Iron County register., 1899-08-10

way Rev. Britain interested himself
in the premises and had the two men
carried to the homes of some eolored
! people An examination by physi-
| clans revealed that Cald wells Injuries
were quite serious. Wilson, however,
was not so badly hurt. and was sent to
his home in Little Rock the following
night Caldwell is being cared for
here.
Not often, but occasionally. some one
takes offense at something or other
that appears in these columns and or
ders his or her paper discontinued.
| They fully expect publication TO stop
| right there, but as week after week
rolls by, and the paper comes out just
| the same, the person so deeply offend
| ed realizes that one subscriber does
not make a circulation list no more
than one swallow makes a summeri
And the strangest part of il all is this:
| when the paper is discontinued. under
the circumstances here stated, it is
done because the party is offended at
the editor, and he or she. as the case
may be, wants absolutely nothing to
90 with him or his paper. But few
weeks pass, however, until we hear of
the offended party borrowing the REG
ISTER from neighbor. which is kept
up with a regularity second only to the
weekly appearance of the paper itself.
We know of two or three parties in
Ironton who have followed this prac-
tice for years. and there are some,
doubtless, We know nothing about. OF
course, it is an experience common to
all newspaper men, but il reveals
singular and inconsistent phase of GER
tain human natures. Why we know of
one party who got offended sew
eral years ago who not infrequently
sends to the post-office for neighbor's
REGIsTER-a compliment to the editor
and the paper. as grateful as unin-
tended
a couple of weeks since the follow
ing lines were printed in these col
umDs:
The Ironton boys have been trying
to arrange for a game of ball with the
Pennington nine, but the latter seem
to hesitate about coming to the
scratch" Doubtless the memories of
seasons gone by make them fearful as
to the result"
The foregoing was reprinted in the
last issue of the Pennington Herald
supplemented as follows:.
Those awful .Ironton boysr Been
trying to arrange a gamer Yes, they
arranged a game with the Pennington
team last Sunday afternoon, but it was
the IrOnton. boys who failed to ..come
to the scratch" Possibly the contem-
plation of the future deferred them.
We were sorry the Irontons' nerve |
failed them for We had anticipated an
Interesting game; Petty at first intend !
ed to shut the Ironton boys out, but it |
was decided that it would not be right |
to discourage them in that way but |
better let them think they were play |
ing Us ball-you know just out of |
to visitors But when 1.-The |
boys" from Ironton saw the .sline up" |
their hearts fiuttered and they decided |
to retreat 1t was best Suppose |
they would rather back out any time |
than TO be shut out. We know it |
looked discouraging to them.
FARMINGTON BASE BALL TEAM"
A remarkable communication, in
deed! but one that hardly discloses /
the true state oil affairs. 1t is true /
that after negotiating for some time a
game OF ball was arranged TO take /
place between the two clubs Sunday, |
July 30. On that day the Valley team |
went to Pennington to play the game, |
but on arriving there found that the |
lrrh
towns a number of players whom they |
wanted to s'ring in" as members of the |
Pennington club for the day and occa- |
sion; in fact, it is said that not half the |
nine that Pennington wanted to put in |
the field that day were bona ffde resi- |
dents of Pennington. The Valley |
boys were perfectly willing to play |
Pennington team. but they were not |
willing to play team picked up from |
all over the country; the Pennington |
club refused TO discard their imported |
players and the Valley boys very |
properly refused to go into the game. |
But do not let the Pennington club |
cherish the idea that the Valley boys |
are afraid to meet them; they are will |
ing and eager to cross bats with the
FdTDlln9t0n clu0 at ''any old time
and most .'auy old place" and in evil
dence of their sincerity publish the fol-
lowing challenge:
ITO the Farningto's Base Ball Team:
We, the Arcadia Valley Base Ball
Team, challenge the Pennington Base |
Ball Team to a match game of ball to |
be played st Bismarck, Sunday, Au- |
gust goth, 1899. for $25.00 a side. |
Both mines to be composed strictly of
home players.
a. V. BASE BALL TEAM"
Now let Pennington put up or shut |
up!