Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-09

o, Ironton is very fair!
Her shaded streets are splendid!
Her sun and moon and germ-free air
Are exquisitely blended!
The mountains high on every side,
The brooks that wash her borders,
Conjoin to raise the native pride
OF all her ranks and orders.
Perched high above the distant sea,
In health and life and vigor,
She breathes the air from poison free
Nor knows malaria's rigor.
Yes, Ironton is very fair,
And still her fame's increasing
In honor to her beauty rare
And virtues without ceasing!
But yet 'twould make her beauty rarer
And raise her sev'ral notches,
If she'd wipe out the COW wayfarer
With her u%nfragrant blotches!
The Democratic judicial conven-
ton for this district met in this
city Tuesday afternoon at two
o'clock. Delegates were in atten-
dance from all of the counties in
the district. w. R Edgar of Iron
county acted as Chairman and w.
H. Lewis of Wayne county as
Secretary. Judge bearing was
placed in nomination by E. j.
Bean of Jefferson county, and the
nomination was seconded by R. l.
January of Reynolds. The roll
call was then suspended and Judge
bearing was declared the nominee
of the convention by reclamation.
The harmonious action of the
convention was a most fitting
tribute to a faithful, worthy and
competent official. There isn't a
man in all the land-no matter
what his position may be-in
whom the people have more con-
fidence than they have in Judge
bearing. And we'll he merits their
good will and esteem. May he
live long to enjoy the honors so
worthily bestowed.
1t took Ironton twenty-five years
to pass the Hog Ordinance, and
it's enactment was attended with
official fear and trembling; there
fore, l suppose, we should not be
eaten with surprise because the
approach to a Cow Ordinance is
attended with delay and misgiv-
ing. Yet the spirit grows i'm
patient as the years 60 by and still
the splotch adorns the sidewalk
and the tinkle of the bell enlivens
the night. At all hours is the
bovineous life of the town in evil
dence and perhaps familiarity
ought to sanction the custom.
Beside, "the poor mans cow" is a
pathetic plea and has it's weight
with him whose fence is tight,
whose gates are locked, or him
who has no garden to despoil.
Still, there are ''kickers," one OF
whom | confess to be which. l
don't e we'll of dark nights and
the splotch is not congenial to my
unwary footstep. The tinkle of
the bell is exasperating to my ear
when my sensibility is seeking
rest and recuperation in "tired
natures sweet restorer." I can't,
for the life of me, understand the
justice of my neighbours putting
upon me the care of his ravenous,
half-fed stock. I've tried mighty
hard to believe that it was right
for me to have to build and keep
up q ffty-dollar fence to keep out
a ten-dollar COW, but SO far have
failed utterly. Perhaps it is be-
cause I am c~lose-hsted and grasp
ing. 1t can't be my neighbours
fault, for he is so dead sure that l
am wrong and he is right, that
'twould be sin to question his
Judgment. l allude to my neigh
Dor who has a COW and don't want
to put himself to the trouble and
expense of caring for her. Other
neighbors whose. gardens and
lawns have been devastated and
disfgured and be-splotched say |
lam right. So there you are! 1t
is clearly a case wherein each
must determine for himself the
right and wrong of the matter.
To instance: Neighbor Malugen's
seven-year-old daughter, while on
a public highway, would have
been seriously injured and maybe
killed by aneighbor's vicious COW,
one day last week, had not a lady
who saw the child's peril come to
the little ones assistance. Natur-
ally, neighbor Malugen and all his
family do not fancy the cow-at-
large. Neighbor Cain, aroused
from his innocent slumbers by the
changing of many bells, to find
his front yard herding a half
dozen all-devouring quadrupeds.
CALCULATES forcibly as in night
attire he assists them over the
fence and on to the highway which
is theirs by right. When neigh
/ Dor Schwab awoke the Other
morning to find his gate enforced.
his yard full of cattle, and his
flowers and shrubbery in a con-
dition painful to his aesthetic eye
he wasn't oppressed with an over.
powering sense of the fitness o.
| things as determined by and laie
!, down in the ordinances of oul
) lovely city. I have another neigh
, Dor living far up the street who
supports his large family by the
strength of his arm expended al
day long in one of the factories
and at early morn and dewey eve
: before and after the hours which
embrace the time sold to his EN-.
; ployer-ekes out his subsistence
! by cultivating a few vegetables
: Not long since, N morning, as
J he stepped out upon the rear porch
; of his dwelling, behold! the sacred
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