Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-04-07

IudC us llCll6 LWO-year-Olu BOY
who drank some liniment ten days
ago that proved poisonous, has
about recovered from his mis-
fortune and promises to suffer no
permanent injury therefrom. We
are glad to hear it.
The REGISTER this week reprints
from the Dunklin Democrat an
article telling of the death of Mr..
H. N. Hutchens, which occurred at
his home in Dunklin county on
March 26th. The deceased for
many years made his home on the
farm now owned by Nicholas
Allgier, near the Shut-In, east of
town. Old friends in the valley
will learn of his death with sorrow.
Robert Reeves, the newly elected
manager of the Flat River base
ball team, is making an effort to
organize a league to include De
Soto, Bonnie Terre, Festus, Bis
marck, Leadwood and Flat River.
If successful, a regular schedule
of games will be arranged. Mr..
Reeves informs us that Flat River
will have a strong team this year.
|-Elvins Herald.
Thos. P. Fitz of Des Arc recent
ly addressed a letter to the Profess
sor of Horticulture asking him if
there was any scientific reason
back of the popular belief that
potatoes should be planted in the
dark of the moon. The learned
gentleman at Columbia says that
this is only a superstition. That
the potato crop depends on the
soil, the rainfall and cultivation.
H. S. Whitener and G. M. Lon
don have a force of men and
teams at work on Arcadia Heights,
building roads and making other
Improvements. An immense res
ervoir will be built on the hill near
the hotel and water piped all over
the grounds. A Mrs. Smith, a
sister of Mr.. London, will conduct
the hotel this season, and is al
ready in charge, making garden
and getting ready for the visitors
in the summer.
The section between the Syenite
and Schneider quarries, near
Graniteville, was visited by one of
the most terrific hail storms ever
known in this country last Sunday
afternoon between two and three
.Eo'clock. The hail stones were in
many instances as large as guinea
eggs, and they came down in tor
rents covering the ground to a
depth Of three inches or more. The
hail was preceded by an unusual
ly heavy rain. The storm seems
to have been confined to a small
space for the dust was barely laid
this side of Graniteville, nor was
there much rain beyond Schnei-
der's. Here in the valley there
was an April shower, but the
clouds indicated that there was a
pretty severe storm in the Granite
vile neighborhood.
Rev. Mr.. Swift resents the init
nation that politics welded any
influence in naming the census
enumerators for Iron county, and
says, in support of his contention,
that the applicants stood an exam
ination conducted by Postmaster
Steel, and that the papers were
graded by parties who ''knew
nothing, and cared less of the
politics of the applicants" l will
not attempt to deny what Rev
ESwift says. But he and Post
master Steel are widely divergent
in this proposition. About the
time the examination was held
Mr.. Steel told me that the census
enumerators for Iron county would
be named by w. 7. Gay of Iron
ton and DR.. N. A. Farr, of Des
Arc. Naturally, l concluded pol
itics would be the test of the fit.
ness. And the result, l insist,
proves my reasoning correct.
The following is reproduced
from Sundays Globe Democrat
"John H. Curran, chief commits.
sioner of the Missouri State Board
of immigration; DR.. VIM. P. Cut.
Ter, state food commissioner, and
others, went to Ironton and Ar.
cadia yesterday to make prelim'
mary arrangements for the meeting
of the Mississippi Valley Lane
and Industrial Congress, which
will be held in the Arcadia Valley
next month. This congress will
be held under the auspices of Gov
Hadley and the immigration Com.
mission, and will meet in lrontor
on May 24th and 25th. Rates havt
been arranged for on all the rail
roads in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa
Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska
Kansas and other states, and 9
special effort is being made by the
immigration Commission to max,
this a visiting period to all thos'
homeseekers in the Mississippi
Valley who wish to see Missouri
atthe time of the year when it il
most pleasant. 1t has selected
part of the state which is one 0
the most accessible scenic points
and one open to large development
agriculturally and otherwise. Tit
!, purpose of the congress is to ex.
hibit the resources of Missouri TO.
the benefit of those who ar
actually looking for homes. 4
five-atre model farm in actua
operation will be one of th'
features. There will be excursions
into the surrounding country fol
the purpose of viewing the larg'
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