Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01
IRONTON. NO. THURsDAY. July /. 1897
Among Our Nelghbors.

chicken story the other day. We nave
often heard of chicken snakes. but this
is the first instance we have known
where one was seen killing chicken.
Will had been finding dead half-grown
chickens in his hen house, for some
time. and attributed their deaths to
rats. but, the other night just after
dark. he heard a cackling of chickens,
and going into the hen house he found
large black snake coiled around the
neck of half-grown chicken II
seemed the snake after killing the
chickens would suck their blood, aud
and leave bodies untouched"
The Eminence Current Nea0s: ''Dick
Chiffon brought to this Office Monday
morning a sample bunch of timothy
which grew on his farm over the river
The grass all over the field of eight
acres is five feet tall, with heads meas
uring nine inches long. Dick was
raised Oh farm and has seen many
fields of timothy, but he says his pres
ent crop excells any he ever saw"
Fate is cruel, and sometimes seems
to cowardly assail the most helpless
because of their helplessness. There
is a whole lot of misery in this item
taken from the Greenville Sun:
On Tuesday afternoon of last week
quite a storm struck Mill Spring and
vicinity. A moving family by the
name of Fleeharty were camped in the
bottom beyond town. During the
storm a tree blew down across the
wagon, killed the man and broke the
leg of 7-year old boy. The family
consisted of the man, wife and the boy,
and besides the loss of the husband
and father and the crippling of the boy,
they were practically without money.
Bro. Russell of the jackson Comet
is back at the old stand, grinding out
middle-of-the-road literature.
Bloomfield TIndicat0r: Hon. w.
j. Ward came to town Saturday with
the feeces of 11S sheep which weighed
Cos lbs. which he sold to Graham Mer-
camille Co. for 13f cts. per pound,
which brought him $SS.51, which
shows the average per head was o.
pounds. This ought to be somewhat
encouraging TO the farmers to keep
their sheep and the increase and wool
will more than equal the amount in
vested
The Benton NewsbOy: There can
be little doubt that if the farmers are
able to hold their grain for a few
months the price would rise. There
never was a time when there was SC
little old grain on hand at this season
of the year. The elevators are com
| paratively empty-the result of fail
ure in foreign lands. In this section
the wheat crop is excellent and we
believe it is generally good all over
the country. The price for July and
! August wheat has already been fxeG
by the grain gamblers at from Ga tC
| 81 cents. This means from 81 to sc
cents in the country. As soon as the
gamblers get the bulk of the grain il
their elevators, then speculation viii
begin and the price will go up, anC
the producer who is able to hold unit
the rise comes will be thus benefited
| A few farmers who held their whea
in this country during the past season
were well paid for their trouble. Some
received as high as one dollar pc
bushel from local mills. We see NJ
reason why the price should not agaIr
reach this point within twelve months
There is no surplus of old grain, AM
no 'overproduction' of the new"
Doniphan Prospect-NetCS: "Whea
harvest is nearly over in this county
there being but few fields yet remain
ing to cut, as reapers and cradles hav
been kept busy during the past weel
or ten days. The crop is the larges
and best ever harvested in RIPPLE,
county. and the yield will be approx
mately large"
Pennington Ne5Cs: lone day las
week Mr.. n. j. Counts and the fou
sons of the late George Boyer cut
bee tree on Rev. Horatio Nelson's farr
from which they secured about six ga
Ions of honey. In the tree was skel
eton of squirrel. around and to whic
the bees had built honey comb anC
filed it with honey
Jackson CaSh-Book: Judge Rile
is holding the adjourned term of cour
here this week for the purpose, prime
pa'ly, of trying to straighten up som
OF the business of the Houck railroa
company. There were many claim
against the company for service, etc.
before Mr.. Houck was appointed re
ceiver. OF these claims over $780,
is said to be due the employees of tn
road"
Ste. Genevieve suffered from tn
same storm that shook up this sectio
on the 18th. the Herald says: ''Ou
neighborhood was visited by a heay