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

Probate court next week.
Hail, to our Baptist visitors!
The corn and the tomatoes are
fine.
The watermelon will soon be
here.
Still we are waiting for our cleo
trio lights.
The walks at the school house
are completed.
More tents on Arcadia H Fights
than eve before.
All roads lead. to Arcadia
Heights this week.
Read the advertisement of the
Lopez Store Company.
Bismarck has organized a band
with twenty-five members.
Some mighty cool nights and
mornings since August came.
About a dozen teachers at
tended the examination last week.
The fast mail train was three
hours late last Monday morning.
Reas+ the advertisement of Garlic
ton College, Pennington, in this
paper.
The Bell company has bought
the local telephone system at Pop
lar Bluff.
County Court was in session
Monday and adjourned until next
Monday.
Potosi complains of a drouth
and last week the gardens were re-
ported as drying up.
Read the announcement of the
Cape Girardeau Normal School on
the first page of this paper.
The Syenite Company has ad-
iusted the trouble with the quarry
men and the men are now at work.
1t is ssid that E. M. Jones, a sa-
loon man at Cape Girardeau, x
poets to make application for a sa-
loon license at Pilot Knob.
st. Paul's Sunday School had a
picnic at the Iron Mountain dam
last Friday. The little folk en-
joyed the outing immensely.
A car of Arkansas peaches we're
sold in the valley last week. There
were about 400 bushels in the car
and they sold at S1.60 a bushel.
For Sale-Ten acres of land,
wee miles west of Ironton, good
suse and other improvements;
70, a town lot. Address G. F.
nasL.ey, Ironton, Mo.
The dust on Main street last
week was terrific. A rain Friday
night brought relief. We should
take steps to abate the dust nui-
sance, on Main street, anyway.
The Iron Mountain and Mis-
souri, Southern are building a new
depot at Leeper. 1t is said to be
one of the finest between st. Louis
and Poplar uff.-Piedmont Ban
ner.
w. A. Boring, of Belleview, was
in Ironton the past week. Mr.. Bor-
ing is running a .thresher in the
vicinity north and west of Belle
view. He says the yield is prov
ing only fair.
The Assembly Sunday School
on Arcadia Heights begins
promptly at 9 o'clock A. M, in orr
der to allow sufficient time for the
later services. Everybody corr
daily invited.
w. I'll. Smollinger of Iron Noun
tain shipped a a of horses to De-
catur, Illinois, On Tuesday of last
week. These horses will be placed
in races in the Great Western Cir
cult for the fall season.
Mr.. p. P. Lewis, Of Eureka, St.
Louis county, President of the
State Board of Agriculture, and
family arrived in the valley in an
automobile Friday night. They
returned home Monday.
Bishop Hennesy, Monsignor
Connolly, Fathers Wernert and
Adrian made a trip from the val
ley to Pennington in Father Adri-
ans automobile one day last week.
The trip was a very pleasant one.
Mr.. Whitehead is visiting his
daughter, Mrs. DR.. Farrar. He has
been spending some time with his
son, Rev. Harry Whitehead, who
is assistant publisher and editor OF
the Christian ADVOCATE at Birming-
ham, Alabama.
Mr.. Parsons Of the st. Joe Lead
Company was in town Tuesday
evening on his way home from
Reynolds county, whore the COM
: pany is doing some prospecting.
He reports the outlook as encour-
aging.
Dick Knight asks us to return
his thanks to the voters for refus-
ing to nominate him for Sheriff on
the Republican ticket. Dick says
he much prefers making the trip
up Salt River now,instead of wait
ing until November.
There were five machines filled
with people driven from Bonnie
Terre over to Arcadia Sunday to
hear Bishop Hendrix preach
Among those who went were DR..
and Mrs. Woods, DR.. and Mrs
AL Evans and family, Mr.. and