Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-29

nay is Selllng aC ABOUT S14.
Corn, it is said, will be from fifty
to seventy-dve cents a bushel this
fall. Potatoes, that promised to
be SO plentiful earlier in the sea-
son, it is now said by some will
be as much as dollar a bushel by
Christmas time.
There will be a meeting of the
Arcadia Valley Business Mems
League at the court house FRI
day evening at 1880 o'clock. Good
Roads is the topic for discussion,
especially the boundary of the
proposed Special Road district.
Everyone welcome.
The Baptist Ladies' Aid Society
contemplates adding concrete
steps to their church building in
the near future. This society will
be thankful for the mites cleaned
from magazine subscriptions.
These periodicals will be guar
anteed Or money refunded.
An interesting game of base ball
between the Arcadia Valley and
Belleview mines will be a feature
of the picnic and horse show at
Belleview next Saturday. The
Belleview and Frankclay teams
played at Graniteville Sunday.
.Belleview won by a score of 7 to 1.
Editor Tussey of the Corridor
Headlight was in town Wednesday
night and while here informed us
that he had sold his paper to the
Holiness College at Des Arc. A.
S. London of that place will be ed
itor. Mr.. Tussey will continue to
publish the paper at that place
Ellington Press.
During the last session of the
circuit court we heard several out
of town visitors remark that a town
that did not have the pride or en-
ergy to keep stock off of its streets
did not deserve to be the county
capital. That pretty we'll indicates
the attitude of the neighboring
towns toward Greenville.-Green
OiIIe Journal.
Work on the electric light plant
has commenced. The poles are
being placed on the west side OF
Main street and will all be in po-
sition in a few days. Mr.. Lawton,
in charge OF the work, says we
will have light by the last of DC.
tober. Nothing but first-class ma
terial is being used and we are as
sured the plant will be a model
one.
Fuller Swift, representing The
Missouri State immigration Soci-
ETY., spent Wednesday in Charles
ton in the interest of The Missouri
National Exposition and Land
Congress to be held in the Colise-
UNI, st. Louis, the week of Octo-
Der ID. Mr.. Swift is visiting all
the county seats in the state and
arranging for exhibits from the
counties. The land show is to be
given under the auspices of the
State immigration Society and is
not a private enterprise.-Chdrles
ton Enterprise
w. w. Martin, wife and children,
DR.. and Mrs. B. N. Robinson and
baby, w. G. Lackey and daughter.
Annie, Misses Feyrne Lawrence,
Efie Doherty and Verna Thaxton
got in home Monday, w. w. Gary
and Misses Ona and Mary Martin,
Friday, and Hershell Lawrence
Saturday, from Arcadia Heights
where they had been attending the
annual encampment held under
the auspices Of the Baptist Young
Peoples Union. At the Business
Meeting held just before adjourn
ment w. w. Martin of this city
was elected president of the AS
sembly for ensuing year. More
than 800 people were registered al
this years meeting.-Doniphan
Prospects, eaC8.
From the Poplar Bluff Republi'
can: r"The Baptist Assembly OF
Missouri concluded it's meeting
last night at Arcadia Heights, clos.
ing the most successful and large
ly attended meeting in the history
of the organization. About 90(
persons were enrolled, and of thii
number Poplar Bluff would proba.
bly, have been declared the leader,
individually, if the last days at
tendance enrolment had been the
first days, there being sixty-four
persons from this city at the gath
ering. Yesterday mornings ser.
vice was notable, not alone for DR.
Truett's remarkable sermon, but
for the fact that an additions
$1,000 was raised to aid in boring
an artesian we'll SO that at mex
years assembly plenty Of wBtel
might be obtained directly on tn,
grounds, which are on top of /
beautiful mountain with a com,
madding view Of superb scenery
The we'll will cost about $500 anc
the money has been raised to NEE
that expense. At last Sunday
mornings service $4,000 was sub
scribed, that amount to be useG
for improvement IN the grounds
Yesterdays attendance was enor
nous. Hundreds drove to thu
park from the Arcadia Valley anc
the whole countrywide, and auto
mobiles carried many person
from towns many miles away. Al
excellent road has been construct
ed to the grounds. The Sunse
Rock prayer meeting, conducted
by the B. Y. p. u, just as the sui
sank behind the historic peal
across the valley, was a wonder
fullv impraaaiva aervicA. TheI