Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-10

presses, some went Dy steam, some Dy
horse power; and patent gates of every
description. Brick machines, that
ground the clay fine as flour, and made
it into brick as hard as rock and smooth
as glass, and as fast as man could
could pick them up and pile them.
Stone crushers for making macadam
for roads. Road scrapers on wheels
machinery for road building. Hay
rakes that went before the horses and
rakes that went behind the horse. l
don't think should like the rake that
went before the horse; it did not fill my
eye. 1t was too clumsy. / saw those
machines you hitch behind the hay
wagon, as you ride and drive the
machine rakes and loads it on the wag
on. as drive along. If you drive fast.
it loads fast, if you drive slow, it loads
slow. Stackers of all sorts. And such
a variety of plows, harrows, corn plant
ers, seed drills, and every sort of a
machine to tighten labor.
In the fruit and vegetable hall. l
saw most everything that grows on top
of ground and in ground. The display
of apples was the poorest ever saw on
exhibition. The apple crop is the
poorest this year, have ever known.
l saw some very fine pears of Missouri
growth as well as from California.
But grapes, Oh, such sights of them!
and finer l never saw. The show Of
potatoes was like the apple crop, not
very good, for, like the apple crop.
there is the poorest crop of potatoes.
According to the government and all
other agricultural reports that have
been for good many years.
To go into all the details of what l
saw, would take the columns of the
REGISTER for the next twelve months.
Unlike the early days of the fair, when
for moderate sum, you could get just
such dinner as you wanted. Now
you can't get anything to eat on the
grounds at any reasonable price. So
the people have learned to bring their
lunch with them. At noon you could
see groups in every direction seated on
the grass eating their lunches. As
7 1of% hot
the angels of the household filed a nice
box with sandwiches, cake and all the |
good things. As we sat on the green |!
grass under the shade of tree, we en- |
joyed our lunch to the utmost. After |
dinner, everybody seemed to be max |
ing their way to the ampitheatre. AS
we reached the promenade and looked |
over the vast crowd seated in the amphi-
theatre. Such sight! saw the next
day by the papers, that there were one
hundred thousand persons in that vast
crowd; as we took our seats and looked |
down in the arena and saw those fine
carriages and carriage horses, go flying |
around the circle, l could not help |
thinking of the old, ancient days of the |
gladiators, and the olympic games that
were practiced In those days. Then !
those little ponies hitched to their lit
tie carriages. Oh, they looked SO fun
NY. After sitting and enjoying the |
cir ,,nf;1 1ya 81 xro hol Cooy, opo,1r1 |
for one day we made our way out OF
the crowd, and, as we passed the textile
hall, we made short tour through it,
and such sight of fabric of all kinds;
and such beautiful crazy quilts and
crazy rugs and crazy mats, Inever saw;
and needle work, oh, can't begin to
tell you of all the fine things that saw.
ALI made by the deft hand of the ladies.
No, the art of sewing has not passed
away yet, if they do have the help OF
the sewing machine. never saw fin
er needle work, flowers, some would
almost put nature to her best.
As it is getting along towards night
we must not Iinger too long, for the
home mother is going to give us birth
night supper of oysters and other good
things. So good night until another
day.
Thursday morning-Last night, just
as l was about to retire, was present
ed with some very nice birthday remem-
brances by the different members of
the family and other friends, for which
feel very grateful to each giver. Af-
Ter all, life is worth living.
The morning is just perfect, the air
pure and bracing. We feel, as we
speed along under the power of elec-