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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01
GranitevlIIe Items.

Ed. RegiSter-The little grand child
of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Dubacher that
was accidentally scalded in a kettle of
water on last Monday week ago, and
of which mention was made in our last
weeks communication, died on the
following Tuesday night, after terrible
suffering and agonizing pains, aged
2 years and 4 months. The remains
of the little one were conveyed to Mid
dlebrook cemetery for burial.
Mr.. and Mrs. Monroe Fitzpatrick
have a very sick little child. Doctor
Marshal of Ironton came out yesterday
to assist DR.. Chas. Blanks in perform
ing an operation on the little one as a
means of prolonging, if not entirely
saving its life.
Misses Josie Olson and Vida Fitz-
patrick are attending Belleview Insti-
tute this week.
Mr.. Jasper Fitzpatrick's folks here
are contemplating moving to Rhode
Island in the near future, in which
State Mr.. F. is now working. And as
there are are yet no visible signs of
Mckinley prosperity" hitting this
locality, we will have to ''git up and
git"
Mr.. William Gross. that little mer-
camille man of Irontou, was in town
last week on business.
1t never rains, but it pours. so they
say. We are now getting too much
rain, but we've got to be satisfied just
the same.
C. B. Reno and Mrs. William Hume
and Mrs. Maggie Rumble spent Friday
and Saturday OF last week over in st.
Francois county with friends.
Miss Mabel Davis of Ironton visited
several days last week with Mrs. Jas.
Beer in town.
Mr.. Louis Brenecke and family. and
Mr.. E. Ebrecht and family, of St.
Louis, came down on Saturday for a
few days visit and fishing amusement
with Mr.. and Mrs. Rob't Trauernicht.
Our Catholic school will close its
present term on Thursday, and the
children will be given picnic at Ar
cadia on Friday.
Trade still dull in the granite line
here; how much longer it will remain
so no one can tell, but present iudica-
tions are little meager for any i'm
prove in the near future.
Late letters from Mr.. Z. Nj. Smith.
who is now with his family sojourning
in Western Massachusetts, are to the
effect that he is recovering slowly and
his physicians think he VIII continue
to improve.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01
A New Enterprise.

June, w.
Editor RegiSter-Please allow me a
small place in your valuable paper to
ak fu questions. 1t am rumored dat
nu Factory am startin' up in the
North End.
Now 1t am reported dat it am a fly
factory, whar dey are turnin' out mo-
flies den you can shake stick at. De
material am told dey use am mostly
compozed of slops which yeald de
richest perfume. Now, Mr.. Editor. /
don't know, but it is rumored dat de
officers of dis combine are as follows:
Mr.. H. Hog, President; Mr.. Shote,
Vice; and Mr.. Pig, Secretary.
De stockholders OBJ dis yer kumpany
am not mentioned kaZe it am rumured
dey are not all knowed. 1t am sed,
however, dat it am a combine or Fly
Trust Co., so called because as de days
grow warmer dey calculate to inkrese
de out put about 10 to /.
Now dey say dey ken make flies faster
den Lu Baldwin ken make shavens wild
dat PLANE mill of his'n. but | don't
bleve word of it, for you know Lou
am bad when he gifts started wild his
plane.
Now rumor has it, course / don't
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01
Personal.

W. T. O'Neal was in st. Louis Satur.
day.
G.. w. Craine was in st. Louis this
week.
Joel Holloman was up from Hogan
Monday.
Chas. Kendall is in town from Festus
this week.
V. NJ. AXE returned from Arkansas
this morning.
DR.. Gay and family of Leeper are in
town this week.
Hon. C. D. Yancey of De Soto was
in town last week.
DR.. and Mrs. Byrns OF Piedmont Wis
tied in Ironton last week.
Miss Barroll of Pennington is the
guest of Mrs. DR.. Goulding.
Chas. Green, Jr., of Poplar Bluff,
was IN Ironton one day last week.
F. w. Brooks, an attorney from st.
Louis county, was in town Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ. Logan, of
Belleview, were in town Tuesday.
H. N. Hutchins is home from six
weeks absence in Dunklin county.
Mrs. Gage is visiting her parents,
Rev. and Mrs. Morton, of this place.
Mrs. I. S. Lopez and daughter Miss
Abel, arrived for the summer Tuesday.
A. j. Langdon and little daughter,
Maude, left Monday on visit to Cal
ifornia.
j. w. Harrall, w. r. Read and M.
T. Lowe of Belleview were in town
Wednesday.
Mrs. NJ. A. AXE leaves to-day on a
visit to Miss Hattie House, Battle
Creek, Michigan.
j. L. Clevlen and family arrived
from Poplar Bluff last week and will
spend the summer here.
Judge Emerson will return home
this week from a soiourn OF several
weeks at Armstrong Springs, near
Searcy, Ark.
Miss Nora Lindsay of Charleston. a
student at the Ursuline Convent the
past year. is spending few days with
Mrs. ID. f. Reese.
Walter Nall was here from st. Louis
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01


