Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-04-15
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

April showers make tne May
flowers.
Hyacinths and easter lilies
plentiful.
There was snow last Thursday,
April 9Th.
The probate docket for the May
term is printed this week.
The bungalows on Arcadia
Heights car be seen from town.
1t is said that another livery barn
may be builtin Ironton this spring.
HI. M. Collins has opened a con-
fectionery near the Arcadia depot.
Madison county, it is said, will
have another local option election
soon.
The Arcadia Hotel has just been
re-painted, which adds much to
it's appearance.
The Ironton school district adj
vertises this week for a depository
for the district funds.
We are told that forty acres Of
the Rudy farm, west of town, will
be planted in tobacco this spring.
st. Paul,s Guild meets at Mrs.
Codding's Thursday afternoon of
this week and Tuesday of next
week.
w. G. Whitworth has purchased
the mercantile business of his
father, j. w. Whitworth, in Ar
cadiaS
There will be a game of base
ball between the Ironton and
Fredericktown teams here next
Sunday.
The fishermen are getting anx-
ious. The usual exodus to st.
Francois river will be in order
soon, now.
The increases in valuation made
by the board of equalization while
in session last week amount to
over $40,0
Apretty Easter day, and it would
have been fine had it not been for
the awful wind that blew all day
and night long.
Piedmont voted last week to
build a $4,000 school house to
take the place of the one recently
destroyed by fire.
A Silver Tea for the benefit of
st. Paul's church at the home of
Mrs. Thos. Newman Thursday
evening, April 22d.
1t is announced that when the
dam at Pilot Knob is completed
two or three gasoline launches will
be put on the lake.
Quarterly meeting at Fort Hill
Church next Saturday and Sun
day. Rev. Hayes, P. E., will Off
cate. All are invited.
John G.. Hartman was reelected
school commissioner of Reynolds
county last week by a plurality of
30 votes. He had two opponents.
One of the biggest crowds that
have assembled in the valley in a
long while is witnessing the ded-
II ication services at Arcadia to-day.
A. M. Madigan is no longer con-
nected Mith the Whitworth store in
Arcadia. Mike says he will take
a little rest before going to work
again.
The rabbit seems to have been
unusually busy in the valley last
Saturday night. His nests, filed
with Easter eggs, we're in general
evidence.
A jury in Squire Patterson's
court in Liberty township last Fri
day rendered a verdict in favor Of
James G.. Chiffon, who sued @. w.
Collins on a note.
From the empty bottles to be
seen lying around town we judge
that there is considerable drinking
in town these d~ays-e'en though
we have gone dry.
The county court last weel
dW0lAOA UAO COAuldCb lOL OuAl0AuS
the addition to the jail residence
to Chas. j. Tual for about 1885,
Work will begin at once.
DR.. Jesse Hale, Of Greenville
was in Ironton last Wednesday
having been to see his father, Mr.
A. Hale in B%elleview, who wal
recently thrown from a horse.
The work of building the dam a
Pilot Knob was interfered with by
the big rain Monday. In conse.
quence of the freshet much of the
work will have to be done over.
The proceedings Of the Boart
of Equalization are printed thit
week. If you have any grievanc'
meet the Board Of Appeals at tn,
court house Monday, April 10Th.
MI. F. M. Davis lost a fine milcl
COW one day last week. The ami
NAL was apparently in perfec
health; he had just finished milk
ing her, when she fell over dead.
We had a big rain Monday, SOM
thfee and a half inches falling dur
ing the day. The creeks were GU
Of their banks, bottom fields wer.
damaged and fences washed away
A.. q. Russell was in to see u
Monday and says that Prof. B
Fox's majority in the race TO
school commissioner in Washing
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