Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-19

frost line early this morning.
! Mrs. Clara Hoffman, President G
the Missouri w. c. 7. o.. will leetur
in Arcadia Sunday night, Septenbe
9TH, Ironton, September 9th. All ar
invited. Admission. free.
Messrs. Gross & Tolleson began bust
ness last Monday morning in the ne5
store building south of the Arcadii
Valley Drug Store. They have
splendid line of groceries, staple ant
fancy, which they will keep always a
the top notch The St. Louis Dressed
Beef Department is a specially. anC
customers will be supplied with tht
best of meats at reasonable prices.
line line Of cigars is another speciality
and the most fastidious taste will be
satisfied with the fine brands kept il
stock. The store-Poom is neatly and
tastefully fitted up and filed full Of
the good things the housewife want:
when she goes a-marketing. The REG
ISTER wishes the firm the success it is
sure TO merit. For particulars see ad.
In about two weeks the Ironton pub
lie schools will reopen and the rising
generation be put in harness for the
succeeding eight months. Parents
will bear in mind that all the old
school books, except the Readers, have
been done away with, and govern
themselves accordingly. Many a
purse will be strained TO meet the
emergency, but this will beget prop
er reverence for the High and Mighty
Commission which holds in the hollow
of its hand the mental desting of
Young America. All good things come
high, and the divinity which doth
hedge not only the body of our public
school system, but all its ornamental
ton and excrescences. forbids unhal-
lowed criticism and penurious Objec-
ton. So, go up to the counter, gen.
tlemen, pay over your ducats, and
thank God that this is a country of
education" and liberty.
There are rumors that our neighbor-
ing town, Middlebrook, is torn with
the strife CT contending factions. just
now, we are told, many of the inhab-
itants are in the condition of warriors
peace troubles their minds. Vague
reports of knockings-down and dragg-
ings-out come to US from day to day,
until the air is lurid with the sheen of
sanguinary conflicts past, present, and
to come. Sanguinary, not from dead
~ weapon-from the silent stiletto or
the deadly .'gun''-but from contact
of doubled fist with devoted nose and
eye and lip. Not even a bung-starter,
u
The manly art is the arbiter of all dis
putes-and their name is legion, our
informant says. An old resident of
this county, now gone to his reward.
on a certain occasion many years ago,
in response to our inquiry of how mat
tiers were in his neighborhOOd, replied:
Bad! Times are so cussed hard that
our people can't afford to be friendly
toward each other" Perhaps, then,
when the full tide of this Mckinley
prosperity comes down upon the land,
things in our neighboring town will
amend themselves, and the spirit of
harmony descend upon the jarring
factions. PdL coliseum, one and all!
The editor of this paper acknowl-
edges with thanks an elegant serenade
rendered him-and received with great
pleasure-last Thursday night. The
serenaders were Profs. Piscatorius,
Dalhoff and Grossmanu. While we lay
dreaming OF the hour when the greasy
Greek would wipe the turbaned Turk
from of the face of the earth, Of the
time when the female biker would dis
card boomers and replace them with
graceful overwear, of the day when the
dreary Sunday paper would shrink to
normal size and its attenuated humor
give US long. long rest-as We lay
dreaming of these and other things
too numerous to mention, there stole
upon our outer senses the charm of
gentle titillating sound, sweetly draw
ing our wandering soul from the err
ratio realms of reasons counterfeit to
the solid ground of the things that
were. As consciousness fully return
ed, We lay embathed-(we think en-
bathed is good word)-in waves of
saccharinian sound from harps soft
atune and ne'er a string with harsh
ness jaugling! How long we lay thus
tits hard to say, for bliss is ever feet
ing, and the clock is downstairs; but
it passed, alas! too soon, and with re-
turning stilluess-pierced alone by the
watchdog's honest bark and the clang
of the ever present cow-bell - we
wooed again the drowsy god not uu-
successfully. Next morning, with the
delight of the incident of the night
fresh upon our memory, we vowed a
fitting tribute thereto-and here it is
The bed of Stout's Creek adjacent to
the bridge between Ironton and Area
dia is of wonderful formation. When
we first knew the creek at that crossing,
some forty years ago, the waters were
confined to chanel of perhaps fifty
! feet in width, and the stream flowed
deceutly and decorously between its
banks. Now the bed is fully one hun
dred and fifty feet wide, and the little
| stream that meanders its tortuOus and
ever-changing course over it, knows
not the same channel any two years
together. When the spring and fall
| freshets increase the volume of waters
| it is as encroaching upon the solid
/ land on either side as Is the average
Federal court upon the rights of the
States and their citizens. A stranger
| looking upon the vast expanse of sand,
gravel and rock which marks its errat-
| ic wanderings. is impressed with the
notion that here did a mighty river
/ flow before being knocked out by a
recent CONFUSION of nature which
oDepad a Subtarra mean cOrrSa for its