Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02
LOCAL BREVITIES.

On for a street s~prinklerl
A good many logs coming to
town.
The saw mill is again getting
some logs.
The Ironton schools will open
September Goth.
Richard Goulding and family
have removed to st. Louis.
DR.. Summa is excavating for a
lake at his summer place in Ar
cadia.
AS little water in the creeks as
there was in the memorable drouth
of 1901.
Mr.. H. H. Hart has removed to
Poplar Bluff and the >rectory is
now vacant.
The drouth will seriously mar
the beauty of the autumn foliage
in the valley.
Frank Delano's tennis court,
east of town, is a very popular
place these days.
About 1000 ears of watermelons
were shipped from Southeast Mis-
! souri, the past two months.
Rev. Fuller Swift of Arcadia had
a horse killed by the fast mail
train Wednesday morning.
H. R. Holland, ST., is on a deal
to exchange his farm in the Flat
woods for st. Louis property.
These glorious moonlight nights /!
Alas that the years steal from one
so much of their enchantment!
Lost-Bunch of keys. In Iron
ton or on road to Graniteville.
Reward for return to this Office.
A number of valley people are
attending the barbecue and horse
show at Thompson Blanton's to-
day.
A vaudeville show, southwark
bound, held forth at the Academy
of Music Friday night. Not much
of a show.
L. A. Cook moved to Madison,
Ills, Monday. Rev. Fuller Swift
will occupy the house vacated by
Mr.. Cook.
The Boston Boomers and the
Ironton team will play a game of
ball Wednesday afternoon, Sep
TENDER 9th.
The once famous outlaw and
train robber, Cole Younger, will
lecture at the Academy of Music,
September 18th.
w. j. Schwab, we are told, is
now located at Sapulpa, Oklaho-
ma. Mrs. Schwab will join him
there in the near future.
I see it's ''moving day. with
several parties this week; q hot
weather recreation | am willing
to surrender to my neighbor.
Percy, the timer, has a new ad
this week. Mr.. Percy is a good
timer and if you are in need OF
anything in his line give him a
call.
About fifteen applicants for
certificates attended the examine
; lions at Arcadia last Friday and
Saturday.
Prof. McClintock, of Farming
ton, the principal of the lronton
schools, is now domiciled with his
family in one of DR.. Smiths cot
tages.
When one reads of the fatal
auto accidents occurring daily, he
subsidies into c%ontentment and
thanks God that he hath not
riches.
Chas. j. Newman has rented
his cottage in west Ironton to a
gentleman from st. Louis by the
name of Costigan for the next two
months.
A dozen or more teachers attend
ed the meeting at the courthouse
in Ironton last Wednesday and
Thursday. The meeting was quite
interesting.
The water supply in the valley
is getting alarmingly short, and If
the drouth continues many days
the question of water will become
q momentous one
Jake Dinger is building a new
!. factory for the Clark Gay Com
pany at Eminence, Mo-, and left
with a number of carpenters for
that place last week.
The trucks on the tender of No.
Z, the fast mail train, jumped the
track this side of Des Arc last
Friday morning, and delayed
trains two hours or more.
The supply Of water for the rail
road tanks at Arcadia and Hogan
is running short. Unless there is
N early rain the company will have
to haul water to fill those tanks.
Surprising this dry spell con-
tinued, say, five years? Wouldn't
I've all be hiking for the Mississippi
and the great lakes? They say
Starving is less painful than thirst
ing.
The anti-cowbell threat of the
City Council doesn't seem to scare
] very much. The pleasure Of an
noying ones neighbors will not
give way to the shadow Of an en-