Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-07-20
LOCAL BREvITIES.

A new awning has been built in
front of the drug store.
Lopez's tell of the semi annual
clearing sale this week.
The probate docket for the Au-
gust term is printed this week.
G. F. Hanson will build a gran
itoid walk in front of his home.
Rev. G. E. Edwards will preach
at Pilot Knob next Sunday at 8 P.
M.
The Baptist Assembly on Ar
cadia Heights convenes August
I'd.
The financial statement of the
City Of Ironton is printed this
week.
F. A. Twomey is now travelling
for the Goddard Grocer Co., OF ST.
Louis.
The city council meets Thurs
day night to pass some more or
dinances.
Lopez's have received FIVE hum
dred cots to rent during the en-
campments.
The ice cream festival has been
conspicuous this year by reason
of its absence.
The road to Graniteville is in a
much better shape than it has
been for years.
The local telephone company is
putting up new poles on the lines
outside of town.
The city poll tax by a new or
dinance will be So a year, instead
of 81 as heretofore.
The Puxico Iron Company is
shipping quite a lot of ore from
Pilot Knob these days.
For Sale-A lumber wagon, sor-
rel mare and saddles. Mrs. II.
Ferdinand, Ironton, Mo.
We now have a local freight
each way every day. The change
became effective Monday.
There will be an open air twi-
light service at the Presbyterian
church, next Sunday at 7:15 P. M.
w. j. Schwab is now on the
Valley division of the Iron Noun
tain in Illinois working as train
auditor.
The Modern Woodmen will give
q grand picnic at Belleview, Sat-
urday, August 9th. Particulars
next week.
Wanted-A girl to do general
housework. Girl from the country
preferred Mrs. j. Madlinger,
lronton, Mo.
Cicero Collins has bought the
Nall home in west Ironton and
will remove thereto in the neal
rice, 0llUU.
Nearly every day we have
promise OF rain, but it fails to ma
terialize. Oh for a good, old.
fashioned down-pour.
The drouth continues and unless
1t is broken very soon all hope of
a corn crop will be gone, along
with the hay and oats.
MI. Rosentreter, we understand,
will soon commence work on
granitoid walk in front of his
place in north Ironton.
Our genial friend, Mr.. r.. D.
Lewis, was here the last of the
week and made as a pleasant call.
We are always glad to see him.
The financial statement Of the
Pilot Knob school district for the
year ending June 80, 1911, is print.
ed in this issue of the REGISTER.
1t is said that the Syenite Gran.
lite Company has recently secured
quite a large contract and will put
a number of stone cutters at work.
Hundreds and hundreds oil
household necessities at specia
bargain prices during Clearing
Sale at Lopez's-note the big ad
for particulars.
Section No. 2 invite the associate
and the active Cleaners, and their
families to a silver social at the
home Of Mrs. Dave Kendall, July
10Th, at 8 o'clock P. M.
The Knights Of Africa, a colored
secret society, was organized in
the X. P. colored lodge room last
Friday night. There were about
twenty charter members.
The Puxico Iron Company has
built a boarding house and store
room at Pilot Knob near the lake.
The latter, it is said, will 1T once
be stocked with merchandise.
We have a letter from our young
friend, S. S. Shy, who is now To-
Gated at Chaffee, in Scott county.
Sam says that is a great town and
everything reliably Democratic.
Quite a number of strangers are
in the valley attending the Second
Annual Methodist Encampment
which convened Tuesday evening
on "Epworth Among the Hills"
A jury in Squire Rasche's court
Tuesday afternoon found Green
Cawley not guilty Of an assault on
Andrew Sheriff. several weeks
since. Both parties live at Pilot
Knob.
A case brought here from Squire