Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-09
LOCAL BRKVITIEs.

LOCAL BRRVITIKs.
1.-The good old summer time"
The drug store has a new sign.
Some articles crowded out this week.
If we only had a few more houses
for rent In Ironton.
Our llverymen had everything their
own way the fourth.
Well, there need be no more COM
plant OF cold weather.
The young men of the Y. M. C. A.
camp are a lively crowd.
The dramatic clubs do not seem to
thrive this warm weather.
$40 a day was the price charged for
Surveys In town on the 4th.
Poplar Bluff has twenty-seven law
yers and only ten preachers.
Thos. Newman has the contract for
re-papering the Academy OF Music.
1t appears as il we are not going to
have any more base ball this season.
The Probate docket for the August
term of court is printed in this issue.
Poplar Bluff will have free mail de-
livery if she ever gets any sidewalks.
The warm weather of the past two
weeks has greatly improved the corn.
The camp OF the Y. M. c. A. party
at Pilot Knob is quite an attractive
spot.
Orange sherbet and pineapple ice
cream st the DR.. Blanks room this
evening.
Just a slight shower toward evening
on the 4th. Otherwise it was a model
picnic day.
Lopez's have torn down the old
porch in front Of the store and put up
an attractive awning.
The financial statement of the Pilot
Knob school district is published in
this issue of the REGISTER.
If there's any more delightful ex-
perience than another it is to try to
drive a balky horse on a hot day.
With the thermometer soaring in
the nineties the ice man and the dis
penser Of cold drinks are all smiles.
FOUND - Wednesday, July 1st, a
grip. Call at this Office, prove prop
erty, pay expenses and take the grip.
The editor is indebted to Miss Alice
Gay for as lovely a bouquet of sweet
peas as you ever saw. They were ex-
quisite.
Premium lists of the State Fair, to
be held at Sedalia, August 1928, can
be had on application to County Clerk
O'Neal.
A large number of people attended
the picnic at the rife range on the 4th.
The military programme was quite in
teresting.
Hayes Malugen is making some i'm
provements on his recently purchased
property preparatory to making his
home there.
The city council meets next Monday
night when the telephone ordinance
will come up for third reading and
final passage.
The Southern Missouri railroad
reached Bismarck last week. 1t will
be some time yet before trains are run
ming regularly.
Losr-Oa the road between Ironton
and the rife range, July 4th, a dia-
mond pin. Return to this Office and
receive reward.
Mr.. l.. G. Chambers has secured a
position in the St. Louis post-office and
he and his family will soon 60 there to
make their home.
Chas. Amburn, a Dent county boot
logger. was brought here from St.
Louis last Friday, and will serve thirty
day in the Ironton jail.
Every teacher who attended the ex-
aminations in Reynolds county sue
ceeded in getting a certificate. Must
have mighty easy sailing over there.
Out OF thirty-fve who took the ex-
aminations for teachers only sixteen
made grades sufficient to pass. 1t
100000 ~ ~ 40 hor1, rnod m fro val u
Mr.. Prentice says that he Is going
to try and double the capacity OF the
screen factory next season. Some
fifty hands or more will be employed.
The wheat yield throughout South
east Missouri this year will not be
more than half a crop. A fair yield
OF oats is reported in this neighbor.
hood.
Ironton was very orderly and quiet
on the 4th, Notwithstanding there
were a great many people in town that
day. Everybody was on their good
behavior.
A man who has occasion to travel
Iron county roads these days recalls
with a sigh how much better our
thoroughfares used to be than they
are at the present time.
W. r. Read, the Belleview merchant
contemplates thu erection Of a new
store building just across the street
from where he is located in Belleview.
Work will begin at once.
Ed. johnson, OF Dss Arc, who ha.
been In jail since Apri.., serving q sil
month"; sentence for petit larceny,