Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-04-30
LOCAL BREvLTIEs.

County court next week.
The tabernacle is deserted.
The fragrant and lovely lilacs.
At last the trees are getting green.
Local option election two weeks
from next Saturday.
For SALE-Good work Mare, cheap.
W. j. RossELoT, Arcadia, Mo.
VIM. G.. Whitworth, the Arcadia
merchant, has IN advertisement this
week.
The local option campaign seems to
be rocking along quietly and peace
fully.
The ladies Of st. Paul's Guild meet
at Mrs. A. Roehry's Thursday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aaron Elliott of West
Ironton will celebrate their Golden
Wedding Thursday, May 18th.
Gassman Bros. have opened a shoe
store in Middlebrook. Read their
announcement this week.
the Catholic ladies of the valley
will give a dance at the Valley Inn,
Monday evening, May 18th.
There is fine fishing in Rainbow
dam and many strings Of bass have
been caught there this spring.
We are told that the prospect is ex-
cellent for a bumper crop of apples.
1t is said that peaches and pears will
be plentiful.
The picture show seems to be gfa-
dually winning its crowds back again.
There was an awful frost the latter
days of winter.
We are sorry to say that Mr.. A. M.
Madigan is still confined to his
The REGISTER and his legion of friends
hope to see him out Dor
The express companies are prating
much of reduced rates. So far as we
are concerned the reduction is not
yet visible to the naked eye.
1t is said that ice will be sold in the
valley in the neighborhood of fifty
cents per hundred pounds. That's
the lowest price ever made on i'm
ported ice.
Our old friend, R. I. January is a
candidate for Probate Judge of Rey-
nolds county. Up to the present time
he has no opponent. We wish him
success.
But few people whose assessment
had been increased by the board OF
equalization made any protest when
the board of appeals was in session at
the courthouse Monday.
Fern Lee Matthews, Expression, as
sisted by Margaret Lind, Vocalist, will
entertain the Sisters, students and a
few invited guests at Concert Hall,
Arcadia College, Wednesday evening,
April 10Th.
From the Williamsville cores
pondence to the Greenville Journal:
"Miss Linda Mari, of Ironton, has To-
Gated here. She is an instructor OF
music, and has organized a class of
fourteen pupils"
Mr.. E. E. Evans, of Bismarck, pres
ident of the Bismarck & Bunker road,
was in Ironton Tuesday and told us
that he expected to have his road
built and in operation as far west as
Caledonia by early fall.
Ed. Bolinger, who has been prac-
/ ticing law in Louisiana for several
years, is visiting his parents at
Sabula. Eds wife has not enjoyed
good health while in the south and
he is seeking another location.
O. B. Ferguson, who has been run
ming q grocery store and meat market
at Granite City, Illinois, has sold out
his business there and returned to his
home at Graniteville. Old friends Of
the family are glad of their return.
D.. j. Mckinney, of Belleview, who
is serving on the petit jury this week
was in to see us Monday. He says
that the prospect for wheat just now
is better than he has ever seen 1t il
the nearly fifty years he has been liv-
ing in the valley.
Our young friend, Mr.. M. s. Nc
McCarty, st. Louis, has been awarded
the contract for building the new high
school at Bismarck. Mr.. McCarty Il
the contractor who did the concrete
work on Rainbow Dam in the Shut-Ir
for the Arcadia Country Club.
Mr.. Krenning, who contemplated
building o large and oommodiout
bungalow on "The Maples'' property
in Russellvile, has abandoned the
idea for the present, at least. He ex'
poets to make the, buildings now OF
the place suffice for present needs.
The Boyer show that appeared ii
Ironton last Wednesday vas moi
much. Some fairly well trained
ponies and dogs was about all there
was to it. The aggregation was just
a Jews days out from headquarters
st. Louis-and the outfit was spich
pnd span.