Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-21
LOCAL BREViTIES.

hoi VIC 'u'nef u some 81. Louis parties.
Remember the Knights of Honor fest5va
at the Academy of Music tomorrow night
Baldwin Bros. are building a house 70,
John Schwab, ST., on his farm west of Pilo
Knob.
The cold weather and lack of rain ba.
materially retarded and shortened the straw.
berry crop.
heavy rainfall this morning relieves the
minds OF those who have feared an unseas.
enable drought.
The District Conference for South ST. Louis
District will convene at Bismarck, No.
Thursday, May 2lst.
For Rent-for the SUMMERTIME Crommer
residence, lronton. Partly furnished. AID.
ply to Jas. III. Clark.
The revival at the NJ. E. church still con.
tinues, but the interest manifested does not
seem to be very great.
The rain Sunday night was badly needed
and the crops will now go booming along
oats and grass especially.
Prof. Vance is busy this week making the
city assessments. He desires that all parties
be prompt in filling out their list.
The Pilot Knob Board of Trustees have
erected an engine house for their new fire.
engine on the vacant lot opposite Effinger's.
Teachers will not forget that the first in
stitute for the summer commences at the
public school building in this city next Mon
day.
Superintendent Kicker passed down the
road on a special train last Thursday after
noon, returning that same night about ten
O'Clock.
A new time-card went into effect last Sun
day. The only change is in time of No. 81,
which now arrives at loo instead of 1 Is as
heretofore.
Prof. Vance and his two assistants, Misses
Markham and Ringo, have all been re-em-
ployed and will teach the Ironton Schools
the ensuing year.
The regular meeting of Star of the West
Lodge, No. 1873, A. F. It A. NJ, occurs next
Saturday night, May 23d. 1t will be election
night and large attendance is desired.
If any person has found hat since Satur-
day evening last, ON the road between Farm
ington and Iron Mountain, he will please
leave the same at this office, to be returned
to the owner.
Rev. Waller Z. BOggs, President OF Belle
yue Collegiate Institute at Caledonia, will
deliver the commencement address before
the School of Mines at Rolla, Mo-, on Thurs
day, June 18th.
Hoodlumistic loafers who frequent the
depot because of its vicinity to another pub
lie institution, will consult their welfare and
comfort by making their calls short and in
frequent. There's q hen on. children!
indian r. A. Chapter, No. Il, will hold
special meeting on Friday afternoon and
evening this week. Work in all the degrees,
and full attendance is urgently desired
Afternoon session will begin at one O'Clock,
sharp.
The Pilot Knob School Board last Friday
employed Prof, Geo. HI. Greenwood, of
Fredericktown, and Miss Hattie Brown, of
lronton, to teach their school for the next
year. Prof. DeHaven was not an applicant
for disappointment.
We put it wrong last week when we ask
ed, "Has the Sunday excursion rights which
the saloon does not possess?" We should
have said, "Haye the Pilot Knob saloon men
rights which the excursion refreshment car
does not pOssessH
AZariah Martin says he has a curiosity on
on his farm in a turkey-hen which is "Set-
ting" and "laying" at the same time. All
day and night long she covers the usual
thirteen eggs, desisting long enough to de-
post AL egg when laying time arrives.
Mai. Bateman, formerly of California, but
now Grand Lecturer of the Mo. l. o. q. T.,
delivered Il temperance address at the Pres
byteriau church Monday night to a fair siz-
ed audience. He also addressed the cOngre-
CATION in attendance at the Methodist revival
Tuesday evening.
The Reynolds County Circuit Court con-
Senes next Monday and will be attended by
all our attorneys and number of citizens.
The Turner case will come up and likely be
tried; the Thomas case also taken over there
on a change OF venue will probably be con-
tinued till the next regular term in Novem-
Der.
j. II. Russell, of Belleview, was defendant
in a case In Justice Axes court last Monday.
Thos. Bell, the roadoyerseer in the Belleview
district, was the prosecuting witness, and he
claimed that Mr.. Il. had fenced in a part of
the county road. The evidence was by 20
means conclusive and Mr.. X. was duly ac-
quilted by the jury. Mr.. Edgar represented
the defense.
The Commencement Exercises at the
Beleyiew Collegiate Institute will begin
with Commencement Sermon by Rev. j. IL.
Jackson, of Columbia, Mo-, Sunday, May
31st. The exercises will continue through
xhe three following days, Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday. Prof. w. w. Wood, form
erly president of the school, will make the
literary address.
\ great deal of stock is being shipped over
the road at present and the new stock cars,
(which are so constructed as TO allow feed
ing and watering of the stock without dis
embarking, are exclusively used. Four or
five trains pass north every day, and 1t is
said that the Iron Mountain is making faster
time to st. Louis than any other of her
Texas competitors.
There weIe music and caunonad1ng IN the
air fast Thursday night, and the house in
the southern part of town occupied by the
Stout family, came out badly disfgured, all
the windows being smashed and the doors
broken in. The inhabitants departed north
ward next day and are now said to be safely
sntrenched in a town of their own. situated