THE dairymen of Illinois, Wisconsin.
Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, and
other States, are organizing to crush
out, by legislative enactment, the but
terine industry. History repeats, and
repeats, but man is slow to learn, even
from dear-bought experience. For ages
iul England the woollen manufacture
had been the support of the nation,
and when the cheaper and for many
purposes whOlesomer cotton fabrics
were introduced (about 1920, the
dealers in wool and wooden goods cried
out for protection at law against the
new material. Says Knight in his
History of England. Vol. w., p. 412:
The same dread of permitting any
wear for the living or the dread bnt
that of woollen, made the fock-masters
and clothiers frantic, when printed
cottons, of English production. had
become not only fashionable but COM
mon in 1919. Diapers wives, and
even maid servants and children, it is
alleged, wore calicoes or printed linen,
attracted by their lightness, cheapness,
and gaiety of colour. The example of
the gentry had corrupted the common
people,; and so the manufacture of
light woollen stuffs would be ruined.
The result of this Glamour was an Act
of 1921, to preserve and encourage the
Woollen and Silk Manufactures, by
Tornh ihifinrr tho an6 nf oil
printed, painted, stained, or dyed
Calicoes, in apparel, household stuff,
or furniture. OF course such legisla-
tion was nugatory: but here is the ev-
idence, amongst many other proofs, OF
the supreme ignorance and folly of
lawmakers, who, from the earliest
days of the loom and the plough in
England, have struggled to regiment
all industry-to encourage or prohibit
to determine what wages labourers
should be paid, and what should be
the profit of capitalists-to crush ris-
ing industries by taxation-to compel
the people to eat dear food for the
benefit of the landowner-and,f finally,
to find out that the nation was never
so universally prosperous as when its
| was "hOAAy AIAs W tAO S0A Va
itself, under the guidance of Gods
natural laws"
1t is a monstrous idea that no adj
vancement to the betterment and COM
fort of the people must be made, if it
conflict with the vested interest of
some class. Thousands of tables for
weeks together are without butter be-
cause of its cost. A substitute at a
cost within the means of the needy
toiler is provided through the aid of
science, aud behold! the law is invok-
ed to crush the new industry because
the sales and profits of the dairymen
are iniuriously affected. Despite the
act of outlawry passed against him by
the English Parliament, Cotton in
time became King by universal ac-
ceptance; Butterine may never be pro-
claimed Queen, but one of these days,
when the people shall have evoluted
ont of damphooldom, she will stand
full-panoplied IN American sovereignty.
And don't you forget 1t.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

Sunday. His son Charlie accompani-
ed him and is spending a few days
with his grand parents.
l. Nj. johnson, who has been making
his home in the National Soldiers
Home, Va, will spend the summer
with relatives in Middlebrook.
Squire Hampton of Annapolis was
in town Wednesday. The Squire tells
us he barely escaped sunstroke during
the excessive heat of Tuesday.
Mrs. l.. f. Aspley, Misses Annie
Whitworth and Bertha Fairchild leave
the 18th of the month on the Epworth
League excursion to Toronto, Canada.
Misses Flossie aud Mamie Brown
returned home from Des Arc Monday,
where they have been visiting their
aunt and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. f. C.
Weast.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

