Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-28
LOCAL BREVITIEs.


Is this latter drouth going to be
greater than the former?
Justices blanks and blank deeds of
all kinds for sale at this Office
Lumber and cotton shipments are
giving the railroad lots of business.
T. S. Lopez & Sons contemplate the
erection of an immense brick store
house next spring.
Several cords OF wood will be taken
on subscription at this Office if deliv-
cred in the next month.
Whitworth Sons are putting a grant
told pavement in front of their brick
store and the bank.
Mrs. Thos. johnson entertained the
ladies of the Presbyterian Church last
Thursday afternoon.
Monday night was the coolest. so
far, of the seasou-the thermometer
registered p degrees.
Lopez's have an order for 500 bush
ell dried apples. They Will pay the tip
top price for nice fruit.
Before buying heating stoves take
look at Lopez's King and Queen Heat
ers. From $500 to $500.
Collector Fisher is now domiciled in
the residence of Mrs. DIR. Schulz, re-
Gently occupied by VIM. Schwab.
Assistant Secretary of War Meikle-
john will likely be here some time
next month to inspect the rifle range.
VIM. j. Hunter, Treasurer of Rey-
nolds county, died at his home in Cen
treville Monday evening after a short
illness.
The public school will likely give an
entertainment in the course of the next
few few weeks for the benefit of the
library fund.
The Nashville Students, Farmer
Hopkins" and The Missouri Girl"
will be at the Academy of Music early
in November.
W. Curry. who has been acting as
night operator at Arcadia for some
time, has accepted the position of sta
ton agent at Morehouse on the Cat"
road.
John Seguor, the travelling medicine
man who met with quite an accident
several months ago In a runaway, was
in Ironton the first of the week and has
about recovered from his injuries.
The Arcadia Valley W. C. t. U. con-
template giving a Halloween Social,
Monday, Nov. 1st. at the residence of
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Miller. The COM
mite on Invitations will be heard from
later.
The City Council of Fredericktown
and the electric light company of that
town are at ''outs." and the rays of the
electric light will no longer illumIne
the streets of the Madison county me-
tropOlis.
The members OF the Baptist church
in Ironton have extended call to Rev.
Jos. Stirmlinger of St. Charles, to be-
come their pastor. The reverend gen.
.ieman has not yet announced whether
he will accept or not.
A Baptist minister who believes in
sprinkling is something of a rarity,
vet we have such an one in Cotton.
Rev. James Doty has been driving the
street sprinkler for the past day or
two Cotton California; Ne1cs.
Judge Green arrived on the noon
train MONDAY and shortly after court
convened. Instructions were given
the grand jury and the Judge appoint
ed Z. ID. AXE as foreman. Court will
likely be in session all of the week.
Following are the signal service
readings at this point for the week
ending Oct. goth. showing the highest
and lowest temperature recorded each
day: Oct. goth. 75. So; 2Ist, rs. 81;
22d, "a, So; Esd, as. 80; oath, 81, 81;
s5th, i7s. 90; goth, 79. "a.
1t is rumored that the De Soto peo-
pie have petitioned General Manager
Doddridge to put their accommodation
train on the road again, and that Mr..
Doddridge mas signifed his intention
of complying with the request. In
that event the Bismarck train may
come to the Valley again.
very singular feature in connec-
ton with the present term of court is
that on the entire docket there isn't a
single case against the railroad. In
the quarter of a century and more that
the railroad has extended through the
county, this is probably the first term
of court when there hasn't been case
of any kind against the railroad.
Among the visiting attorneys attend
ING court this week are; E. I. Ever
sole. Potosi; l.. T. Dining. De Soto;
M. A. Fyke. Kansas City; b. F. Mar
bury. Pennington; j. G. Carly, Pied
mont; w. L. Beyersdorff, Centreville;
r. Scott, Poplar Bluff; j. L. Fort,
Dexter; A. ID. Haight, II. n. Phillips,
+. r. Leutz. Poplar Bluff; ID. l. Riv-
ers, Bismarck.
Saturday evening about seven o'clock
Willie Edgar came running over to
town and stated that a lighted lamp
had been thrown on the floor over
home and that the house was on fire.
The alarm was quickly given and
crowd hurriedly rushed to the resi-
dance. but By the time they reached
there Mrs. Edgar. (Mr. E being out in
town1 had already extinguIshed the
flames. The little girl. it seems, had
knoekei over table on which stood
the lighted lamp, the oil poured out
over the floor aud the flames instantly
r.T--aa Fortunately however. the