Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-16

The telephone wires are nov
strung to Pilot Knob, and we sup
pose it won't be very long nov
until we can talk to our friends VI
there.
Merchants say that the big Fai
makes business dull in the coun'
try towns. Everybody, or nearly
everybody, is saving money to GO
to the big show.
Pennington announces that it
electric road will be in operation
by July list. 1t has been a long
long time in building, but it i.
better late than never.
Twenty-seven horses we're solo
at auction here Tuesday. The
price paid averaged about forty
dollars. The horses were shipped
here from Kansas City.
w. III. Delano attended the grad,
uating exercises of his son, Lewis
in Rolla last Friday. Lewis will
spend several weeks at home be-
fore taking up his work elsewhere
r. Snyder, who is now located
at Camp Ground in Reynolds
county buying hub timber for the
Clark & Baldwin hub factory a
Le~sterville, was in town this week
Rev. A. Britain, OF De Soto
will hold services at St. Paul.
church next Sunday as follows
Holy communion, 1880 o'clock A
NJ; prayer and service, II O'Clock
A.. M.
Children's Day will be observed
by the children of the Baptis
Sunday school June 10Th, begin
ing at 8 o'clock P. NJ. AL are
cordially invited to attend the ex'
ercises.
Thursday morning of last. week
six trains, loaded with Arkansas
potatoes went north over this road.
There were fifteen cars in each
train and they made passenger
train time.
We are advised that the South
east Missouri melon will be on the
market at least two weeks earlier
than it was last season. 1t will be
remembered that the melons were
unusually late last year.
o. G. Green, the colored barber.
and Mrs. L. G. Vaughn, widow OF
the late Silas Vaughn, will be mar
ried at the latter's home this eve
ming. A charivari will likely ma
the quiet of the evening.
Potosi now has but one saloon.
and it will go out of business al
soon as it's license expires. City
officers, opposed to the saloon
were elected in April and they arc
refusing to grant license.
About one hundred homing pi'
geons from Milwaukee,, Wiscon'
sin, were turned loose at this sta
ton Saturday morning. Wort
has not yet been received as to thu
time they arrived in Milwaukee.
The recital to be given by Mrs
Slayton, of De Soto, under tn
auspices of the Baptist Ladies
Aid Society, will be at the AGA
deny of Music, June 3Oth. Pro
gramme next week. Tickets, 25c
The citizens of the Valley viii
give a grand free barbecue ant
picnic on the picnic grounds a
Arcadia July 4th. Have all you
friends from round about come tt
the Valley that day and have
good time.
The twenty-seventh annua
commencement of the Arcadii
College and Ursuline Academ,
will take place on Tuesday, jun
81 at 2 P. NJ. The friends and pa
irons of the institution are cordial
ly invited to attend
Children's Day exercises at tn
Presbyterian church on next Sun
day at II o'clock. Everybody i
invited to come. There will b
music by the choir and an ad
dress by the pastor. Services a
usual in the evening.
Rev. George w. Hull returne'
this week from st. Louis, wher
he had been to see a specialis'
The doctor is in very feeble healt
and will not be able to return t
his church at Commerce for a fey
weeks.-Democrdt-N eWs.
MI. Hummel says a COW brok
into his garden a few nights sine
and played havoc. He VOWS h
will meet her with a shotgun load
ed with buckshot on her next visi
And Mr.. Hummel is a man apt
make his word good.
Mr.. A. L. Warren, son of New
ton Warren, of Belleview, and Mis-
Lizzie Sloan, formerly of Gale
donna, were united in marriage i
Fresno, California, the last wee
in May. Many friends in Mis-
souri, wish them every happiness.
For a box of the finest and larg
est strawberries we ever saw W
are indebted to Judge w. G. John
son of Middlebrook. They Gel
tainly were mammoth specimen
of the fruit and they were just a
good and fine as they were large
The Ursuline Sisters have re
Gently added a second story to tt
laundry building on the Arcadi
College grounds. Continual i'm
provement and advancement is th
order there, and the grounds an
buildings are as Well kept as an