Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-15
Among Our Nelghbors.

! ham, one OF the best farmers IN LII
county, raised 1885 bushels of whea
this year; one field averaged 25I bush
els per acre. while another average
% bushels per acre. 1t is an excellen
grade of wheat and will likely weigf
out more as this,was the measure al
| the thresher. Mr. B. has a fine farm
and knows how to utilize it.
! This. from the Cape Democrat, is q
neat bit of ..damning with faint praise:'
The Kelso band furnished the music
for the picnic at Willer's Park yester
day. For a country band it makes
fairly good music"
Our brother of the Greenfield (Tenn.,
Times is Unto it." A couple of weeks
since he published an item concerning
a Quaker doctor, who, it was alleged,
had too many wives. The mother-in-
law, located at Union City. upon read
ing the item, sat herself down, took
her pen in hand, and indicted a very
warlike letter to the editer, demand
ing immediate retraction, lot of ex-
ira copies of the paper containing the
retraction, and a woole scud of circu-
lars. Says the irate lady: ''Our peo-
pie are perfectly enraged, and excite
ment runs high over it. My gentle
men friends offered to go to your town
to-day to see you, but asked them to
wait and give you a chance first to cor
rect it, but if you refuse to do so ace
will go and have things Strengthened
out" In rejoinder to this contingent
threat against life, limb and property,
the editor says:
In regard to the above letter we will
simply say: We said nothing in this
article except what has been talked on
our streets for the past two weeks by
a number of parties. Furthermore we
will say that the claims of justice will
go much further in inducing US to do
things than threats. We have been in
the newspaper business too long to
feel any uneasiness over a puff OF wind!
Further, We would state, briehy-as
space is too valuable for much OF so
trifling a matter-that circulars are
charged for at this Office at the rate of
81 per thousand, with good demand,
aud extra copies of the Times meet a
wonderful sale at 5 cents copy, still
where as many as 100 are taken by one
party we will make them 4 cents each.
Now, if the circulars are wanted we
would like to have ''copy" in time to
get out a neat, good job, as it is for
lone of the highest families in Union
City, who have friends by the score
and will not begin to stand anything
like this" We will also state that at
any time we will entertain with due
clemency any number of friends who
may call on US for retractiOns-we are
used to this kind of business and are
artists IN this line. Au revoir, 'nuff
said, good bye, farewell!
Greenville Sun: The effect of the
striking the residence of
Thos. Gross couple of weeks ago, is
quite singular. 1t struck and came
down the flue, completely destroying it
and greatly damaging the roof. When
reaching the ceiling it seems to have
spread around and all through the
as planks were drawn off in
several places and the house jostled out
of its position"
The Greenville journal tells of a |
loo-loo and up-to-dater: Charley
Cramps, a stranger, came into town
the other day and secured employment
as a carpenter on the house which is
being erected on the lot south of the
court house by Hon. j. H. Raney. At !
ter working about a week he succeed |
ed in borrowing about $25 from sever
al of the boys around here, telling |
them that his chest of of tools which |
had just come and was at the depot |
would stand good for the amount bor-
rowed. He left Monday morning at 4 |
o'clock after having borrowed all the
he could and bought some cloth
ing or credit. The worst part of the
whole affair is that Prosecuting Attor-
ney Hines was beaten out of his
dog. Before leaving Cramps coaxed |
the dog down to the hotel at which he
was boarding and gave it to the land
lady in payment of his board bill"
The Perryville Republicans disquisi-
lion on the subscriber Is readable |
enough to copy in full: lit is a very
difficult matter to please all of our SUBJ
scribers all the time about their sub
scriptions. We can please the most of
Them all the time but some of them
never. If we good naturedly allow
heir subscription to run unpaid for
three or four years We hear nothing
from them, but just drop them a state
meut of their account and nine cases
put of ten we get this answer: stop
my paper" and that is about all we
ever do get from them. On the other
hand if We stop they would lose no
lime calling upon US and demanding
The reason why and want to know If
we thought they would not pay for it.
Yes, some of them do when they get
-eadv. Some saw that thew only mr.