Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-11

lIorefathers, we deem the matter of sufficient
note to state that we hear of one liquid re-
freshment house within the confines of this
county that last Thursday sold 165 kegs of
beer and 215 TASKS of whiskey-pure and
unauthorized.
The shop men from De Soto will give a
Grand Picnic at Goulding's park, on Satur-
day next, July 18th. The excursion train,
consisting OF some nine or ten coaches, will
arrive early in the morning, when the visitors
will Immediately repair to the grounds
The usual amusements will be provided,
Brass and string music will be on hand,
and it is hoped q general good time is sure
for everybody.
Mr.. A. III. st. Clair, formerly our"Ouaker''
correspondent at Graniteville, but for the
past two years a reporter on the Globe
Democrat, Sundayed with friends in the
Valley. 1t gives us pleasure to state that as
a journalist Mr.. st. c. is prospecting and now
nils the important charge of real estate man
| on the CD. in manner highly creditable
to himself and most satisfactorily to his
chief. We predict his will be successful
| future.
The Glorious Fourth was very generally
celebrated by the residents of this section.
The picnics at this place and other points in
the county were all well attended, and in
every instance passed off periodically and
| III order without disorder or disturbance of
| any nature whatever. This observance of
the Nations BIrthday..was Il model one and
just such as our ancestors intended it should
be. May it establish precedent for the
| future.
The advertisement Of the State University,
situated at Columbia, appears in this issue.
This institution, having been purged Of its
fossils and autocrats by the action of the
late Legislature, promises for the future TO
afford every advantage to students seeking
higher education and gives every evidence
that it will be University in fact as we'll as
in name. We hope to see good represen-
tation from our county listed In the catalogue
of 1SS9-90.
The main celebration of ''the 4th" in the
Valley was conducted by Iron Lodge, No.
10I, |. o. O. F., which gave picnic at
Goulding's Park during the day, and pub
lie installation and fireworks at the Academy
of Music in the evening-the whole followed
and wound up by a ball lasting until the
early hours of the 5th. The Lodge formed in
front of the hall at 9 A. NJ, and, headed by
the Graniteyille Cornet Band, marched out
to the picnic grounds. At the head of the
column was borne aloft the Lodges old ban
ner, bearing on its tattered folds the figures
1S51-the date Of the Lodges founding. On
the grounds were the usual games and
amusements, refreshments, etc. The day
was very fine, and the whole affair COM
plete success.
The readers of the Republic in this place
were somewhat surprised on Thursday last,
on receiving their papers, to note, among
the Washington dispatches, set Of resolu-
tions passed some three weeks since by the
G. A. r. Post in this town, condemning and
censiiring Congressman knsey for his action
in locating the pension board at De Soto,
and also for several sights that G. a. II. APP
plicants for office had suffered at bis hands.
So soon as we read the item we understood,
of course, what it was that brought the
Congressman down here last week and
created so much stir in the ranks of Iron
County's statesmen. To be sure, stated
last week, we knew the cause of the trouble
was resolutions, but had no idea of their
source, and are indeed surprised that any
element of the Republican party could be so
ungrateful or inconsi> tent as to question any
act of the G. A. K.
Mr.. s. +. Cross, while returning home
from Iron County last Friday where he had
been on business trip in the interest of
the LacIede Land and Improvement Co.,
met with quite an accident. On reaching
East Fork he wa. surprised to see that the
river had swollen, TO the extent OF being i'm
passabe; but as he was just about to turn
back, he saw fires horse tracks that indicat-
ed that some one had passed over a short
time before he came up, and thinking that
hs could cross any stream that any one else
could. he tusRed his horse into the stream.
But before he had gone twenty feet, the
force of the water capsi.ed bo,n rider and
horse, carrying them down the river soiae
five hundred yards, Mr.. Cross holding on to
his horses name all this time. Finally, he
said. he made a landing where the bank
was very high, and with the greatest exer-
ton on the part OF lis horse, he managed to
climb out. After resting = short time he
commenced to take an account OF sto.k. and
found that he had lost his hat, gum coat,
umbrella, and saddle bags wherein were all
bis plats of Iron and Reynolds counties.
Estimated loss about fifty dollars. Mr..
Cross says t.s ~ mot swim.-ReynOlds out
look
On the 4th day of June last Tnos. Ee-.4
was appointed postmaster ut Ironton, UtGe
Jno. +. L. Edwards, removed because of bis
being Democrat. Mr.. Beard has not yet
qualified. and Mr.. Edwards still retains his
office: very uausnal affair, and ineXpliea-
bic to the general public: which is fully
cogniZant Of Republican hunger and Demo-
cratic "inefiiciency" aud general cussedassS.
few have been told that the newly APP
pointed postmaster has not yet filled his
bond. AID for this reason the "out" is still
out, and the sim in. This, il true, is some
what singular: Mr.. Beard. when he applied
for the office, received the backing OF the
rank and file of the silk stocking elemenG o. ,
his party, and if he was good enough for
their endorsement, we cannot understand
why his friends who recommended his APP
polntment do not see that his bond be filled.
OF course, it's none of our fight, but in JUS
tice to Mr.. b. it is no more than right to say
the house of his friends that their personal
endorsenss ut for his appointment shows he
was entitled to aGd had right to expect at
their hands. Gentlemen Republicans. you
have had Mr.. Beard APPOINTED; aog see