AS stated il this paper last week, a
negro was appointed postmaster for
Clayton. St. Louis county. This is
what the argus says about the appoint
ment.
The appointment of r. A. Hudin,
the colOred man. who has for years
been the Globe Democrats county cor
respondent, to the position of post
master at Clayton, is really a surprise
to many who signed his petition and
endorsed him for the place. More
than one of these gentlemen has ex-
pressed himself in the hearing of the
Argus scribe, and from these express
sions one is forced to believe that they
signed the documents. thinking Hudlin
had no show for the position. and in
this way they could make the colored
brother believe that they were all
right on the color line, and at the same
time have to eat no crow. These Re-
publIcans remind the writer of an in
cident that occurred shortly sortly af
ter the nomination of Horace Greeley
by the Democratic national convention
in 1872. At ratification meeting
held in Charleston, S. c., Col. Yancey,
at that time the silver-tongued orator
of the south. was booked for a speech.
When Yancey took the stand, the APP
plause was deafening, for all knew that
a mastery speech was TO be delivered.
He began by saying that the nomina-
ton of Horace Greeley by the Demo-
Gratis reminded him of good old back
woods preacher. who always read his
text, picked up his hymn book, let it
fall upon the pulpit, and wherever it
opened, the congregation must sing
the hymn found on the left hand page.
This good man had two mischievous
boys, who got the old mans hymn
book and pasted the old poem:
sold father Grimes, that good old man,
We meier shall see no more,
He wore long spike-tail coat
All buttoned down BEFORE"
The boys then opened and closed
the book at this place, until it would
open nowhere else and laid it on the
pulpit. On the following Sunday
morning the minister assembled the pull
pit, read his text, dropped his hymn
book and picked it up. He scanned
the lines, took off his glasses and
thoroughly rubbed them. then he re-
adjusted them and read it over again.
He raised his eyes and looking straight
out at the congregation, said: ''Broth-
ers and Sisters, I've been singing out
of this book for nigh on to forty years
and 1 never saw this hymn before, but
you've got to sing it if it busts you
wide open" Thus it is with the coun-
ty ring. They have been promising
the negro something so long without
any idea of giving HIM anything that
when Hudlin slipped up on them. they
are going to swallow him if it "busts
them wide open"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

If we take into account the ''per
capita" yawp. Springfield ought to be
humming with industrial activity and
wallowing in prosperity. Yet, strange
to say, it is on the contrary quite the
reverse. Says the Leader Democrat:
The Springfield banks have in their
vaults about $1,500,000 of deposits
which cannot be invested for lack of
any demand for this idle money. The
sum of unemployed cash is equal to
about $50 for every man, woman and
child in the city. 1t is not doing the
banks any good, for they can find no
use for the money. This is an unusual
amount of unemployed capital and
shows that the business of the city has
not recovered its normal activity. The
owners of money find no profitable in
vestment to employ their wealth and
all they can do with it is to deposit
this money with the banks.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

WHEN Eugene V. Debbs, the labor
leader. was brought into court charged
with contempt during the Chicago
strike, the United States court sem
fenced him to Jail for six months. He
was denied trial by jury, or trial
of any kind. Debbs is a representa-
tive of the plain people. Last week
President Havemeyer and Secretary
Searles, of the heartless and soulless
Sugar Trust. were before the court
charged with the same offense. These
multI-millionaires were not only al
lowed a trial by jury. but the judge.
evidently fearing that the jury had not
been sufficiently packed, ordered
that the jury return a verdict OF not
guilty. Messrs. Havemeyer and
Searles represent the gentlemen who
furnish the campaign slush funds.
See the ifference?-NeICsboy.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

crease its population aud taxable
wealth, so that the people would not
feel the burden of taxation any more
than they do now, while they would
enjoy the blessing of good roads. Be-
sides, employment would be given to
a large number of people and over
$4,000 be put in circulation in our
midst. 1t would certainly help all
classes of business. and a bonded in
debtedness of $3.50, 900 or even 5000, 900
for county like St. Francois could be
carried with great ease. Any other
process is slow and uncertain.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

