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

growing corn, ruined gardens and
smashed out window panes in pro-
fusion.
A couple of Sundays ago FREQ
Delano went to Fredericktown in
his automobile, going by way Of
Pennington. The distance is aboui
43 miles. Fred says the road be.
tween Pennington and Frederick
town, especially in wet weather, il
trying.
DR.. w. G. Crenshaw, of st.
Louis. will be in Caledonia, Mo.
at Mrs. j. G. Crenshaw's residence,
after July 18th, for the purpose Of
practicing dentistry for at least
thirty days. Come early and have
your teeth fixed. All work guar
anteed.
The Mineral Point ball club will
play at Arcadia Sunday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock. The Mineral Point
nine beat the valley boys in a re.
cent game at Mineral Point. Our
lads say that they are going to ev-
en- the score this time, so a good
game may be looked for.
Nelson Creath, a we'll known
colored resident, died at his home
in south Ironton early Monday
morning, after quite a prolonged
illness. The deceased was proba-
bly, eighty years of age, and had
been q resident of Ironton and vi
entity for forty years Or more.
The morning papers indicate
that the contest for the guberna-
torial nomination between Major
and Cowherd will be close. Cow
herd has carried the cities, but
Major has swept about everything
in the country: More complete
returns will have to be received to
determine the result.
Some stock shippers at Freder-
icktown in dispatching a carload
of hogs to the market n hot day
recently refrigerated the a by
putting 500 pounds of ice in the
corners and covering it with saw
dust. The scheme seemed to have
worked all right as none of the
porkers died of overhead on the
way.
The Arcadia Valley base ball
club and the Fiat River nine cross
ed bats at Flat River Sunday. The
game was a good one, the score
being A to 3 in favor of Flat River.
In view of the fact that the Flat
River team is about the best in the
Southeast, the valley boys are
feeling pretty good over the show
ing they made.
We reproduce the following
from the Doe Run correspondence
to the Pennington NeWs: "Mrs F.
P. Graves and daughter, Miss
Trixie, and Mrs, H. w. Cofield,
DR.. F. R. Long, VIM. Funk and F.
L. Antoine and daughter, Miss
Susie, were among those who at
tended the camp meeting at Ar
cadia last Sunday"
MI. o. L. Munger and family OF
Wayne county arrived here this
week and will make their home
among us. Mr.. Munger is one OF
the leading lawyers of this section
of the State, and he and his esti-
mable wife are known to a NUM-
Der of our people. We gladly
welcome these good people to our
town.-Fdrmington Times.
The M. E.. Encampment at Ar
cadia closed Sunday night. An
immense crowd was in attendance
Sunday morning to hear Bishop
Hoss, who preached a most excel
lent sermon. The attendance
throughout was good and the En-
campment vas unquestionably the
most successful ever known at
"Epworth Among the Hills"
Mrs. Woodside desires to inform
the ladies Of the valley and vicin-
ity of the fact that she has a full
and complete line of samples of
dress goods and is prepared to
take orders for tailor made suits.
Satisfaction guaranteed in style,
fit and finish. A mostlexquisite line
of samples to select from. The la
dies are cordially urged to call and
Tsee them.
Our old friend, Pat O'Brien, OF
Los Angeles, California, is now a
proud and happy grandfather. On
Tuesday, July 23d, 1912, his
daughter, Mrs. Leah Turner, pre-
sented her liege lord with a 7 ID.
baby girl. The young lady has
been christened Helen Elizabeth,
Valley friends will join the REG
lister in extending congratulations
and best wishes to all concerned.
One of the trucks under a cal
loaded with peaches jumped the
rails at the Rock Cut, south of Ar.
cadia, at an early hour Sunday
morning, blocking the track fol
several hours. No. Z, the south
bound fast mail, went around by
way Of the branch, and we had no
mail until the arrival Of No. 3 al
noon. We did not get the morn
ing papers until No. A got here late
that evening.
The following is from the Peoria
correspondence to the Potosi Jour.
nal: "Rev. Pascal Buford's store
was broken into last Thursday
night, but nothing was taken az
MI. Buford arriv we'd on the scene
too quick for the burglars to gel
anything. He fred three shots at
them as they escaped from the
calIar window.s Ouita a sOnnd