Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-08-06
LOCAL BREVITIES.

SlICulG COuTU is III ScSSlOu LII
Wayne county this week.
Teachers examinations will be
held August 21st and 22d.
There were seventy-fve hub
teams in town last Friday.
Poplar Bluff will have free mail
delivery after November list.
The watermelon is very late in
getting into honton this year.
The cost of the new fence about
the courthouse yard was S435. 4
The colored folks picnic Tues
day was very poorly attended.
The blackberries were never so
plentiful as they + this season.
Unquestionably this is the poor
est fruit season we've had in years.
The apple-well, it just isn't to
be found in this section this season.
The indications are that August
is going to be a summer month sure
enough.
The Iron Mountain dam is the
favorite resort of all fishing parties
these days.
For SALE-One fine Jersey COW
and calf. Apply to Mrs. S. Strother,
Ironton, Mo.
How hungry we are for a good
apple? But it seems there are
none this year.
Remember the picnic at Thos.
Jackson's near Annapolis Satur-
day, August Sth.
Considerable wheat is coming to
town from the Belleview neighbour
hood these days.
There are fifteen divorce cases
on the docket of the Wayne Cir
cult Court this term.
There are about twenty-five
summer boarders at the Mountain
View Hotel in Arcadia.
Prof. Daugherty will leave this
week for, a short visit to his home
folk in New Haven, Nc.
The De Soto people who refuse
to pay dog tax are sued and made
to pay tax and costs, too.
Rev. Humphreys is in Missis-
sippi county this week, where he is
assisting in a revival meeting.
We cannot reasonably complain
of the rains this season. So far
they have been we'll distributed. .
An entertainment will be given
for the benefit of the Episcopal
church the latter part of the month.
MI. Cain says that he expects to
have the new screen factory COM
pleted and in operation by October
list.
On the whole the hay crop has
proven a very good one and the
outlook for corn is quite encourage
ing.
A Mr.. Fisher and family, of St.
Louis, have leased the Grover
home for the remainder Of the sum-
mer.
Mrs. VIM. Halter and little
daughter, of Oran, are the guests
of Mrs. R. P. Taylor.-Farmingtom
News.
The Grover place affords a most
excellent site for a summer hotel.
There isn't a lovelier spot any
where! ..
BoRN-To Mrs. Arthur Herbert
of the East Side last night, a pretty
nine-pound girl.-Poplar Bluff Re-
publican.
They contemplate having a big
crowd and a big time at the barbe-
cue and picnic at Smithboro next
Saturday
VIM. Stevenson & Bro. of Des
Arc are thinking of putting in a
saw mill at Hendrickson in the
near future.
Andy Sheahan is having the sur
vey made for the switch he pro-
poses building from Middlebrook
to his quarry.
1t is said that several thou
sand dollars will be spent in i'm
provements at the rifle range dur
ing the next year.
The one thing that should be
done in this Valley and done with
out delay is the erection of a'mod-
ern summer hotel.
The Harviell residence in Area
dia is advertised in this issue Of
the REGISTER to be sold at trustees
sale on August 10th.
There was an excursion to st,
Louis on the branch Sunday,
There were almost one thousand
passengers on board.
They had another strike of about
eleven hundred men in the lead
belt week before last. The trouble
was soon adjudicated.
Sherbet and ice cream with cake
on the church lawn this evening
Everybody cordially invited tc
patronize a good cause.
Work in the granite quarries is
. reported exceedingly dull just al
present. There is practically nc
demand for paving blocks.
johnson, the ice man, got a cal
of ice from st. Louis Tuesday,
All our ice for the remainder Of
this season will be imported.