Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-10

The paper came day late this week
Was il the sudden change in the wealth
er that delayed it? Oh, perhaps the
Editor ..took SO much Christmas" that
he forgot TO send it out till Friday.
The sleigh-bells began to jingle
about noon Wednesday and jingled till
ten o'clock to-day. Friday morning
the mercury stood at degrees Fair,
and did not past zero till o'clock.
The lovers of winter sports have had a
fine time coasting. sleigh;ng, and skat-
ing. Another day as warm as to-day
will put an end to all their fun. The
pond will be in good trim tonight.
With those who had a weeks time
and FIVE or ten dollar bill or more
to spend, this has been a week of fes-
tivity, gayety and amusement in our
town. In addition to the sports men
toned above. there have been balls,
socials, and entertainments sufficient
ly varied to meet the approval and
gain the patronage of all classes of peo-
pie with all sorts of temperaments and
all kinds of consciences. Among these
may be mentioned the Elites ball Tues.
eve, the D. o. c. ball Thurs. eve, a
Baptist social Tues. eve, and another
Thurs. eve, three Christmas trees
Mon. eve and two Tues. eve., Foun-
tana's Merrymakers at the Opera Honse
three nights, and the Columbus Clock
on exhibition all week day and night
1t rained all day Monday bad day
for loading Xmas trees. Tuesday
was cool and cloudy; Wednesday it
showed; Thursday it froze; Friday it
cleared off; and to-day it thawed.
Saturday was the busy day down
town. Both sides of Main Street were
lined with farm wagons from morning
till night The shop windows put
forth their best efforts in decorative
skill, and many farmer lad wondered
as he gazed on their beauty, and many
a heart was made glad On Christmas
morn by presents selected from their
store.
Our teachers were scattered al over
the United States part of the week.
Prof. Vandiver went to Piedmont and
Caledonia; Profs. McGhee, vesey. and
Ivy went to Piedmont; Prof. Wood,
went to Baltimore: Prof. Ealy to Lin
coin, Neb-; Prof. McLeary to Charles
ton, Mo-; Miss Gordon to ST. Louis;
Miss johnson to Centralia. ILL.,; and
Mrs. Fuhn and Miss Fee remained in
Cape Girardeau. They are all here
now but Prof. Wood and the two ladies.
Nearly all the students who live at a
distance from the Cape went home for
the holidays. William Barns. Will
liam VIM, c. F. Patterson and your
"Normalite" are spending the week
here. The students said to US as they
babe US good bye at the depot a week
ago. 20 how lonesome you will be in
the old dry Cape after we all leave!"
We will tell them when they return
that they were badly mistaken. We
have been well cared for and highly
OF course We would have
liked to see the home folks and eat
some OF mothers cooking. but I'll war
rant we bod as good Christmas din
ner as any of them. Mr.. Barnes and
"Normalite" had the pleasure of spend
ing the day and DINING at the home
of Prof. Vesey.
Several of our former students came
in to .stake Christmas" with their Cape
Cir. friends. Among those noticed on
the streets are Chas. Pepper. Adam
Young. &. L. allen, Mammie Reyburn,
A. r. Alton, and Houston Reyburn.
A. Fl. Reyburn left for Belleview Mon
day P. NJ. He will return TO Leora
next Monday. Houston says he likes
teaching pretty well and is getting
along very nicely with his fifty young
swampers. He has rs enrolled.
Mr.. William Mckee who is teaching
at Des Arc in Iron County, came over
yesterday to spend a couple of days
with his parents. He says that he
likes Iron County and has good school
Mr.. Mckee is very pleasant gentle
man. He seems to have what SO many
teachers seem to lack; i. e.. sufficient
personal magnetism to control school
without resorting to severe discipline.
He has had charge of some pretty
tough schools. and has always been
successful, in discipline to say nothing
of his excellent qualifications as an in
structor. Discipline. you know, is the
principal foundation on which rests a
teachers reputation with the majority
of our country's population. but we
hope that education will become the
chief basis of recommendation before
the close of the present generation.
Professor Fontana, the noted hypuot-
ist. Is causing quite sensation in the
Cape. He and his daughter Ouita per-
form many wonderful feats both physi-
cal and psychical that seem almost in
credible to those who have never seen
them. For the enlightenment of those
readers who have never Investigated
the subject of hynotism. / will enumer-
ate few of the tests that / saw last
night and the night before. %. Ouita
lifted FIVE men piled on a chair by SIM
ply rubbing her hands up and down
the chair posts few times. "a. Three
strong men could not lift her from the
floor. l3l- She placed her hands
against the canvas. and eight men
pushing against her back could not
push her up against it. "a. Fontana
changed a mans own identy of him
self and made him believe he was
George Washington; then asked him
what he did with his little Ratchet
when he vas . boy, and the fellow
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