Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-09-17
Iron Mountain News.


Mrs. DeIano ia stopping for while at the
hotel.
| We had fine rain up this way Sunday
| morning, thank you.
Mr.. Ellis P. Cayce went to st. Louis to.
day, on business for the company.
How would it do to have monthly insti.
tute this winter? Let us hear from the
| teachers.
| "Uncle Jerry" says IT isn't so, but every.
body else thinks it is. Don't tell him said
so, though.
A party Of young folks from Belleview
| came over a few days ago, and had "rack-
| ct" at the dam.
Mr.. Geo. Vollath and family went to
French Village last Saturday to visit relatives
and friends.
Mr.. Sam Sizemore comes to the front this
week, and announces the advent of fine
little boy.
Mrs. Delaney returned to her home at
Hot Springs on Saturday, after spending a
few days on a pleasant visit here.
Master Willie Shaw left last Saturday for
few months sojourn with his aunt at Hot
Springs, Ark.
Mr.. A. j. Sypher has gone east to visit his
brother, and to look after the patent on his
new steam drill.
The company are sinking shaft, .our by
eight feet, on the east side of the Mountain.
1t will be sunk depth of 800 feet.
Three hose and one separator are running,
but how long, is only question of suitable
weather. We hope, however, that it will be
for some time yet.
The Public School opened last Monday
morning with an enrolment of 1874 pupils;
but was increased during the week to about
155. The outlook for successful term is
promising.
All the boarders at the hotel, who were
residents of the city, pulled up stakes and
went home last Saturday evening. Not
withstanding this fact, the people and the
business of our place will move on in the
usual tenor of their way.
Thirteen wagons have been engaged dur
ing the greater part of the past week, haul
ing paving blocks from the Schneider granite
quarry to this point for shipment. Business
is beginning to look up little with our
friends oyer against Buford's mountain.
Your correspondent was out to the Quarry
few days ago, and found things moving
along out there in a very encouraging man
ner. The Syenite Granite Company got
large contract not long since, and the boys
are feeling in good spirits over the prospect
for the future.
Our friends Of the Lutheran churh have
now under course of erection, a right hand
some little church at this place, and when
completed, it will be very attractive addi-
ton to the town. 1t will cost about eleven
or twelve hundred dollars, and will be dedi-
Gated about the first of October.
On last Friday it was reported Jerry Thur
man and Brown Murray got into a dispute,
when Thurman struck Murray with wagon
standard. This was becoming little more
familiar than propriety would admit, and so
Murray returned the compliment by going
into Thurman with knife. The knife was
small, and Jerry being on the run, not much
damage was done. One little tip was sent in
under the right shoulder blade, but not deep
enough to cause alarm. The rumpus oc-
CURED about nothing, it seems, and no
further trouble is anticipated.
One thought has forced itself upon my
mind which will send along with the rest.
There has been strong fight going on for
some time between the liquor dealing popu-
lation and the prohibitionists. The churches
also come in and array themselves against
the vice of selling liquors and getting drunk.
Moreover, it is understood that religious and
church going people ought to be good and
set an example for the guidance Of the
young. But do they always do this? 1t is
not for me to say whether prohibition shall
be the law or not, or whether the church
shall control mems wills in the affairs of this
life. But what we should look for is results.
The saloons make no attempt to establish
code of morals, but the church does. 1t can
not be proven that the saloons ever were, in
any respect, benefit to mankind, while it is
safe to say the church has. And it is not
until the church robs herself of her own
power, does she fail to be effective in doing
good. But while this may be true, we can
draw strange comparison. The town of
Belleyiew is town of churches, and the
town Of Bismarck is a town of saloons, yet
property is safer in Bismarck than in Belle
view. Why is this? The above may be
little mixed, doubtless is, but when that last
question is answered, perhaps it may give
the key to better understanding Of what
goes before.
Mr.. I. P. Pigg, of the Pennington Neaos,
and Prof. II. A. Simonds Of the Carlton In
stitute, spent last Saturday at this place.