Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-04
LOCAL BREVlTIES.
have a new adj. this week.

Lopez nave new al. THIS week.
New potatoes and green peas are here.
Read new card of Oesterle & Trauernicht
County Court is in session this week will
the Usual quarterly business to transact.
\ Mrs. Bell of st. Louis has leased tn.
Delano house in RusseIlville for the summer
\ bunch of keys picked mp on Main Stree
Monday morning are in this office awaiting
an owner.
Baldwin Bros. have just completed neat
and substantial fence around the premises
of Mr.. A. Roehry on North Main Street.
Our painters have more work to do this
year and are employing 4 greater number Of
hands than for any season In years past.
The Commencement Exercises of the Ar.
cadia College will take place on Tuesday
June Odd. Invitations will be issued thi.
week.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Warren John.
son, near Middlebrook, was made happy
Monday last by the arrival of another boy.
All are doing well.
The Odd Fellows of Iron Mountain are
preparing for Grand Celebration on the
4th OF July. Every arrangement will be
made for glorious time.
a special carrying the members of the T.
p. A. in the Drummers' Convention at Lit
tie Rock, Arkansas, passed through Ironton
Monday morning at eleven o'clock.
Butcher Nagel last Monday purchased
from Mr.. A. Beg!ey the building aud lot
north of the L. .. o. F. hall which he has
occupied for the past several years.
Judges Hill and Kemper of the County
Court visited the Poor Farm Tuesday after
noon and found everything in irst-class
shape. At present there are ten occupants
in the house.
Two lots of strawberries of extra size and
superior flavor have come to the editor in
the past week: one, the gift of DR.. 5. E.
Strong, and the other of Mr.. c. w. Russell.
Both were duly appreciated.
Iron Post, No. 346, G. \. r., assisted by
the Sons of Veterans, held Decoration Day
services last Saturday. Marches were made
TO the various cemeteries in the vicinity and
there was general distribution of flowers
on the graves of the dead soldiers.
The Pretty Girls society of the Episcopal
church will hereafter serve Ice Cream in the
room over Fairchlld's store, every Thurs
day afternoon and evening. The cream is
delicious and the cake THE best. The pat
rcnage of the public is respectfully solicited
Prof. B. Fox will leave Ironton about the
first of next month 70. CentreviIle, where he
goes to take charge of the school at that
place. The Prof. is a competent and faith
full instructor, as we'll as good nd up right
citizen. We wish him all succe- in his new
field.
The April number of Meyer Brothers
Druggist has the fOllowingto say Of Ironton's
genial druggist and his better half: "P. r.
Crisp, Ironton, Mo-, is the youngest druggist
for his years in Southeast Missouri. He is
especially fortunate in having his sundrie,
department in such competent hands"
Two Irontpn trldesman took on i ''h ooze"
last Saturday night and both wante.! TO
scrap, bat as they could tind no one wap
wanted to fight on their conditions the IN ct
ing was postponed. The results We're a
swelled head for the one next day, and \
@'drap up" to ST. Louis by the other->ince
when they "hayen't done anything since"
Last Sunday was the first real summer
dar of the year and the suffering from heat
was considerable. The day dawned bright
and clear, and, as the noon hour approach
ed, the mercury crawled up the tube. 1t
was in the afternoon, though, that the heat
became intense, and then fans, cooling drinks
and shady hooks were IN demand. There Is
every indication that the summer cOmeth on.
J.P. Norris, an individual about 60 years
of age who claims to be an expert repairer
of sewing machines from Kentucky, was ar
rested Wednesday morning by Marshal
Patton on the charge of drunkenness ana
disturbing the peace He was taken before
the Mayor where, after promising all kinds
of good behavior and agreeing to leave town
at once, he was permitted TO go without
fine.
Prof. Harris, n travelling phrenologist,
pitched his tent on the vacant lot west OF the
school building last Wednesday and spent
several DAYS in Ironton. Business was not
rushing, however, and he departed for Iron
Mountain last Monday, whence he makes
tour of Doe Run, Pennington and the other
St. Francois county towns. The Professor
is A ioyiaI soul, evidently well up in his pro-
fession, and we wish him good luck.
w. G. Craine, with his wife and baby, is
visiting his parents at Pilot KNOB MI.
CRANE attended the conductors convention
recently held 10 81. Louis and has just re-
turned from their excursion to Denver. He
has been engaged at Clarendon, Arkansas,
Cor some time past, but leaves here to go to
: point near Chattanooga on the "Queen and
Crescent route. Tie has the wishes OF
host of friends for continued success.
In Judge Thayer's court, st. Louis the
other dav. permission was asked by the Re
ceiSer of the St. Louis Ore Il Steel Company
TO remove the dwellings in the New Eng
landp precinct of Pilot Knob to jackson
county. Ills. 1t is claimed that the buildings
are needed by the Company at Its liiinois
plant, and that saving of $50 on each house
will result by tearing down, removing ana
setting up again the habitatIons no longer
needed here-more's the pity.
Two of Ironton's oldest citizeus-anu
Comrades, too, during the time of the late
.'unpleasantness," had a little unpleasant
ness of their own in the upper part of town
one night last week, and ii looked for awhile
as if there would be bIoodshed and dire de-
struction. but there wasn't, and with The
intervention of outside parties peace was
restored before anything fatal occurred.
There are still mutteriugs of a storm but the
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