Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-06

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ed) with the discretion of older heads; bu
. who, in time, bid fair to. make worthy prop
of the community. Give them chance!
The Arcadia train made two trips to 81
, Louis and return in the twenty -four hour
between six O'Clock Thursday morning an,
six O'Clock Friday morning last. The occa
sion Of the extra trip was the receiving of
telegram last Thursday evening about S:3
by Mrs. w. II. Thomson, at "Valley Home,
informing her that one of her little children
in st. Louis had been badly scalded. Ac
companying the message to Mrs. T. was ON
from Superintendent Hardy ordering thu
crew of the Accommodation, which had ar
rived about ten minutes previous, to star
for st. Louis as soon as Mrs. Thomson coulG
get on board. Within ten minutes the trair
was on its way, and, In q little over three
hours, the anxious mother was with the
suffering child, whose injuries, we rejoice
to hear, are not so serious but that the little
one will recover. The train reached the
Valley again in time for the employees 20 take
a couple of hours rest before starting on the
regular run Friday morning.
The following from the "Notes of the
Day" column of last Saturdays Star Say
tngs probably contains sufficient of local in
terest to justify reproductions: ga year
| ago there was well organized granite ring
in existence in st. Louis. W. II. Allen and
Claus Vieths have by no means a monopoly
of the granite paving business. All through
the section where the vein of syenite lies in
Iron county, there are small quarries oper-
ated by from one to dozen men. They
have, as rule, sold their blocks to the big
contractors, but on several occasions have
had the temerity to bid on their own ac-
count. This apgered Allen and Vieths,
and, early this Y ear, the big toads concluded
to cut loose from association with the small
quarries. The latter, in turn, made a COM
oination for self-protection, and began to
bid regularly on street contracts, with the
result that the granite kings concluded to
crush them, and they have, as result, tax
en- large contracts at an actual loss, rather
than allow the small fry chance to get in
on the public work. 1t is death to the con-
tractor, but fun for the taxpayer"
Hon. j. W. Emerson delivered an address
before G. A. r. Post in Hannibal on the
the event the Hannibal Morning Journal
next day said: "The address delivered by
Hon. j. W. Emerson, under the auspices of
Hannibal Post No. 43, G. A. R., at the opera
house last night, was one of the grandest to
which Hannibal audience ever had the
pleasure of listening. 1t was patriots APP
peal to patriots. The words spoken were
as seed sown in good ground which must
sooner or later bear precious fruit. Grants
generous treatment of Lee and the soldiers
of the Confederate armies, was referred to
in eloquent terms, and warmly received.
The speaker quoted literally from recent
addresses of prominent Union and Confed-
crate generals, and asserted that the govern
ment-the Union-was stronger now than at
any time in the country's history. From
the commencement to the close of the ad-
dress, not one word was spoken to which
any reasonable man could object, and the
Journal heartily congratulates Post No. 40
upon its good fortune in securing Mr.. Emer-
son as the speaker of the evening. Would
that the address delivered last evening could
be heard from every platfrom in the land"