Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-08-20
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Teachers examinations FRIDAY
and Saturday.
The collector is ready to receipt
for taxes for 1903.
Our ice man gets a a of ice each
week from st. Louis.
Quite a lot of poultry is exported
from here these days.
The tomatoes were never finer
than they are this year.
Peach ice cream with cake on
the church lawn this evening.
Now they say there will be two
or three weddings next month.
Quite a number of the colored
folk visited in Pennington Sunday.
Entertainment for the benefit of
the Episcopal rectory fund August
25th.
1t is stated that a troop will be
left at the range during the entire
winter.
The new screen factory is as
Stunning proportions. 1t is a big
building.
A number of brakemen on the
road were last week promoted to
be conductors.
The water melons are hardly as
large as usual this, year but they
VIZ very cheap.
The base ball season in Ironton
seems to have subsidized before the
end of the season.
The rains this month have
assured that the late corn will
make a good crop.
1t is understood that work on the
new Baptist church will begin in
the very 9 "a future.
Elem Farmer of Belleview
brought us some very fine eating
apples last Saturday.
For SALE-A horse, buggy and
harness. Bargain. Apply to
Sllotos NltulILISOl5 LLOllooh'
The advertisement of the Arcadia
Valley Lumber Company appears
in this issue Of the REGISTER.
Our potato crop is said to be a
very good one-where the bug
hasn't done too much damage.
A.. Nemnich writes the REGISTER
that he has removed from Poplar
Bluff to Walnut Ridge, Arkansas.
The Commercial Hotel is receiv-
ing a new coat of paint and mine
host Kanouse smiles in approval.
DR.. Farmhouse presented us with
another very fine water melon last
week for which he has our sincere
thanks.
There are buggy rides and car
rage rides these moonlight nights,
and a "cold BOTTLE is not always
tabooed.
The county court will have the
support of every worthy citizen of
the county in the effort to give us
better roads.
There will be an adjourned term
of county court on Tuesday, Sep
TENDER Sth, to levy the railroad and
telegraph tax.
If our rains were always as regular
as they have been this summer we
wouldn't have much use for a
street sprinkler.
DR.. L. T. Hall has resigned as
superintendent of the Pennington
asylum. DR.. F. L. Keith is tenn
porarily in charge.
Our nights this summer through
have been most delightful for
sleeping. We have hardly had one
uncomfortable night.
The cable for the telephone has
been received and it will only be a
day or two now until the system
will be in talking order.
w. r. O'Neal made a trip to
Nevada, Mo-, last week to convey
a Mrs. Hughes in the asylum there
to the asylum at Pennington.
Some of these days, and it won't
be so very long either, the town
COW will have to go. Sentiment is
gradually crystallizing against the
nuisance.
Mr.. Henry Myers and his son,
John w., recently of Texas, have
bought the new mill at Irondale
and will have charge of the same
in the fixture.
The REGISTER is indebted to
County School Commissioner Bu-
ford for some very fine apples pre-
scented Monday morning. They
were excellent.
There should be some provision
made for re-opening the road
around Shepherd Mountain. That
is a cool, shady drive and should
. be kept in condition.
G. Brassel of Arcadia was ar
rested Monday and taken to Farm
ington on the charge of selling
LIQUOR without license at "Hog
Eye in that county.
Ed. Lashley rather badly
whipped Dave Lee of Graniteville
at Arcadia last Thursday after
noon. Lashley hit Lee in the face
with a piece Of tiling.
The soldiers now at the range
will not remain here as long as was
at first reported. They will return
to the Barracks in Septemb Der
about the second week.