Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-08-13

| The Pilot Knob Cornet Band turned out
last Saturday and gave the citizens of the
Valley some music appropriate TO the occa-
sion. Their bard-wagon was dressed in
mourning, and the horses heads supported
heavy black plumes. The band came down
to Ironton, and went thence to Arcadia, re-
turning about six O'Clock In the evening.
| For our own serenade we thank the boys
| heartily-purpOsing at the same time to be
better prepared for them next time.
A Grand Lawn Party is advertised for
Tuesday evening, August 18th. 1t is to be
given ut Sylvan Lake, on Judge Emerson's
private grounds, by the ladies of the Presby-
terrain Church. The Ironton Cornet Band
has offered to be present and furnish music
| for the occasion. The grounds will be bril-
| liantly illuminated, and refreshments will
be served to all who desire. The occasion
will be especially enjoyable to all the young
people who are present, with games of cro-
quet and boat rides by moonlight. No one
| should miss it.
Iron Lodge, No. 80, o. D. II. S., Pilot
| Knob, will give big picnic and entertain
| ment at Middlebrook on the 10th inst. A
large crowd is expected, and the arrange
ments are such that all will be taken care Of
and made to enjoy the day. The p. X. Cor
net Band has been engaged to furnish the
music, and will, all may rest assured, put in
its best ticks. Several singing societies will
be down from st. Louis, and furnish a mu-
steal treat to all who hear them. The usual
adjuncts to affairs of this kind will be used
to enhance the pleasures of the occasion, and
it is determined that everything shall be
done 'decently and in order" See adver-
tisment in this paper.
Judge Brewer, of the L. 5. Circuit Court,
few days ago made an order of considera-
BILE interest to this section, in the matter of
the Ore and Steel Company. Receiver Hitch
cock had applied for directions as to the
further contracts for mining and selling
Pilot Knob ore and for an extension of the
time for delivering ore already authorized
to be sold. The order made April 80, 1885,
for a contract for sale and delivery of a
further quantity of 100,0 900 tons of ore dur
ing the year is so modified as to extend the
time until July 1, 1886. The obligation of
tracts upon the sale of the property, but the
purchaser at any such sale is to take the
same subject to the obligation OF the con-
tracts. The object of the application was to
secure advantageous freight rates for the |
consumers of the Pilot Knob ore.
Says the st. Louis Erening Chronicle, |
Mondays edition:
The St. Louis Light cavalrymen make it |
appear that the Ironton citizens were drunk, |
and not the soldiers. The cavalry conyicts |
itself by this defence. From the best infOr- |
nation which can be obtained from eXpe-
rienced inebriates it appears to be a fact that |
mistakes the sobriety of others |
for intoXicatiOn, and that the degrees of this |
mistake increases with the drunkenness Of |
the subject. 1t is to be hoped that 1rOnton
will now furnish an anxious ST. Louis public
with the exact number of gallons and demi-
johns of whisky consumed by the militia
while in camp there. A comparison of this
with the record of the cavalrymen at home
will result in an accurate decision upon the
charges.
You will also have to take into considera-
ton the comparative strengths of city and
country libations, the different altitude and
dependent atmospheric eNhilaration, and a
whole lot Of other modifying circumstances,
which We cannot take time to enumerate.
We fear, with all these delicate complica-
ions, that even the experienced editor of the
would have great difficulty in
solving the question with perfect exactitude.
The following appeared i'm the Republican
IF the 9TH inst, published sat the request of
W. Z. Patton, NJ. D., and j. Henry Smith Of
[ronton:"
We notice in your issue of the Missouri
Republican. of the Sd inst. an article headed:
Our Cavalry indicated" Now we would
INSIST that j. w. Emerson, Esq, and the re-
naming few citizens who signed that article
10 not constitute the entire population of
he town and vicinity.
While the company may have conducted
themselves in a gentlemanly manner far
Is Mr.. Emerson and his few followers are
there are numerous other good ;
itizens who know that their deportmenf was ,
lot that of thorough gentlemen. And were
t necessary we could produce sufficient evil
lence to convince the most obstinate and in
individuals that these assertions
re not liking in the essential of foundation
truth.
We can not imagine why few lines from
he pen of the Hon. j. w. Emerson, signed
" very few of the citizens of Ironton (and
~ the way there are several who signed said
rticle without thoroughly understanding
Is significance) can vindicate anyone, when {
here are twenty to one who insist that some ,
If the members of the st. Louis light cavalry
lid offer the most vile indignities to our peo-
Die.
We do not speak with reference strictly to !
ronton's people, but it was so all along their
inc of march. Now, while we have no par
ocular interest in this matter, neither had l
We any ''best girl 10 lose," as was said to be {:
he stimulus to the article which appeared
n the Ironton Herald few DAYS since, vet
We feel that it is but justice to our people
hat it should be made public mater and
lot be suppressed, as our worthy friend who
stoned that article in the nf yinf,n,tion |
% the cavalry company, seems to think.
Yours l.