Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-05

Molasses making.
Thanksgiving COMM
Persimmons ripening.
Probate court next Monday.
And still we have garden truck.
Considerable hay being imported.
Lopez's have a new ad. this week.
Well, it's all over for two more
years, anyway.
The p~ost-ofice and the banks had a
holiday Tuesday.
Hail, Des Arcl The brightest spot
in Iron County,
Not often the thermometer records
so on election day.
The wheat fields looked pref
tier or more promising.
The City Council transacted routine
business Monday night.
Saw you ever before such mild
weather on election day?
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. DeWeese return
ed to Ironton Saturday night.
1t is likely that future celebrations
of Halloween will be safe and sane.
Automobiles travelling from the
valley seem to be partial to Bismarck.
Frank Kuhn last week sent the
REGISTER two very large fine turnips.
Mr.. J. w. McCamey writes us that
he now located in Spokane, Washing
ton.
As yet the Silver Mines dam has
not been removed and the fishermen
continue to complain.
Jesse Hawkins is reelected Circuit
Clerk by 300 notes.-the biggest ma
jority he ever received.
Circuit court convenes Thursday
morning and will probably be in ses-
sion for a week or MORE.
Sunday was truly a wonderful No
vember day. Bright and balmy.
More like early September.
The Oyster Supper given by the
ladies' of the Baptist church last Thurs
day evening Melted about 800.
County court met Monday and ad-
iourned until Wednesday, and will
probably be in session all week.
Apples-Send me your orders for
apples. OTTo LUEDDECKE,
Pilot Knob, Mo.
Before going to Dunklin county A.
J. Langdon disposed ofhis automobile
to Fred Allgier, the Arcadia livery
man.
No contest these days for township
offices. Used to be there were some
lively fights for Justices of the peace
and constable.
The REGISTER Is a few hours late
this week in order that we may give
u readers the result of the election
III lEOn COuhuy'
The Pilot Knob Middlebrook road
is again in irst-c class condition. Some
badly needed work is now being done
on the Graniteville road.
Bill Webb knows more about the
local statemen than he used to. But
not more than he should have known
a long, long, long time ago.
An inspiring sight in north Ironton
Sunday evening was an automobile
driven by a white man, and -four
drunken negroesi in the rear seat.
It is said that some stockholders a
> Belgrade lost $21Oo on a shipment Q
ten r of cattle recently made from
Potosi. The market is unsatisfactory
We have in this Office a curiosity ii
the shape of a raddish. 1t is % inche
in circumference and hollow inside
Game from the Lueddecke farm a
Pilot Knob.
Chas. L. Fox, of Newport, Arkansas
sends us a copy Of the Little Rocl
Gazette with an account of the lynch
ing of a negro at Newport one da'
last week.
Some people who have a horror Q
whiskey or anything wet about tn
time of a local option election assum
"a very different attitude about vote
getting time in the fall.
w. ID. Tucker Of the Flatwoods lae
Friday brought to this office a man
moth turnip. It weighs 4 lbs and
quarter and is 26 inches in circumfer
ence. Who can beat it?
T.. s. Wamack, who was seriousl
Injured by being hit in the head wit
"a slab at a saw mill in Pilot Knob
couple Of weeks ago, is slightly i'm
proved, but his condition is still re
garded as serious.
1t is proposed to build a $3.50 COZ
crete culvert across the branch at IL
Arcadia railroad crossing. The .
Louis residents Of the vicinity hay
contributed to defray part of the 81
pense.
The colored population had a poll
1cal meeting Monday night. 1t
said that, with n exception, thu
resolved not to vote O straight tickle
Wherefore some Of the local statem'
made the air blue.
DIR. Marshall received a letter fro
Mrs. b. s. Gregory in st. Louis statil