Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-05-30

Plans are being considered for q
hed Cross picnic IN lrOnt0n July ith.
One feature will be an endeavor 10
nave the parents and other relstives
OF every Iron county soldier boy in
attendance. Particulars later.
Superintendent Ball OF the Light
Company was confined to his room
several days of last week with an at
tack of ptomaine poisoning. OCCASION
ed, he thinks, by eating ice cream.
He was able to be out Saturday, but
iooked"considersbly worse for wear"
The REGISTER recently had q cali
from NJ. W. O'Neal, OF IrOndale, who
wal an automobile visitor to Ironton.
lie informed US that he is at present
stalking life easy" doing nothing. |
Mr.O'Ncal's many Iron county friends
will be glad to know he is looking
fine.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. NJ. Collins of Ar
cadia returned home Tuesday from
Camp Funston, where they had been
called ten days previous by the seri-
Gus illness of their SON, Hartford. The
young man, We are glad to say, is now
out of danger and will soon be him.
self again.
Cur old friend, Judge X. j. Hill,
formerly of ~Belleview, now living in
DE Soto, spent last Thursday in Iron
ton az the guest OF his daughter, Mrs.
II. l.. Bell. Judge Hill came from De
Soto Wednesday night with Mr.. Bell,
who was driving a car through from
st. Louis.
Some of the sidewalks on Shepherd
street are being overgrown with
weeds. Particularly so, a stretch of
nearly a block north of Madison. This
should not be, and the REGISTER be-
lieves the owners will clear off the
weeds and grass now that their at
tention is called to the matter.
In addition to the 2s men to be sent
! by the Local Board to Camp Dodge
Iowa, on May 2sth, two others will be
, sent to Camp Meade, Admiral, Mary
land, on June /, 1918. The men to 60
to the latter camp are:
John Arnold Collins, Arcadia.
Elmer August Lloyd, st. Louis, CAN
r napolis.)
In the draft moving Tuesday James
Elgin Blanton and Edwin Langdon
Blanton, twin sons OF j. 7. Blanton,
were included. This is unique and
the first Ease of the kind in Iron
County, although J. A. Smith, Peter
Allgier and q man by the name oil
Jennings from the West End, each
have two sons now in service.
h At a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Baptist Assembly helt
. In IrontoD last Friday it was determ'
I med to build q couple Of barracks OF
Arcadia Heights for the use OF camp
ers on the hill at the coming session
L of the Assembly. Heretofore tent
l. have been used, but the price Thereon
has almost become prohibitive.
IF Joe s. Carly, a we'll known either
is of Reynolds county, died quite sud
q. denly while attending a meeting a
the courthouse in Centerville Monda,
: night. While some one was deliver
y ing a speech it was noticed that ONE
J thing was wrong with Mr.. Carly, VIII
was in the audience. He was carrie
down stairs and expired in a few min
utes.
l. We understand that every man, ex
cept two, in the employ of the A. .
A. Sheahan Granite Company, at Gran
ID iteville, contributed a days wages t
at the Red Cross fund. At a box suppe
given there Thursday night 1896 wa
. realized. The subscriptions were
6, the neighborhood of 5000, making
t, total from Ora niteville of S436. Goot
~ mighty good!
Iron County's contribution to tn
n Red Cross drive promises to excee
es "a. 000--more than double it's quot;
plgg, who means and groans at ever
T. mention of the Red Cross, contribu'
ed ed -. Iron county would be !
he shame and humiliatian before tn
an world to-day were a. its citizens
b. the Pigg stripe-howl they ever s
loudly for the Red Gross!
10 The weather bureau for the vale
"a now located at Arcadia College al
a the readings in future will be report
he ed from there, A representa-,
from the weather bureau in st. Lou
was here last week and removed ii
n instruments from Mr.. Delano's to II
n College. VIM. Curry succeeded NJ
p. Delano as observer at this place
OF couple of months since, but he four
It's that the position required nor tin
than he could give to it.
n The city has purchased 10000 ga
IN Ions Of oil to be placed OH Main stree
IN from bridge to bridge. The cost wi
or be $1,000 or more and will be paid OF
of the city treasury. The oil Is Q:
~ rected to arrive any day now ar
srs will be put on the street at ono
Drivers of vehicles are requisite
when the oil is first put on, to use O.
of the back streets intead Of Main Il
a whilc and give the oil a chance
settle and pack before driving over
OF Fletcher & Barger, local represent
70. tives of the United States Fidelity.
Guaranty Co., sureties on NJ. '
Daugherty's bond as Postmaster
'sy I%ronton, will take charge OF the OIL
" y. az soon 10 a post. office inspector q
riyes to make the transfer. I
bond company will be in charge
the office until Mr.. D%augherty's 81
nd. cessor IL chosen by a civil service Q
4 in animation, which may not be COZ