Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-11
LOCAL BREVITIES.

LOCAL BREVITIES.
The REGISTER enters upon its twenty
third volume to-day.
Anew serial story, entitled "Luke Mason
commences in this weeks inside pages.
The financial statement of the Pilot Knob
School District is published in this issue.
y party of young folk from Pennington
picnick ed at Sylvan Lake, on Friday last.
The W. C. T. U. will meet at the Presby-
terrain church, Saturday, July 18th, at 3 P. NJ.
Pennington folk expect to have cream
ery in that vicinity IN the course of 4 few
months.
A slight wreck at Tip-Top delayed the
south bound passenger trains for couple
of hours Sunday night.
The Baptist folk are preparing for an
entertainment which will be given to the
public sometime in the near future.
would like to join party in ehartering
a car from Southeast Missouri to Southern
California. Address, Mrs. \. j. Salsberry,
Ironton Mo.
Mrs. f. E. Thompson, of Marble Greek
has our thanks for some fine, large, luscious,
and toothsome peaches presented on
Wednesday last.
The fireworks display throughout the
Valley on the night Of the 4th were very
numerous and some very tine-far surpass-
ing anything of former years.
Prof. J. b. Harris, "Praetical Phrenolo-
gist. Graduate of the American Institute OF
> i in no
deliver a lecture during his stay.
An entertainment called "The Old District
Skule," will be given at the Academy OF
Music next week. Further notice will be
given in the next issue of the REGISTER.
Considerable complaint reaches our ears
as to the condition of number Of out houses
on Main Street. Where is the Sanitary
Committee: Now is their time to move.
Water. melon shipments from the South
east Missouri district will commence about
the 18th of the present month, and OH the
1st prox the season will be at its height.
The friends of ex-Collector Stevens, Of
Reynolds, are endeavoring to secure his re-
lease from Jail on bond. We understand
that they will likely effect Mr.. SIS freedom
sometime this week.
The colored folk will give aGeneral Grand
Barbecue ut Goulding's Grove, near IRON
ton, on Monday, August 9th. Muslc'
stump Speeches, ETC., will constitute the
programme for the day.
Our readers will see by the notice further
down in the "Brevities" that we were u.lSS
taken last issue when we said there would
he another excursion and picnic to the Val
lev on the 18th; it should have read 18th.
Guun,s Ideals, the dramatic company that
fined a weeks engagement in our city
about three months ago, lost their entire
wardrobe and thousand dollars IN ea~n p5
the burning of an opera house In Metropoiis'
Ills, one night last week.
Mr.. J.B. Walker requests us to announce
that he has moved his law office from the
Dost-otfice building to the south room up
nssirs over DIR. Farrar's building. opposite
the American Hotel, where his eiienta ihaF
find him during business hours.
The office of train master at DE 500,
which, it will be remembered, was abolished
.some months ago, was re-estabilshed tue
gs. of the present month. The new ofnciai
ia :. Johns, who, for some time past, mas
had charge of the De Soto yards.
Rev. CuIlpepper, Bro. Pul!iam's esteemed
rsyfyaIist, did not show up as au'ertiseu
last week and those individuals who were
couuting on a great meeting nave oeeh us
Amounted. We are advised that I'LL health
lis the cause of Rev. C's. non arrival.
The fruit market is crowded and never. Tor
wears. have strawberries, raspberrles, Jew
nerries etc., been so plentiful ana cheap ~
-benresent season. Peaches are fast coming
In and promise soon to be as much OF a drug
ON the market as apples are at this writing.
TbeJO.O.F. Ball at the Academy OF
Musie ON the night Of the 4th, whlie not Sd
largely attended as expected, was oeciueul
successful from social point or view sumo
twenty. five couples were Ia attendance an"
epioyed the .smazy" until about Two In tue
morning.
DIEp-At her home in Irondale, MISSOURI
July I'd, 1889, ANNIE CARNEY. Deceaseu
was at one time 4 resident OF Ahhapoi'>'
Iron county, Missouri. Rev. j. H. Heaoiee'
of Caledonia, preached her funeral, alter
which her remains were laid to rest In the
cemetery at Thomas Chapel.
The s-Iet up" of showers for the past week
mas opPoisN'-
haryesters to stow away the sheaves anu
the ploughman to make war on the weeds
THAT infest his corn. On the whole me
nressut season promises to yield the largest
crops we have known for many years past.
The sports of the Valley have manifested
.onsiderable interest in the Sullivan hliran
fight. and for several days past it has been
almost the sole topic of conversation Very
little betting, however, was ldulged In, as
the friends of Kilrain wanted TOO great oooS
for MANY of the "big fellows" admirers to
.,h,.i, .,vtbips near what they considered
advantageous wagers.
In these DAYS of plenty of work and hish
wages the laborer who "earns his bread In
the sweat of his brow" should ever remem-
Der that for his present prosperity he Is
specially indebted to the High IsFlh ana
Workingmen's Victory Of November iast,