Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-04-21

Work on the local telephone line
to Pilot Knob has been delayed
because of scarcity of posts.
On the lots of Mrs. v. c. James
on Main street is a peach tree in
white blossom. This is rare.
The Worlds Fair will open
Saturday of next week. There will
probably be a good attendance
from the Valley.
Gay & Kindell will again assume
charge of the store that has been
conducted by the Clark & Baldwin
Manufacturing Company the past
nine months.
During the electrical storm last
Friday morning lightning struck
an old tree in Mr.. Malugen's yard.
The tree was close to the house,
but the inmates suffered no shock.
The entries for county offices
close May list, as all assessments
have to be paid the county COM
mittee by that date in order to get
candidates names on the primary
election ticket.
1t is asserted that the fruit has
thus far successfully escaped the
frost. Let us hope our yield this
year will be large. 1t has been a
long, long time since we have had
a good fruit crop.
James P. Barger has moved from
his home at Montana, in this
county, to Pilot Knob, where he is
now located. The p~ost-ofice at
Montana has been discontinued
and the mail is now distributed at
Mann post-ofice.
Twenty-Five soldiers arrived here
from the barracks Friday morning.
They will get the range in shape
for the target practice. Two OF
three companies are expected here
the last of the month.
John H. Smith, of Nashville,
Tennessee, who conducted the
Herald in Ironton twenty years
ago, writes that he expects to pay
his old friends in Iron county a
visit in the near future.
Dink Patton is home from st.
Louis with his arm in a sling, hav-
ing hurt his hand feeding a job
press. His injuries are not serious,
but will compel him to lay off for
a couple of weeks or more.
At a meeting of the stockholders
of the Bismarck Milling & Manu-
featuring Company last Saturday
Louis Miller of Arcadia was elect
ed President of the Company, vice
H. A. Kretschmar, resigned.
NoTICE.-Any patron of the
Ironton Telephone can have long
distance BELL Telephony con-
nections with their place, upon the
payment of ten cents a month.
JOHN T. BALDWIN & Sons.
Roy Snyder has given up his po-
sition as salesman in the store Of
Louis Miller at Arcadia and has
been succeeded by John Medley.
Roy will endeavor to secure a po-
sition in a wholesale dry goods
house in st. Louis.
John S. Luthy and wife, of Edge
Hill, have moved to their recently
acquired property in Pilot Knob.
Thirty years ago or more Mr..
Luthy was deputy postmaster in
Ironton, and it seems natural to
have him in the Valley once again.
George Hatten, Edgar Fletcher
and Pete Cooley-the latter color
ed-pleaded gully to shooting
craps" in Squire Fairchild's court
Tuesday. They were fined S25
and costs each. Fletcher and the
negro paid out, but Hatten is in
jail.
Columbus Naples, William Lee
and Edward Linson pleaded gull
ty before Squire Fairchild last Sat-
urday to disturbing the peace of
John Denton, a north-end resident,
the day previous, and each paid
fine and costs amounting to eight
dollars.
The stockholders of the Clark &
Baldwin Manufacturing Company
will hold a meeting June 25th for
the purpose of reducing the stock
of the company from $4,000 to
$4,000, and also for the purpose
of changing the corporate name of
the company.
Geo. w. Register, of Poplar
Bluff, who twenty years and more
ago made his home in Ironton, is
now here helping the Iron County
Realty Company make a COM
plete abstract of title to all lands
in Iron county. The work will
probably require a year and more.
Citizens of Pilot Knob are COM
planning at the very bad conduct
of some of the denizens of that
burg. The promiscuous shooting
of firearms and other annoying
practices are INDUCED in at night
time. The people say the nuis-
ance will have to be abated, and
that at, once.
There is a contest on in Madison
county over the result of the late
local option election in Madison
county-the "drys" having won
by a majority of five. The city
council of Fredericktown last week
raised the city license from $500
to $1,000. This, it is said, will have