Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-08-27
LOCAL BREVITIES.

School a week from Monday.
Chicken barbecue at Smithboro,
Saturday.
Poplar Bluff will have no street
fair this year.
The dog days have been hardly
dog days this year.
The Leader has a new, up-to-
date delivery wagon.
A number of the passenger trains
have been late the past week.
There never was a more delight
full August than this has been.
Funds are being solicited to put
a new organ in Fort Hill church.
A great lot of wheat from the
Belleview country still comes to
town.
The nights the past week were
too cool for comfort. Now how
different!
The road overseer has been do
ing some graveling between here
and Arcadia.
A big Observation-Disclosures
the towns on the Belmont branch
in September.
Remember the labor day picnic
and ball at Graniteville Monday,
September 7th.
Homemade ice cream and
sherbet with cake on the church
lawn this evening.
The young folks danced for a
few hours at the Academy of
Music last Friday evening.
The Waters-P Pierce Oil Com
pany have put another tank in just
north of the railroad crossing.
The sisters have made quite a
lot of improvements on the convent
grounds in Arcadia this summer.
The REGISTERS phone No. is Is.
When you have an item of news
please call us up and tell us about
it.
The soldiers at the range have
made a good demand for vege-
tables and other produce this sum-
mer.
j. M. Baird and family, Of
Senath, are spending a few weeks
at White Springs, in Madison
county.-Dunklin Democrat.
Chas. w. Tetwiler of Poplar
Bluff has secured the contract for
building the $4,000 Y. M. G. A.
building at Hoxie, Arkansas.
The band boys will probably go
to Fredericktown September 18th
to make music for the big Wood
men log-rolling there that day.
If a little more attention were
paid to the cultivation of the water
melon right here at home it would
not be necessary to import that
fruit.
The Harviell brick residence in
Arcadia is to be sold at t%rustees's
sale next Saturday. The debt for
which the property is sold is about
$4,000.
Miss Laura Peck was elected by
the Epworth League of the M. E.
Church as delegate to the conven-
zion which at Fruitland
this week.
The prophets are saying that
some of the hot weather that did
not come in August will be here in
' September.
There should by all means be a
telephone in the courthouse. The
county court should provide for a
phone in one of the county Offices.
Public convenience demands it.
A. Begley will remove from
Arcadia to Ironton in the near
future. He will occupy the prop
erty he owns in the east part OF
town known as the Crommer home.
There is much complaint to the
COW bell these nights that would
be so perfect for rest and sleeping
were it not for the tinkle, tinkle,
tinkle of the most annoying COW
bell.
David Myers, of Ironton, a
brother of H. Myers of this town,
accompanied by Henry Kendall,
spent two or three days in Irondale
the first of the week.-Irondale Ga
zettc.
County Commissioner Buford
closes his school at Sabula this
week. He will have a couple of
weeks rest before commencing the
winter term of school at Pilot
Knob.
MI. j. T. Patterson of Belleview
last Friday brought the editor some
very fine apples, pears and
peaches. They we're the only
peaches grown here that we have
seen this year.
When you want printing OF any
kind remember the REGISTER
Office. We are prepared to do
( f~rst-class work at reasonable
prices. Give us your work. Salts
faction guaranteed.
Chas. l.. Fox of Ironton is now
agent for the Iron Mountain rail-
road at Bald Knob, Arkansas.
The position is an important one
and we are glad to hear OF
Charley's promotion.
Conductor j. V. Webb OF lSt.