Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-06-05

and Mrs. Jas. @. o'Neal, of Irondale,
Mo-, remembers the editor with an
invitation to the Commencement Elk
ercises of Underwood Junior College,
st. Charles, Mo-, June 10th. Miss
Mabel is, indeed, a most beautiful and
charming young miss. We congratu-
late her and wish her all success and
happiness.
At a meeting of the city council
Monday night the Marshal was in
structed to notify all parties who had
failed to build granitoid walks as sug-
gested by the council in the resolution
passed more than a year ago, to do SO
at ono This is final warning, and if
the walks are not BULL Immediately the
council will enact ordinances compell-
ing the same to be done.
At the meeting of the G. A. R. and
w. R. @. it was decided to observe
Flag Day which occurs June 14th.
There will be an interesting program
consisting of music, speaking, etc., at
1880 AM. At noon a basket dinner;
and the afternoon devoted to picnic.
This will be held at Oren's P ark, one
mile west of town. Everybody inter-
ested in patriotic work is invited to
attend.
Some one entered the house in Pilot
Knob, formerly occupied by A. J.
Myers as a residence and stole a num-
Der of articles therefrom. Mr.. Ny
ers vacated the place about ten days
ago. The burglary was not discovered
until the latter part of the week. Just
when it was done is not known. The
thieves made a clean sweep, taking
everything that was lose. A violin
was among the articles stolen.
The well on Arcadia Heights Satur-
day evening was 491 feet deep with
about two hundred feet of water.
Enough water is now in sight to insure
a bountiful supply of water for drink
ing purposes during the coming AS
sembly. But the driller is still going
down in the hopes of an abundance of
water for all purposes. His contract
calls for one thousand gallons of wa
ter an hour on a two days. test. We
hope he will get it. The cutting is
some easier than it was, and the drill
lEigg goes on more rapidly.
MI. DeWeese, the picture show
man, will inaugurate a fly killing con-
test. To the boy bringing the great
est numbec of dead flies to the Acad-
envy of Music Office, for the week
ending Wednesday, June 18th, will be
given a prize of one dollar; two second
prizes of fifty cents each, and a third
prize of fifty cents worth of picture
show tickets, Take your flies to
the box Office every afternoon at 2:15
O'Clock. They will be counted on the
basis of 1900 flies in a quart. Picture
show every night but Sunday.
While coming home from st. Louis
the other evening, we met DR.. W. E.
Harral, of st. Louis, who, with his lit
tie boy and girl, were on their way to
Bismarck to visit relatives. DR.. Har
raj is another of the Iron county boys
who has made good. He has been To-
Gated in st. Louis eleven yeers and en-
joys a large and growing practice
And he is a most excellent gentle
man. He informed us that his grand
father, the venerable Jesse Harral, at
the age of 95, who lives with Mr.. ],
w. Haral, at Bismarck, is in excellent
health.
After an unusually cool May, with
the nights positively cold, and coats
and fires essential to comfort, a sud-
den change came last Wednesday land
the mercury in the thermometer
climbed into the nineties. Four OF
five sweltering days and nights fol-
lowed. 1t was an awful siege and all
the more discomforting because of the
low temperature that had Immediate
ly preceded. Saturday vas the hot
test day, the thermometer registering
81; Sunday it was not 80 high by one
degree, and Monday was a half dozen
shy of the high point, but it was still
warm. Tuesday morning, though,
there came a gentle rain, and the
breezes cooled the air.
Walter Schmalz, Vice President Of
the Irondale Bank, Irondale, Mo-,
found an old bill in one of his abandon.
ed pocket books, last Monday. He
promptly turned the same over to
Cashier Eaton, and it is now or dis
play in their banking rooms. The bill
is a patent design of April 23d 1850,
and bears the old date of August 1862,
authorized by act Of July 18th 1862,
number 95477. The bill had possibly
been in the book for several years,
and MI. Schmalz thinks he received
it several years ago at a picnic in
Irondale. This bit Of currency has
been examined by a number Of pat
rons of the Irondale Bank, and sever
al have expressed the desire to pre-
sent to the Cashier an elder bill than
the above.
DR.. Will Kerwin and Miss Marie
Stromberg, Of St. Louis, were united
in marriage at the home OF DR.. Ker-
wins parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. A,
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