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

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Messrs. bingham & Lollar
have opened a summer resort at
Pilot Knob lake. All kinds of re-
freshments, boating, bathing and
various amusements will be pro-
vided.
Mrs. Fl. F. Malugen writes that
she will probably spend the latter
part of the summer in the valley.
She says that a number of Poplar
Bluff people will be here during
August.
The delay in substituting all the
wooden bridges in the city with
concrete is due to lack of money.
Some of the officials favor a bond
issue of $1,000 with which to do
the work.
The little three-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Lee, in
Arcadia, fell from a second story
porch one day last week. For
tunately, the child escaped with
SllSUC BRUISES.
A few homegrown roasting ears
and tomatoes. 1t is said that a
good rain would insure plenty of
them, notwithstanding the very
dry weather of the past two
months or more.
Pearl Hill has bought the North
Star restaurant from Henry Boyd
and will conduct the place in the
future. Boyd will run the restau.
rant on Arcadia Heights during
the assembly meet next month.
The roof layers arrived from st.
Louis Monday night and the work
of laying the thing on the taber-
nacle in Arcadia began Tuesday
morning. Everything is expected
to be completed by Saturday
night.
Parties desiring catalogues of
the State Fair can procure same at
the County Clerks office. Mr..
Reyburn says he thinks our Iron
county folk should try for some
of the premiums at the State Fair
this year.
Rev. Ingham will make his last
visit to st. Paul's church as pastor
next Sunday. Then he goes to
Illinois, where he has a new
charge. The church here will
probably be without a minister
for some time.
We are informed that j. B. Rus
sells stave and saw mill near M.
P. Henry's on Bee Fork was de-
stroyed by fire Wednesday morn
ing about 8 o'clock. We could not
learn how the fire origin ated or
what the loss would amount to-
CenterviUe Outlook.
The auditors who have been at
work at the courthouse the past
month completed their labors last
week and departed for st. Louis.
Their report has not yet been
made public, but they assured the
courthouse officials that they had
found everything all right.
Local memberships in the Ar
cadia Country Club were secured
on the representation that enough
money had already been raised to
insure the building of the dam.
People who subscribed a $500 are
wondering if some tall, able
bodied lying wasn't resorted to.
-Four automobiles came from st.
Louis to the valley last Saturday.
The first arrived shortly after
noon and the others between four
and six o'clock in the evening. 1t
is said another run will be made
to the valley in the early fall when
it is expected quite a number of
machines will participate.
Mrs. John Thomas, daughter Of
F. @. Warncke, of Annapolis, was
probably fatally injured by a tree
falling on her near her home, six
miles west of Annapolis, Monday
evening. Mrs. Thomas was help
ing her husband cut down a tree
when the tree fell on her badly
crushing a hip and otherwise in-
Turing her. The attending physi-
clans say there is little hope for
recovery.
The Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York has a very
handsome silver loving cup on
which is engraved the name of the
agent doing the most business
during each month of the year.
Mr.. D. E. Fletcher of Arcadia won
the honors for the month of June
and was displaying the cup, with
his name thereon, to friends in
the valley the past week. AT the
end of the year the cup will be
presented to the agent who has
made the best record for the year.
Prominent among the many who
were admitted to citizenship in
the United States yesterday by
Judge Jacob Trieber in the United
States District Court at st. Louis
was Rev. Arthur Britain, pastor
of st. Johns Episcopal church,
1866 Arsenal street, and for over
twenty years a resident Of the
United States. Mr.. Britain testi-
fed that in the last twenty years
he held ~pastorates in Iron and JEFF
ferson counties, Mo-, previous to
coming to St. Louis.-GIobe-D Demo-
crdt.
Prof. Bert Loomis, Of Washing
ton county, who has contracted
with the front on school board to
serve as principal the ensuing
year, has written the board that
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