Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-09-14
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

OlIy IdAoo oio Ouo'
Melon season about done.
Fall Fertilizers at Lopez's.
Pennington Fair this week.
Big attendance at the picture
show.
The beer mans harvest con.
tiuues.
Wild grapes never we're m ore
plentiful.
About as hot September weather
as is ever known.
w. P. McCarver has opened q
grocery store in Pilot Knob.
Bishop Tuttle will be at St.Paul's
church, lronton, November 9th.
A number of automobiles came
over from the lead belt Labor
Day.
The squirrel hunter is having
pretty fair luck these September
days.
The official statement of the
Iron County Bank is printed this
week.
Mr.. Durfee succeeds Mr.. Selinger
in the livery business at Arcadia
next Saturday.
Have you yet see the new
store of B. N. Brown? Do not
miss visiting it.
Re-carpeting and re-furnishing
the circuit court room cost the
county about $3.50.
The Shut-In dam and lake is an
assured success, and the work is
rapidly progressing.
Wayne county is growing cot
ton, or getting ready to trysit. Iron
county will come in next.
We never knew the church fes-
tival to be SO scarce as it has dur
ing the season just closing.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Basler, Ironton, Friday, Septem-
Der 8, 1911, a boy. All well.
The cheering announcement is
made that potatoes will be cheap
err later on. 1t is to be hoped.
The circus goes from here to
Piedmont, from Piedmont to DON
iphan, and then into Arkansas.
The show tent will be on the
field just south of the old screen
factory and east of the railroad.
Judge Roop last Friday brought
to this Office the largest tomato we
have seen this year. 1t was a
monster.
Now that the property owners
are building the granitoid walks,
the city should try and put in the
staeet crossings.
Chas. Eldracher, we understand,
will at once build him a home on
the lot he recently acquired on
College street, Arcadia.
st. Paul's Guild meets at Mrs.
Codding's Thursday afternoon,
Special business, and all mem
bers are urged to attend.
Louis Miller has one of the cob
blestone bungalows in Arcadia
about completed. 1t presents a
very attractive appearance.
w. E. Conway has gone to Des-
loge, in st. Francois county, where
he has purchased an interest in {
butcher and grocery business.
Will Imboden left Monday fol
st. Louis, where he has employ
ment as an iron worker on the fret
bridge now under construction.
Word was received here thi
week that Joseph Clarkson had
foot cut off on a log train al
Clarks, Louisiana, last Saturday.
Mr.. VIM. Hale and his son, o
Kansas City, were here last week
visiting old friends. Mr.. II. uset
to reside here, but has been absenI
about twenty -four years.
T. D. Jones tells us that he ant
his brother, Frank, have leaset
200 acres of farm land in Misissip
pi county and will try and grow
big corn crop next year.
The libel case of Thos. d. Jone
against Fuller Swift, taken tt
Stoddard county on a change o
venue, will be called for trial a
the Stoddard court, Septembe
9th.
The work of putting in the heat
ing plant in che lronton schoo
building will be completed thit
week. While the work is in pro
gress there has been no school IL
the primary department.
w, t. Newman is no longer
member Of the firm Of Hamilton
Newman & Conway at Leepel
Mo. Mr.. Newman has retiret
and the other two members of tn
firm will continue the business.
VIM. Henson returned last wee
from q visit to Flat River, wher
his son, VIM, Jr., is engaged !
the mercantile business. MI
Henson tells us that the youn
man is getting along very nicely
The Executive and Financie
Committees Of the late Ian
Congress last Friday week turne
over the residue in the treasui
er's hands to the Business Men
/ .aa nua. 10 be used for good road