Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-17

Stevenson & Bro. This car was loaded
with compress cotton at Dennison,
Texas, Nov. 81, 1901, and was billed
to Boston, Mass. it left there April
18th loaded with merchandise. We
next find 1T at Hot Springs, Ark, then
at Doniphin loaded with fruit, etc.,
and when last seen was at Des Arc,
July 18th.
There is still a lot of stealing going
on from loaded freight cars that are
consigned to the south. 1t is at the
foot of the hill and they sometimes
leave half their train here, until some
light train m along and pulls them
away. Some time ago a car loaded
with machinery was left here and
someone stole from the car a 3-inch
Gardner governor worth SIS, finally
throwing it in a deep hole of water;
some boys who were in swimming
found it and notified the agent, who
had it brought in. | believe every
agent should be appointed as detective
with power to arrest offenders, and
also put a stop TO the boys jumping
every train that passes. | counted as
many as eleven boys hanging on one
train last week, some OF them very
young. They will surely get hurt
some day if they are allowed to con-
tinue this practice.
There were eighteen drummers here
last week and they had nineteen
trunks. John Cain and Joe Reyburn
were among the number. Des Arc
has quite an attraction for drummers.
l heard a travelling man say that you
can always tell a lively town by its
looks; when you pass through a town
and see rags stuffed in the windows
and no newly painted houses, you may
know it is dead.
I am taking the Fredericktown
Tribune. 1t is a lively little paper.
1t gives both the commercial and re-
ligious news, but | notice that the
merchants there don't advertise, and
judging from the papers printed there
you would think there were only a few
hundred inhabitants in the place.
Some of the largest merchants there
never advertise. How do they expect
their county papers to live? One of
my neighbors told me that last year
he lost $50 by not taking his county
paper, for there was some land sold
that he wanted, but he never saw the
paper until it was too late. Every
citizen should take his county paper.
John Lovelace is building an ad-
dition to his house.
Our blacksmith shops are kept busy.
They sell a new wagon every week.
We have three shops here.
Mrs. Ida Lucy, nee Sullivan, is very
low at the hospital in St. Louis. They
will bring her to Des Arc as soon as
she is able.
W. T. O'Neal is here this week look
ing after his farm, etc.
B. B. Cahoon shipped a a of stock
from here last week. He has a fine
improved farm on the st. Francis
river about ten miles east of this place.
The corn kings are trying to bring
corn up to 81. Somebody will get
hurt financially as corn will be SO or
60 cents in less than thirty days. New
corn will come in by the 10Th Of
August.
Jas. Pate and wife spent Sunday
with their parents at Patterson.
Mrs. Chas. Williams returned Sun
day from a visit with relatives at At
lanta, Texas.
Mrs. Will Perez, nee Carrie Semands
from De Soto, is visiting relatives at
this place.
Mrs. John Dunn from Sabula visited
relatives here last week.
Alex Mckenzie and wife were
visitors in our town last week.
Mrs. Len Morris returned last week
from a visit with her mother at Hen
erickson.
Horace Morris is home from Grandin
this week. ISAAC.