Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-10
MISSOURI GOSSIP.
supt. wolfe.s Report.

| the general assembly, discusses the
| great questions vitality concerning
teachers and patrons.
| First and fundamental, is a liberal outlay OF
| the part of patrons and teachers, as the grea'
| requisite to educational progress. But OUTLAY
-investment-to bring the best results, mus'
be intelligently made.
| Pleading for the re-establishment OF the
| state training school. to license instructors IL
| teachers county institutes, that the time anc
money of teachers may not be squanoereo, Tx
superintendent says: "There is much excel-
| lent institute work in the state; more gooe
work; but there is too much that is poor
The present institute law relieves the county
| commissioner. an individual, from granting
| county certificates and int1usts this duty te
| the county institute board of examiners. II
urgently recommended that state certificates
! be no longer granted by the state superlntend-
ent, but by a board-au this that the people
may the more intelligently invest their annua
| outlay of s6O0O,O00
Commenting the strength and desirablnty
OF the institute law, as originally designed the
superintendent says: The original bill was an
organic whole-a unity, that could not OF
touched without mutilation-tD county lnstl-
tutes, G) district institutes to grant state Ger
tfficates (3) the state training school to gram
institute instructors certificates.
In setting forth the necessity for more ef-
| icient supervision by competent educators Sc
ent says: With election Of county superin-
tendent by direct vote OF the people, oIten
not the best qualified person is elected but the
smoothest politician-the candidate who has
the greatest number of relatives In the coun-
ty, who has put the most local politicians I'M
der obligations to him. or who has no policy
can teach it either round or fiat utter nc
| word against the honest politician or against
politics, but against the demagogue who cries
'undemocratic' when the people attempt to get
value received for their money. The para
mount question with the people is, how can we
get the worth OF our money!"
In discussing what should be rational
course of study he decries against the mis-
taken policy of the forced attempt to make
| children thorough in books and nature beyond
their tastes and capabilities.
He thus sums up his argument for rational
course Of study: Here seems to be the heart
OF the whole matter-to read man in his works
books, drawing. modelling, making-and God
In nature, and to communicate oneself most
fully and completely to his fellow-man-ln
language Gncluding music), drawing Gnclud-
ing painting), modelling and making Gnclud-
ing the work OF the artisan and sculptor"
Cuttings.
One-sixth of the prisoners in the Mis-
souri, penitentiary are under 20 years
old.
By buying two horses at once you
can get them for SIS. 40 each at Mary
vile.
A Kansas City paper urges every cit
izen to insist that the state build bet
ter roads.
Missouri has produced the tallest
woman and the two heaviest steers in
the world.
Congressman Morgan believes this
Ii ~
rency bill.
Judge John T. Mays, of Vernon coun-
ty. has purchased $40 acres of land near
Houston, Tex.
Through live stock trains are to be
put on between Kansas City and the
City of Mexico.
A good young Carthage man has not
missed week day evening from home
or Sunday evening from church in
ten years.
Two men named Wright and Risley,
in remote part of Ozark county, became
involved in quarrel, which resulted
in Risley killing Wright.
Miss Lizzie Shelton, aged 20, of
Bonneville, was sent to asylum, re-
Gently, crazy with the idea that she
had poisoned herself and with an in
satiable appetite for raw eggs to
counterfeit the drugs.
Paul Alexander, well-known law
yer and member of the Kansas City
bar, was found dead in a pasture north
of Independence. No marks of violence
were found on the body, and death is
supposed to have been due to heart dis
ease.
The normals at k:rlxsville. Warrens-
burg and Cape Girardeau are all over
crowded, and the enlargement of these
schools or the erection of another
building at some other town seems to
be a matter of necessity in the near
future.
John Riston, of Richland, a pioneer,
50 years old, has gone insane after be-
ing bed-ridden for two years. At that
time he broke his leg and the fracture
was not set, as the doctors felt sure he
would die anyhow. He has chewed to.
bacco for eighty years.
The receipts of the Kansas City po-
lice court during 1894 were $3S, $50,
while the expenses were $50, $50. A
great effort has been made by the board
of late to make the receipts equal the
expenses. Most of the joints were
pulled" for 500 each during Deem
Der.
Mr.. w. e. Little, of st. Louis, sug-
gests plan for the relief of the fnan-
cial situation and permanent improve
ment of the currency plans of the eoun-
try. He proposes that government
obligations be funded into long-run-
ming bonds bearing a low rate of inter
est.
AS some of the farmers of Missouri
are shipping cotton seed and cotton
seed meal to feed, the following from
Kansas City paper will be of interest:
John Dyer, of Meridian, Tex, had on
the market 243 meal-fed steers averag-
ing 1000 to 1,137 pounds which sold at
s.. so to So. 80.
Of the s,7O7 people who died in st.
Louis in 1894, there were male, 1907;
female, 5000; married, 3,O2s; single,
5,679; white, 1854; colored, 1,O23; chill
dren under years of age, 3,191; per-
sons 70 years of age and over, eco. The
births were: White, II $40; colored, 72S;
male, 6,27s; female, $500. Total, 49,
233.
A. v. Robinson, manager of the Nc
Grew Milling Co. of Lexington. says
his company may build mill of 1000
barrel daily capacity at Kansas City.
"You see," said Mr.. Robinson, ''down
at Lexington we had only the Mis-
souri, Pacific and we wanted to tap
other roads. It stood to reason that if
this idea was good one, why right
here at Kansas City, where we could