Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03
LOCAL BREVITJES.

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was crowded out last week.
one swallow may not make a summer, no
one candidate campaign, but this is not tn
time the question is fraught with interest,"
eve and lamb strayed into w. Fl. New
mans premises last Thursday, and are Their
YET. The owner is requested to come an
take them away.
DIR. McAnalley, of st. Louis, was in attend
ance at the District Conference of the NJ. T
church, South, which was held last week A
Fort Hill, Arcadia.
The Chairman of the County Executiv,
committee has called a mass meeting on tn
10Th inst, to nominate delegates to the Sen
atorlal Convention. See notice.
Mr.. George Gould, Acting President of tn
Missouri Pacific System, visited the PHO
Knob mine last Monday. He was pilotet
through all the tunnels, and took i'm th,
mine generally.
| Judge Joseph j. Williams, of Hillsboro
Will contest with Judge Thomas the nomi.
nation for Circuit Judge. The campaign
between these two men will be short, sharp
| and aliye all over.
| Judge Emerson, DR.. Farrar, and several
| others of our citizens, are in Caledonia this
week, attending the commencement exer.
cises. The Judge will deliver the commence
ment address, if able.
MARRIED-On Sunday May the 23d, 1886,
by j. r. Bos Well, Justice of the Peace, at
the residence of the brides stepfather,
George III. Young, in Iron county, Mo-, Mr..
IRA MATKIN to Miss MARY KING
AT a recent meeting of the Ironton School
Board the following teachers were elected
for this ensuing year: a. p. Vance, Prin-
cipal; Miss Sloan, of Washington county,
and Miss Markham, of Ironton, assistants.
The eolored A. l.. Club will give an enter
tainment worth seeing Friday evening of
1eXt week. The south side of the hall will
be reserved for their white friends. Admis-
sion, -5c; reserved seats, zoe; gallery, IUc.
Go.
BORN-Te Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Hogue,
Arcadia, on the 18th of May, 1886, a boy.
We congratulate the happy parents upon
this accession to the joys of their household,
and trust he may grow to manhood's estate
possessed of all that gives worth to life.
John T. Butts, Esq, of Fredericktown,
came up to Ironton last Wednesday evening,
his wife and baby-a young
ster of two long weeks existence. We
now and here take occasion to congratulate
the family on behalf of their many friends
In this community.
The LIST Quarterly Meeting Of the Ironton
NJ. E. church, for this year, will be held next
Saturday and Sunday. The p. E., j. F. Cor
rington, will preach Saturday night, Sunday
morning and night. mass meeting of the
young and old will be held at 8 P. NJ. Sunday.
All are invited to attend.
Is. f. THOMAS, Pastor.
In giving the list of presents displayed at
the Reese-Zwart wedding, in our issue of the
Goth, the following were inadvertently omit
ted. When we were informed of it, we in
tended making the commission good last
week, but overlooked the matter. Here they
are:
Bedroom set, Mrs. T. S. Lopez e Sons.
Silver pickle-caster, DR.. w. c. Patton.
Duchess lace handkerchief, Mr.. & Mrs. E.
c. Hensgen.
james Dinwiddie, of Carter county, mar
ried his niece shout three weeks ago. He
was arrested for incest, but escaped and fled
to Bonnie rerre, where he was re- arrested
last Friday week, and returned to Van Blu
rem. He failed to give bail in the required
sum of 500, and last Monday Sheriff Way
meyer brought him here to be lodged in our
Jail for safe excepting. The prisoner is about
sixty years old. The woman in the case
is twenty seven.
Last Monday evening, James Bolinger, |
Esq, living near Coldwater, in Wayne coun-
", heard a fiuttering in his chicken coop |
He ran out with a club, thinking the hens
we're attacked by some 'svarmint," when he |
was surprised to find favorite cochin china
hen, large and fullgrown, in the folds of a
big blacksnake. When killed, his snakeship |
was found to be six feet long. The hen in
question was at the time Matching sitting /
IF duck eggs, and it was observed, from day
% day, that the number of eggs grew less
until only three Were left, when the snake
concluded to make Il final meal off the chick
n herself.
Mr.. E. J. Langdon, of Cotton Plant, wen:
o Arcadia, in Iron county, The latter days
If last week. While in this place and speak
ng of the present crop prospects, said that
he had never seen chances more favorable
or farmers at this season of the year. Mr..
=. says he ginned and packed 5S1 bales of
he last years cotton crop. We think that
he largest number of cotton bales handled
It any one gin in the county, ut least larger
han any number we have as yet heard Of
Ir. Langdon will return to Cotton Plant
very couple of weeks, but his family will
emain i'm Iron county during the summer
Clipper.
VIM. III. Thomson, Esq, of st. Louis, came
own to the Valley week before last, and
lad a regular house cleanin' at "Valley
Iome.n His family followed, and is now
Iomiciled for the summer in one of the
,leasantest retreats in the state. If few of
mr. prominent all-the-year residents were
O show one half the interest, land exert one
alf as much energy as Mr.. T. does toward
bringing our valley to the notice of summer
isitors, it would be well. Why cannot some
,uilding association be induced to come
nd put up the necessary buildings for the
of those who would spend
he summer here under proper conditions?
We have with us visitor somewhat not
d-Rey. Lorenzo Waugh from California.
Ir, Waugh was born in Virginia IN 1908,
anne here to Missouri 81 years ago Il young
iethodist preacher. He travelled many of
no frontier circuits, and was some time in
he Indian mission work, associating in this
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