Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-06-18

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bursed about $4,000. The next pay.
day will be July 3d-in order that the
troops may have money on the Ma.
tional Holiday.
There will be a grand picnic al
Hogan on Saturday, June 81. 1908.
Dancing, swinging and all the usual
amusements provided. All are invited.
The soldier boys claim they did not
get a ..fair deal" from the umpire in
the game at Poplar Bluff last Sunday.
Some of his decisions, they insist,
yer crank"
A party of young people went to the
Iron Mountain dam fishing Tuesday
They didn't catch very many fish but
report that they had a most delightful
time for all that.
In building the new fence around
the courthouse the north and south
gates are going to be abandoned.
This is done so that the yard will not
be used as a thoroughfare.
Quite a lot of wheat is coming into
town from the Belleview country these
days. 1t is understood that there are
several thousand bushels of last years
wheat in that neighborhood yet.
E. r. Lentz. a we'll known attorney
of Poplar Bluff, was last Saturday con-
victed of embezzlement in the Circui,
Court in Butler county and sentenced
to two years in the penitentiary.
People generally are complimenting
the Bonanza on a very handsome dis
play in n of the show windows. l,
is tasty and elegant and gives much
evidence of the Captains handiwork.
Arrangements are being made for q
big time at the picnic at Annapolis
next Saturday. No. 3, the fast mail,
will stop here that morning to take all
who wish to attend from the Valley.
John T. Baldwin & Son have broken
ground for a building they propose
erecting on the the old Begley place
on Main street. 1t will be used as
central office for the telephone system
Mrs. L. G. Vaughn. who will teach
the colored school next year, has gone
to Jefferson City where she will attend
the colored normal conducted al
Lincoln Institute during the summer
months.
Mrs. John Nagel last week pur.
chased from A. Nemnich of Poplar
Bluff the building on Main street,
across from the butcher shop, now oc,
cupied by j. P. Gillian and family.
The price paid was $500.
Will Bulliner, the negro charged
with stealing $4,000 from the Butler
County Bank at Poplar Bluff, will be
tried August 9th. Bulllner was born
in Ironton, but has been living In
Poplar Bluff a long while.
The deep we'll drilled at Arcadia to
supply the railroad tank with water
has proven a total failure. The tank
is now filled with water pumped from
the spring in the lot west of where the
Arcadia House used to be.
Manager G~randhomme says that the
interior Of the Academy of Music will
be re-painted and re-papered without
delay. IT'S something that has long
been needed and should add greatly to
the appearance Of the hall.
W. r. Allen, Jr., Of Granlteville en-
tertained a number of his friends at
the Iron Mountain dam last Sunday
the occasion being the anniversary OF
his birth. Everybody in attendance
reports a very pleasant day.
There are no indications that the
strike of the q%uarrymen at the Syenite
Granite quarries will be settled any
ways soon. 1t is to be regretted for
every one had hoped for a busy eason
at Graniteville this summer.
Children's Day will be observed in
the Presbyterian Church next Sabbath,
June 21st, and the services of the
morning will be a specially prepared
program adapted to the occasion
Everybody is cordially invited.
A couple of Collins horses got out
of the lot across from the stable Satur-
day night Of week before last. They
were located a couple Of miles this
side of Fredericktown the following
Wednesday and brought home the next
day.
Tony Minnehan, who has been an
engineer on n of the pushers at
Arcadia for the past year, has been
relieved from duty there and will in
future pull n of the local freights on
the branch between Charleston and
Bismarck.
The Poplar Bluff Citizen Is blowing
considerably over the result Of the
ball game last Sunday. We should
like the Citizen TO tell US just how
many OF the men that played In the
Bluff team Sunday actually live in
Poplar Bluff.
Louis Hunt and family Of St. Louis
spent several days Of the past week
with w. j. Schwab and family. Mr..
Hunt says that they were not driven
away by the high water but they were
afraid they would be and so left before
the trouble came.
The Twenty Sixth Annual Com.
mencement Of the Arcadia College,
Arcadia Mo, will take place Monday,
twenty-second. Patrons and friends
Of the institute are cordially invited to
attend Children under four years
will not be admitted.
Mathew w. Guam and Alfred w.
Fleming have filed suit in the circuit
court here against E. W. Graves Of