Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-07-25
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

tie acher.
Roasting ars are ripe. Some
W hat late.
The watermelon before SO very
long now.
Bismarck is putting in a lot of
granitoid walks.
The Graniteville district wants a
school teacher.
All vegetation is suffering from
the prolonged drouth.
The ice man-he's the busiest
fellow of all, these days.
Some wheat coming to town
from the B~elleyiew country.
The COW bell is more in evidence
in Ironton than ever before.
A w. C. T. U. column is printed
on the last page OF this paper.
Come to the REGISTER Office for
your printing. We do the best.
One hundred degrees in the
shade. That's plenty, thank you.
A boy recently arrived at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Baird
in Arcadia.
The Holiness people inaugur-
ated their big meeting at Des Arc
Sunday.
Considerable hay being hauled
into town. 1t is a very good
article, too.
A granitoid walk is being built
in front of the new brick south of
the REGISTER Office.
Just about as warm weather the
past week as we ever have to con-
tend with in this section.
County Treasurer Jones will re-
move to his newly acquired home
on the mountain side in a few
days.
The weather bureaus prophecies
are mighty inaccurate and UNI
certain in these days of awful hot
times.
We understand that Mr.. Rey-
nolds delivers his last sermon as
pastor of the Ironton church next
Sunday.
Passenger receipts at the IRON
ton station are considerably larger
than they were when the rate was
three cents.
Last Sunday was too hot a day
to play ball and the the local
sports all hunted the shade and
took it easy.
While fruit generally is very
scarce, the announcement is made
that there is prospects for a fair
yield of grapes of allskinds.
Last Saturday was just about as
warm a day as we experience in
this section. Yet the wind was
from the north all day long.
We understand that the Pollock
place, in Russellville; formerly
owned by Jos. Reyburn, has been
sold to some st. Louis party.
A violator of the local option
law in Dunklin county was fined
$3600 and sentenced to three years
in jail by Judge Fort last week.
Miss May Thomson was thrown
out off buggy by a runaway horse
in Arcadia last Friday. Fortu-
nately she escaped serious injury.
The REGISTER acknowledges a
call, last Saturday, from Mrs. Kate
Brierton, of Festus, Mo. Mrs.
Brierton is spending a couple Of
weeks in Arcadia.
A man by the name of Radford
was arraigned before Justice
Rasche, last week, on the charge
of cruelty beating a horse. He
was fined So and costs.
This has been as dull a year in
the granite business as has been
known for a long while. In on
sequence Graniteville has been
a very quite place all summer.
LosT-On the road leading east
from Ironton toward the Alexander
and Bumgardner farms, a Cornell
gold hat pin, on Sunday, 21st.
Return to this office and get res
ward.
Rev. "A. r. Sitton, until recently
pastor Of Fort Hill church, last
week united with a Baptist church
in st. Louis and, it is said, will oc-
cupy a Baptist pulpit in the near
future.
Some more ice had to be im-
ported from st. Louis last week,
the creamery being unable to sup
ply the demand. The ice man is
retailing about two and a half
tons daily now.
Grandhomme & Holland have
$50 names on their saloon petition
filed with the county clerk Mon
day. The city tax books show
that there are 266 taxpayers in the
corporation.
MI. Newman, the gardener, tells
us that the wren who made her
nest in the top Of his market
wagon, having successfully reared
her family, has taken the little
wrens and departed.
Sure enough, there was no ex-
cursion train from st. Louis last
Sunday, and it is said there will