Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-05-30
q BREVITIES.
Much corn planting.
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Much corn planning.
Marguerite Clark Saturday.
Some warm days and nights the
past week.
Some gravel is being placed on
Main street.
Seventeen inches of rain since April
1;t. Some rain that.
Teachers examinations Friday and
Saturday of next week.
The local banks will not be open for
business Thursday-Decoration Day.
Clara Kimball Young coming Thurs.
day, May 30th, at the Academy Thea
tire.
The Baptist Ladies' Aid Society
have deferred their Towel Sale until
fall.
Buy YOUR Strawberries for canning
from the Ironton Meat Market--tre sh
picked daily.
Wanted, q g"irl--a good cook-at
Mrs. Davis, Arcadia, Mo. Apply I'M
mediately. Good wages paid.
1t ia said the bridge to be built at
M%iddIebrook by the st. Francois coun-
ty court will cost $1,000 or more.
w. D. Fletcher shipped a car of
hogs Monday night. Mr.. Fletcher is
afeeding a great lot OF stock these days.
"Molly Make Believe" featuring
Marguerite Clark, il one of the very
good pictures. See it at Academy
Theatre Saturday.
The Sunshine Special stops regular
" at Arcadia every Monday morning.
But you cannot depend on it any 9TH
or morning in the week.
Lost--In Ironton or Arcadia on Sun
day last, q lady'a gold watch n
chain. Finder will please leave at
this Office and receive reward.
Three Ironton boys, Walter Pruitt,
Fred Reed and James Elmer Calvert,
enlisted in the Marines Monday. They
will 20 to St. Louis in a few days.
Married--At the Courthouse, Iron
ton, Mo-, May %, 1918, Bert Bowles
of Sabula and Miss Essie Ray Worley
of Annapolis, y. w. Roop officiating
I'm the list of contributors to the Red
Cross sale printed last week was the
name "W, 8. Horden." This was an
error. 1t should have been W. ID.
Hardin.
Road oyerseerers are complaining
that they "a get no men TO WORK OIL
the road. There never was such d
scarcity Of labor in the history OF the
country.
Assessor John I. Marshall has in
structions from the State FAX Com
mission to commence assessing prop.
erty for 1913 promptly the irst OF
June and to assess everything AZ It's
full value.
Services at st. Paul's church, Iron
ton, Thursday evening at s O'Clock II
memory OF those vino have dled ~
the service of their country ana 90
their fellow man.
Married-At tine Courthouse, Iron
ton, Mo-, May 90, 1918, John IL. Aver
of Laadwood and Miss Grace May
Croker Of Enough, o. W. Kool
officiating.
Married-At the residence of .. W
Roop, Ironton, Mo-, May %, 1918, )
. b. Yallaly and Miss Mabel Spencer o
st. Louis, o. w. Roop, Judge OF FRO
bate, officiating.
Married-At the Courthouse, Ma.
9th, 1918, Irving Esmond Blanton o
bismarck and Miss Cora Katherin'
Kelly of Piedmont, o. W. Roop, Judg
OF Probate Court, officiating.
Iron county has certainly respond
ed nobly to the country's call--both
subscribing to the Third Liberty Loa
and contributing to the Red eros
Drive. We far exceeded our quota !
both instances.
There has been no o r importe
here 10 far this year. This IL a!mo'
unprecedented and 10 unmistakabI
evidence that . big corn crop wa
grown hereabouts last year.
-. E. Trssk, q former we'll know
citizen Of this county, now living
Bellevue, Iron county, IL attendir
court this week as a witness IN u
spurgeon Ditch murder -Farmingts
Times.
The st. Francois county court b
let the contract for building q bridl
across Flat River, on the road y
tween Elvins and Bismarck. w
bridge will coat about $500 and 10
be finished by September lat.
I. A large number Of people were
the station Tuesday afternoon to o.
goodbye and God bless you to 4
twenty. eight Iron county boys WI
left for Camp Dodge, Des Moin
Iowa. A number Of drafted men FRI
Butler and Wayne counties were
board the train, also bound for Car
Dodge.