Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-10
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The Ozarks have not forced all the
clouds up to condensing point and
taken all the moisture out of them,
for we have had several heavy rains
of late. In fact June has been, go far,
wetter month than for many years
before, in this section. The hurri-
canes and deluge that damaged Peoria
and Joliet could be seen, and we got a
good shower out of it's hanking clouds;
but since then another hurricane passed
still closer and we got more rain, but
suffered no great damage. Lightning
killed some stock, and upon rolling
land a good deal Of washing was done,
but not enough to complain of when
compared with the storm tracts north
of us.
The season is remarkable in its
promise of large crops of cereals.
Corn is a good stand and was never in
finer condition at this time of the year,
nor was the average ever larger. OF
wheat there is moderate acreage but
splendid crop, and it is now being
harvested. 1t is ripening slowly and
is not likely to die suddenly, as it has
so often done, before it could be cut,
so the grain will be plump and heavy.
There is good acreage of rye, and
surprising to the oldest farmer, it is
ripening after wheat, hence it, also,
will be heavy grained. Oats are too
heavy, and on strong land has fallen a
good deal. Potatoes are remarkably
fine and few bugs were seen; so the
enemies of the potatoe bug must have
multiplied almost TO the extinction OF
this pest.
If misery loves company, however,
you can condole with US on the scarcity
of fruits. Peaches there are none,
and few knotty specimens will cover
the apple crop. Even strawberries,
though very large and luscious, where
we'll cared for, were less than half an
average crop.
At our Democratic State Convention,
which met last week in Springfield, a
couple Of party bosses from "Skunk-
ville"-Chicago-washed some of their
dirty linen in public and thoroughly
disgusted some of our leading Demo
Gratis. Much in the platform meets
the approval of our thinking men, but
a "machine" man is thought to be at
the head of the State committee, and
there is spirit of restiveness among
the voters because the leaders do not
take more radical and aggressive
ground and so force the "other fellers''
on the defensive. A party that can
not take the offensive can only play
second fiddle at best.
Some time in July your writer ex-
poets to pass through Bismarck on his
way to Shreveport, La, looking for a
situation where bees can gather honey
every year. Here drouth killed the
white clover last year, and now the
drones are driven out as fast as they
hatch. A good honey location means
a good fruit section, for bees we're
made to fertilize bloom rather than to
gather honey.
Dull and raining as we close this,
with weeds growing and corn getting
too big to plow.
just think Of it! appendicitis, or
penphlitis, or some other tits! And
Mr.. Victim cannot be coronated! kings
and queens are only "folks" after all
Wonder when our American voters
will be as democratic as the members
OF the city council OF johannesburg,
South Africa. They have taken taxes
off the products Of labor and turned
land rent into revenue. Get hump
on, Mr.. Voter! Show a little more
gumption and grit than Mexican poems