Iron County register., 1896-01-09

to the Dispensary. where he was ex
amined and pronounced mentally un
balanced. He was then taken to the
City Hospital for treatment. Tapp il
a barber, 81 years old. and married.
We regret to learn that Marvin Col
legiate Institute continues in an unfin-
ished condition; that the bleak winds
OF January whistle through its dimin-
lshed upper story. and that the string
ers, the rafters, and the bricks In its
walls. are still piteously demanding
| that their nakedness shall be no Ion
ger exposed to the bitterness of winter
and the gibes of an unfeeling public.
This protection they were promised
many months ago, and its failure of
fulfilment has filed them with aston
ishment and sorrow. The REGISTER
extends it's sympathy. Good pine lum-
Der and modest brick ought not to be
compelled to endure such indignities
We have no feeling of ill-will toward
Fredericktown's college. As the years
go by we hope that it's ceilings will
soar to the contract distance above its
floors, that its timbers will acquire
strength and vigOr, that the brick in
its walls will gain solidity, that its
pinched and starved childhood will not
affect its maturer years. We hope
that relief expeditions from all over
the Stale will come to it's rescue; that
the highways and byways within the
radius of hundred miles of that COM
munity will cease some day to be in
tested with the sad-eyed men and wom-
en- with subscription book, pleading
tongue, and implorlng glance, ready
to pounce upon the unwary traveller,
until he comes to regard every hedge
with suspicion, and to look upon every
fence-corner as a snare. We leave
these matters with a much enduring
public. There is one feature, howev-
er. that We are not disposed to remain
silent about. Fredericktown secured |
the location of the school by represent
ing to Conference that it had guar
anteed subscription list of twenty-five |
thousand dollars. Professor Vandiver
said, by subscribing his name to the
in which this statement ap-
pears, that those representations were
true. If this subscription was guaran-
teed by men of financial standing, |
neither the public nor Conference has
to do with the subscription
lists. The guarantors assume its place.
The time by which the building was
10 have been completed has long gone
oy, and it is yet unfinished. Confer
snce. the public, and those points that
we're Fredericktown's competitors,
nave right to know what has be-
come of the guaranteed fund which Sc
cured the location of the school at that
point. Who were the guarantors?
Why have they not come forward and
made good their promises? Was any
,ne represented to have guaranteed
subscription who had
lot in fact done so? Were there any
methods used in securing
he school? We believe Professor Van
We therefore call upon him for the
acts in connection with the whole
transaction. If any of the guaran;ols
ave failed since the acceptance OF
heir guarantee, and have become un-
BILE to make good their promise, and
heir financial condition was not known
Vheu their guaranty was accepted,
his would be circumstance calling
or an extension of time to Frederick
own. We suspect that Professor Van
liver was imposed upon; that there
vas no guaranteed fund. but that he
ccepted the word of some of the breth-
en- for its existence without proper
Investigation. We again call upon !
i'm for the facts, because we think
be whole matter should be ventilated.
everything is square, no one can be
INJURED by giving it light and air. We
ave heard rumors that two of Freder-
distinguished citizens ac-
uired comfortable sum from the
ale of ground near which the COL !,
ege building is situated. However
his may be, honest brick and mortar
nd innocent pine lumber ought not g,
onger to be put to the blush.