Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-05-23

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came into this office and -+stopped'
his paper We have frequently met
him on the streets since that time and
IL Is very amusing 10 Us to note the
look OF surprise on the old fellows
face that we are still in existence
regardless of the fact that he ..stop-
ped" his paper. Some day, II won't
be long, either, the poor old fellow
viii urn Up his toes Neighbors and
friends viii follow his lifeless clay out
to the cemetery and lay him to rest
among the flowers An obituary viii
appear In these columns, telling what q
kind father, good neighbor and benevo-
lent citizen he was-whieh lie the re-
cording angel viii kindly overlook for
charity's sake-and in q short time
thereafter he will be forgotten. As
he lies ont there in the cold graveyard,
wrapped IN the silent slumber Of death.
he will never know that the last kind
words spoken Of him we're those Of the
editor of the paper which IN life he
stopped ."-EE.
Our young friend, Henry s. Caul-
field of St. Louis, accompanied the St
Louis business men on their recent
trip through Texas Mr.. Caulfeld re-
sponded to the address Of welcome at
Stephenville- Here is what the local
paper says in reference thereto: Mr..
Caulfeld, attorney for the Lincoln
Trust Company, was then called for.
and be being rather corpulent, found
some difficulty in getting to the top OF
the trunk. But in the course OF a min
ute or so he succeeded in getting up,
and his speech belied the charge that
he had thus killed time because he
couldn't think Of anything to say. If
he could concoct so good a speech in
the two or three minutes he was trying
to climb to the top Of that trunk and
feeling timidly to ascertain If his trous-
ers were in as good condition as before
he began the ascent, then We should
like to hear him when he had spent q
few hours in preparation, for We feel
sure We could put him up against ID.
B. Hill or jim Hogg, and we hereby
extend him 81 invitation to address
our freman's pinto next Fourth of July
with the six weeks Intervening to get
ready"
A remarkable communication is that
from Messrs. r. L. Carly, Ira A. Mar
shall and P. W. Whitworth, printed in
this issue. It is remarkable in several
ways: remarkable in its bald asser-
tons that are not facts; remarkable IN
its assumptions; remarkable in its IN
p~recedented and unapproachable gall;
and most remarkable of all for the
reasons it does not give Its salient
points are these: l. That the REGIS
TER had no right to poke its nose into
the affairs of the public school. To
this we may reply that for a good many
wears we have contributed yearly be-
tween twenty and thirty dollars toward
its support, which gives rs perhaps as
much personal interest in its welfare as
| has either of the three indignant direc-
tors. financially speaking We sor-
rowfully admit that We have no child
rem to place in the principals room;
how MANY have the aforesaid directorsF
But this is the first ume-vagarlous
| and self-consequential as school dlrec-
tors sometimes are-that we have ever
heard any of them publicly proclaim
to the men who put them in place
this Is none of your business; you
have no right to interfere or critlcl5e
our official actionsni You may say the
editor is only one person, but we tell
| Won again that be IN this instances
| speaks for an overwhelming majority
| of the patrons of the school-nlne-
| teuths of them, he verify believes
9. That if in saying to Mr.. Haw-
kns. s.ifvou were made a cats-paw Il
was none of our doing" ETC., We meant
either of the three directors voting toi
him, they wish to .'brand II as a COW
ardly. un~warranted and infamous LIE.
Very well; that's your assertion
| Messrs. Directors. Let it go at that
and let the shoe fit where 1t will. But
there is Just one query We desire to pu
to You. even though again lntrudlnE
where We have no concern: Did eIthei
one of you three Directors SOLICIT Mr.
HaaDkins TO put IN has a~ppItcGtson2 L
so. what was the moving cause? Iht
good of the school? You will have
some difficulty in making people De
lieve It.
3. That the editor of the REGIsTEI
went .sto the man who promised Il
break the deadlock and begged hin
For Gods sake to continue the dead
lock for at least one more meeting.
II by this it is meant hat We hunte'
up W. 7. Gay or went to him OF on
own accord, it is "a cowardly unwar
rauted and infamous LE"-to return
10 the Directors their own v1gorou
language. We have spoken 10 Mr.
Cav lust three times about this ques
ton, and each time at his solicitation
once on the sidewalk near the club
room: once in this Office; and the thir,
time he called 10 US from his lumbe
ward as We were passing down tn
street. He began the conversatlo
and said in substance that the boar
was still in a muddle and he o1dn
know what he could do The edito
said, Don't you think that in support
ing Mr.. Wilkinson you have the peopl
, at your back?" He said, Yes, l bt
: heve they are" To which the edito
t responded, Then / would stand pa
If after a few ballots there was no ri
: suit. / would walk out with the othe
two and let the meeting stand az
journed TO the regular meeting IN june
r / wouldn't worry; l would let the OF
er fellows do the worrying" Perhaps
even after being asked, 1t was lmpe'
tinent in the writer to so express hin