Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-03-21

i: LOUIS DelanO, CQaS. MaILue"S,
Douglass Newman. George Newman,
Warren Prince. Katie Reel, Louis
Schultz, Golf Whitworth. Number
maintaining 100 per cent. in deport-
ment: Louis Delano. George Newman.
Douglass Newman, Lowe Search, Louis
Schultz. Number neither absent nor
tardy and maintaining 95 per cent. de-
ment, Room 9: Elsie Vance. Willie
Hills, Geo. Whitworth. Irene Gould
ing. Lottie Prince. Freddie Schultz,
Byron Moser, Grace WEIGH. Number
maintaining 100 per cent. in deport-
ment: Pearl Segner, VIM. Hills, Har-
ry Byers. Grace WEIGH. Lottie Prince,
Warren johnson, Bobbie Rasche, Ben
ME Arnoldy, Lila O'Neal, Henry Dali
ton. Neither absent nor tardy and
95 IN department, Room 3: Clara Del
ano, Perry WEIGH, Emma Beard.
Neither absent nor tardy and 100 in
department.: Godfrey O'Neal.
The following, received lately by an
esteemed citizeness of the Valley, is
unique, but self-explanatory:
DEAR FRIEND:-The ladies college
society desire to raise certain amount
to aid in building Methodist College,
to be known as the Marvin Institute,
at Fredericlstown, Mo-, and not having
the means to do so, think of no better
way to do it than to form a chain in
which you are requested to join. You
are requested to make three copies OF
this letter, and sending to three friends,
signing your own name and writing the
next number at the top of each copy,
then return this letter with 10 cents
and the name of the friends to whom
you have written to Mrs. --
--, President Ladies College Aid
Society, Fredericktown, Mo. Your
friends are requested to do the same
thing, and so the chain lengthens.
The parties receiving number fifty will
please return the letter with 10 cents
but make no copies, as that ends the
chain This may seem small thing
but any break may involve serious loss
to the enterprise. So faithfully do
your duty in this matter in the name
of and for Christ sake. --"
The above quoted letter will prove
surprise to those who attended the
Methodist Conference at Frederick
town last fall. The members OF that
BODY were given to understand that the
silver dollar performed the function IN
that community usually performed by
the nickle in other localities: that the
ordinary fee of the small boy over
there for carrying note from q felio"
to bis best girl was ten dollars, Instead
of ten cents: and that FrejricktOwn
was as anxious to hang up purse OF
$50, 900 for Methodist College.
Baptist College, or almost any other
kind of an institution OF learning, as
Jacksonville or New Orleans is to ex-
pend similar amount for an eucoun-
ter between James j. COrbett and
some other light of the prize ring. In
fact. the $50, 900 was supposed to be in
sight and ready for the check-book as
soon as the College should be located
and the contract awarded. From the
above letter it seems that the Confer
ence yielded to the manipulations OF
the slick citizen. that United States
Marshal with a search warrant could
not locate that $4,000; that the re<
SOURCES of the community had been
trifie ogsrstated, and some OF the
brethren had strained the Methodist
discipline in their re presentations to the
conference. The money that lronton
proposed to put up was not in the
imagination. 1t was at hand and
ready to be produced. There would
have oeen no cessation of work after
the building had been commenced, for
lack of funds. The ladies of Iron
county would not have been called
upon to make good the cash obliga-
tions of its men. However, the men
of Madison county had the good judg-
ment to go to the right parties for
help. If the women of that county
cannot pull them out OF the hole they
have fallen into. the case is indeed
hopeless. Il the men will stand en-
| tirely aside and iet the women alone
there is no doubt about the SUCCESS Of
the enterprise; but We would suggest
to the ladies in the most friendly
spirit that their proposed method is
trenching upon the privilege of the
church festival. with its cane to the
ugliest man aud cake to tho nrettiest
girl; with its grab-bag and cake That
| it conceals in its anatomy the more
or less gold ring; and all the other
appliances to inveigle the reluctant
quarter from the pocket-the oyster
supper. the spread OF strawberries and
| ice cream-2re orthodox institutions.
| They have stood the test for years and
have developed no evil tendency; they
have come to be regarded as valuable
adjunct to moral movement and should
not be cast aside for new and strange
devices. The ''ohaiU" smacks OF het-
erodoxy. The chain is supposed tic
be one of the instruments used by the
devil. and this party seems to be at the
hither end of the chain. as he is said
to be the father of lies-whatever may
he at the farther end of it. We in all
canior adyise the ladies not to become
iconoclasts by supplanting old and APP
proved institutions. Innovations are
always dangerous and ought to be In
troduced with caution. In any event
the next Methodist Conference will
keep a sharper lookout for the wolf in
rams clothing.
What About the Baker!