Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-22
LOCAL BREvITIES.
Is the hot weather overP

Quite a lot of coats coming to
town. Price, 42 1-2.
The watermelon is reported as
scarce and hard to get.
Is September 9th to be observed
at Pilot Knob this year?
We publish an interesting letter
from G. K. Polk this week.
Teachers examinations Friday
and Saturday of this week.
Sam. Bradley last week bought
the Lee Davis home in Arcadia.
The north bound trains have
been frequently late the past week.
We hear that an effort will be
made to secure license for a saloon
at Arcadia.
The saloon here and the one at
Pilot Knob are both doing a "land
Office" business.
The wedding bells will ring, we
understand, before the harvest
moon wakes full. 4.
Miss Alice Twoomey.of Ironton
has been employed to teach the
Middlebrook school.
Belleyiew's annual blue ribbon
fair and horse show will be held
Saturday, August 31st.
Wash Creath, an old resident of
Wayne county, died at his home
in Piedmont last Wednesday.
We this week publish what the
Piedmont Bonner has to say of j..
N. Long Of the Cross & Anchor
Home.
Our ice man has had a timesthe
past week keeping sufficient guam
tity Of ice on hand to supply the
demand.
The Southeast Missouri Holmes
University, at Des Arc, will in
augurate the school year Sep
tember nth.
Robert Hill to-day shipped a
car of fine cattle to the ST. Louis
market. He expects to ship an
other car in a few days.
The wreck of a passenger train
just north of Hoxle, Arkansas,
Monday night, delayed all of our
north : bound passenger trains
Tuesday morning.
LosT-On Sunday, August 18th,
on the streets of I%ronton, a gold
locket and chain-locket set with
brilliants. Return to this Office
and receive reward.
We understand that the two
saloons at Graniteville, that were
denied license by the county court,
are now dispensing soft drinks to
the thirsty traveller.
Louis Schach and bride have re-
turned from st. Louis and are now
domiciled in>the Cain cottage in
north Ironton, which Mr.. S. pur-
chased some time ago.
The Clark Gay Manufacturing
Company will locate a hub factory
in Little Rock, Arkansas. G.. R.
Gay and family will make their
home there in the near future.
After serving for twenty-seven
years as postmaster in the village
of Middlebrook, VIM. Trauernicht
has turned the Office over to his
successor, F. Buechsenschuetz.
p. w. Whitworth made final
settlement as administrator of the
estate Of the late w. III. Byers, in
the probate court last week. Each
Of the four heirs received about
S700.
We've had some glorious rains
the past week, and most welcome
they we're. While the crops were
badly damaged by the drouth yet
the late rains will help the corn
much in many instances.
Mr.. Bird Smith, we'll known to
many of our people, has disposed
of his business interests in Farm
ington and gone to Lebanon, Vir-
GINA, on a prolonged visit, in the
hope that the change will improve
his health.
II. B. Jones tells us that he may
make his home in the Valley again
in the not far distant future. He
says that he cannot have his health
in Arkansas, and he wisely con-
cludes that that is the first con
sideration.
Matt. Kelly, the representative
Of the American Car & Lumber
Company, was in town Tuesday
and tells us that the lumber trade
is becoming exceedingly dull. Fol
pine, he says, there is practically
no demand.
LosT-On Main street, some-
where between Browns store ano
Whitworth's corner, Monday eve
ming, August 10Th, 1907, a pocket
book containing something ovel
So. Return to this Office and re-
ceive reward.
1t is stated that a petition viii
be presented at the next regular
term of the county court, in No
vember, asking for q local option
election. The last local option
election was held in this county
about nineteen years ago.
When No. 20, the morning pas
senger train, pulled into this sta