Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-11-24
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Arcadia Items.

AT lGemSs
Our little town was dreadfully
shocked and thrown into feverish
excitement on Monday morning,
about ten o'clock, by the report of
the sudden death of Mr.. A. M.
Allen, n of our Oldest and best
known citizens. He was up and
about his home in his usual good
health and was putting up a
clothes-line, when he suddenly
fell and expired without uttering a
word or wen a shudder. DR.. Gay
was summoned from Ironton but
was too late to render medical aid
as Mr.. Allen was dead when he
arrived. The whole community
was shocked and saddened by
this sudden death and of course
Mrs. Allen was driven frantic with
grief for a time. This is the fourth
death from the same cause (heart
failure) within the past year.
Mr.. Allen will be missed in the
community, for he was we'll known
to a large circle of friends and was
always busy about his home which
by his care and energy had be-
come one of the most beautiful in
Arcadia Valley. Truly in the
midst of life we are in death. It is
Gods way and though we may
not understand it, we may exclaim
with the immortal Mckinley:
ellis will be done" Although
these sudden deaths are always
shocking, there is the comforting
thought about them that those
who go in this way are spared the
lingering suffering and pain con-
sequent upon long and finally
fatal sickness. The sympathy of
the whole community goes out to
Mrs. Allen in her hour of deep and
sudden bereavement.
Miss Anna and Master Braid
Shane went ten miles into the
country Sunday and never found
persimmons enough to pucker a
chigger's lips.
Mr.. Shores is reported as recov-
ering rapidly from the operation
for appendicitis in the Missouri
Pacific Hospital.
The pusher men are still work.
ing several hours over time every
day. Mr. Staley is still improving
and was home from the hospital
one day last week.
Two of our nimrods are credited
with killing one dozen quail last
saturday and the fourth Of a dozen
rabbits.
The days draw nigh when the
latest porker gives up his body to
the rapacious appetite of the
hungry school boy. In other words
it will soon be "hog-killing time"
Oh, the beauty and the glory of
this beautiful October indian sum
mer weather! It's a good time
for everything, cleaning cisterns
included.
There is considerable "chicken
talk" in Arcadia now and we
shouldn't be at all surprised if it
results in an Iron county chicken
fair before the end of 1911. So
may it be. There is more money
in raising chickens than there is in
raising wheat in Iron county.
How would it do to organize a
civic league in the valley having
for its object the identifying OF
all our homes and giving a prize,
first, second and third for the home
showing the greatest improvement
in yard surroundings between the
first day of March and the first
day of July? Lets think it all
over and improve our home sur
roundings.
Mr.. Grin and Mr.. Glover, two
Ironton citizens, we're callers at
the Allen home in Arcadia Mon
day. They are grand army men
and came to offer coincidence to
the family Of their dead comrade,
Col. A. M. Allen.
We haven't any 'shaunt' in Ar
cadia any more. The illusion is
dispelled.
The days of fat possums and
pumpkin pies are come. Yum!
Yum! Yum! x.