Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-22
Clones News.


communication has been deferred I'M
worthy of note would occur; but since
my employment keeps me confined
pretty closely, find it quite hard
ship to gather much news of that char
acter, although am not of the opin-
ion that. should / desist sending you
my communications regularly, your
paper would suddenly come to stand
still. Far from that.
1t is not necessary to tell you that
we, the people of the West End, are
lin the swim" You have already
been informed of that fact. l should
think so.
Farmers out here have just finished
their hay harvest, and the yield of hay,
in most cases, has been much better
than had been anticipated. Those
who have threshed their wheat say the
yield, both in quality and quantity, has
far exceeded their expectations.
Old residents of this section say that
corn crops were never better than now,
and there is one of the largest crops of
mast we have had for years. 1t is
true, that we are TO have good corn
crops and large crop of mast at the
same time. People will be so independ-
ent this fall that many will entirely
forget their Master. and will feel very
much inclined to read Bob Ingersol,
rather than the Bible; or they may
content themselves by having their
nerves rasped by perusing Seventh-Day
Adventism logic, which appears weekly
in the columns of the REGISTER.
But those who would trouble them
selves with such '.logic," are, as l see
it, long way from the Kingdom.
Quite number of stock buyers have
been recently in this section, and
nearly all succeeded in getting a few
cattle. 1t is said that the prices paid
were very satisfactory. H. Latham
sold over three hundred dollars worth
of two-year-old past steers, getting
about twenty dollars per head. A. H.
Eaton also disposed of sufficient num-
Der of steers to bring him between two
and three hundred dollars. Just so
long as we can get twenty or twenty
five dollars t6 two-year old steers, we
OOn give muCH lOf All Iue IFee sllNeF
logic.
Fred Cureton, B. S. D., visited US
on Saturday last, spending the greater
part of the day with us, Prof. G.. will
open school at Millersville, Mo-, on
the I'd prox., at which place he has a
fine opening for young man of his
ability and energy.
Quite number from this place at
tended the series of meetings at Les
terville during the past two weeks.
Messrs. Nelson and Alfred Hawk
made trip to Ironton, last week.
Giles Mcmahon spent Sunday last
with your scribe.
Miss Van Mort, our teacher, is prov
ing herself to be good instructor; in
fact, she is Industrious aud energetic,
and can govern her pupils without the
use of a club, which few persons
think is the essential to complete sue
cess in teaching.
Recently the writer visited Mr.. and
Mrs. JAS. P. Barger. Montana, Mo-.
stopping over night with them. To
say that he greatly enjoyed himself is
to say the least. They have that fac
ulty, which is possessed by SO few, of
making one feel perfectly at home. and
have a model home, with two as bright
Lee and Ada, as can be found
in Southeast Missouri.
While on Big River recently, on a
leisure hour, I took a ramble down the
river to Council Bluff, and while there
Mr.. G. II. LoOmis showed me his saw
and grist mill plant, which is under
rapid construction. The mills will be
run by water power, the water used
coming from Big River. The dam,
sixty yards long, completely crosses the
river, which flows between two rocky |
banks, some forty or fifty feet high on
either side, at that point of the river. |
To give you an idea OF the work neces-
,ary to build the dam, let it be said |
hat all the timber and brush off five |
acres of very rough land was used in |
he construction of said dam. The |
wheel, which is to furnish power to
,un the mills, is an over-shot wheel, |
and is twelve feet in diameter; and the
shaft on which it is built, is made of
seven inch iron, and weighs over two
,ons.
The mill house, a two-story, when
will be very durable
structure, and is so arranged as to give
much convenience. While l cannot
speculate as to Mr.. Loomis's future
success with the mill plant. it is clear
v evident to one that he is entitled to
! great deal of credit for the amount
If energy and mechanical ingenuity
in the construction of said
,lant; for it is, from beginning to end,
master piece of workmanship.
Well, at myOleisure hours of even
ngs this week. / have rambled with a
worthy of a better object:
nut my eyes tire not in viewing the
ocks and hills, which give beauty and
'randeur to the classic shades of the
Vest End.
August 16, 1895. P.