Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
LOCAL BREVITIES.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1908.
LOCAL BREvITIES.
Z Vacation is over.
School next Monday.
Bonanza has a new ad.
The town was busy Saturday.
The melancholy days are COM
ing.
And the summer months are
gone.
The screen factory is being
painted.
The soldiers will have a payday
Saturday.
There are thirty-four saloons in
st. Francois county.
The telephone poles are being
put up in Russellville.
The corn fodder this year will be
something tremendous.
The hub factory shipped twenty
six cars during August.
Shippers are all complaining of
a great scarcity of cars.
Labor day Picnic and Ball at
Graniteville next Monday.
There will be an adjourned term
of county court next Tuesday.
The REGISTERS phone is Is.
Call us up and tell us the news.
A. Hill has bought the old
Dougal restaurant in the north end
of town.
The cool nights of the past
month have not been beneficial to
the corn.
The home grown watermelon
and cantaloupe were never more
plentiful.
The cool weather the first of the
week started many of our visitors
cityward.
The cabbage this year far excels
anything we've ever seen grow
here before.
1t has been years since we had
so cold a day in August as that of
last Monday.
We guess that new depot of ours
will come along with the Worlds
Fair-in 1904.
Monday was so cold that fires
and wraps ere necessary to
genuine comfort.
A number of the colored popu-
lation go to st. Louis on a K. P.
excursion to-day.
The troops now at the range
leave for the Barracks next Mon
day, September 7th.
Mr.. Cain is talking of opening
the new screen factory with a
dance and reception.
The fruit has been very scarce
but this has certainly been a ban
ner vegetable season.
The railroad company is build
ing a concrete culvert just north of
the crossing at the depot.
Never September saw we before
with the leaves and the lawns as
green as they are this year.
The new railroad from Bismarck
to the river is said to be enjoying
a good passenger business.
Troop Fl of the Sth Cavalry will
give a dance and reception at the
Academy of Music tonight.
The Budweiser band, we under
stand, has a Worlds Fair engage
ment in st. Louis next year.
The electrical storm Thursday
night of last week played hovoc
with some of the telephones.
The steam thresher makes more
noise and less speed than any
travelling machipe we know of.
Miss Clara Giovanoni enter
tanned a number of her young
friends at a party Friday evening.
VIM. Thomas had a head of cab
bage at the store Tuesday that
weighed seventeen and one half
lbs.
The Iron County Bank will not
be open for business next Monday,
Labor Day, that being a legal holt
day.
Some of the residents OF Russell-
vile are thinking of graveling the
road out there at their own ex-
pense.
Thomas johnson was thrown
from his horse and quite badly
hurt last Friday. His condition is
quite serious.
The Pilot Knob public schools
will open September 18th. 0. j.
Buford and Miss Mamie Brown
will be in charge.
Out of thirteen applicants who
took the teachers examination
week before last all but one were
granted certificates.
The REGISTER force is indebted
to John M. Thomas for a delicious
cantaloupe, right off the ice, pre-
sented last Saturday,
Miss Mary Myers is in st. Louis
in a wholesale millinery house.
She has a position as trimmer
somewhere in Illinois.
Miss Ethel Foley left Saturday