Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-08-19

- A.
Arcadia Heights since the World
War. Every available house and
tent was occupied sll of the two
weeks and the programme rendered
was good. Among other improve
ments contemplated the ensuing year
are the erection of several cottages
or bungalows, doing away, to some
extent, with the tents. Many of the
tents are becoming old and weather
beaten and will have to be replaced
with new tents or other means of
shelter provided.
B. F. Pogue, who has had charge of
Gay & Kindell's store at Roselle, left
there Saturday evening in a car and
has not been heard of since. He told
his wife he was going to drive some
parties at Lake Killarney to Bismarck.
Inquiry has since revealed that there
were nc people from Bismarck at the
Lake that evening. Pogue is about 35
years of age and has a lwife and three
children. In addition to being store
manager he has filled the position OF
postmaster at Roselle. An investiga-
ton has been made of his accounts
with the store and the government
and everything found all right.
The Missouri State Board of Agricul-
ture announcesth that State Veterinarian
d. F. Luckey has issued instructions
to his deputies to discontinue free
service in controlling outbreaks of
hog cholera in Southeast Missouri
counties. The order is said to have
been issued partly because of the
lack of expense funds, and in part
because hog diseases are no longer so
common in this area. The official re-
ports show that since January 1, 1920,
DR.. Luckey's deputies have investigat-
ed at state expense eighty-tbree out
breaks of hog diseases in Southeast
Missouri of which seventy-four prov
ed TO DC Cnol9Ta.
Miss Fanny M. Markham, who was
for so many, many years the popular
and faithful instructor in the primary
department of the Ironton schools,
writes the REGISTER from Pittsburg,
Kansas, under date of August 10th:
ST look forward to the weekly visits
of the REGISTER with pleasure, for it
J helps me to keep in touch with Iron
: ton and the dear people there in whom
I will always be interested. I wonder
if the day will come when publishers
can get plenty of paper. I hope So
!, 1t would have seemed almost unbe-
lievable a few years ago that some OF
the things that we considered necessi-
ties, and that every n could have
' plenty of, should be so expensive now
, that they are almost out O reach ,such
as sugar, potatoes, etc."
. About two weeks ago G. B. Terrell,
: the colored barber, took up a stray
black SOW that came to his pen. In
t trying to locate the owner of the hog
D he asked Mr.. W. D. Fletcher if it was
missing from his drove. No, it wasn't
his hog. A few days after this MIR.
: Fletcher met one of the Hungariant
Q who live beyond Pilot 'Knob On the
t search of a stray hog. He referred
4 him to the barber. The Hungarian
r identified the hog as his, and after
Q some wrangling over the price, Fer
rell purchased the hog from the
Hungaria n, paying therefor $15. A
! few days later the Hungarian return
ed to the barber and paid him back
- his SIS, saying that he had beef
mistaken, that his hog had come
q home, and that he didn't know whos'
. SOW it was that the barber had
Terrell is now advertising for al
:, owner for the animal.
il Charlie Westmeyer, of this city
long since gained an enviable reputa
ton as potato producer, but this yea
he has added much additional luste
. to such reputation by raising a,
abundant crop of splendid spuds
= The potato was formerly regarded a
y the poor mans food, being Away
= cheap and plentiful, but of late year
:. they have been bringing prices tina
" putthem rather in the list Of luxuries
- Mr.. Westmeyer's unusual success q
=, potato production promises to plac
him in the list of aristocrats, as b
production this year is averagin
something like $50 bushels to tn
acre, for which he is receiving SIS
per bushel and upwards. The othe
~ day he delivered to State Hospit,
liS No. 4 wagon load of potatoes, fe
which he received 1910. In the fac
Il of such facts it is useless to conten
IN that there is no longer any money
~ be made in farming Best possib
prices await production of practical
20 everything that grows.-Farmingto