Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-05-26

| Democrats will not forget the mass
meeting at the courthouse next Satur-
day. Delegates to the State. Congress
sional, Senatorial and judicial Con-
ventions are to be chosen. and the
Importance of the business in hand
ought to call out full attendance.
The people of this town were elated
for several hours Tuesday over the al
legged destruction of Cervera's fleet
near the Windward Islands. The fake
dispatches gave the number of Span
iards killed and captured, and were
deceivingly circumstantial in detail.
But no flags were raised or gunpowder
burned, experience having taught that
confirmation not always follows rumOr
in fact, in war, like politics, it gen.
orally doesn't, The news faker is a
great mana great man. but the Sinai
an code has no terrors for him.
Bro. Morley writes to Mr.. Perkins:
Il am well. Have had great meetings
in the last year. Many grateful spir-
its were cured in this town. They
come after the soul is right; then the
DOuA 4uSu IO4AOHS SOAIGkII4ES " u4CI
savors much after the manner of an
advertisement which we cannot admit
into these columns except at ten cents
a line. Sorry, but business is business.
Bro. w. tells Mr.. P. to '.let the printer
see this" Mr.. P. has done his whole
duty and the printer makes acknowi-
edgment. The top of the morning to
Bro. Morley.
The elements were at war last Satur-
day evening, and for few minutes it
seemed as if they would evolute into a
frst-class cyclone. The greenish tint
was on the whirlIng. twisting clouds,
the lightning flashed, and the thunder
roared on the horizon; but behold, a
big dash of rain came, and with ii the
embryo cataclasm collapsed like a
busted balloon. Gradually the blue ex-
tended on all sides until all was calm.
bright and serene. Everybody drew a
long breath of relief. with renewed
faith in the belief that cyclones and
ranges are not, as one might
say, persona gratg.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. John BIem-
OA- Il CA4 tCAAs -4Os. OI4 ANAc@ -plA4-
1898, at o'clock A. NJ, tJCO sons. The
REGISTER is happy to say that mother |
and babes are doing well, and hopes |
that nothing may come to mar the hap |
piness of the home the little ones COM |
ing has doubly blessed. John is the |
prOudest man in the county, as well as
the happiest, and ever since that Fri |
day morning has been continually /
humming The Babies in our Block. " |
He swears the twins shall be christen- |
ed Dewey and Sampson just so soon as |
the latter gentleman shall have cleaned |
up Cervera. But let this turn out as !
it will, may the gods be good to the
little strangers all their lives, and /
make them ever a blessing to the |
household as they are now its delight. |
The REGISTER last Tuesday received
4 very pleasant call from Mr.. ". A.
Stamey and his two daughters, Mrs.
P. L. O'Bannon of Idaho. and Miss
Margaret Stamey of Annapolis. Mrs.
O'Bannon is here on visit to old
friends, intending to return to her
nome in the Far West about a month
hence. She is enthusiastic over her
Jew home and thinks Old Missouri
would scarce be satisfactory to her now.
Mrs. O'Bannon says everybody out
here, women as well as men, are pos
'essed with the mining spirit, and all
are mineralogists. She left with US
several specimens OF gold-bearing
quartz and has promised to send 9TH
,rs, with the gold visible to the unac-
eye. The REGISTER hopes
The may have q pleasant time while
here. and a safe as we'll as speedy jour
ley to her destination when she takes
her departure.
Mr.. H. Davis is now taking the as
essment of the city. The REGISTER
hopes he will make it thorough, full
Ind jRst-that every citizen may be
made to bear his just burden of taxa
ion. Special inquiry ought to be
made in regard to securities, bank de-
)osits, etc., which too often 60 IN
cathed of taxes. There is no ques-
ion that thousands of dollars pleasing
Y apparent on the bank book or in the
are absent and unaccounted
or on the "list." The REGISTERS
of personal assessments last
January disclosed several sorrowful
Eases of poverty where moderate riches
had before been thought to have solid
being. Perhaps things may have
amended themselves since then, and it
: TO be fervently hoped that the next
will show marked bet
That Assessor Davis will do
lis whole duty with discernment and
Intelligence, We believe; but suggest
o him that the underscoring of certain
words in the oath might be not amiss.
Many people scan it hastily in the all
demanding hurry and rush of time and
rade, and It is possible some of the
sentences may escape the feeting eye
IF the signer. Make him digest the
ull meaning of his affidavit, and not
)ne man in twenty but within the
language of our friend across the way
10 see the baby;