THE Pennington Times is an advo-
cate of good roads, and suggests about
the only practicable way of getting
them:
If St. Francois county were to vote
TO bond itself for $500 for the pur-
pose of rocking and macadamizing the
principal county roads, the bonds could
easily be floated at 6 per cent or less.
which would amount to about 80, 900 q
year, less than we now spend on our
roads. The roads would help develop
the resources of our county and in
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

THE Harrington Neacs. along with
the other Republican papers, insists
that the Republican party cannot be
expected to repair .'in three months the
damage done by the Democracy in the
four years previous. And yet the
same papers make no bones OF holding
the Cleveland administration respon-
chile for the distressful panic of 1898
which followed four years of Republi-
can rule, and came down on US like q
wolf on the fold before the new admin
istration had time to do anything to
advance or retard it: before even a
corporal's guard of Republican Office
holders had been fired" When Har-
rison went into Office the treasury was
pired the treasury was bare as Mother
Hubbard's cupboard. When he took
charge times were fairly good, but
they began tightening in the second
yea OF his term, and in 1892 they had
grown SO miserably bad-the people
always holding the party in power re-
sponsible for business depression-that
the nation raised up on its tlp-toes and
hurled the Republican party, crop and
heels. out of power, by the most over
whelming adverse vote that ever re-
buked a discredited administration.
Then followed the Cleveland regime,
holding on to all that was bad in Re-
publican policy. and letting go all that
was good in Democratic doctrine. OF
course, hades popped: it was bound to
pop, undar such conditions. Congress
was called together-not to legislate
on Denocratictic lines, but to empha-
size and more firmly establish the
Republican financial line of legislation
that lad for twenty years been eating
out the life OF the people. The repeal
of the Sherman act-with John Sher-
man himself foremost in the advocacy
of the repeal of the law he had formu-
lated-was to ''restore confidence" and
promote prosperity in 1898. 1t didn't
do it, except to the mOney-changers
and the bond-buyers. The farmer,
the mechanic, the wage-earner, re-
ceived no relief through the panacea.
pic+
wobbled its destructive length along,
cursed by all except its bought-and-
essential, honest in nothing except it's
subserviency to the money-power, be-
traying nearly every trust reposed in
it by the people, it was sent to eternal
perdition by the party it had buncoed.
And yet the thick-and-thin echoers
like the Nea0S affect to hold the Demo
cratic party responsible for the actions
of such an administration. AS well
hold the Continental Congress RESPONSE
BILE for the treason of Benedict Arnold.
The election of Mckinley was to re-
store again the confidence that had
been restored in 1898. and again pros
perity was to follow closely in its wake.
As in 1898 the Cuckoo journals saw
Prosperity tanning her blessed wings
over the desolate industrial plain, so
now the Mark Hanna wOrshippers,
with eye-eight keener, and Imagination
more productive. than possessed by
the most persistent air-ship gazer,
proclaim and proclaim of good times
all about us-stuffing dd nduSeGm the
fallacies of their desire into the stom-
ach of our understanding. But never
mind, boys! Keep up the shouting,
and you may eventually convince
yourselves-if bread and meat hold
out-that Prosperity is bird whose
other name is Wind!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01
MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES.

The REGISTER has for sale
Marriage Certificate Books
so to the book-with stubs.
The law requires the person
solemnizing marriage to issue
a certificate and to keep a
record of the same. These
Books answer all the purpose.
60c per Book.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

How much quicker would prosper
ity have been restored to the country
had we adopted Bryan's brand of ICON
fidence" instead of McKInley's? This
is a question the Democrats don't like
to have propounded .-Potosi Journal.
What Democrats don't like to have this
question propounded? Certainly, the
answer to it is easy. II Bryan's brand
of confidence had been adopted last
November, Prosperity would have
been just four years "quicker."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

The management of the st. Louis
Post Dispatch was changed again last
Saturday, Mr.. Jones retiring and the
old Pulitzer crowd resuming control.
Under the new regime the paper is
about as satisfying to a Democrat as
would be lot of white pine shavings
to the appetite of a hungry horse.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

