Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-01

tuesday the entered q pea
of guilty and the same punishment
was fixed as that imposed in the
Justices Court. The defendants were
given sixty days time to pay the costs
and a stay of execution was granted
until the next term Of court as to the
fine.
Mr.. j. d. Vance, who lives on Ar
cadia Heights, wal q caller ct this Of
fee Monday morning and stated that
the unusually heavy frost and freeze
of last Friday night, which devastated
fruit and vegetables the whole coun-
try over, was not at all in evidence
on the Heights. He says that neither
his orchard nor his garden showed
any sign of frost, not to say freeze,
Saturday morning. Seventeen peach
trees, loaded down with buds and
.diminiutive peaches we're unscathed,
and cherry and other fruit trees and
vines Jared equally well. Neither did
the garden indicate any damage what
ever. Mr.. Vance says that he would
not for a moment consider the
proposition of having his garden and
orchard in a country where they
would be subject to the ravages of
late frosts, sun and ice.
A very heavy frost, yes, q blighting
and killing freeze, visited this section
and the whole country over, it
seems-last Friday night. Next morn
ing it was generally reported that
all kinds of fruits-peaches, apples,
pears, cherries, grapes, plums and
everything else-had all been killed,
and the garden truck looked like it
had been cooked. The low point re-
ported was ~ degree . Ice formed
on buckets; it was a freeze, indeed,
for the latter part of April. In spite
of all this some folk are contending
that the fruit has not been all killed,
and that there is still i prospect for
something good to eat this summer.
We certainly hope so, for it has been
a long, long time since we've had any
thing like an average yield of fruit
hereabouts.
At q we'll attended meeting of dis
charged soldiers held at the court
house last Saturday a county unit Of
the American Legion perfected a tenn.
porary organization by electing NJ. D..
Yount as temporary chairman, and R.
E. Wood of Belleview as temporary
secretary. These temporary officers
were then selected as delegates to at
tend the Congressional meeting at
Fredericktown, May Sd. Adjourn
ment was taken until the call of the
chairman, after the national meeting
which will be held in st. Louis May
9Th, 9th and 10th. 1t is hoped that
Iron county will have a large and en-
thusiastic unit of the Legion. All who
served in the army, navy or marines
between April 26, 1917, and November
II, 1918, are eligible for membership,
and should certainly join.
Road Inspector Blount informs us
that Messrs. Golf and Scoggin are do
ing some extra good work with the
grader, betweenthe county line and
L~esterville. 1t will not require many
weeks until the road will be ready for
use as far this way as the bayfield,
farm on Middle Fork. Mr.. Blount
seems to be well pleased with the
work, SO far. We hope to see the
work go forward and the road and
bridges completed as soon as possible.
In the next two or three months we
hope to Q this road completed as
far as Centerville, and then on to the
Carter county line. Contracts for all
the bridges, from Ellington to the
East Fork, should be let as soon as
the court can do SO, in order that the
structures may be completed this sum-
mer and fall. Judge Sutterfield has
informed us that the bridges will be
built and it is supposed that the con-
tracts will be let just as soon as the
plans can be perfected.-Reynolds
County Outlook.
One of the large road tractors be-
longing to Reynolds county was burn
ed by an ~incendiary on the Allen hill
in Iron county early last Sunday
morning before the break of day. The
tractor is a large 5000 Aultman &
Taylor gas and oil burner and had
been leased to the Glover Special
Road District and they had completed
all the work degrading that was ready
at this time and our court made ar
rangements with Messrs. Golf and
Scoggin, with their ere W, to bring the
machine over the county line and
start grading on this side the follow
ing Monday morning, and 1t is sup
posed that some person or persons
living in that section was dissatisfied
with that arrangement and decided tC
destroy the machinery. PROSECUTING