Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-07-06
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

IT'S the ice mans harvest.
Read Browns removal sale ad.
Sunday was a summer day all
right.
Browns new store will soon be
ready for occupancy.
The Missouri watermelon ought
to be here before long.
The colored citizens will give a
big picnic August 4th.
Another wedding or two, in the
near future, it is whispered.
The city is going to put a tax on
automobiles and motor cycles.
Peaches and cantaloupes have
been imported but not an apple
yet.
1t is said that Mr.. Conrad wants
to sell his summer home, east of
town.
The central depot, along with
the Sky Garden, seems to be TAX
ing a mighty long nap.
For Sale-2 China racks, glass
es, etc. Apply one door north
Codding's meat market.
Emil Roehry is now located at
G%alesburg, ~Illinois, in the employ
Of the Mckinley system.
It is now stated that with an
other rain or two there will be an
abundance of blackberries.
The auditors now going over
the county books say they will be
at work for several days yet.
Rev. G. E. Edwards of the Pres
byterian church will preach at Pr
lot Knob next Sunday 3P. M.
What about that Country Club
that spread it's wings so far and
wide a few short months ago?
Picking up the rocks on the
streets is most commendable. But
get busy on Shepherd street,
please!
The Puxico Iron Company, it is
said, is arranging to establish a
commissary, or company store, at
Pilot Knob.
Fifty new steel coaches, it is IN
nounced, have been ordered for
use on the Missouri Pacific and
Iron Mountain.
The weather has been fearfully
hot the past week and rain is
greatly needed. The thermometer
got to 101 Tuesday.
Crows lumber yard for lumber
lath, shingles, lime, cement, plaster
sash, doors, roofngs, brick,
mouldings and things.
1t is said that a party from Flat
River will present a petition for
saloon license at Pilot Knob, at the
August term of county court.
The Arcadia Valley Develops
ment Company that promised to
do so much for Ironton and vicin-
ity-what has happened to it?
The first watermelons of the
season were brought to town Mon
day. They sold in prices ranging
from fifty to seventy-ffve cents.
Beginning July 4th and lasting
until July 18th, B. N. Brown will
have a big removal sale. Special
price on every article in the store.
The completion Of the granitoid
walk in front of the drug store
makes that a solid block OF gram
itoid walk on that side of the
street.
Some people, suspiciously in
clined, are getting impatient at
the delay in development of the
wonderful Arcadia Valley De-
velopment Company.
Harry Patton, who is this sea-
son pitching ball with the Des
Moines, Iowa, team, visited friends
in Potosi the latter part of last
week.-Potosi Journal.
About thirty applicants for GER
tifcates attended the teachers ex-
aminations week before last. The
next examination will be held the
latter part of August.
G.. w. Hanson and bride are
spening their honeymoon in the
north. A letter announces theiI
arrival at Niagara, from whence
they will go to Canada.
In the county court proceedings
pointed last week it was stated
chat w. r. Edgar, Jr., had been
allowed $3.50 for auditing the
books. 1t should have been $3.50,
Dr.. Geo. L. Jones, who recently
graduated in dentistry, visited his
brother, the county treasurer, in
Ironton last week. He has locat-
cd at Piggott, Arkansas. We wish
him we'll.
II. =. Thomure, general passen-
ger agent Of the M. R. & B. I. r
r., made the trip in his automo-
bile from Bonnie Terre to the val
ley-45 miles--in three hours Mon
day evening.
Geo. M. johnson, who has beer
living in St. Louis the past year
writes us that he 10 now located q
Clafin, Barton county, Kansas
where he expects to remain three
or four months.
Work on the tabernacle on TN
Methodist Encampment grounds
in Arcadia is progressing very