CORRECT returns from all of the
twenty-four counties in the First Su-
preme Judicial District of Illinois show
that the contest was very close one,
but that the Democrats won a sub
stantial victory. The plurality of
Carroll C. Bogg over his Republican
opponent, David j. Baker. reaches
238. 1t was a hard-fought and we'll
won battle for the Democrats.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

THE Rev. Geo. Steel is now ''referee
for the 14th district" in the matter of
post-offices and SIGH. His word ''goes"
with Mckinley. All, if he were in
vested with the same power in the
ministry as that given him in politics,
what a poor chance some OF US would
havei
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

without saying that that M. E. folks
never get left in anything they under
take to do, and one can always rest as
sured of being highly entertained.
w. j. Schwab, one of Ironton' wide
awake business men, was in town on
Friday last.
VIM. Steffens is a little indisposed
these days, probably from the intense
heat.
Little Sadie Milne, of Syenite. Mo,
is visiting with her auntie, Mrs. Han
nah at present.
Miss Viola Stone, who taught the
Catholic school here the past term,
has left for Arcadia for the summer.
A. G.. Smith who has been on the
sick list for the last few is on the i'm
prove.
Mrs. c. F. Hanson and children,
Mrs. j. D. Greason and Master John,
are visiting in Ironton at present.
June 30, 1897. NIKE.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

MARK TWAIN has informed the New
York Herald that he will not accept the
money that journal has been raising by
subscription in his behalf. Mark is an
American Prince, not an expatriated
Pauper.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01
SAYS the Pennington .NeaOs:

This time four years ago, there was
no question as to whether or not the
s.wave of prosperity" had struck the
country. The country was struck
s'right slap between the eyes"
Correct! Struck with the same gold
standard that still defers the ''wave of
prosperity" and keeps the land filled
with starving tramps.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

THE Ohio Republicans last week de-
Dounced Cleveland's extension of the
civil service law. They were silent
on the question year ago when the
same extension seemed to protect a lot
OF Republicans in their positions.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

WITH lumber selling this summer at
So thousand feet. against $11 last
year, no wonder Prosperity has not
come to the sawmilIers. But there
are dead coolies o: Confidence scattered
all through the land.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

SENATOR w. r. GooDYKooNTz last
week purchased the Touring mill in
Caledonia. Does this signify that the
Senator will in future devote himself
to grinding wheat, and let the politi-
cal mill grind for some one else?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01
CLOTHING DEPARTMENT.

Marvels for all the Close Buyers! Just
come in and take a look at our Goods and
Prices-it costs nothing. and we can Save
You Big Money.
Mems Pants at 75c pair.
Mems Suits at 1915 up. Our S., Sc,
S.. so, $3.50 and $40 line can't be matched.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

know nothin' bout it, dat desc facto-
ries are located east of Main and north
of Knob streets, and / am told employs
not mo- than II nor less than pigs to
prepare the material.
AUNT HEPPY.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

SILKs.-Wash Silks for Ladies
Waists and Dresses, worth so to 6Oc
a yard, go at SOC.
SHIRT WAIsTs.-New Styles re-
ceived this week.
Balance of Ely-Walker Waists re-
duced to 29c.
PARAsoLs.-Ladies' Colored Silk
Parasols, worth So, go at $1.15.
Ladies Silk Glory Parasols, worth
$3.50, go at CSC.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

GENTS FURNISHING GooDs.-50
doz. Percale Shirts, all kinds, and
the Latest Styles. Worth from 81
to $3.50. Go at 75c each.
HOSIERY. - Mems Good Heavy
Cotton Socks at SC pair; worth 10c.
Mems Socks at SC; worth 15c.
Remainder of Ely-Walker Over
alls, go at 25c pair. Worth from
75c to 81.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

SHOES SHINED-Will black mems
shoes for 20 cents week; tans, 40c a
week. Ladies tans, 10 cents. VIII
call at residence. Leave orders at 81
Vaughn's barber shop.
ROYAL GRANT.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

Shirt waists, fifty to sixty cents, at
Racket Store.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

Wanted-10, 900 lbs. OF wool. Ap-
ply at T. 5. Lopez g. Sons, Ironton.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01

Fans from one cent up at the Racket.
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The Prosperity that does not come:
the one that Confidence wooes.