Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-07-22

disposed of the smaller to Mr..
Goff, and received the cash for the
other from Mr.. Len Sutton. When
Mr.. S. took the check to the local
bank it was refused, and he is out
his five dollars. A warrant has
been issued for the arrest of the
finder of the checks-so Mr.. Sutton
informs me-but that will not re-
turn the holder his money.
sect Busy!" This is the slogan
fruit growers in the Koshkonong
and Brandsville districts, where
the biggest crop of peaches known
in the history of this country is
ripening and will soon be rushed
to foreign markets. Managers,
superintendent and owners of
peach orchards are planning and
arranging to handle the crops.
Thousands of laborers will be re-
quired to pick and pack: the de-
licious fruit must be handled
quickly when it ripens and then
rushed to market. Experts en-
ployed by express companies and
refrigerator car lines that handle
the fruit estimate the peach crop
Of Howell and Oregon counties at
500 cars. Many growers claim the
figures are too low that there are
more peaches on the trees than
last year and the fruit will be of
extraordinary size. The transpor-
tation companies in arranging to
speedily get the crops to market
have given orders for thousands of
tons of ice, and the ice plants at
Kansas City, Springfield and West
Plains are now storing ice to 9
frigerate the cars.-West Plains
| Gazette.
A meeting of all the Baptist
young people who expect to go on
the special train next week to the
Arcadia Assembly will be held this
evening at the Third Baptist
| Church, with ORION D. Evans of
the Third Church Young Peoples
Society presiding. The Baptist
Assembly will be held at Arcadia
Heights July Goth to 18th, and
more than 100 young people from
different churches have already
registered as delegates. 1t is in
tended that these, with such others
as may go, shall become acquaint-
| ed this evening, SO as to add a
social element to the outing. Rev.
DR.. w. j. Williamson and G.. M.
London will make addresses.
Refreshments will be served. The
Assembly at Arcadia will also in
clude the state meeting of the
Baptist Young Peoples Union of
Missouri. For this convention
there are forty delegates from the
Third Church alone. The Third
Church has prepared a special
badge of ribbon and medallions
for those making up the party.
All of the ministers who are now
in the city will go, including DR..
Williamson, who is chairman of
the Programme Committee: Rev.
S. E. Ewing, Rev. R. L. Lemons,
Rev. w. J.. Crouch, Rev. George
Steel, Rev. DR.. Sam Frank Taylor
and Rev. DR.. j. G. Armstrong. A.
w. Payne, editor of the Central
Baptist, is also to go. The train
will leave Union Station at 8
o'clock Monday morning, and
delegations from other Missouri
cities, including Kansas City,
Springfield and Joplin, will come
to st. Louis and go from here.
Eminent Baptist speakers will
give sermons, lectures and ad-
dresses Globe. Democrat.
The First Annual Session of the
Missouri Baptist Assembly is now
on at Arcadia Heights, with a
large attendance from all over the
State-from north, east, west and
south. The first allotment of Wis
itors came Monday noon, and
every succeeding train brought its
quota of men and women to swell
the number. Eminent divines
are here to instruct and entertain,
and music's charm lends its aid to
the enjoyment of the passing days.
Lectures given in the Academy of
Music Friday, Saturday and Sun
day nights YER listened to by
large and appreciative audiences.
A silver Offering to the cause was
accepted at the last, but no charge
was made for admission. Mean
time work on the Heights was
pushed day and night in order to
be ready for the throng to people
them the coming seven days. The
tabernacle, the hotel, bungalows
and tents were in readiness, but
the water conduit from the artes-
ian wells in the valley was incom-
plete. By dint of incessant work
it was completed Monday evening,
and, save for the burstings of the
pipe under the great pressure re-
CURED, the supply of pure, cold
water would have been ample.
For the first few hours the early
corners rel put on a short allow
ance, but at this writing the sup
ply promises to equal the demand
The projectors of the Assembly
have accomplished wonders in the
short time allotted, and it is not
singular that trouble of one kind
or another should meet them un-
expecteoly. By the next year
everything will be as it ahould be,
with all annoyance or shortcom-
ing relegaued to memory. under
stand that Monday night the tents,
the hotel and the bungalows were
filled, but increasing accommoda-
tons will meet the wants of those