Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-30
From GOOtiWater.

: GOoDwATER, Mo-, July oath, 1885.
e Ed. Regaster-The pressure of field labor
2 incident to the harvesting season has delay.
, ed the writing of this letter until now.
The following notes on the weather in this
section during past three weeks may no,
prove altogether uninteresting to your read
= ers:
} About 8 A. NJ, July 4th, it "drizzleG -
: cleared off at noon.
, The morning of the 5th was beautiful and
clear. A refreshing shower fell at :45 P.
: NJ: then came a heavy rain which lasted
. about an hour, beginning at 2:15 P. NJ.
After light rains on the following night it
'cleared off" and we had two days of beauti-
full harvesting weather.
i Wednesday, Sth inst. and next day until
noon it was unusually warm.
Heavy rains passed around us on the
evenings of Thursday, 9th, and Friday, 10th
inst.
Saturday, July 11th: 1t rained all morning.
Hardest rain fell from $50 to 900 A. NJ.
Sunday, 18th inst, it rained until about
8 A. M.-hard rain about one hour of the
time.
During the entire week following it was
hot. Wednesday, 18th inst, was, I think,
one of the hottest days of the year, up to
| date.
| On Friday, 18th inst, Mr.. Samuel Lucas
and his nearest neighbors enjoyed "ground-
soaker," while the rest of us ''sat on the
fence and watched it go byn-'or rather,
come down."
On the next day another storm of consid-
cradle magnitude ragged east of us, but We
were again put off with "a lick and prom
ise."
During all of this week it has been quite
hot. Pretty nearly every day about P. NJ.
it "clouded up" rained at some distance
from here and then clearned off again.
To-day, oath inst, has been quite hot.
The corn crops in some parts Of this COM
munity are beginning to need rain pretty
badly. 1t is hoped that all of us will be
amply supplied with rain before Monday
next.
Ii the corn crops are kept in the thrifty
condition generally prevailing throughout
this country, during the next four or five
weeks, an uncommonly large yield of that
staple will be the inevitable result.
Much of the early corn in this vicinity has
''tasseIed and silked" and that planted last
is "whooping it up lively"
Oats, now harvested, turned out" well.
Nearly or quite all the grain in this portion
Of the county has been stacked.
Though it was thought for some time that
meadows would yield but sparingly this
year, moderately good crop of hay was cut
and stacked, or stored away.
Early potatoes are good, are all kinds !
of vegetables.
Miss Effie Love, who had paid her sister,
Mrs. Lafayette Alcorn, Belleview, Mo-, |
visit, returned home on the 18th inst.
Master Munson Ramsey, son of z. T. |
Ramsey, Esq, residing near Belgrade, Mo-, |
visited his relatives in this neighborhood re- |
Gently.
The population of the State of Missouri |
was augmented on the 18th ult., by the adj |
ditton of member to the family Of Jas. III. |
Alcorn, Esq. "'Tis Il boy"
Mr.. r. C. Croker, while cutting oats in |
writer's field on the 18th inst, killed large |
rattlesnake.
Pitching quoits is favorite pastime in |
this vicinity. |
The writer was not altogether prepared for |
the effect of his criticisms upon the produc- |
tious of two of your correspondents. The |
explosion resulting from the ''charge of his
critical gas" upon coming in contact with "a
small portion of the infinitely great quantity
of pedantic gas-kept in store by the two
writers alluded to-left them in IA critical
condition. The elder one of them makes
the astounding assertion that she (E.) has
neuer thought, said or done anything(!V'
Said assertion is unqualified, absurd in the
extreme, and hence further remarks there
on are unnecessary.
The other writer, "P.," says that I am
known in this vicinity "as an daaphibtOas
quidnuRc." He is evidently laboring under
mistake; it is belived hereabouts that he,
himself, is responsible for the application of
the epithet to me.
Be that as it may, / am perfectly willing to
accept the term ''quidnuac" in the best sense
of the three definitions of the word as given
by Webster: 1st. "a curious person." may
be honest, truthful and sober and is not of
necessity meddler or pedant. I'd. "One
curious to kno,c euerything" is apt to ascer-
tain, ere long, that he does not "know it ALL"
Sd. "a aeucsmonger," having the qualifica-
tons above referred to, is one of the essen
tials of any reasonably wide awake commu-
nifty.
As the use of the adjective ''d,aphibi0us"
is ambiguous in the connection named, I
pause for an explanation thereon. Am glad
to notice that the writer of the article signed
''Tuus Anxious" has so far reformed as to
sign something else than Latin phrase to
his last; and fondly trust that he will Ego
on in the good workn until he will coude-
scend to take his place among those who are
at least his peers in ''these backwoods.n
E.
Facts are stubborn things" and sufferers
from chilIs and fever generally find their
complaint very stubborn fact, until they