Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-06
Murrayville, Ills.


in hand to let you know that we are
enjoying laundering snow storm, and
I hope this may find you enjoying the
same blessing.(0 If you have had the
slush, mud and fog that we have for a
week or SO, you would count a snow
storm, or almost any other change o;
weather, blessing. However, it has
not yet been very cold; and it is driv-
ing around so far toward spring that
there is not room for much winter left.
Nothing exciting or sensational has
occurred here for months; not since our
fire, at least, and our burned district
still remains a waste of wreck and Gin
ders
We had a good deal of very savage
war talk here some weeks ago, but the
fellows who did the talking were not
those who would be the first in the
fighting, and the old soldier element
rather discouraged such nonsense.
On the evening of the 9th ult., our
Post here installed its officers for 1896.
1t had been intended to go through the
ceremonies quietly, in our hall, but
our wives willed otherwise; and we
were invited from the hall to the house
of our oldest member, whose 10Th birth
day came on that date. The children
were ready with speeches and recita-
tions. An easy chair was presented to
our old comrade by the Post, then a
lady stepped out and surprised us
again by presenting chair to his wife,
and all were invited to partake of an
excellent supper. Among the COM
rades present was John Sobieski, of
Neosho, Mo-, and late Prohibition can
didate for governor of your state. He
had been lecturing here for a week to
crowded houses.
Installation day has grown to be al :
most an institution here. The trouble
has been to keep the crowd down to a
size that it could be entertained. What
with children and grandchildren, we
mustered big crowd, too big for any
house in the town or neighborhood.
In the way of business everything
is as dull as ever. Wheat is little
higher, but as it is nearly all gone
that counts for nothing here.
Politically everything is as quiet as
the grave among the voters, though
some Republican aspirants for office
are sending their photos around.
Among the people there is general dis
satisfaction; and a third party move
ment, on radical lines, would probably
draw the majority.
Your writes was called to Spring
field to address the Single Tax Club
there, and was led to believe that the
Democrats would bring out the ques-
ton of local option in taxation as a
state issue. The Single Tax Club
there is strong, has bright influential
men in its membership, some of them
state officials, and not a stone will be
left unturned to secure its adoption at
the earliest day. in this state.
If Altgeld can be induced to run he
will probably be the candidate for gov
ernor again; but at present he seems
unwilling to allow his name to be
used. In spite of all that has been
said against him, he has been the
right man in the right place.
We attended a teachers institute in
Jacksonville yesterday which was in
teresting, and drew a good audience.
But the most drawing thing was di-
vorce suit in the court house, the evil
dence in which, we are told, was sal
acious in the extreme, though the par
ties were in high life. The room was
crowded almost to suffocation by
women as well as men.
Farmers institutes are the fad here
now; but only fad, for the commit
tees on programmes, confine the SUBJ
iects strictly to agriculture or horti-
culture, while the real trouble with
.he real farmer is bad social and polit-
ical conditions.
Feb. 2, 90. WIN. CAMM.