Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-05-11
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Is it spring at last?

j. A. Segner, the barber, is in St
Louis buying bath outfit.
Two weddings-long looked for-i
Is said, will occur this month.
The iron railroad bridge across Knoll
Creek has been put in position.
Ascension Day services at st. Paul:
church tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock
Circait court for Reynolds count,
convenes at Centreville Monday, Ma,
22d.
The early gardens are yielding thei,
fruits and the vegetarian is In his
glory.
The first strawberries of the season
arrived in the town from the south last
Tuesday.
The school board meets to-day for
the purpose of choosing teachers for
the ensuing year.
Rev. Shoush will preach the dedica.
ton sermon at a new church on Marble
Creek Sunday after next.
The farmers have not yet had an op-
portunity to complete complaining,
owing to the continued wet weather.
Rev. Shoush was circulating a petit
ton the first OF the week asking the
authorities to close the Worlds Fair
on Sunday.
Ironton was treated to an ssHistori-
cal Museum" three days of the past
week The crew departed for Pied
mont Tuesday.
The passenger trains now carry four
and five fruit cars each day. They are
filled with strawberries from the
Arkansas gardens.
The late work at the Silver Mines
has disclosed fine vein of mineral
Prospecting, for the present, though,
has been discontinued.
The Soulards, who have spent sew
eral summers in the Valley, have this
year rented Mrs. Overstolz's house,
and will occupy it for the season.
The REGISTER had neither boss nor
''devil" Monday. The former was in
Pennington attending court, and the
latter at home a sufferer from the
mumps.
ALI departments of the public school
are now closed. The PRINCIPALS de-
partment closed Wednesday last; the
intermediate. Friday, and the primary
yesterday.
The date of the /. o. o. F. enter
tainment at Annapolis has been chang
ed to May 23d. Read the sad" in |
another column; attend and have a |
good time.
Rev. Daniels from Cape Girardeau |
preached at the Baptist church Tues
day night; he was soliciting subscrip-
tions for the bull ling of a new church
at the Cape.
The turn-table at Arcadia, long
promised and patiently waited for, has
not yet been built. Rush of work at
more urgent places is assigned as the
reason for the delay.
Collector Whitworth and Deputy
Sheriff O'Neal took Munsford Under
wood, the murderer, to the peniten-
tiary last Thursday; Timlin, insane,
was taken to the asylum.
Elijah Masterson, who lives near Ar
cadia, was arrested Tuesday on the
charge of hog stealing, Judge Hollo-
man being the prosecuting witness.
The case will be tried Thursday.
The REGISTER is pleased to learn that
Mr.. j. w. Kells is again at his home in
Arcadia, greatly improved in health.
We trust he will soon be fully restored !
and able to resume his duties again.
While the streets of 1ronton are in
much better condition than those of the ,
other towns in Southeast Missouri. |
still they are not as good as they used
to be. There should be some judicious
repairs.
Owing to the attendance not being as
large as had been anticipated, the
training school which was to have been I
at the school house Mon q
Law. was deferred until the first Mon [
Law in June, when the regular county l
institute will begin.
The City Council met Monday, and !.
considerable business. A.
P. Vance was appointed assessor; the u
ate of taxation for the ensuing year
vas fixed at twenty-five cents on the
one hundred dollars. Z
It will be observed by reference to
he official notice in another column
hat the city codncil intends to enforce
he ordinance prohibiting horses from a
.unning at large within the city limits. c
This is right and proper, and we hope C
he law will be strictly adhered to. A a
log ordinance will be enacted at the a
,ext session of the council in June. 81
Jno. r. Baldwin informs US that he W
las lust received word of the death OF r
dessrs. James and Oziah Moser: The "
ormer,s demise occurred at Houston, ff
'exas. and the latter's at Mankato, tf
lansas. They will be remembered by d
ronton people as brothers of Geo. A. W
loser. a former citizen of this place. II
We tender our sympathy to the be- c
eaved family. al
Rob,t Hill and Joe Henson, who. ju
nth their teams, started on the road lr
18th Clark's circus Monday OF last Sc
eek returned to Ironton Sunday, hav-
10 left the show the day before at m
onne Terre. Business, so far, had or
cen good, but Robert says that circus nc
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