Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
VOLUME XXXVII.

Mrs. NJ. Grafton, of San Jose
CAL, arrived in Piedmont this week
to spend few months with hel
daughter, Mrs. w. P. Toney.-Pied
mont Banner.
The ladies of the Baptist church
will hold a Handkerchief Bazaar al
the Academy of Music, Thursday
May 18th, afternoon and evening
The public is cordially invited.
The county financial statement
is printed this week and takes up
considerable space. The figures
are interesting, however, to those
who pay attention to county affairs
Louis Miller has his peach Or
chard south of Arcadia we'll under
way. The trees are all planted and
looking we'll. Mr.. Miller expects
to give the proposition a thorough
test.
At the meeting of the schoo.
board Monday evening colored
teacher by the name of Gordon
from st. Louis was employed tc
teach the colored school the ensu-
ing year.
We now have trains north at 5 :0s
o'clock a. M, and at 9:40 O'Clock
a. m. That is all. With five other
north bound trains on the road il
is outrageous that we have no bet
ter service.
S. A. Orr of Marble Creek last
week brought to butcher Nagel a
lamb three months and thiteen
days old that weighed ninety-three
pounds. 1t was certainly mag
nificent specimen.
The young ladies from the con-
vent spent a most delightful day
picnicking at Graniteville Tues
day. The day was a perfect one
and the participants enjoyed the
outing immensely.
At the meeting of the school
board of this district held Monday
evening Prof. Daugherty and his
assistants, Mr.. Tins and Misses
Gay and Fairchild were all en-
ployed for the ensuing year.
WANTED-At once, 25 lumber
stackers and 25 common labor
hands; good wages; steady en-
ployment. For particulars ad-
dress Holladay-Klotz Land and
Lumber Co., Greenville, Mo.
Andy Blemel, who is working fol-
the Richard Hanlon Millinery
Company in st. Louis, recently
had some hard luck. A sneak thief
entered the room at his boarding
house and stole all his clothes.
Four troops of the Eighth cavalry
arrived here from the Barracks
Friday morning and will spend
several weeks at the range in tar
get practice. There are about two
hundred and fifty soldiers in the
four troops.
John Penninger of Pemiscot
county was arranged before Dis
trict Court in st. Louis last Friday
on the, charge of selling whiskey
without paying the government IL
cense. He pleaded guilty and was
given a sentence of thirty days in
the Iron county jail.
Attention is called to an addi-
tonal feature of the county fnan-
cial statement published this week.
The amount spent on the roads is
itemized and the statement shows
the amount paid out to cath indi-
vidual. The addition renders the
statement much more explicit.
The pupils of rooms 3 and 4 oi
the Ironton Publid School may re-
cieve their grade cards by calling
at the school building Friday
morning between the hours of nine
and ten o'clock.
ALICE M. GAY.
BERTHA M. FAIRCHILD.
The boys are having no end o1
trouble this spring trying to find
grounds whereon to play base ball
this season. Thus far they have
not been successful and it begins
to look as if the Valley people will
have to forego the pleasures of the
great American game this SUMMER
Henry Bishop, colored, broke
one of the large windows in the
front of Lopez's store Saturday
evening. Ed. Arms, also colored,
was sitting in front of the store.
Henry tried to "smash" him. Arms
lodged the blow and the window
was broken. Bishop claims Arms
had insulted his wife.
Charles Moore of Charleston
came to the Cape and and picked
a worthy wife in the person of Miss
Anna Stuart, Wednesday, at the
home of the brides mother, Mrs.
Catharine Stuart, Rev. M. T. Haw
performing the ceremony. Theil
home will be in New Mexico after
a honeymoon trip to st. Louis
Cape Girardeau Progress.
To Mrs. v. G. James the REGIS
TER is indebted for two very fine
steel engravings. Both depict
election scenes of the long ago
One of them is "Stump Speaking"
the other, "The County Election" !"
They are most suitable pictures for
a printing Office and Mrs. James
has our sincere thanks for he1
kindness and generosity.
Whether it SHOWS or whether il
blows the season comes and the
season goes; the crops get sick and
the farmers blue, the storekeepers
kick and the the lawyers sue; the
preachers preach and the sinners