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

Your locality seems to have felt the
frost worse than we did here, for only
the tenderest vegetation was touched
by it in this county.
Jacksonville elected six Republicans
and seven Democrats at the election
last spring, and has been ..at skies and
sevens" ever since till last week, when
the Mayor compromised by the APP
pointment Of a mixed set of city off,
Gals.
This Is the garden of this state-an
old settler said he could show me a
hole in the prairie near Jacksonville
where the dirt was gotten to make
Adam Without times are SO hard,
and there is such scramble for every
position and place, especially every
public place, that it turns our Eden in
to a sort of hell. If you ask one
what makes times SO hard here,
would say that it was neither the Nc.
Kinley bill nor the Wilson bill, but the
fact that rent has reached the point al
which half the crop and one dollar an
acre is demanded. Some give half the
crop and pay cash rent for pasture and
buildings The heavy hand of land.
lordism has driven population from
rural to urban life, and the effect is
| now telling upon the smaller towns.
Here in Murrayville we have but three
stores left, and one of these is closing
out. These stores are like your coun-
try or wayside stores in Missouri; they
| carry mixed stock of dry goods,
groceries, leather, hardware, and
farm implements. A country store
near this place has done much to break
down business here, but the results
can. in larger measure, be attributed
to the meager custom, growing, in its
turn, out of high rents and low prices
of produce.
The forthcoming report of the Blu
reau of Labor Statistics of this state
will deal almost wholly with the CUES.
| ton of taxation as affecting wages. and
will contain some startling figures,
| showing not only how common per-
| jury is on the part of both assessors
and taxpayers, but how the poor. and
especially the laboring man. is fleeced
| for the benefit of the rich. Some re-
Communications will be made that come
dangerously near the George idea Of
taxation, if, indeed, they are not iden
| tical with it.
! The State Fair at Springfield was
| largly attended. There was fine dis
play of farm implements, including 6
wagon made wholly of steel, except
the bed, tongue. and one end of the
coupling pole, or reach,-just the
trick for your country. l noticed thai
| the threshers were nearly all Cyclones
| and most OF them self-feeders and
band-cutters. The mercenary condi.
tons under which we are living were
to be seen through all the gloss of the
| big show. All sorts of nickei-nipping,
penny-picking, devices were allowed
and some of them, of the Midway or
der. rather sensual and immoral, il
they were properly described to your
writer. Some of the exhibits of agri
cultural, horticultural. and agricultural
produce were purchased, and this was
not fair to those who competed by ex
hibiting the produce OF their own la
Dor. One day the show. and a dinner
were free to old soldiers; aud though
many took advantage of the privilege,
comparatively few could afford to leave
work~and pay even the reduced fares.
Quite number of comrades from
this vicinity went to Louisville. and
Chattanooga; and some of them were
so well pleased with the South they
talk of moving there to live.
We are needing rain here.
/ Oct. =. 1924. VIM. CAMM