Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-08-10
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From Arcadia Heights.

We had fairly good rain here
Tuesday last, which did much good to
corn crops in the valley.
The Baptist Assembly will convene
Tuesday. Many people are already
on the Heights, and others are COM
ing in daily. There are now at least
one hundred tents in first class shape
to be used to accommodate those who
wish to camp on the grounds. The
drive. way from the county road to
the Heights has been very much i'm
proved, the pavilion completed, and
in fact, everything is in readiness to
furnish first class accommodations to
those who may attend the Assembly.
j. II. Hedrick last week traded his
farm near here to a gentleman in
Louisiana. The gentleman is said to
be very wealthy. Mr.. Hedrick will
remove his family to Louisiana just
as soon as he can dispose of his per-
sonal property, which he has adver-
tised for sale next Saturday. He has
been to the writer good friend and
neighbor, and we very much regret
to see him leave this locality. How
ever, we wish him success in his new
home.
In my last weeks communication,
while speaking of the difference in
the altitude between this locality and
Granite City, Illinois, | intended to
say that Granite City (not Roselle) is
entirely too low for one reared in this
section of the country. Roselle is
considered very healthy locality,
and for that reason the writer did not
care to trade his farm out there for
property in Granite City.
Mrs. j. L. Patterson and daughters,
Minnie and lola, visited Mrs. Hedrick
Sunday afternoon.
Your writer took supper last Mon
day with Mr.. VIM. Depew, who had
that afternoon been threshing his
wheat and oats. Mr.. Depew has fine
farm, plenty of live stock of all kinds,
and in fact everything around the
premises indicates prosperity, which
he and his wife very justly deserve.
]. d. Vance and son, Harry, are kept
very busy these days going to and
from the depot at Ironton to meet all
passenger trains.
Judge Meyer of Belleview was in
Ironton last week. Mr.. M. informed
your writer that the valley out there
is getting very dry.
We we're very sorry, indeed, to hear
of the sudden death of our old and
esteemed friend, M. j. Orrick, of near
Graniteville, which occurred last
week.
The Huff Brothers, from near Ho-
gan, were in this locality last week
with their threshing machine. Eli
Depew, who had wheat on the w. r.
Edgar farm, threshed 431 bushels of
wheat. While the yield of wheat was
not much over half what the same
ground produced last year, the quail
ity was very good,
Fred Russell threshed II bushels of
oats from three and tone-half acres
a small fraction over 20 bushels per
acre.
From the best information we can
get from farmers from various local
tiles in this county, itmay be definite
ly stated that the average yield of
wheat will fall somewhat below 80 per
cent. of the normal. This, of course,
means an actual loss to the farmers
who had wheat. The Hessian fly did
some damage to the wheat crop, but
the main damage was due to the fact
that it was winter killed last winter.