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

lghtfully spent in conversation,
music and other diversions. The
following were among those pres
emit; Misses Della Mason, Elsie
Reiehert, .Brenetta Karlson, Mr..
Fred Reichert. Mrs. H. E. john
son, Ernest Mason, j. E. Fields,
VIM. Reichert.-Leddwood Banner.
Sunday will be Rev. j. G. Rey-
nolds' last days service in the
Presbyterian church here, as he
has accepted a call to the First
Presbyterian church at Madison,
Ills, and will begin work there
the first Sabbath in August. The
sacrament of the Lords supper
will be administered at the morn
ing service. In the evening there
will be union services. All the
churches of the Valley are invited
to unite in this service. There will
be much singing and short adj
dresses from the pastors and 9TH
ers.
The REGISTER acknowledges the
receipt of the announcement of
the marriage of Mr.. John Grafton
Miller and Miss Marian Edna
Bryan, at Shelbina, Mo-, Thurs
day, July is, 1907. Miss Jenna
Logan was bridesmaid, being an
old-time friend to the bride, who
has many acquaintance in the
Valley. The REGISTER extends
congratulations to the groom, and
hopes the bride may live to ex-
perience every Joy attendant upon
the mating of 'two souls with but
a single thought, two hearts that
beat as one."
The young ladies who have
charge of the ice cream festival
Thursday, under the auspices of
st. Paul's church, have planned to
make it one of the events of the
summer. 1t is to be held in Emer-
son Park. In addition to st. Louis
cream and home made sherbet,
lemonade will be served, and fine
candy will be on sale. One of the
leading confectioners in st. Louis
has generously donated a quantity
of these sweets, and a st. Louis
gentleman, who has a home in the
Valley, has also made a fine con-
tribution of the same article.
We hear of a man in the Gran
iteville neighborhood resorting to
strenuous means to collect a debt.
He took his debtor out behind the
barn and told him that if he didn't
pay the $40 he owed, he would
whip him then and there. The
man who owed the money, pond
cred a while, sized up the situation
and finally paid the bill. Next
day, however, he tried to have the
prosecuting attorney issue a war
rant for the man who collected the
money, on the theory that he
chad held him up" But the
prosecuting attorney refused to
look at the matter in that light.I
Chas. Spitzmiller and Henry
Schleuter, of Pilot Knob, road
from Pilot Knob to Middlebrook
on a srailroad speeder Tuesday
evening. AS they were making
the return trip they were overtaken
Eby a south bound freight train in
the big cut this side of Middle
brook. They succeeded in getting
the speeder off the rails, but in
some way S%pitzmiller fell in front
of the on-coming engine and had
both legs cut off above the knee.
He was brought to his home and
an operation performed, but he
died shortly after midnight. The
deceased lived with his mother
and was about twenty-five years
of age.
Mrs. L. r. Carr has a flower
blooming in her yard that is quite
a curiosity. The blossom is on a
shrub, possibly two feet high.
Between half past seven and eight
Lo'clock in the evening the flower
unfurls as rapidly as if a string
was attached to the leaves and they
were jerked open. The blossom
is of a lemon yellow in color, and
in size and shape not unlike the
moonflower. Some seven or eight
of the blossoms open up every
night, and when morning comes
they close and die. The flower is
daintily scented, suggestive Of the
honeysuckle. Mrs. Carr says she
brought the plant here from Wash
ington county, but does not know
the name of it. It is certainly out
of the usual order.
The creamery plant in Arcadia
has been wholly unable to supply
the local demand for ice during
the present hot spell. Four cars
OF, ice have had to be shipped from
st. Louis since the first .of the
month, and several days the deal
er has been without ice. Monday
when he saw the supply was rum
ming low, Mr.. Johnson telephoned
to st. Louis for another car. He
couldn't get the ice from Lemp nor
, Anheuser- Busch, but finally SCI
cured what he wanted from the
Polar Wave Ice Company. Be-
cause of the increased cost, in
cident to shipping in, Mr.. johnson
announces that commencing with
to-day Wednesday, the retail
price for ice will be rs cents per
hundred, instead of 80 cents as
heretofore.
] DR.. E. L. Farmhouse Monday re-
ceived a telegram from Miss Lydia
BroadwelI, in st. Louis, ANNOUNCE
ing that her mother, Mrs. Mary