Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-29
LOCAL BREVITIES.

NOftnWeSt!
Again did the too previous gardene,
get it in the neck.
And still the bleak waste of the
burnt district sears the fair face of our
city.
City election next Tuesday. Does
mt anybody want to be anything but
Marshal?
Easter was bad day for unprotect-
ed flowers and the early broods OF
chickens.
With the coming of Spring the gran
lite quarries promise to resume their
old-time activity.
Jack Frost to Miss Lettuce Young:
"I'na pretty we'll, thank We! How do
you sprout yourself?"
County Court meets Thursday OF
OF this week to make annual settle
ment with the Collector.
The Ironton Cornet Band will furn-
ish music for the Odd-Fellows Cele-
bration at Fredericktown on the 26th
of April.
The artistic perfectness of the trim
ming of Blemel's hedge is pre-emi-
nently apparent at this time when the
same is devoid of concealing foliage.
BORN-To Mr.. and Mrs. Alex.
Buckley, Thursday, March 22d, 1894, a
son. Ali are doing well, and the REG
IsTER tenders its congratulations to
the parties concerned.
The members of Iron Lodge, No. 107 ,
/. o. o. F., are hereby notified that at
next Monday nights meeting some i'm
portant matters will come up for dis
position. Every member who can
come ought to be present.
Louis Miller was in town Monday,
and left for the scene of his labors at
Pennington next morning. He says
he will have the United States flag
floating over the finished Odd-FellOws
building on the 4th of July.
The County Board of Equalization
will meet at the courthouse next Mon
day, and all who feel like "kicking"
at the assessment of their property
will have a chance to air their griev-
ances. Come forward, now, gentle
men, or hereafter hold your peace.
April 9Th will be given to a COM
munIou service. Any parents having
children to be baptized will please in
form the pastor before this date Any
one wishing to unite with the church
will please attend the church service
the day before-April q.
GEO. H. Duty, Pastor.
Are we to have another fruit famine
this year? The peaches are gone and
the strawberry crop is in great doubt.
Perhaps the later apples may pull
through. When the mercury at the
latter end of March goes down dozen
degrees below freezing point, it causes
one to doubt the efficacy OF the seas
Ons.
A few DAYS ago Mr.. G. G.. Maffit
came down to Iron Mountain and Or
dered everything at the mine to be
closed down on the LIST of April. But
last Friday orders came by telegraph
to put all the washers to work at
once, and it may be a new lease OF life
will be given to the mine. We nope
SO, anyway.
Mr.. w. Clarkson. with the Mis-
souri, Lumber and Mining Company, at
Grandin. Mo-, was in town yesterday.
He says that orders are coming In
freely. The mills at Grandin have a
capacity of 200. 900 feet a day. and the
shipments on order take it all. The
company has lately completed a new
miil-making three in all-and
planer has just been put in. The
prospects for sawmilling this year are
better than for several years past, and
the Missouri Lumber and Mining Com
pany proposes to be strictly In the
swim.
POPLAR Bluff had destructive fire
again last Friday. The Neal House
went up in smoke, as did our former
fellow-townsman, Aug. Winkler's, Jew
elry store. and half dozen other
buildings. We regret to hear OF these
losses. The Neal House was credit
tn the town, and we hope Mr.. Straight
NAV be enabled to speedily resume
business. Mr.. Winkler was partly in
sured, but his loss was considerable
Notwithstanding. He had nne store
and was doing good business. we
hone to see him. also. soon in business
and at work again.
Was it suicide or accident? He was
found last Sunday morning hanging
from a cross timber in Blemels barn.
stiff. stark and cold. He was rot an
ordinary fowl, but three-doilar
rooster. and the pride of the barnyard,
imported from Louisville, Ky. The
most generally accepted theory ac-
Quits the defunct fowl from the crime
of taking his own life. and attributes
his death to accident. The cross
piece above alluded to was piece OF
waste-plauk that had been used for
other purposes before being converted
into a chicken-roost. and through 1t
projecting wire nail pointed heaven
ward. 1t is thought the defunct roos-
ter had attempted to fly to his nightly
resting-place, missed it, and was
caught in the gill on the protrudlng
nail. Anyway. there he so hung the
succeeding morn, too dead to skin.
And John is in mourning.