Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-16

The Con vention of the M. DPS of South
east Missouri at Bismarck last Wednesday
was well attended and proved a profit
able session. A portion OF the proceedings,
we are told, was rich, rare and racy and
would be specially interesting reading to
Valley folk, but, as the meeting was carried
on with closed doors, and, as betraying OF
the secrets thereof might fall within the
pale of "unprofessional conduct"-of which
C barge every doctor who attend the late
confab will in future take especial care to be
| free-we are unable to furnish our readers
with full and detailed account. Though
| from the reports that are being gently watt
ed from tongue to tongue in regard to the
matter we learn sufficient to warrant us in
saying that there was racket with big
;" in which some of our own loved Valley
graduates played prominent parts and their
conduct when ARRESTED" highly unbe-
coming individuals who never fail to take
advantage of an opportunity to impress on
the public the exalted opinions they hold of
their profession and Its sacred dignities. In
truth the scene at this juncture and the
words of endearments passed back and forth
were, to our mind, far better suited to
Republican ward gathering than to meet
ing of high.ton Irregular graduates" But
thus doth anger make Inconsistencies of us
all. and, in charity, we forego further COM
ment.
Rev. DR.. Edw. Cooper, the gentleman
who has been conducting services at the
Presbyterian Church here, during the past
week, has, in years gone by, been man OF
considerable note in the Journalistic world,
and his accounts of early "reminiscences are
full of interest. Many years ago the DR..
was editor and proprietor of the New York
Ledger-the paper which has made Robert
Bonner one of the weathest men of the
profession in the world. At the same time
he owned the Ledger DR.. c. had control of
a morning daily in Brookyon, and he says
that while he didn't get rich he had plenty
of fun. He tells us of one occasion when
every morning for three weeks he was served
with a warrant requesting his presence III
Court to answer Il charge of libel. Though
twas easier then to escape the law than it is
now, as DR.. G. informs Us, that good dim
ner and-the good DR.. wasn't of the ''cloth"
then-a bottle of claret never failed to in
duce the officers serving the capias to make |
a return of ron inUentuS. This happened
about the time that James Gordon Bennett
was revelutionizing the newspaper business |
in this country and DR.. G. shortly afterwards |
sold out and retired. His latest journalistic
work has been on the ST. Louis Evangelist |
which he owned UP to about year ago
when, wishing in his latter days life not
so continiug as that of an editor, he disposed
of the paper and has since been taking the |
world easy spending most of the time in I
New York City. He is now, temporarily,a IAN
agent of the st. Louis Presbytery looking |
around such places as Ironton endeavoring |
to find out why they cannot support min
ister. He left here for Marble Hill Tuesday |
but expects to return within 4 month or so.
DR.. G. is an honorable Christian gentleman
one of whom his church may well feel
proud and wish they had more like unto
him.