Iron County register., 1893-10-19

| uSeQ CnfeatS OecOuSe their requests ar
not readily complied with. As the
grow in number the more desperat
they seem to become.
Rev. Shoush, VIM. A. Fletcher, j
S. Jordan, Louis Miller, P. w. Whi,
worth and j. NJ. Whitworth attende
the meeting of the Educational Commis
sion at Bismarck Monday night. Th
attendance of so many of our citizen
at this meeting attests the fact that W.
are always interested in a good cause
and that we have not lost our enthus
las m for the College.
P. W. Whitworth returned from tn,
Worlds Fair last Sunday and in orde
that he might give the public the ben
eft of what he saw the courthouse wa.
secured for Monday evening. A bat
cold and sore throat prevented the
gentleman from talking that evening
but he will doubtless delight an audi
ence with the wonders of the White
| City" in the near future.
Rev. G.. w. Duty, lately of Iowa, has
accepted a call to become pastor of the
| Presbyterian Church and will in future
Ell the pulpit in that sanctuary. His
| family will be here this week and will
occupy the property on Knob street
| across from the school house, and
lately vacated by L. A. Poston. Rev.
Duty is pleasant gentleman, and
we trust he may accomplish much in
this section of the Masters Vineyard.
The Wabash fast train from Chicago
with two hundred people on hoard met
few miles out of st. Louis Monday eve
ming; the baggage car struck defect
i've frog and five cars rolled down an
embankment. The train was probably
running fifty miles an hour, but only
five people were badly hurt and none
killed. Hon. Sam. Byrns and wife of
De Soto were among the passengers,
but happily escaped serious injuries.
Messrs. j. NJ. Whitworth, w. A.
Fletcher,J. S. Jordan and P. w. Whit
worth went to Bismarck Monday to
meet the committee appointed by the
late Nj. f. Conference to have charge
of the relocation of the Bellevue school.
There was not a quorum of the COM
mite present. however, and no action
was taken. The committee will meet
again in De Soto about two weeks
hence; visit will also be made to the
Valley to learn the inducements we
may offer.
CDR" J. H. Sanford and Louis Hur-
die, the two Germans who were cap
tured at Piedmont and brought back
to IrOntOn for endeavOring to beat sew
eral people out of small sums of money,
had their trial before Judge Dinger
last Wednesday. Sanford pleaded gull
ty to practicing medicine without reg
istering and Hurdle was bound over to
await the action of the grand jury on
the charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses. Letters have since
been received from De Soto which
show that the same men have victim
lied number of parties in that town.
The editor is in receipt of a postal
card from his old friend, Frank Sco-
vile. lately of Chicago. 1t was dated
October 18th, written son board train
for California" and says ..in future my
address will be South Riverside, Cal,
all we'll; regards to all" Mr.. Scoville
was for many years resident of Iron
ton, and ever body remembers him as
genial, jolly and whole-souled gen.
tleman. He has purchased an orange
grove in the Golden State and will
make that his future home. All his
friends here joins US in wishing him
and his health, happiness and pros
perity in their new home.
The editor of the De Soto Press is
much disturbed because the late Confer
ence of the NJ. E. Church, South, at West
Plains declared that De Soto was too
much under the influence of the saloons
and gamblers to secure the location of
the Bellevue Collegiate Institute. The
editor of the Press Indignantly denies
this imputation against that city's good
name, and quotes figures to show that
the number of saloons in De Soto has
materially decreased during the past
year. He is singularly quiet as to the
gamblers, however. If man is
charged with stealing horse and hog
and he stoutly denies the hog stealing
but says nothing as to the horse, most
people wonld conclude he had taken
the horse. Is this the reason the Press
is silent as to the gamblers? Now,
Bro. Denholm, the man who says
..there is more drunkenness and de-
bauchery in lronton in day than there
is in De Soto in a month" may not be
an habitual liar, but he certainly is a
..stretcher" of the truth. The court
rocords of the ma st will show that there
is less lawlessness in Ironton and Iron
County, than in any section of Southeast
Missouri. This is a fact. But the
Press need not become angry at us and
slander this community, just because
the Conference has ..tumbled" to the
wi,kedness Of De Soto.