Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-07-18

yield of his raspberry patch this
year was just about half what it
was last year. He attributes the
shortage to the late frosts.
The young ladies of st. Paul's
congregation will have charge of
the ice cream festival Thursday,
July 25th, and are planning to
make it especially attractive.
Rev. ]. G. Reynolds will sever
his connection with the Presby-
terrain church here this month. Mr..
Reynolds returns to Madison, His,
to take charge of a church there.
We are sorry to hear of the seri-
GUS illness of Bird Smith. He has
been in poor health for some time,
but has been worse the past few
days than formerly.-Farmington
News.
The Valley was close to an ice
famine the warm days of last
week. An importation was made
from st. Louis, however, and then
the cooler weather came and the
calamity was averted.
Mrs. Wilson, of Vineland, while
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Cod
ding, here last week, became quite
sick. Mrs. Codding accompanied
her home, and at the last report
Mrs. Wilson was improving.
A. Rieke announces that he will
close the Budweiser depot August
9Th, when his present license ex-
pires. That will leave but two
saloons in Ironton-the least num-
Der we've had in many years.
R. E. Purkiss left last week for
Ellington, Mo-, where he will
superintend the construction Of a
concrete block residence for State
Senator G. M. Buford. Mr.. Pur-
kiss will be absent a couple OF
months.
James Boatwright, several years
ago a resident of Ironton, was shot
and killed by Charles McAfee at a
4th of July picnic, at Mill Springs.
Boatwright was a Matchmaker and
tinker, and will be remembered by
a number of people in Iron county.
David Worley had a prelimin-
airy examination before Squire
Rasche last Friday on the charge
of cutting James Kitchell with a
knife, at Annapolis, a couple OF
weeks ago. Worley was held for
circuit court in the sum of $500
bond.
We have had one or two fail
rains the past week, but some more
would be very welcome. We I'M
derstand that the south end of the
county is badly in need of rain.
that section not having been
blessed with as much rain as we
have had here.
Mr.. A. ". Spaenhower, of Wav-
erly, Ills, who represents the Mer-
chants Life Insurance Company.
is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Stowell,
I He is accompanied by his wife
and daughter, the former being 9
sister OF Mrs. Stowell.
{ The hub factory whistle sound.
{ ed the alarm of fire a few minutes
before six o'clock last Wednesday
!, evening. The fire was at Andrew
Barnhouse's residence in ives
, Ironton, and the flames wer'
promptly extinguished before
much damage was done.
!. NOTICE. want to announce tt
the public in general that | an
now in the real estate business
Parties having farms or city prop
erty for sale will do we'll to put i
> in my hands. Small commission
Write or call on me at Ironton
Mo. HERMAN DINGER.
: DR.. Mudd, of st. Louis, wa
called to the Valley last Saturda,
, to see Mrs. Clarence N. Jones
who has been in poor health TO
: some time. Next day Mrs. Jone
, was taken to a st. Louis hospital
: where she will submit to a surgi
cal operation-not of a seriou
nature, however.
A Hungarian by the name Q
= Strechnicht was tried before SOUR
Rasche last Thursday on tn
charge Of stealing a masque an
other base ball paraphernalia be
9 longing to the Ironton ball clut
. and selling same to some partie
in Pilot Knob. He was give
twenty three days in jail.
Q Mr.. A. Roehry, who ~returne
last week from a months trip t
the far west, saw a number {
9 former Irontonians now living
4 the Golden State. He met mos
of the Ironton colony now maxim
their home in Los Angeles, an
also spent a day with our forms
. townsman, MI. F. Scoville, {
. Corona.
1t certainly is remarkable tn,
there are comparatively no apple
n grown in this community an
T. more. Twenty years or moro ag
e there was never such a thing as
IL total failure Of the apple crop, an
almost every year there was
at bountiful yield. In many yea.
we haven't had a fair apple Gro
l. Why the change?
NJ VIM. Trauernicht has let I'll
contract for a two story brio
to business house at Bismarck
IS Louis Miller, OF Arcadia. The CO