Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-02-07

ne was Insane A warrant was issued
and Sumpter was placed in Jail. Tues
day his trial was had before the county
court, and the jury, after a very short
consultation, returned a verdict to the
effect that he was not a fit subject for
the lunatic asylum. While the young
man is not full witted, he is not vicious
Melancholia seems to be his chief
trouble, and it is thought with proper
care he will recover from that.
Back up your wagons, farmer friends,
and Dad in your two dollar salt and
three dollar nails aud then oar about
the blamed trusts. But the moment
you get so ahead send in an order to
Shaken & Deem or some other mail
order house and help support one of
the biggest trusts in the country.
They pay zone of your school or road
taxes. do not build up your town aud
enhance the value of your property
and thus can sell a little cheaper. But
as soou as they can kill out the small
towns, they have you right where the
salt trust has you now, and then you
will have to dance to salt music prices.
Every dollar sen to a mail order house
is a dollar put into a trust to aid in
freezing put the small concerns aud
putting an end to competition. You
have a right to do as you please with
your money, but if.you assist in build
ing up trusts, for the sake of consisten-
cy, don't kick at trust prices.-Er.
The Centreville Reformer believes
that the postal department has reached
ne plus ultra of efficiency. 1t has so be-
lieved for a long time; but the editor
of that paper q few days ago was o
than ever impressed with hat belief
when the post master of Centreville
approached him with an official inquiry
made from the postal department of
Cleveland, Ohio, tracing up a private
letter written and mailed by a private
citizen of Cleveland aud addressed to
the editor. requesting him to make an
abstract to a piece OF land, render a
legal opinion on the title. go out fifteen
miles and ride over the land, make an
estimate of the timber, a plat showing
the general lay and location, and make
a full report, but failing to even en-
close q stamp for a reply. The postal
department instructed our post master
to visit the editor and learn If the
letter had been received, and if so,
why it had not been answered. Very
reluctantly our editor informed the
government post ofhce Official that the
letter had been received, but his clerk
who attends to all this free business
was laid up with rheumatism, caused
from exposure and o~verexertiOn run
ming over those Ozark hills during
| the winter, but so soon as he got able
| the favor would be attended to-"
It having been currently reported
that Rev. Ben Deering was assisting
Mrs. Nation in her law-breakiug as
saults on saloons, and endorsing her
insane methods, it is but just to give
| place to the following card, dated
ToLeka. January 80: The report of
my connection with the public meet
ing addressed by Mrs. Nation. and the
information about her which l gave
the Globe-Democrat. leaves the i'm
preston that I endorse her methods
| and believe in her imaginary mission.
| made the statement in connection
| With that report that / believed Mrs.
| Nation to be laboring under an hallu-
| cinatiou in that she has taken up the
| belief that God has called her to the
work she is doing. l regard that be-
| lief as a mere hallucination, danger
GUS to her and dangerous to the Il
| which she has espoused. ! said that
| her friends ought to control her, if
| possible, and that If they do not she is
| likely to receive great bodily harm,
and NAV be killed. l would not be
understood by my friends in Missouri
as approving or aiding in the work OF
Mrs. Nation. While great good may
come of it, it is the work of q good
woman laboripg under a Authorization,
and not under divine guidance. The
hereditary tendency of her ancestry on
her mothers side is sufficient to war
rant such a, conclusion. aside from
other very apparent Indications"
, The Willing Workers of the Presby-
terrain Church gave a Button Party at
Mrs. a. F. Bonds last Tuesday even
ing. About thirty couples attended,
and a very pleasant evening resulted.
The rooms were elegantly decorated.
we'll warmed and lighted, and what
with music, charades, shadow pictures
and b~uttou-sewing, the midnight hour
came before anyone was aware of the
approach of another day in the New
Century. About ten o'clock al ele-
giant lunch was served by the fair hos
tess and her no less fair assistants, to
which everybody did ample justice.
The guests were seated at table by re-
laws and according to the number OF
the button given the guest, which num-
Der was regulated by the numerical
order in which he had pulled the door
bell on his arrival. OF course no con-
fusion could result from so w~ell-ordered
a precedence, were not all things hu'
man imperfect and subject to un'
looked-for mutations. In this instance
only one slight jar impeded the smooth
working of the machinery. The but
tons we're all right and the number;
all right, too. but an inverted 8 make;
a good 8, and rice rersG. Hence a live
ly altercatian between the Rev. Mar
shall and Mr.. Collins; but as the for
mer gentleman held the .'age" by be
ing first seated, the latter succumbec
to circumstance and did not take fna
appeal to determine whether certain
J de fdcto should give way to probable
de lure. The button-sewiug contes
! was lively. Miss Mary Myers secures