Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-09-18
Annapolis News.
A. B. BUSH, Pastor.

We had a light shower the past week,
but not enough to do any good. Dust
is an inch deep on our streets.
The switch to be built from the rail-
road to the mines was surveyed last
week. 1t will be almost q mile in
length, starting from the rock cut,
south of Annapolis, through the An
dee Lewis farm, up the Kinney
Branch, to the mines. 1t is said work
will be started soon; also the shaft
will be sunk without delay.
Albert Francis is now working at
James Johnson's, near Vulcan. He
says hard work recalls his soldier life
in France.
Quite a number went out from here
to Black River Saturday night fishing.
Frank P. Hilburn and wife of Ar
kansas paid a few days visit to this
town last week on their return home
from a visit to their son in Indiana.
Mr.. Hilburn looks a little older than he
did when he lived here. He is gray
but still has that pleasing look. He
reports the rest of his family in good
health. Come back again, Frank.
Always glad to see you.
Wray Vinson, Roy Santhuff, Walter
Barnes and a man named Rayfeld
shippeda fine lot of cattle out of here
Sunday evening.
VIM. Dunn, SOL of s. L. Dunn, is at
the new iron works, near Van Buren,,
and writes his father that he ia maxi
ing So . day. There are others here
that ought to go there.
Squire Kitchell and F. O. Warncke
are called to Ironton as witnesses to
the will of the late N. C. Sutton
which was written eight or ten years
ago.
Ed Robinson has moved to Filing
ton for a while.
Several of the Annapolis boys made
seven dollars a piece nj day the past
week loading cars. They get as much
as seventy-f five cents a thousand fol
loading some lumber.
Mrs. Asberry moved to Piedmont
the past week.
Our postmaster, Robert Miller, will
move to st. Louis in the neal future.
1t is not known who will succeed hin
as postmaster.
Lucien Kelly lost a fine horse the
past week.
Wade Hampton went to Piedmont
last week to try snd get an order fol
lumber but was not successful.
The grape season is on but hey are
scarce and hard to find. Late frostl
killed all the tame grapes.
There were about two hundred dol
lars worth of peaches sold from the
Sherrod orchard, the fruit bringing
$1.50 a bushel. Late frosts killed {
lot of them and a storm blew many
peaches from the trees.
1t is reported that dead fish arr
floating down Black River by the wa
gon load-killed with dynamite, it II
supposed.
Gus Funk moved the weeds ant
grass on his wheat stubble the pas
week and secured several wagon load
of good hay.
Local freight Is late this MONDAY
morning just because several people
want to go to Ironton.
D. A. Worley got fifty pounds o
lard and fifty pounds OF dry salt mea
at a cost of $26.40, f. o. b. Annapolis
That is something in reason for har,
times.
Andrew Worley of Piedmont Is Wis
iting his son, D. A. Worley, in Annap
oils.
Your writer was in Ironton TO
about an hour Monday. Had a hand
shake with Messrs. Reyburn, Hawk
ins, Huff and Eastman, the baker
Returned home on train 33. / expec
to go again the first Monday in DC
tober and will look at some propert
in Ironton and Pilot Knob with a vie,
of buying a home there.
BULLETIN.