Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-12-24

The invitations for the 1. o. o. F. Phan-
TOM Ball New Years Eve were issued Mon
Jay, and everything Is now about in trim fol-
this great Holiday event Great care has
oeen exercised by the invitation committee,
ano all may rest assured that if good COM
pany, good management, good music and a
good supper combined will produce good
time, then good time will we have.
The new sidewalk now being put down in
front of the I. o. o. F. premises is an i'm
provement indeed. 1t is raised high enough
70 obviate the necessity of the wooden steps
which have heretofore given passible en-
trance into the store-room and the halls, and
viii be paved with brick. There is one thing,
however, which ought TO be attended TO be-
fore the sidewalk Is covered: we allude 10
the old well on the corner which is now COW
cred with two-inch Oak planks. 1t l. secure
enough for the present, but in few years
the plauks will have rotted and ''myster-
ious disappear ance" of some IN wary passer
may result. The city ought to attend to the
matter nolo.
The pupils of the Belleyiew Public School,
under the superintendent of Prof. Light,
will give an entertainment at the Masonic
Hail this Thursday evening, beginning at
6:43 O'Clock. An excellent programme will
be presented to the audience, and all may
rest assured of very pleasant evenings en-
tertainment. Admission, adults, 15c; chill
dren under u years, Zoe. After the enter
tainment, an oyster supper will be given in
the public school building, at the modest
charge of fifty cents couple. The proceeds
OF the evening will be applied to the pur-
chase of library for the school: and, with
this meritori0us object in view, we have no
doubt they will be considerable. All per-
sons should willingly contribute the mite
asked for.
a correspondent desires Us to publish the
following letter from little girl to Santa
Claus, as q reminder to the cheerful giver:
Dear Santa Claus: 1t is with a very sad
heart that pen to you these lines. l know
you are a good old Santa Claus, and you
love all good children. Mother has not been
well for some time and poor father is dead.
How sad il is to think of the coming holi-
days and the merriment that other children
will enjoy, and poor little girl with moth
ing TO buy me pretty things. Do open your
kind heart and come around to see Us. l
will write you what l want: The weather
is so cold l need a pair of shoes, a new
dress, a0d my little sister needs a new
dress and her shoes are worn out. Moth
er is always sick and cannot work, so we lit
tie ones do the best we can. | would like
to work and help mother, but | am so small
that nobody wants me around. Do not fail
TO come and bring all the nice things with
you. As am getting tired and sleepy, |
will close wishing you happy time aud
merry Christmas. Do not forget where /
live, and be sure and bring the shoes. l am
a little girl five years old. MARY"
AT the late session Of the City Council bills
were presented aud allowed to the Marshal
for the removal and burial of the carcasses
of more than fifty hogs: good indication
that a sure cure for hog cholera has not yet
been found. But what we now desire to
more particularly call general attention to
is the hog nuisance which has infested this
place ever since its Incorporation, despite
council, marshal, mayor and ordinance. A
few balr-stary ed hogs running at large can
make life miserable to the better class of a
whole community. They infest the streets,
break into well-kept enclosures, and forage
the living denied them by their owners. We
know of one instance where citizen with
little patch of garden had it riddled three |
several times the past season: first of his |
earliest struck" second of his new pota-
toes; and lastly of his cabbages and turnips |
despite mis- utmost efforts toward a tight |
fence and closed gates. His curses are both |
loud and deep when his attention is recalled
to his misfortunes-andn no wonder. This is
but one of number of cases whose name is
legion. Ii seems strange that person who
is ready to assert his honesty vi ct nrmiS
when it is called into question, should DELHI
erately plan from year to year to pilfer from
his neighbors through the stock he refuses
to properly provide for; turning out his hogs
and cows and horses to forage their living.
He would not break into his neighbors'
premises to steal hay and corn, etc, that he
might feed it to his starving stOck-O, no!
He is too honest man and too good a citi-
zen for that. But be, curiOusly enough
considers it no wrong to have his hogs and
his cows do the stealing he would scorn to
do for them. And when, having turned his
hogs out, and the cholera prevails and kills
them, does he come forward, like an honest
man, and offer to pay for their removal and
burial: II one such does, he is a rare bird,
indeed, and Barnum's successor wants him
bad" O, no, he isn't that sort of person:
he holds that his hogs having right to pill
fer their living, have equally as good reason
to extort from patient public their modest
g.,
this must be amended, and it will be amend
ed at an earlier date than some now seem to
think.
Perkins makes one dozen Minettes for -
cents.
Revival Meeting.
a reYiNal mnetiner will hnarin 1T the Mathx