Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-06-22
LOCAL BREvITIES.

Roastin' ears are going to be
mighty scarce.
The beer dealer continues to do
a big business.
No. 10 was nearly three hours
late Tuesday morning.
The indications are that hay
will be hay next winter.
There are seventy styles of low
quarter shoes at Browns.
Ironton is going to have a big
time July 18th. Be on hand.
Hauling water is quite an occu-
patton in the valley these days.
A postal savings bank opened
for business in De Soto Monday.
Jacob Goeltz, a we'll known cit
izen of Bismarck, died last Satur-
day.
Ladies' blue chambra wash
petticoats at 25 cents, at Lopez
Store Co.
Commencement exercises at Ar
cadia .College this Wednesday,
afternoon.
1t is said that two or three more
automobiles will be brought to the
valley soon.
The picnic advertised last week
to be given at Arcadia July 4th
has been abandoned.
The work of surveying the road
around Shepherd Mountain was
commenced Monday.
Granitoid walks are being built
in front of Green's restaurant and
the telephone building.
There should by all meal be a
night man at the station here.
The business justifies it.
The Lopez Store Company will
at one build a granitoid walk
south from the store.
Never before was the dust along
Main street as annoying as it has
been the past few weeks.
Wheat cutting throughout the
country is about completed. A
very fair yield is reported.
G. Collins & Son will conduct a
grocery store in the north end of
the American Hotel building.
Circuit court meets in adjourned
session Thursday. A special
grand jury will be empaneled.
Lard, my own make, lie a Id.
Breakfast bacon, home cured, 16c
a Id. F. 0. CoDDING.
An unusual number of witnesses
have been summoned to appear
before the grand jury Thursday.
In the local option held in Mad
ison county June 9th the county
voted dry by a vote of 835 to 395.
More travelling printers have
called on us the past month than
usually come in the course of a
year.
w. F. Curry has accepted the
position of agent at Middlebrook
and will be checked in in a few
days.
Rev. G. E. Edwards, of the Pres
byterian church, Ironton, Will
preach at Pilot Knob next Sum
day at 3 P. M.
A. card from S. j. Tual advises
us that he is taking in the sights
at Atlantic City. He says that il
is a great place.
The Ironton school board is still
considering the Availability Of
putting in a heating plant in the
school building.
w. Fl. femme, formerly the
leading light Of the "copper"" is
now running a paper in Belle.
Maries county, Mo.
Some of the people in the val
lev who put up 500 for member
ship in the Country Club are now
wishing that they hadn't.
It is said that the Puxico Iror
Company will do some prospect.
ing for iron ore on Shepherc
Mountain in the near future.
Chas. j. Tual last week COM
pleted the plans and specifications
for a $1,000 school house TO be
built at Mineral Point this sum
mer.
Geo. H. Duty, who fifteen year
q was pastor of the Presbyterian
church here, is now editor AM
publisher Of the M~ontrose, iowa
Journal.
The Puxico Iron Company WI
import some laborers from %
Louis soon. Some two or thre'
cars Of ore are being shippe'
daily.
n. F. Collins was the luck.
holder Of the winning ticket ID "a
raale 81 q $1,000 automobile q
Poplar Bluff Monday. The ticKe
cost him 81.
"A new time card, u L an
nounced, will become eiectl
next week. There are no cnanso
to be made In the time Of the pas
aenger trains.
Al news butcher on tne s
Mountain railroad was arresls
here last Saturday and lodgeo !
al ~ oborUa al selling beer Q