Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-10-26

the KIND you see In the best vaud-
eville houses in the cities. They
still retain the Hayseed Quartette.
Here Saturday, October 2Sth.
The railroad company now has
four watchmen employed-two
day and two night-to keep the
stock of the right of-way from
the crossing. east of town, to the
northern limits of the town of
Pilot Knob.
The evening edition of the Post
Dispatch is no longer sent to the
valley. Instead a morning edition
has been substituted and the cir
culation of the P.-D. in this vicin-
ity has shrunk considerably by
reason of the change.
John Russell has returned home
from Fredericktown, where he has
just been installing a heating plant
in the fine new post- Office build
ing. He tells US he has the job of
installing other heating plants
there this fall.--Farmington Neuos.
The foot ball game scheduled
for last Saturday between Ironton
and Doe Run had to be postponed
because of the very Indictment
weather. The game will be played
on the Ironton base ball grounds
next Saturday afternoon at 3
o'clock.
The Teachers Meeting at Des
Arc last Saturday, was, consider
ing the very bad weather, a COM
plete success. The attendance
was good and the interest much. A
paper, "Principles in Teaching"
by w. E. Mckee, will be printed
next week.
Mrs. Lutte B. Close, of East St.
Louis, Ills, last week purchased
from E. L. Farmhouse the property
in west Ironton known as the Pur-
kiss Grove. Consideration, $500.
Mrs. Close, we understand, will
build a residence on the place
next spring.
Our clever and accommodating
deputy Sheriff from the west end
of the county, Mr.. E. w. Wester-
man, arrived in Ironton Sunday
evening SO as to be ready for court
the next morning. Ed. is a mighty
clever, genial fellow, and we are
always glad to see him.
Bismarck has an ordinance re-
quiring property holders to con-
struct granitoid walks. From the
Gazette we see that where parties
have failed to put in the walks as
ordered the city is building. the
walks and will tax the cost of
same against the property.
Gus. Kaesemacher of Glover.
Valley Farm Monday brouuht to
this Office a limb from a raspberry
bush with a dozen or more ripe
berries thereon. Pretty late for
raspberries. Mr.. Kaesemacher
also brought us two very fine Ben
davis apples from one of his or
chards.
Frank Rice of Graniteville was a
caller at this Office Tuesday morn
ing. Mr.. Rice says that the past
summer has been the dullest sea-
son he has ever known in the
twenty-five years he has been
making his home at Graniteville.
The quarry employees have not
made more than half time.
st. Francois county is figuring
on a local option election in the
near future. 1t is said thatCthere
are fifty counties in the state
where there is a possibility of To-
cal option elections within the
next few months. 1t is four years
this month since the last local OPP
ton election was held in this
county.
Barney Schribere, the famous
race horse man from st. Louis
county, was here Monday looking
for a big race horse farm. He has
recently sold his place in st.
Louis county and wants to buy
another. He visited the Smol-
linger farm at Iron Mountain and
DR.. Farrar's farm in Belleview
while here.
There has been some hitch in
the building of the bridge across
Knob Creek east of town, on the
road to Arcadia Heights. Mr..
Fred. Russell, the roadoverseer,
tells US that unless the court
makes an order for the building
of the bridge at it's November
term he will return all the money
he has collected from subscribers
for the purpose.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Noble
Smith, Of Campbell, Mo have is-
sued invitations to the marriage OF
their daughter, Estelle, and DR..
George Lee Jones, of Piggott,
Arkansas, Wednesday evening,
November s, 1911, at $3.50 o'clock.
DR.. Jones is an Iron county boy
and his many friends here join the
REGISTER in wishing him and his
every happiness.
VIM. and John McMurry were
in town Monday and closed a deal
with "Uncle" Jim Dobbins for his
farm lying two miles southeast OF
Lesterville. The farm is known az
Mr.. Dobbins' home farm and in
cludes several hundred acres,
The consideration was SIS, 900,
We understand that possession will
be given at once, and that one Of
{ the purchasers will move thereto
| Immediately. This farm is one Of
the finest in the country and it is