Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-05


day, July 80. 1897, at S:20 a. NJ, Isra
Ward, age 81 years II months and Il
days. The funeral took place at the
residence of ID. Z. Markham Sunday a
3 A. NJ, and was conducted by Rev
John Profit. The deceased has beer
a member of the United Baptist church
from his younger days. The deceased
| leaves a wife, daughter and many steL
children to mourn his loss. We al
hope to meet him in an upper and bet
ter Kingdom where sickness never
comes, GRANDsONs.
Two cars of a south bound freight
train were derailed at the switch al
the top of the Knob grade last Sunday
morning about half past two o'clock,
blockading the track for seven or
eight hours. The south bound fast
mail train was switched to the Bel
mont track at Bismarck and made the
trip to Poplar Bluff by the Belmont
and Cat" roads. Nos. Sc and 56
were held at Arcadia several hours,
the passengers taking breakfast at the
Arcadia Hotel. The track was cleared
by ten o'clock, and the trains went on
their way.
\ party of young people composed
of Miss Marion BatsOn of Wisconsin,
Misses Hattie Brown and Eva Craig of
St. Louis, Will Brown and d. Bells
paid visit to the top Of Pilot Knob
Tuesday morning to see the sunrise.
The morning was perfect one, not Il
cloud Swallowed the sky, and the view
presented, as old Soils Respondent rays
began to tint the eastern horizon and
send light and life to the newborn
day, was sight never to be forgotten.
Only those who have seen the sunrise
from the mountains summit can APP
preciate its beauty and radiance.
The Klondike fever" still RACES
but possibly not so violently as it did Il
week or ten days ago The boys now
have a scheme to send three or four of
their number to the gold fields. A
paper is being circulated TO get sigma
lures for stock company. The shares
are be $50 each and it is proposed to
try and sell fifty shares which would
realize $1,000. Then the stock
holders will hold meeting and elect
three or four men to make the trip.
The scheme, however, doesn't seem to
be meeting with special favor and the
outlook is not as promising as it might
be.
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the Pennington Creamery Co., a few
weeks ago, Messrs. w. H. Young, A.
L. Nixon and j. A. Sprott were ap-
pointed a committee to sell the cream
cry plant. Last week Prof F. M.
Vance made them a written PROPOSE
ton to pay $500 for the plant and to
run it as a creamery in connection with
steam laundry. They reported the
proposition to a meeting of the stock
holders held last Saturday, and it was
decided by d majority to accept the
proposition, and the Board of Direc-
tors were authorized to consumate the
sale.-Farmsngton Times.
A lawn fete and entertainment will
be given on the Arcadia House grounds
Thursday evening, July 18th, by the
ladies of the Episcopal Church. An
entertaining musical and literary pro-
gramme is being arranged and every
effort will be made to insure all who
attend an evening of pleasure and en-
jOyment. Ice cream, cake and other
refreshments will be served. Free
hacks will be run from IrOntOn to the
grounds for all who desire to attend.
In case the weather should not be suit
able the entertainment will be deferred
until the following evening. All are
cordially invited to attend.
The Blue Ribbon Fair on the Lang
don farm, next Saturday, August 9TH,
promises to attract a large crowd and
be a thoroughly enjoyable occasion.
Among the attractions will be match
game of ball between the Arcadia and
Fredericktown teams. Blue Ribbons
will be awarded the best stock. Fol-
lowing is the racing programme:
l. Two-Year-Old Trot, Half Mile,
best two in three.
=. For Horses Never Started in Race.
3. Free-for-All Pace, l Mile, best two
in three.
1. Fastest Running Horse, Half-Mile
Dash.
3. Free-for-All Trot, best two in three.
6. Fast Mule Race-Free for All.
I. Slow Mule Race-Free for All.
8. Running Race-Free for All.
The store building for Gross & Toll
Lesson will be ready for occupancy in a
few days. Both members of the firm
leave this week for st. Louis to buy u
complete line of staple and fancy gro
ceries, meats, provisions, etc, and eX-
pect to be open and ready for business
the latter part of next week. They
propose to pay especial attention to
the butcher business and, to more sat-
isfactorily serve the public, have built
a complete cold storage refrigerator,
so that they can at all times furnish
their patrons with cold storage meats.
Cold storage meats are a luxury gen
orally confined to the large cities, but
Messrs. Gross & Tolleson believe the
trade here Will well support the inno-
walton and they propose to give the
people of Ironton and vicinity a meat
market equal to that of any of the
metropolitan towns. They respectful
ly solicit the patronage of the public.
The past week has furnished some
intensely hot weather. The Their
mometer last Saturday registered lO3,
while Tuesday it reached 104. These
were the two warmest days, so far, OF
the summer, but every day the past
week the mercury has lowered around
the century mark. At this writing
"wednesday afternoon) it is still very