Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-10
LOCAL BREVITIES.

A. VANCE, POSTMASTER
LOCAL BREv1TIEs.
The circus parade knocks out the
school.
Hard times and circus-day rarely
collide.
All the stores did rafting business
Tuesday.
Thirty-odd hogs were impounded
one day last week.
The schoolhouse we'll is still blasting
away. Four feet of water sometimes
browns the profits.
What with the burglars, the gypsies,
and the circus, the town has been on
the qui Usue the past week.
Sheriff O'Neal now feeds ten board
ers, but there will probably be clean
ing out with the coming term of circuit
court.
Among the visitors from the neigh
boring towns last Tuesday, ''to see the
circus" was our old friend, Mr.. w. A.
Ryan of Potosi.
There is no discount on the horses
belonging to Lemen Bros circus.
They are the finest we ever saw with
travelling show.
Born-To Arthur Pease and wife.
on Tuesday, October 1st, 1895. at
o'clock P. NJ, son. Mother and child
are getting along nicely.
Next Sabbath will be Communion
Dav at the Presbyterian church. Pre-
paratosy services Saturday P. NJ.
GEO. H. Duty, Pastor.
Smith & Nixon's Celebrities will
show in the Academy of Music. Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday nights this
week. Popular prices of admission.
A ..scrap" on main street was pre-
vented by Sheriff O'Neal Tuesday eve
ming. For this time we refrain from
making more particular mention of it.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. John Hasty,
Arcadia, Mo-, on Tuesday, October
Sth, 1895, at 8 P. NJ, son. lhere
was no circus for this family and the
doctor hat day.
Postmaster Vance is suffering from
a very virulent carbuncie, against
which the doctors art, SO far, seems
powerless. But we hope to see him in
better shape in a few days.
Some of the courthouse crowd insist
that the real prisoners got away from
Pres. and O'Neal, aud the two boys
but we won't tell the remainder of the
story, for we don't believe 1t.
How many pupils were devoted to
their books last Tuesday, with the
lions and tigers, the elephant, the
monkeys and ponies, the clowns and
the horses. the brass bands and the
caliope. roundabout?
The circus brought a big crowd into
town, and we take it the Lemen Bros.
have no kick coming on the score OF
attendance at the performances. after
noon and evening. Their show Is
away above the average.
Lemens Bros show is a good one.
and is especially to be commended for
its lack of the attendants which so Of
ten bring disrepute upon the probes
sion. No gamblers were with it, and,
the conduct of all-from the managers
down to the horse boys-while here.
was without offence.
Subject for the Presbyterian church
services, Oct. Is: morning service
..God the Spirit. His Office and work. "
Evening service-s.The sin against the
Holy Ghost" At Graniteville-''The
Fathers question"
GEO. II. Duty, Pastor.
A man named Russell, living near
Black river in this county, last Friday
killed a panther weighing two hun
dred pounds. Mr.. r. brought the
scalp to town, thinking the State paid
q bounty for the killing of those '.var-
mints;" but, unfortunately for him.
the statutes are silent as to panther
scalps.
To Mrs. DR.. G. w. Farrar. Sr., we
ars indebted for the presentation OF
some very fine apples in their natural
state. and also in the form of evapora-
ted fruit. The latter is especially
good. retaining the natural color and
possessed of all the essentials and fla
vor of the original article. No Cali
fornia product can exceed it.
The postmaster at Griesel writes US
that a man named Felix Winthrole
lived in that vicinity about a year ago,
and that the description given of the
stranger buried here two weeks age
tallies closely with his recollection OF
Winthrole. The postmaster promises
to write again should he succeed in
getting additional Information.
The frost il on the pumpkin end the
corn is in the shock; the stoves are uE
and blackened, the apple-butter's II
the crack. There's slackness in the
woodward. for the hauler's mighty
slow-in autumn. spring and winter,
there's bother here below. And win
ter doesn't much improve it-no, not il
any great degree: les trouble, always
trouble, to all of poor humanity.
Ed. Register-You read of the new
woman. Now. want to tell you o.
another new departure. On my farm
large brood of chickens we're raised
this spring and summer. Now thai
faese chickens have got their growth
eve of them have tails and plumes like