Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09
A "Scorcher" for the "Hub,ites.

| Ed. Regtster-If slight Of hand perform
er,or three cent circus, or one horse travelling
comedy company, comes to town, we are al
agog. New dresses are hauled out, shoes are
polished up, money is gotten in some man.
ner. and We take our wives, our children, oul
sisters, our cousins, our aunts, as we'll as our
| sweethearts, to see the sights; If there is q
dog fight. or a fist fight, (Which are equiva-
lent terms), we rush to our doors to see and
| enjoy; if there is a scandal in the community,
| or skeleton perceived in some one else's
closet, we roll it under our tongues as we do
choice morsels; when there is church fair,
ALTER, legalized gambling arrangement, all
| our spare dimes are expected for sweet char
ity's sake, alter, to make up the deficit caus-
| ed by church members failing to see the
plate when passed, by reason of religious
rapture of which they are then possessed /;
but when there is really something good and
beneficial going on, something calculated to
raise the people, morally and intellectually,
and without cost, we do not go. We go else
where, or stay at home.
On the evening Of July Sd, 1885, Jos. H.
Foy, D. D., L. L. D., of st. Lonis, delivered
lecture at the courthouse upon an educa-
tional topic; upon a topic which should be Of
interest to every educated person, and espe-
cially to every parent, who has the interests
of his or her child at heart. Further, DIR.
Foy is a scholar with but few peers in cru
dition, and a speaker with no superior in or
atory In Missouri.
There were seven male adults from Iron
ton, and two or three from Arcadia and the
country, and four or five haif-grown girls, to
hear him. And this, Mr.. Editor, in town
which you and the balance Of us have here
tofore boosted was the intellectual "hub" of
Southeast Missouri
There are several lawyers, many doctors,
numerous divines, and still greater num-
Der of others, men and women, (who live
here), who boast, or would have others be-
lieve, that our town is full to Overlooking
with culture, refinement, and education.
God save the mark! Do we show it? At
this lecture there were present two lawyers,
one school teacher, not school director, not
doctor, and only one preacher, the Rev.
Mr.. Worsnop. The others either knew
themselves to be too dull of comprehension
to understand what might be said, or phar-
isaically thought they knew it all, and stay
ed at home.
Such state of affairs, such state OF
mental paralysis, such a state Of moral coma,
as would bring these things about, is dis
graceful to any community, and especially
calls upon you and me, and all of us, to cease
boasting of our intelligent community till
these are rectifed. There may have been
intelligence, culture, and appreciation of
good things among us in the past, but do our
works show 1t now! Let us stop Dragging.
ONE WHO WENT.
1.-THE editor of this paper is glad to be able
to say that DR.. Foy's preaching is highly ap-
preciated in this community. His audiences
are good and growing. The unfavorable
character Of the night may have had some
thing to do with the slim attendance COM
planned of by our intelligent correspondent.
The audience would have been larger, per- |
haps, had the lecture been appointed for the |
Music Hall instead of the Courthouse. We
think DIR. Foy can easily draw a crowd to his |
neat Lecture.J