Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-12
LOCAL BREvITIES


Poplar Bluff hopes for a $4,000
depot.
The REGISTER does the best
printing.
w. G. T. U. notes are printed
this week.
Remember the stock show at
Pennington this week.
Nine divorce cases on the Circuit
Court docket in Madison county.
The base ball season is about
over. Will it be followed by foot
ball?
Auction sale of household goods
at VIM. Just's, north Ironton, next
Saturday.
We will print a letter from our
friend, A. Rieke, in the Faderland,
next week.
The electric storm Saturday
night put a number of phones out
of business.
1t is said that Ironton's one sa-
loon is selling more beer than all
three used to.
Jefferson county will hold the
Annual Horse Show in Festus on
September 26th.
Saturday was a genuine sum-
mel day. And Monday was al
most a winter day.
The hotel and adjacent property
is much improved by the granitoid
walk just finished.
The annual Conference of the M.
E. Church, South, meets at West
Plains September 18th.
Eggs are so scarce that some had
to be imported from st. Louis last
week. This is unusual.
To Mr.. Hotson we are indebted
for some delicious honey and very
fine grated horseradish.
For several days past the north
bound trains were all late-just
came along any old time.
John T. Baldwin, Jr., now oc-
cupies the residence just north of
the Grover property on Shepherd
street.
An "All STAR Vaudeville troupe
held forth at the Academy of Music
Tuesday and Wednesday nights
Of last week.
1t is said that the local option
campaign will be a quiet one, and
that neither the vets nor the drys
will be strenuous.
We are indebted to Mayor Pat
ton, of Cape Girardeau, for a like
ness of the handsome Elk's Club
building in that city.
Arcadia is going to try and in
corporate. A petition is being
circulated among the citizens Of
that town with that end in view.
The Ironton schools will take a
holiday September 9th, in order
that the children and teachers may
attend the Pilot Knob celebration.
Rev. E. HI. White, we'll known to
many of u readers, died at the
home of his son near Caledonia,
Friday, August 30th, at the age of
78years.
When Arcadia becomes incor-
ated we will have corporations
north of us and corporations south
of US. Pretty near corporations
all around us.
James Rudy died at the residence
of his nephew, R. E. Rudy, west of
town last Wednesday. The re-
mains were taken to Pennington
next day for interment. \
Services will be held at st. Paul's
church Sunday as follows: Holy
communion, 1880 A. M; Holy COM
manion and sermon, II A. M; eve
ming prayer and sermon, 1880 P. M.
The school board will endeavor
to lease the Sunday school room
In the Presbyterian or Baptist
church, for the use of the fifth
teacher that it is proposed to en-
ploy.
1t is said that in the event Iron
county goes dry at the local OPP
ton election next month, that the
Middlebrook saloon will move a
few feet over into st. Francois
\ county.
Recorder Hawkins last Monday
issued marriage licenses to James
G. Meyer and Georgia Pinkley,
both Of Graniteville; John Thur
man, of Graniteyille, and Plora
Edmonds, Of Belleview.
WANTED-A good man to repre-
sent a reliable manufacturing Co.
Fine opportunity to get into a
good business. For particulars
address, London-American Co.,
1926 Lafayette ave-, Chicago, III.
SEEMING and shooting have almost
left the streams without any fish.
We're not much of q hunter OF
fisherman, either, but from what
we can learn the present gamelaw
10 little better than no law at all.
AT the meeting Of the Ironton
school board Saturday night it
was determined to rent a room and
hire another teacher. The crowd
ed condition Of the primary de-
part is said to n~ecessitate the
move