Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-05-16
st. Louis Letter.
EDITED BY J.. w. JAQUITH & CO.

Our city is infested with bugs which
dentists tell us belong to the bed bug
Our official indites as follows
BUGs-BY MIKE ROBE.
Now is the high tide of the year,
OF which the poets sing
When all is beautiful and bright,
And birds are on the wing.
The colored man with lusty stroke
Beats out the dusty rugs;
And in the Spring with other things
Comes bugs, BUGS BUGS.
Gold bugs roam throughout the East,
The silver bug in the West.
The festive flea he hath a feast
Beneath the farmers vest.
The chinch bug eats his golden grain
When it has scarcely grown;
The hum bug lends a helping hand
And does him, way from home.
The kissing bug has had his day,
The lightning bug his night.
The hopper sings his roundelay
When Summers warm and bright.
But of all the bugs that bump or buzz,
What ever kind or make,
The gentle little bed bug does
Most surely take the cake.
And now these new fandangle bugs,
That fit around the fame,
That have the most appalling mugs,
Unpronounceable in name.
Now in these bugs so strange and strong,
The scientists do see,
That with the bed bug they belong
To the same family.
Sabian odors do assail
Dur nostrils in each breeze;
Strange perfumes that do e'er regale
Our olfactories.
Yet we may bear them while they last,
With all their smell and stings;
But at this thought we stand aghast-
A bed bug with wingsl
Suppose now we should take our rest
AS we're accustomed to,
After the sun sinks in the West
And daily labor's through;
But to find rude awakening
From peace restoring sleep,
And see n of these wing'd things
Departing with our sheet.
Just to think of all the ills
That do already plague you:
"Cuban Itch" and grip and chills,
Likewise fever and ague.
And now these things with smell and
stings,
And name no tongue can utter,
Are they in fact bed bugs with wings?
The thought does make US shudder.
Our good friend and genial host,
ony Roehry, frightened u Club
oms with his presence last Tuesday,
ID brought US all the latest doing in
'utheast Missouri. We think that
r. Roehry enjoyed his visit and we
that the Club as a whole was
to have him with them. You
always welcome, Tony, and we will
anage to crack a small bottle when
er you come up.
Rev. Arthur Britain, of De Soto,
IS promised to visit our headquarters
the near future. MIR. Brittian says
at our Worlds Fair work has his
tarty endorsement.
Will j. Bel, Cashier of the Fourth
ational Bauk of Granite City, ILL.,,
ID Frank Parent, one of the leading
ockholders of the Donovan Real Es-
te Company, have bought a hundred
re tract of land three miles north Of
above city, which they will culti-
tie after the famous Pingree system,
ade famous by the governor of that
They will also introduce their
Iique system of landscape gardening
1ich they practiced so extensively
st Spring.
Our President has moved his head
arters to the spacious suite of rooms
303 Imperial Building, connecting
ose occupied by the JesUish Voice,
here ne will be assisted in his clerical
,rk by the well known journalist, f.
i. Pulliam. who writes exclusively for
3 st. Louis Star, and the Iron Couu-
Club. under the non-de-plume of
elk Havsum Ginfzz.