Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-29
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The rains continue.

The local banks will not be open for
business next Friday = Decoration
Day.
Charlotte Russo and Banana Cake
at the Ironton Bakery Saturday after
noon.
Wanted-To rent q furnished cot
tage in Ironton during July and Aug
ust. Apply at this office.
Owing to the rain the Pilot Knob
ball club did not go to Des Arc Sun
day as had been arranged.
Kodak Films for sale. Also Aims
developed and printed at Post Office,
Arcadia, Mo. B. M. EVANS.
Entertainment by the Pilot Knob
public school at the school building,
Thursday evening. Admission, 15c.
"Buster and Tige" greatly amused
the little folk and some OF the larger
ones at the Lopez store last Wednes-
day afternoon.
The quota in the Centenary Drive
for the Methodist Church in the val
ley was $500. More than 81, 100 has
been subscribed.
A plan is under way to have a home
coming and picnic for the soldier boys
in Ironton, July 4th. Particulars will
soon be forthcoming.
Don't forget the meeting OF sill dis
charged soldiers, sailors and marines
of Iron County to be held in the
Courthouse at Ironton, Mo-, May 80,
1919, at 2 P. NJ.
A Box Supper and Ice Cream Social
will be given at Pilot Knob next Sat-
urday night for the benefit of the
Pilot Knob base ball team. Every
body invited.
Mr.. Boylan. a member of the local
staf of the st. Louis Globe-Democrat,
arrived in Ironton Sunday noon on his
way to Centerville to report the Bruce
Cameron trial for his paper.
B. F. Ball, former manager of our
light plant, was in Ironton Thursday.
Mr.. Ball has given up his position at
Bonnie Terre and will 60 to Detroit to
work on bridge construction.
Baseball is coming to the front. We
see the accounts of games in all the
adjoining towns whether small or
large. Ironton, you haYe the material
for the best team in years. Ironton
wake upl x.
Thos. Johnson, the veteran gardener
and fruit grower, says that, so far as
he has been able to observe, the
strawberry crop in this section is al
most a total failure. He attributes
the unusually short yield to the heavy
frost in May.
That's a great show Manager Scha-
fer has arranged for his patrons for
next Monday night, June I'd. "Shoul-
der Arms" 10 recognized the world
over as a wonderful Comedy-the
best Chaplin ever produced.
MI. VIM. Depew tells us that he has
another grandson, a baby boy being
born to Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Allgier,
at Risco, New Madrid county, Sunday.
May IL, 1919. All are all. Our con-
gratulations and very best wishes.
Mr.. VIM. Dapew last week purchas-
ed fifteen acres of land adjoining his
farm from Geo. j. Pollock. Mr.. De-
pew now has 210 acres of land in one
body. He has long been recognized
as one of u most successful farmers
Some one forced an entrance into
H. M. Collins store in Arcadia Sun
day night and stole a couple OF pail
of overalls and some other articles
Tt is thought to have been the worH
of some tramp passing on the rail
road.
"Piggy" Haydn, the boy who drives
the truck at the bakery, won the s.
prize offered by Mr.. Eastman for thu
best name suggested for his wrapped
bread. The name presented by "Pig
gyn was ,"Kleenkrust," which thu
committee deemed best Of the seven
ty eight names submitted.
W. G. Midyett OF Bixby last Thurs
day took six wolf soalps to the Coun
ty Clerks office. The bounty on vol
scalps is SO each. The Legislature
passed law making the bounty $40
but this law does not become effectiv'
for a couple of months or more.
Miss Freda Ringo has contracted t.
teach in the Kirkwood schools the en-
suing year. She has completed he
school work at Clovis, New Mexico
where she taught the last year and il
travelling In the western country be-
fore coming home for the summer.
On the first page will be found a.
article taken from the st. Louis Globe
Democrat telling Of a collection o
paintings by Mr.. Chas F. Gait, VIII
spends q great portion of his time OF
the Potter Farm in the valley. W
are glad to hear Of the celebrity MI
Gait is attaining.
R. @. Knight, who is now living q
Chloride, was in Ironton Saturday
the first time in a long while. Dick say
says he suffered an attack OF inhuon
"a last November and is just now get
ting fully over 1t. He thinks he ma.
Engage in saw milling in the Vale.
again in the near future.
Sam Middleton, the piano man, wa
in Ironton last week for the first tim
in quite a while. Sam Is still with th
Thiebes Piano Company, st. Louil
and will again make this territor
regularly. He says II you want
musical Instrument of any kind to b
sure and see him before making
purchase.
paoordar Hawkins has issued th