Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-13
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Monday.
Bro. Kesling last Saturday bought q
SIS pair of goats from the Caledonia
Stock Farm.
II. n. Campbell was appointed
constable of Liberty Township by the
county court last week.
Jimson Square is now enclosed with
bill board fourteen feet high. Who
says circus hath not its good uses!
NOTICE.-All who have books be-
longing TO the Knights of Honor Libra
~ will please leave them at DR..
Marshall's office.
Col. NJ. E. Benton will discuss poll.
ties at the court house next Wednesday
afternoon. He is one of the ablest
speakers in the State.
The City Council met last Monday,
but nothing of special interest was
done. A few bills were allowed and
the usual routine business transacted.
Passenger train No so, which is due
at Arcadia at / 80 P. NJ, did not arrive
here until $50 P. NJ, last Tuesday
night. on account of waiting for con-
nections on south end.
The Arcadia day school opened Sep
TENDER Sd, with an enrolment OF
thirty-one scholars, and more pupils
are still coming in daily. which makes
good showing up for the College.
Conductor Andrews horse took
fright and ran away on Tuesday NOR
ming of last week, smashing the top OF
the buggy and breaking the tenders.
A few scratches dis6gured the horse.
No damage to any person.
Fresh Cakes Candies-Chocolate
Marshmallows, Chocolate Bon Bons,
Chocolate Nougatines, Almond Paste
Chocolate, etc-received yesterday at
the drug store. Don't go nigh the
showcase if you don't want your
mouth to water.
A complaint against John Doe and
Richard Roe" was filed before the
Commissioner for counterfe1ting. On
the sixth a warrant was issued to Mar
shall Lynch, who succeeded In running
in the Wilson brothers from Arkansas,
who had been showing the quer near
Maiden, Mo.
We this week send a statement of
account to every subscriber to the
REGISTER who is delinquent for six
months or more. If any one finds q
mistake in his or her account as rem
dered, it will be cheerfully set right
upon notification. Delinquents will
confer favor by "squaring up" at
their earliest convenience.
On the seventh inst, Louis G.
ScaRgs was tried for timber trespass.
where the defendant seemed to be
acting in good faith, but committed
technical violation of the law. At the
request of the Assistant q. S. Atty, he
was held for the grand jury On his own
recognizance in the sum of 5000.
At the election for principal of the
Ironton public schools last Saturday.
Mr.. A. V. Hamilton received SO votes,
and A. P. Vance IS. In accordance
with this, the school board met Monday
morning and appointed MIR. Hamilton
principal at $75 per month for the en-
suing term. Messrs. Edgar and Byers
then rendered their designations, which
were accepted.
We have hanging up in our sanctum
three ears of corn. raised by j. W..
Dixon on the Newman place, which
are rather fine specimens for bad
wear. The largest measures II inches
in length and 81 inches in clrcum-
ference. The three ears are OF the
Early Mastodon variety; they are we'll
filled with large grains to the very tip.
Jim wants to see the corn-grower In
this section that can 'slay over them. y
Under the new law, every dealer In
playiug cards must make sworn re-
turn and pay the tax at the rate OF 2.
cents per pack Every dealer must
write his initials with ink on each
stamp and the date when such stamp
ia placed on the pack. Omission to
stamp each pack and cancel such stamp
will subject the violator to penalty
of $50 for each omission. This ap-
niles as we'll to the stock on hand when
the law was passed, as to future In
voices.
There is a recent addition to the in
dnStr10S Oh Lu0 EOWu tuds "O nave wv
long neglected to make a note of. We
allude to the blacksmith and repair
shop opened by Scott Bateman in the
old Kicdle place. south of courthouse.
Scott is known as a good mechanic.
who makes honest charges for honest
work. He is one of the best horse
shoers in the Southeast, as all will
testify who have tried him. With
these qualifications he is sure to ''get
on in the world"
With Monday came sudden change
of Temperature. The two or three days
preceding had been excessively hot
and humanity had sweltered as in the
dog days. But Monday saw the
weather-vaue veer suddenly to the
north, the thermometer went down to
the flannel point, and all living nature
went a-shivering. But our stove is up,
our last-year's garments are donned,
and we view with placid mien the
blue-uosed prophet of sultry days yet
in store ere summer takes its final
flight.
The circus is coming! Its advent
is hearlded as yet only by the big blank
bill board in front of the burnt dis
trict: but by the time this paper is in
the hands of the reader, the board will