Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-17
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

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Wheat harvesting will commence
soon.
The day we celebrate will soon
be here.
Next Monday is the longest day
of the year.
The tobacco growers are setting
out their plants this week.
Some sort of a tent show to be
here Friday and Saturday.
Paul Myers has a run as Pullman
conductor out of st. Louis.
Some folk say they will have
peaches in another week or so.
MI. Delano has our thanks for a
basket of some very fine mulber-
ries.
A number of the horses in the
valley are suffering with "pink
eye."
DR.. Summa sends us some fine
views of New York City and
vicinity.
The clay on the streets isn't
altogether admirable when the
rain falls.
There will be a partial eclipse
of the sun Thursday evening about
$40 o'clock.
Our neighbor, Mr.. A. M. Madi-
gan, gave us some mighty fine new
potatoes the other day.
w. j. Fitz was here from Des
Arc last Friday and bought a
horse from Thos. D.. Jones.
Circuit court adjourned in
Reynolds county last Thursday,
after a three weeks session.
Train loads of potatoes still
going over the road. The water
melon,in another month now.
Arcadia, we understand, will
soon vote again on the proposition
to build a So, 1000 school house.
We are told that the railroad
company will at once build the
garden and fountain at Arcadia.
The culvert recently built by the
railroad company in north Ironton
is said to have cost $1,000. 1t is a
good one.
A dozen young mon from the
School of Mines, at Rolla, are
quartered at the Arcadia Hotel
this week.
The trip tickets to st. Louis are
now on sale at the Arcadia station
for $3.50. The tickets are good
until November.
The ladies of the Methodist
church will serve ice-cream and
cake on the church lawn Thursday
afternoon and evening.
It's pretty hard these hard
times to pay three cents a mile to
ride on the railroad when you've
been riding for two cents.
The Oklahoma Indians and the
Arcadia Valley team played ball
last Friday. The home team was
victorious in a score of A to l.
w. P. McCarver says that with a
business experience OF. thirty-one
years in Ironton he eve saw the
town as dull as it is at present.
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Quite a number of colored visit
ors in town. Sunday, the occasion
being the laying of the corner
stone of the colored Baptist church.
Mr.. Woodside was brought
home from Mullanphy Hospital,
St. Louis, Sunday evening. His
condition is reported as about the
same.
Mr.. Louis Miller tells us that he
has made arrangements for train
No. 3, south bound, and train No
5, north-bound, to stop at Arcadia
in future.
1t is high time for the city coun-
Gil to pass the ordinance prohibit
ing COW bells. They are more nu-
merous and annoying than ever
this summer.
Mr.. j. w. Speck has beer
seriously i'll at his home in south
Ironton the past week. We hope
to report an early Improvement in
his condition.
The commencement at Arcade
College Thursday afternoon. ssTht
Land of the Dolls" a musica
play, will be the dominant feature
Of the entertainment.
Mayor Bergman Of Poplar Bluf
was a caller at this Office last Wed
nesday. Mr.. Berryman's OLE
friends here are glad to know 0
his success in his present home.
Gentlemen of the city council
please give us that ordinances
against the sleep destroying ans
disturbing COW bell. Everybody
or nearly everybody, is complain
ing.
"A portion OF the Arcadia vale,
Ball Club went to Bonne Teri
Sunday and was badly wallopet
in in a game there, the beini
10 to O. Better practice up a little
boys.
The Ironton team is endeavorin'
to arrange a game of ball with tn
Poplar Bluff nine. In case q gam
is agreed on it is proposed to TT.
and take q car load Of people =
the Bluff.