Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-04-09

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cents on the 500. So at yesterdays
balloting the proposition failed to g
ceive the necessary two-thirds MAORI
ty, the vote standing, yes, 81. No, 60.
Majority, 7. Now the city has a per-
fectly good wsterworks plan on its
hands that costs about $500. Potosi
must now look some ridiculous in the
eyes of its neighbors.-Potos Jour
nal.
Saturday, April 18th, has been set
aside for q general cleaning-up day
for Ironton. If is hoped, that all the
business men and all the women who
are interested in civic improvement,
will lend a hand in making the streets
and alleys of Ironton clean and sani-
tary. We will not be working alone
that day, as jefferson City and Co.
lumbia have both set the same day
for a general cleaning up. Ironton
School will start the work on Friday,
April 10th, by giving an interesting
Arbor Day programme. 1t is hoped
that on Saturday the citizens will give
us a practical demonstration of city
house cleaning. Let MS have every
door-yard, every street and alley,
and every vacant lot cleared of un-
slightly rubbish. A wagon will be
sent, from 9 to 4 o'clock, to any part
of town, to cart away the rubbish that
has been collected, if request for the
same is left at the REGISTER office.
Let us clean up and then stay clean.
April was called by the ancients the
loveliest of the months. This wal be-
cause it typifed both the beauty of
Venus, for whom it was named, and
her philosophy of the uses of beauty.
Venus was the most beautiful Great
ure who ever lived. She was the
Lillian Russell of mythology. Every
body wanted to marry her, and specu-
lation as to her choice was as great as
that of Alice Roosevelt's. She knock
ed the wind out of everybody by a
rying Vulcan, who did a general vul-
canizing and blacksmithing business,
and was about the age of Secretary
McAdoo. He was SO ugly that people
thronged his shop to trade, just as we
go to see Eddie Foy. 1t had been sup
posed that Venus would marry Apollo
or some other ravishing male beauty,
but she took Vulcan and held the SOL
dering iron in the shop for him when
the automobile season was n. She
explained that she considered it. the
duty of every beautiful woman to
marry an ugly man, and asked how
else the average of beauty was to be
raised. Nobody could say, and from
that day to this beautiful women have
married ugly man. Thus we have in
April the loveliest of Venus and the
thunderbolts of Vulcan, a combina-
ton which meant more to the ~ancients
than either the flowers OF May or the
charms of June.
From the West Plains Gazette: 81
never saw it fail-whenever the peach
trees in this country bloom in April,
there's going to be a big peach CROP
is the way an old timer put it il
speaking of the prospects for a gooc
fruit crop this year. Usually, the
peach trees in this section bloom ir
March. This year the bloom is rather
late and the trees bloom in April. II
the prediction of the old-timer is true,
then this section will certainly have a
big peach crop, for the trees are full,
of buds. The recent cold weather in
jured the peach buds in the low places
but on the higher points the trees are
loaded with buds and if late frosts dc
no damage, the crop will be large
Fruit growers around Brandsville and
Koshkonong are jubilant. Those about
Olden, Pomona and other fruit sec
tions Of the Ozarks, also feel encour-
aged. The fruit has gone thro' the
winter in good condition and the
growers now are virtually holding
their breath for fear of the spring
lfrosts. While the trees are in good
condition and prospects fine for
bumper crop, fruit growers are urget
to spray the trees. Peaches that have
been sprayed top the markets, while
the %unsprayed fruit brings much less
When the weather is damp, and con
tinued rains in the spring, there are
many insects that sting the fruit ant
these car only be exterminated BY
spraying"
i About eight o'clock Sunday morn
ing Sheriff Blue received a telephone
message from o. E. Stephens, who
lives about three miles south of Iron
ton on the Marble Creek road, stating
that while out hunting calves tina
morning he had discovered the bod,
of a dead negro in the woods. Tn,
Sheriff at once proceeded to the place
and after an examination soon be
came convinced that the body wa
that Of Joe Mcdaniel, the negro VIII
had assaulted Deputy Sheriff Geo. w
= Marshall twelve days previous. Al
! investigation revealed that death ha,
! been o%ccasioned by a guushot woun,
! in the abdomen ranging in the regiol
Of the liver. In his pockets wer'
i, found oil. Lisa $5 gold piece and $2.1
! being in the lot. 1t will be remember
i ad that a ar cold niana and 40 In