the grow
ing wants Of this section, Mr.. H. Riddle is
putting in a 0,0O0 ID. Fairbanks scale for the
use OF the public. The scales will be located
- NJ Il "a NJ unit n S0Ufh
sids of the courthouse square. l
The ball which was to have been given at
the Academy of Music last Monday night,
was postponed one week to the 18th inst.
The evening was wet and stormy-the ground
was saturated, the rain fell in torrents, and
the heavens were ablaze with lightning. 1t
{, was . bad night to be out. ecE p
Rey..A w. Wright and family removed to
Pilot Knob Monday. Mr.. w. goes there to
take charge Of the Presbyterian church that
In to be built soon. We are sorry to lose
Mr.. w. but what is our loss is their gain;
: hut the distance is so short between trenton
I. and Pilot Knob that we hope Mr.. w. viii
come down To see us often enough to make
!! us think we have not lost him entirely.
Welear1l that NJ. d. vickery, an old and
highly respected citizen of this county, re-
siding near Hogan Mountain, met with Sc
rious accident on Sunday last. While on his
way to church, his horse took fright and ran
away, throwing the old gentleman from the
wagon, breaking his cheek bone, and severe
" crushing the side of his face. We hope
his injuries may not prove serious, and that
he may soon recover. @
nee A lady and some children in buggy came
near being run over by the pusher at the
crossing above the depot last Saturday after
noon about four O'Clock. The lady was
:. quite seriously hurt by jumping out OF the
buggy. The pusher was running north at a
high rate of speed, and, as the bell was not
ruux, and it could not be seen on account OF
the depot, the occupants Of the buggy could
not tell 1t was coming until 1t was close upon
them. q
* German carp, nineteen and a half
inches long, was caught q few days ago in
= Judge Emerson's lake, by his niece, Miss
Boyce. 1t was beautiful fish, and had not
her uncle and Doctor Prince come to her
aid, with dip-net, and great "hurrah- boys,''
IL might have been uncertain whether the
little lady would have gotten away with the
fish. or the fish with her.. The fish was less
than three years old. This Is encouraging
to all who have made and are contemplating
making carp ponds. 49, aya Sfs4.
Col. T. b. Grigsby met with quite serious
: accident last Thursday evening about =
o'clock. It seems he was up In the loft OF
Fafrchild,s barn, and, after throwing down
the hay for his horse, started to come down
the ladder; but one Of the top rounds break
ing, he was precipitated to the foor,unfor-
sunately striking upon the back OF his head
and neck. He was unconscious when found,
5 and remained so until the next morning. IL
was at first supposed that the horse IN the
S stsil where he fell had kick ed him, bnt this
Sc Was found afterwards to be q mistake. lie
i is at present doing as well as could be ex-
pected, and we trust he will soon he up and
out.