Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-12-10

The following is the way the
Maiden correspondent to the Ken
nett Netos speak of the Melroy
minstrel: ga motley collection of
coons, corralled by a couple of
Caucasians, and sailing under the
name of ''minstrels," waltzed into
town, n day last week, to the
music of a very good brass band,
and, that night, at the opera house,
succeeded in extracting some 50
and 90 cent admission fees from a
few deluded Maldenites, under the
pretense of giving a show"
James Burnett of Dent county,
who has been in Ironton several
times on the charge of selling
whiskey without paying the gov
eminent tax, wants to be post
master at the Worlds Fair. Bur-
nett lays claim to the Office owing
to the fact that he is an exact like
ness of the pictures of "Uncle
Sam" Whether this will be suf-
ticient reason for him to get the
Office remains to be seen. But here
is no denying the fact that he looks
very much like your "Uncle
Samuel"
MI. Rieke has received the plans
for the iron building he proposes
erecting on Main street on the lot
recently purchased by him. The
building will be thirty feet wide
and sixty feet long, two stories.
The lower story will be arranged
so as to provide room for a saloon
and living apartments and the
upper story will be known as
"Budweiser Hall" for dances and
other amusements. Mr.. Rieke in
tends putting up the building with
out delay.
The Baptist folk of Ironton have
let the contract for building their
new church to G. A. Buckley. The
structure is to be a frame and the
price is $4,000. 1t will be built on
the lot across the street and west
from the present church site.
There will be two rooms in the
building; n an auditorium and
the other a room for Sunday
School, society meetings, etc. The
edifce will be heated by a furnace.
Work on the foundation will begin
at once but the structure will
hardly be ready for occupancy be-
fore next spring.
DIED-At Commerce, Mo-, on
Wednesday morning, December 2,
1908, Mrs. Julia Hull, aged 76years,
wife of Rev. G.. w. Hull. The re-
mains were brought to this city
and the funeral was held on Friday
morning at 1890 o'clock from the
Baptist church, the services being
conducted by Rev. Gray of the
Methodist church. The interment
was in the Masonic cemetery. DR..
Hull was a p%racticing physician in
this city for many years, and his
wife had many friends here who
will mourn her death. The DIN.
extends its sincere sympathy
Fredericktown Democrat NeWs.
There is an old black horse that
is driven up and down the street,
past the REGISTER office, every
once in a while that is Just about
thirty years old. And he is gener-
ally made to pull a big load, too.
The faithful old black served one
man until he was past twenty-five
years of age and vas then sold to
strangers. We never see the old
horse but what we think he was
entitled to a kinder fate. His orig
inal owner is fairly we'll off in this
worlds goods, and possibly could
have kept the old horse, and
treated him leniently without
working any great hardship
against himself. But he didn't.
The post-office authorities at
Washington rejected all the bids
for carrying the mail from the
Ironton post-office to the trains.
1t is understood that there were
four bids, ranging from 81 1-2
cents to 81 per day. The govern
ment considered the bids too high
and turned them all down. Here
tofore the price paid has been So
cents a day. The job is well worth
81 a day, and that is cheap for the
work. The mail carrier begins his
days work by meeting the south
bound fast mail train at 6:15 A. M;
the next train is No. 2, north, at
8:42 A. NJ; then No. s, north, at
4:43 P. M, and No. 1, south, at $50
P. M. And seven o'clock in the
evening the mail has to be taken
to Arcadia for the night trains.
81 a day is by no means a big
price for the job.
The meeting of the Arcadia
Valley Horticultural Association,
which was called for the 18th, is to
be held on the 18th at the court
house. Don't forget the day or
place, Thursday, Dec. 18th; time
of day not yet determined. An
effort will be made by the COM
mittee in charge to have an after
noon session to accommodate the
farmers and out-of-town people,
and the evening lecture will be for
the benefit of merchants and
others employed during the day.
Everybody should take an active
interest in this matter, as it is for
the future betterment of the entire
population. Men of prominence
in the horticultural world will offer
their knowledge and views on the
subject of fruit-growing on the
date mentioned. This will cost
Won nothing and will henoft