Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-06-12
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Sunday wasn't much like a day in
June.
M. W. Daugherty, P. M. How does
that sound?
Wonderful how the ties keep COM
ing into town.
Commencement st Arcadia College
next Wednesday.
Fine White and Yellow Seed Corn
at Lopez Store Co.
The granitoid walks should extend
from creek to creek.
The Blue Store is to be reprinted
and have a new porch.
The post office quarters are being
remodeled and enlarged.
WANTED-Would like to rent a good
upright piano. Phone So.
The electric light people contem-
plate putting on a day current soon.
June, SO far, has furnished some
mighty hot and unusually cold wealth.
er.
Train No. 1, due at Ironton at 1925
P. M, was taken off the road last Sun
day.
Why not put the weather-cock
back on the tower of the Academy OF
Music?
Is there no way to get an electric
light on the bridge between here ana
Arcadia?
Prof. B. ". Loomis writes that they
are pleasantly located at Columbia
for the summer.
1t is said that the usual fruit ship
ments are not going over the Iron
Mountain this year.
Found-A watch. Apply at this Of
fee, prove property, pay for this ad-
y~ertisement, and take the watch.
Wanted-To rents piano for three
months. Apply to Mrs. M. Q. Horton
at Farmer residence, west Ironton.
Sweet Potato Plants for sale at W.
q. Whitworth's, Arcadia, and f. A.
Twomey's, Ironton; zoe per hundred.
Hay cutting has been in progress
the past week. The spring has been
too dry for the yield to be satisfactory.
Our telephone system was in work.
ing order Friday-three days after
the fire. We congratulate the Messrs'
Baldwin.
G, Collins is building another addl-
ton on the north end of the Willard
Hotel. 1t is said it will be used as a
barber shop.
We had a pleasant call Tuesday
morning from our friend Of fifty years,
Mr.. John Newman. He ia. holding his
own pretty good.
Tt is said that F. Buechsenschuetz,
at Middlebrook, has sufficient ice TO
supply his trade this summer, n Will
not have to import any.
Mrs. Chris. Keathley died at her
home, five miles east of Ironton, Sat
urday night. The remains were in
TERED in the Roselle cemetery.
Kip johnson, son Of Judge Warren
@. johnson, of Middlebrook, had one
of his eyes badly injured by being hit
with a fishing gig on Wednesday OF
last week.
The family Of Mr.. M. Q. Horton,th the
Poplar Bluff banker, will spend the
summer months in I~ronton, and are
domiciled in the home of Mrs. Phoebe
Farmer in west Irouton.
The foundation for the new build
ing at Arcadia College has been COM
pleted and the brick work will COM
mence to-day. There will be a hall
million brick in the structure.
BY a vote of 2 to 1 Bismarck last
week defeated a proposition to keep
the cows off the street. Bismarck
should get a move On her, and try
and keep up with the procession.
There will be an Ice Cream Social
on the lawn of the M. E. Church; Fri
day evening, June goth, for the bene
fit of the Epworth League. Every
body come and bring some m with
you.
Ironton has a curiosity-a Demo
cratic postmaster. Come in and see
him; he's not so very handsome, but
it will do you good to see a Democrat
handling the mail ono again, any
way.
There is said to be quite a scramble
among the De-Soto Democrats for the
post-ofice in that town. Paul P.Hin-
chey, formerly of the valley, is n o
the applicants. The job pays $2lOo 9
year.
Mr.. A. j. Sheahan Of Granitevillt
was in town Sunday. He tells us that
work is moving along nicely. He now
has one quarry in operation and is get
ting out some fine stone. He will OPP
en- another quarry soon.
Mrs. X. L. Whitworth was quite pain
fully injured on Sunday, June LIST. Ii
some way while trying to get in hei
buggy, she fell to the ground, and the
horse started, pulling the rig over her
Fortunately no bones were fractured