Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-15
LOCAL BREvIrIES.

Some fine August rains.
A good corn crop is assured.
Coal for Sale-A. Rieke & Son.
Lots of strangers in the valley.
Probate court is in session this
week.
The Valley Inn has a number of
guests.
The Primary is over. Now for
November.
About time to think of the
winters wood.
The first car of watermelons ar
rived Thursday.
Our Baptist friends have brought
us plenty of rain.
The Valley Ball Club will go to
Potosi Thursday.
The first watermelons to arrive
have not been of the best.
Es" F4H.r' ..a .H HNrl
F. A. Twomey will open a res
taurant in the Farrar building.
Mine Herr VIM. Rieke gave US
some fine eating apples Monday.
Roller Skates for the Boys and
Girls. Where2 AtMADIGAN'S.
A bunch of st. Francois county
automobiles in the valley Sunday.
Rains promise to be as abund-
ant in August as in the early sum-
mer.
For Sale-A Runabout; cheap.
Apply to w. S. Andrews, Russell-
vile.
Quite O wind and rain storm
came up rather suddenly Tuesday
night.
The "chigger" seems to be un-
usually annoying and plentiful
this year.
The circus does not seem to be
coming Southeast Missouri way
this year.
A game of ball at Arcadia Sun
day between Frankclay and Ar,
cadia Valley.
Work was begun last week on
the road around Shepherd Noun
tain Mountain.
Vegetables hardly as plentiful
as they ought to be with SO favor
able a season.
The official returns of the pri-
mary election in Iron county are
printed this week.
Quite a number of bungalows
have been built on the Arcadia
Heights since the last Assembly.
j. M. Hawkins reports a pretty
WELD of wheat and oats on the
Pilot Knob field, this side Of the
Fort, this year.
1t is said that there is a proba-
bility of work being resumed in
the minesss at Pilot Knob it the
very near future.
Every visitor to town agrees
that the granitoid walks are the
greatest improvement our town
has made in years.
Judge and Mrs. o. w. Roop will
celebrate the fiftiethIanniversary of
their wedding at the Willard Ho-
tel, Saturday, August 18th.
The new road up Arcadia
Heights is certainly a vast inn
provement on the old one. The
road on the hill is in admirable
condition.
Mr.. F. j. Parkin and family and
Mrs. N. B. Watts leave to -day for
Arcadia Heights to spend a week
at the Baptist ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
town Democratic eos.
A card from Mr.. Louis Favez
announces the safe arrlaval of
himself and family in France on
July 9th. He says they had a
fine trip and are all we'll.
Conductor J. v. Webb and wife
were here from st. Louis several
days of last week. Mr.. Webb. we
are glad to say, has about recov-
cred from his recent illness.
Superintendent Burnham will
issue a programme this week for a
Preliminary Teachers Meeting to
be held at the Public School Build
ing in Ironton, August 30th and
31st.
Lost-On Main street, Ironton,
Saturday evening, n gold medal
and four silver medals ON blue
ribbon. Reward will be paid for
return to Mrs. M. B. Bradley's,
Ironton.
Married-At the courthouse,
Ironton, Mo-, Monday, August IL,
1912, L. S. Kelly and Martha Tit
tie, both Of Chaffee, Scott county,
Mo, Probate Judge O. w. Roop
officiating.
1t has been some sort OF a prop
osition to feed the big crowd Of
( people on Arcadia Heights the
past week and the butcher and
the baker and grocer have been
kept on the run.
Marvin, the little son Of MI. and
Mrs. Thos. d. Jones, has been
quite sick the past week with
what the attending physician has
diagnosed as diphtheria. He is
reported as improving.