Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-02
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Hour mill.
The June Festival at GRANTEE
vile, June 18th.
No more politics now until the
big fight comes on in November.
The po st-office, the land offices
and the bank observed Decoration
day.
The crowd that loafs about the
drug store has been kite flying the
past week.
Edward Robb's majority in the
congressional primary over M. R.
Smith was 1902.
Quite a number of flowers were
carried to the cemeteries Monday
Decoration day.
The county court this week re-
plies to Mr.. Carty's letter publish
ed in our last issue.
1t is said that there have been
more potato trains on the load this
year than. ever before.
The Frisco from st. Louis to
Southeast Missouri is now in oper-
alton and ready for business.
The judicial convention will be
held in Ironton next Tuesday.
Judge bearing will be re-nominat-
ed.
Horatio Marbury, who taught
school at Arcadia many years ago,
is now interested in a newspaper at
Festus.
w. G. Johnson last presented us
with a box of mammoth strawber-
ries. They were certainly large
and fine.
Missouri day at the Worlds Fair
next Friday. The indications are
that there will be a large crowd in
attendance.
1t is mildly suggested that some
repairs are badly needed on the
road at the bridge between here
and Arcadia.
Passenger travel on the rail-
road is said to be unusually light
these days. Not at all up to the
Worlds Fair expectations.
Secure Accommodations for the
Fair. Two meals and lodging for
S1.00 per day.
j. N. BISHOP, Agent.
There will be a Sunday School
Shoe Social June 18th at the home
of DR.. Smith, given under the
auspices of the M. E. Sunday
School.
The Pilot Knob school board
held a meeting Monday night and
employed Lee Barger and Miss
Mamie Brown as teachers for the
ensuing year.
w. P. Pippin on Tuesday sued
Thos. Haefnerin Squire Fairchild's
court on account for S13. The de-
PENDANT took a change of venue to
Squire Kitchell, at Annapolis.
Stolen, in Ironton, on April 26th,
one light red female Irish Setter
dog. Will pay reward for infor-
nation as to it's whereabouts.
H. DAVIS.
The mass meeting last Saturday
to select delegates to the various
conventions was well attended and
everything past off harmoniousiy
and the best of feeling prevailed.
Mrs. Mary j. Clark and relatives
wish to return thanks for the
many, many kind words and
deeds of sympathy by the citizens
of Arcadia Valley during her late
bereavement.
1t is said that the grading on the
railroad from Middlebrook to
Sheahan's quarry will be COM
pleted in about two weeks. 1t is
expected to have the road COM
pleted in July.
Mr.. j. E. King will be prepared
. to accommodate his Southeast Mis-
souri, acquaintances and their
friends, at reasonable rates, at3936
West Bell Place, st. Louis, Mo-,
Three car lines.
MARRIED-At Belleville, Illinois,
Saturday, May 2S. 1904, A. B. Nc
Kisson, of De Soto, Mo-, and Mrs.
Hattie Block, of Ironton. The
REGISTER tenders congratulations
and best wishes.
Solomon L. Swarts, trustee of
the E. j. Arnold Company, the
get-rich-quick concern, announces
that he will pay a final dividend
of two per cent. to all certificate
holders in that company.
About five hundred people were
in attendance at the dedication of
the new Baptist church at Munger
Sunday. Dinner was served on
the ground to the large assembly.
Quite a number were in attendance
from the Valley.
The will Of the late James III.
Clark provides that all his prop
erty, real and personal, shall go to
his wife. The will was made
eighteen years ago and was wit
messed by DR.. w. G. Patton and
James B. Evans.
In soliciting members to join the
movement for making a fishing
pond at the Iron Mountain dam,
w. r. Allen, Jr., succeeded in get
ting about twenty members in the
Valley. He expects to get several
more in the near future.