Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-07-14

lin Ladies' Muslin Underwear
now on sale.
LOPEZ STORE Co.
A. G. Russell has been busy the
past two weeks cutting wheat in
the valley and vicinity. He says
the yield is the best he ever saw.
A large persimmon tree in the
yard of Mr.. j. NJ. Whitworth was
blown down by the storm Satur-
day night. Required a pretty
good gale.
The Cleaners will serve home-
made ice cream and sherbet at the
Presbyterian church lawn, Thurs
day, July t4th.i Everybody is
cordially invited.
The county Democratic Central
Committee meets next Saturday,
July Is, at 2 o'clock P. NJ, in Mr..
Edgar's Office. The official call is
printed elsewhere.
The city council is considering
the advisability of enacting a new
license ordinance. The proposed
law would put a license tax on al
most every business.
Roy Reel, who was accidentally
shot at the charivari ten days ago,
is still in the railroad hospital in
st. Louis. We are glad to say
that he is getting along very nice
ly.
Our old friend, Mr.. w. HI. Thorn
son, has returned from Hot Springs
and is recuperating at "Valley
Home. We are glad to say there
is much Improvement in his con-
dition.
There will be a grand picnic and
fish fry at Brule next Saturday,
July 18th. Everybody is invited
to come and have a good time, and
all candidates for Office are asked
to attend and make speeches.
A.. J.. S. Lehr of st. Louis was
here last week in the interest of
the candidacy of Governor Francis
for United States Senator. Mr..
Lehr did not find a great deal of
Francis sentiment in this section.
Last Saturdays Republic in the
column of fifty years ago from the
Republics files recites the fact that
James Lindsay of Ironton was
nominated for Lieutenant Cover
nor on the "Black Republican
ticket.
The st. Louis Star has a repre-
sentative in town this week gather
ing data for an article on the val
ley to be published in the Sunday
Star. Afterwards the same article
will be printed in an almanac
which the Star will issue about the
last of the year.
The railroad company has is
sued a large number Of pro-
grammes of the Methodist En-
campment at Arcadia, July 25-31,
under the direction of the presid-
ing elders of the st. Louis Con-
ference. A large number of Wis
itors is expected.
The Murdock- Crumb Office in
the Academy of Music building
has been dismantled and abandon
ed, Bro. Bum has hied to more
genial chimes, and we suppose
that the places that have known
him will know him no more for
ever. So pass the glories of the
world.
A summer visitor by the name
of Bumgardner, with his wife and
child, was out driving in Arcadia
Monday evening when they at
tempted to go p~astlanother rig. In
the contest the B~umgardner rig
ran against a post and Mr.. Bum
gardner was thrown to the ground
sustaining a broken leg.
A business meeting of the Fort
Hill Epworth League will be held
Wednesday evening, July 18th.
Important business to transact.
All members of the League and of
Fort Hill church are earnestly re-
quested to attend.
MAUDE LANGDoN, Pres't.
CARTER BLANToN, Sec'y.
Mrs. Frank Mayes on the night
of July 4th had the misfortune to
be hit by a ~sky-rocket which
some children were sending up
before her residence. DR.. Gay
was summoned at once and
dressed the wound which was
found to be a severe cut in the
forehead. Her early recovery is
hoped for.
Hon. Jas. S. Berkeley, Demo-
cratic candidate for Circuit Judge,
will address the voters of Iron
County at the following time and
places: Des Arc, Thursday night,
July 18th; Annapolis, Friday
night, July 18th; Ironton, Satur-
day night, July 10Th; GRANTEE
Vile, Monday night, July 18th;
Belleview, Tuesday night, July
10th. Commencing at s o'clock.
All are invited.
What was at first thought to
have been a few cases Of chicken
pox in the neighborhood Of
Dagonia, in the western part of the
county, has upon further examina-
ton been diagnosed as smallpox
and there is said to be at this time
some twenty-five or thirty cases
scattered over the neighborhood.
The county court held a call term
to-day and ordered the sheriff to