Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30
LOCAL %BREvITIES.

Wading parties are popular.
Next Tuesday is pension day.
County Court meets next Mon
day.
The long, hot, dry days'of sum-
mer.
Silver Leaf Pure Lard iOc. b.
nanza.
Considerable poultry is coming
to town.
Go to Fairchild's for fine candies.
Just arrived.
The Telephone poles are being
put in position.
For bicycle repairs and repair
ing go to Albert.
Don't forget the picnic at Smith
boro August Sth.
For SALE-One carriage. APP
ply to Mrs. G. A. Pilley.
Gigging seems to be the way to
catch the fish these days.
One hundred and fifty telephone
poles will be used in town.
What more glorious than a
glorious rain in midsummer.
Southern Granulated Sugar II
pounds for S1.00. Bonanza. Z
The next excursion from St.
Louis will be given in September.
Ironton now supports four bar
bers on week days and not a one
on Sunday.
The tower on the Academy of
Music should be the next to re-
ceive repairs,
The fisherman gives up, says that
the weather is too hot, and he'll
stay at home
TITS the season when the COW
bells tinkle is most noticeable
and annoying.
Rev. Smith of Kirkwood held
services in st. Paul's church last
Friday evening.
1t will not be so very long now
until our telephone system will be
in working order.
He/ who goes into the woods
these days comes back complain
ing of "chiggers."
The poor mans fence costs more
than it would come to pasture "the
poor mans cow"
Mr.. Baldwin says that the tele-
phone will be ready for business
in a couple of weeks.
Orange sherbet and pineapple
ice cream with cake, on the Pres
byterian church lawn tonight.
A grand picnic is advertised to
take place at Miller's Mill on Mar
BILE Creek, Saturday, August 9Th.
l dearly love the poor mans cow,
l love her big BELLS blatant %clatter;
l love her almost anyhow,
And then l love her sidewalk splatter!
The Methodist Sunday School
entertained their Sunday School
pupils at Iron Mountain last Thurs
day.
The Modern Woodmen of this
district hold their annual log roll
ling at Fredericktown September
18th.
John T. Baldwin & Sons are put
ting up a planning mill on the land
recently acquired from John New
man.
Again there is talk that the Iron
Mountain is thinking of building
a double track from st. Louis to
De Soto.
The city tax books are now in
the hands of City Collector O'Neal.
So you can pay your city taxes at
any time.
The blackboards in the princi-
pals room in the Ironton school
building are to be put in first-class
condition.
Mr.. Cain, the screen factory man,
has leased the Logan cottage on
Shepherd street, now occupied by
Mr.. Malugen.
What has become of Ironton's
famous dramatic clubs of which
the world has heard so much and
seen SO little?
They are base ball crazy in Pop
lar Bluff, so the locals papers say,
and everybody is talking of play
ing ball down there.
The colored folk say they are
going to have a big time at their
picnic next Tuesday. And they
very likely will, too.
The katydids have been chipping
for over a week SO if there is any
thing in the old saying our frost
will come early this year.
Father Sinclair, Of Trinity Church,
st. Louis, will hold services at st.
Paul's Church, Ironton, next Thurs
day morning at 1880 o'clock.
S. P. Marshall, of Scott county,
has leased the j. M. Whitworth
residence on Shepherd street, and
will make his home there this sum-
mel.
The entrance to the Academy Of
Music is being reprinted. This
work was very badly needed and
adds greatly to the appearance Of
the structure.