Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-05-20

tile business at Piedmont for several
months, is going out of business, he
announces.
Never before in the history of the
community has the Irish potato been
the luxury that it has the past month
or more. And there will be>no relief
until the new crop is in and, perhaps,
not very much then.
Andrew Wallis, of Des Arc, wal ad-
judged insane at a called term of
county court last Wednesday and
ordered sent to State Hospital No. 4.
The Sheriff took the unfortunate mar
to Pennington the same day.
Iron county friends of Mrs. Marion
B. Eckart, nee O'Neal, will be very
sorry, indeed, to hear of her serious
illness at her home in Frankclay the
past week. We hope to hear of a de-
cided Improvement in her condition.
1t is reported that a Mr.. Goodman,
of st. Louis, has purchased the Howes
place in Russelville. The price paid is
said to have been in the neighborhood
hof $45, 900. The purchaser made a trip
to the valley in an automobile last
week.
Thirty acres of land, part of what Is
known as the O'Brien farm, between
Graniteville and S~chneiderville, has
been subdivided into 1853 lots, and Will
be sold at public auction, Saturday,
May 29th. Better go out and buy you
a lot or two.
The Paul Jones Realty Company of
st. Louis last Friday filed an attach
ment suit in the Iron County Ckcuit
Court against Geo. @. Howes for
$685. AZ, which amount plaintiff alleges
is due it as commission for making a
sale of Mr.. Howes' property in the
valley.
We are indebted to Lee Usher for
a quart of most excellent maple
syrup. He tells US that he made
several gallons of the syrup this
spring. If there is one ''sweetening''
that we care more for than another it
is maple syrup. Mr.. Usher has u
sincere thanks.
Irondale correspondence in the Bis
marck Gazette: erred Bond, cashier
of the Irondale Bank, has resigned and
accepted a position as District Mana
ger for the Omaha Life Insurance Co.
His headquarters will be in central
Missouri. His successor has not been
appointed at this writing"
The amount of state income tax to
be paid by Iron countians this year is
$1,09l.7S as shown. by the tax billie on
file in the Office of County Collector
Burnham; In all 46 returns were
made-10 by corporations and SO by
individuals. The individual tax is
SS74.80; the corporation tax, $216.9S.
Miss Louise Marie Gross left Sun
day for Cape Girardeau where she
will attend the Teachers State College
until August. She has been teaching
insBismarck and says the people of
that town certainly treat their teach
ers mighty well. Miss Gross will
teach in the Ironton schools the en-
suing year.
A wreck at Newport, Arkansas, delay
ed the north-bound trains Monday
morning. No. 6 went north about
noon and No. is passed here at 8
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the Ironton station to board this train,
but it went rushing through without
stopping, notwithstanding Ironton is a
flag station for the train.
D. E. Fletcher took seven men with
him to st. Louis last Wednesday
morning to bring eight Ford cars to
the valley. 1t raihed all day and it
was necessary to store the cars at
De Soto Wednesday evening because
of the high weter. The bunch went
back to De Soto Friday afternoon and
brought the cars on home.
There has been an unusual amount
of rainfall the past week. Sunday
wss truly a rainy day; the water fell
all day long and most of the night,the
precipitation I'M twenty-four hours
being about three inches. But the
sun shone Tuesday and gave promise
that the rain had stopped. Let us hope
we will have some of it in the summer
Sheriff Blue last Thursday captured
Robert @. Johnson, who is wanted al
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis,
for desertion. A charge of stealing
Liberty Bonds is also made against
him. johnson was working with the
Western Union line men at Des Arc.
Sheriff Blue turned his prisoner over
to the army officers at Jefferson Bar
racks Friday.
From Saturdays st. Louis Globe
Democrat: "Rev. DIR. Ivan Lee Holt
+ pastor of the St. Johns M. E. Church
has returned home from Arcadia,
Mo-, where he has been for several
days arranging the program for the
Methodist Summer Assembly. Dele
gates from ali parts of South Mis-
souri, will participate in the assembly
t which is to be held in Arcadia next
month";
Mr.. @. L. Carson has bought the
beautiful seven-room cobble- stone
t bungalow of Mr.. Charles F. Mitchelli in
Arcadia. Mr.. Mitchell came here from
3 St. Louis last year, and equipped the
place with as complete water supply
and sewerage system as is enjoyed by
the city man. Mr.. Carson is to be con
: graduated on acquiring a home so at
tractive in appearance and modern II
appointments.
Ten cars, loaded with Arkansa;
strawberries, in a northbound fruit
, train, were wrecked at Des Arc about