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

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We are very dry; meadows are gone,
and potatoes and gardens are suffer-
ing.
| see in the Republic that an army
of grasshoppers, five miles wide and
eighteen miles. long, are invading the
southern part Of Texas, going toward
Mexico. Hope lhey viii go on over
and eat up those fighting Mexicans.
Our mines are going ahead. They
are expecting another boiler and an
air compressor to run the drills. They
now have out about $4,000 lbs. of ore.
All that is good is separated and
weighed. We are looking for the of
icers OF the company to be here this
week. Superintendent Moody and
Hardy went home to Flat River Sat-
urday, expecting to return Sunday.
A. Costner shipped a fine car of
hogs from here last week. They
brought him $685.. Mr.. Costner lives
in Wayne county and is one of the
biggest farmers they have. He does
all his shipping from Des Arc.
John Lovelace and family attended
the college exercises last week; also,
Mrs. Dunn from Sabula.
Rev. R. P. Kistler left last Thursday
for Dallas, Texas, to take charge of a
church as pastor. Prof. London went
to Texas to be gone two months. He
will be back in time for the Camp
Meeting, the latter part of August.
Medley Harviell, with his family left
last week for Mist, Arkansas, on a
branch of the Iron Mountain railroad,
100 miles south of Little Rock. Mr..
Harviell will have charge of a large
saw mill and store. We are sorry to
lose them. They are good people and
those are the kind we want to stay
with us.
Our new telephone company takes
charge June I'd.
Miss Norma Mccormick of Patter-
son attended the commencement ex-
ercises at the College.
O. L. Stevenson and Mrs. DR.. Chas.
jones and family, of Brunot, have
gone to Lilbourn to visit w. J. Fitz
and family for a week or SO.
Judge VIM. Stevenson visited his
mill last week.
| @ that We are to have a new di-
vision superintendent on the railroad,
Phil Carroll, who takes the place of
Mr.. Cannon, who goes to Sedalia, on
the Missouri Pacific. We are sorry to
lose MI. Cannon; he was a very pleas
ant man to do business with.
The College Exercises last week
were real good, especially the Prima-
ry Department.. The children were
trained for two weeks by Miss Ed
wards, a very talented elocutionist,
who came here for that purpose. Ed
ma, the little daughter of DR.. Fred
Farr, played at the piano for a chorus
of little boys, Clyde Stevenson, jim
mie Pate and Earl Seals, to sing, which
was fine. She and her brother, Car
rol, also did their parts we'll in the di-
alogue, "Playing Doctor, "she playing
the part of "Nurse," and he as, cdr, !
Master Earle Stevenson being the pa
tent. A solo by Mrs. Kistler, a piano
duet by Misses Lena Stevenson anG
Leah Wallis and a trio by Misses Els
Their Myers, Lena Stevenson and Leaf
Wallis were all good. There was one
graduate, Miss Ora Lovelace, who de-
livereda very interesting grafton. She
will prepare herself for a missionary.
Mrs. Pate from St. Louis is visiting
her son, VIM. Pate, and family.
Mrs. John Howard and children are
spending this week with relatives al
Piedmont.
DR.. Whiteside, accompanied a pa.
tent, MI. Ed. Miller from Lodi, to the
hospital in st. Louis last week.
Mrs. Will MaGill from Hendricksor
spent a few days here last week, the
Iguest of her sister, Mrs. John Steven
son.
Woot Keathley came down from
st. Louis to spend Sunday with hi
parents here.
Mrs. G.. w. Collins of Ironton is Wis,
iting her sister, Mrs. Luther Daniels.
Mrs. Joe Walton and daughter, Cla'
ra, from Lockwood, Missouri, are Wis
iting her mother, Mrs. Maddox.
Grover Hinkle and family spenf
Sunday here with Mrs. Hinkle's par.
ents, John Kelly and wife.
Manuel Lovelace from Winona wal
a visitor here last week.
James Jamison and family have re-
turned to Flat River.
O. S. Fitz spent Sunday with friends
in De Soto. ISAAC.
WANTED-Would like to rent a goot