Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-08-04
LOCAL B%REvITIES.

And still the wheat comes to
town.
Dog and Pony show next Sat-
urday.
The lights some nights go out a
little early.
Grand Festival, .Graniteville,
August 18th.
Boys and girls, vacation will
soon be over.
The big clearing sale at Lopez's
closes Thursday.
What about the granitoid walks?
Dead or sleeping?
The Knob folk think they will
have a station soon.
Fifty people in the dog and pony
show next Saturday.
Henry Adolph is now agent for
the st. Louis papers.
No saloon petition presented at
this term of county court.
About time for the first a of
watermelons to be showing up.
Seven automobiles from ST.
Francois county were in the valley
Sunday
Ozark Inn, on Arcadia Heights,
seems to be a very popular hostel
ry these days.
1t certainly was about the quiet
est election of any kind ever held
in Iron county.
The boys say that occasionally
they are making fair catches of
fish in the creeks.
1t is said that the Belleview
wheat crop this year is in excess
of $4,000 bushels.
Jack Frost, a travelling evange-
list, held services on the streets
several nights last week.
The Bloomer Girls defeated the
Ironton ball team in a score of 10
to 0 Tuesday afternoon.
There have been some awfully
hot days and nights the past week,
and some very pleasant ones.
Don't think there ever was such
a fine prospect for corn in this
section as there is this season.
Visitors to the Baptist Assembly
have been arriving since Sunday.
A big bunch is expected tonight.
A. M. Madigan has removed his
family from Arcadia to lronton,
and is now domiciled at the home
of Mrs. H. 0. Davis.
The roads in the valley and
vicinity are better than they have
been for years. The drive around
Shepherd Mountain is fine.
Mary Josephine Dawley orders
for hand-painted china. Medal at
st. Louis Worlds Fair. Address
34t0 Lucas Ave, st. Louis, Mo.
Ira Carr sold his butcher shop to
G. G. Dinger this week, who is
ready to accommodate the public
in his line.-Eminence Current WaUe.
AS fine a field of corr as you
= ever saw is that being cultivated
by w. D. Fletcher of Arcadia, on
DR.. MarshalPs place in south Iron
ton.
No. 3 set out two coaches Tues
day loaded with visitors to the
Baptist Assembly. In the crowd
were thirty people from Kansas
City.
20 pounds of standard fine Gran.
ulated Sugar for 81, with every So
worth of other goods spurchased
during the Clearing Sale.
LOPEZ STORE Co.
Bobby Fountains Dog and
Pony Show will be in Ironton,
next Saturday, August 9th, after
noon and evening. Don't miss it.
1t is said to be a first-class show.
The Rev. H. Whitehead, former
ly pastor of the Fort Hill church,
has-been appointed assistant ed
itor and publisher of the Alabama
Christian Advocate, Birmingham,
Alabama.
= DR.. Wick was here from st,
Louis Sunday. We r sorry to
say that our big-hearted friend
has not been in the best Of health
- lately. We hope to hear of an
early improvement.
The first homegrown peaches
arrived on the market Tuesday,
They came from Mr.. Sherrill's
orchard, west Of Sabula, and are
fine. Mr.. Sheriff. is said to have
about one thousand bushels.
The belfry ON the Presbyterian
church was struck by lightning
during the storm early Wednes-
day morning. The upper portion
of the structure was somewhat
shattered. but it is fortunate that
no greater damage resulted.
a couple Of gentlemen are here
from Valley Park-near st. Louis
this week, looking for a location
for a screen factory. They seem
favorably impressed with the out.
look here and may come. A
hearty welcome awaits them.
What is known as the Mace
farm, south Of Arcadia, 10 ad.
vertised at trustees sale in the
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