Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-14

anniversary OF the battle OF Pilot
Knob on September 9th promises
to attract the largest crowd of Wis
itors that the Valley has known in
years. The st. Louis people who
have charge of the affair say that
they have assurance of visitors
from the Pacific Coast, Atlantic
seaboard and almost every state
in the union.
Rev. w. S. Acomb, who has
been pastor of the Presbyterian
church for the past year and a half,
surprised his congregation Sunday
morning by announcing that he
would leave here September list.
Mr.. Acomb has made many friends
here who regret to see him leave,
and wish him and his family hap
piness and. success wherever they
may cast their lot.
Rev. Martin B. Bird, of st. Louis,
will deliver his lecture on Pales-
tine, in the Presbyterian church,
on Monday evening, July 18th.
This will be something out of the
ordinary, for the stereopticon used
on this occasion is the very finest.
The negatives from which these
slides made, used on this oc-
casion, were secured at a cost of
S145,000. There will be free-will
Offering taken to pay the expenses.
Rev. J. G. Bergman, who is
staying temporarily at the. Farm
ington S%anitarium, baptized two
Of his great-grand-children last
Saturday. The children were Dor
othy and Jerome Charles Berry
man, whose parents, j. w. Berry
man and wife, of Ashland, Kansas,
have been visiting here the past
week. "Father' Bergman is now
in his ninety-fifth year and still
takes great interestin any religious
work in which he is privileged to
engage. He finds special joy in
the Sunday afternoon services at
the Sanitarium in which he often
takes part.-Farmington Progress.
Among the visitors to the Valley
the past week was Mr.. Phillips of
Buenos Ayres, Argentine, who
spent several days here as the
guest of H. Davis and family.
Mr.. Phillips is a most interesting
young man and talks very enter
tainingly of his home in the far,
far south. He tells us that Bueno
Ayres is a city of one million in
habitants and is said to be the
cleanest city in the world. They
enjoy all the modern convenience
es and luxuries down there and are
up-to-date in every respect. Mr..
Philips has been in this country
about three years and will return
to South America this fall. We
certainly enjoyed his visit to our
office very much.
An exchange says: Yes, we
make mistakes in our columns, a
whole lot of them in the run of a
year. We have no monopoly on
this business, however. The whole
of humanity is full of mistakes.
The preacher, the lawyer, the pub
lie speaker never appears before
an audience but what he makes
mistakes in grammar or rhetoric,
ana if a large per cent of them had
to write their public utterancos on
a blackboard, we fear they might
do violence to correct spelling.
Merchants make mistakes, book
keepers, doctors, farmers and ev-
cry phase of humanity. We write
ours on a blackboard each week
and hold it up to the public gaze,
while they do not. And then we
have two printers to help us out in
our mistakes, even if we try to be
correct. If we published the mis-
takes of every man in this town we
would have to take the airship
route to leave town.
This section was visited by IN
unusually heavy wind storm a few
minutes before seven o'clock Mon
day evening. The day had been
exceedingly warm, with occa-
sional showers. In the evening the
clouds in the north assumed a
most threatening aspect and gave
promise of the storm that followed.
The wind was accompanied by a
most terrific down-pour of rain.
The storm was of short duration,
but it was fierce while it lasted.
All over the Valley trees were torn
from the ground and considerable
damage to property is reported.
A portion of the roof was blown
off the Arcadia College building,
and quite a force of men were at
work the following day repairing
the damage. The storm seems to
have been general throughout the
country, and, as is always the case,
was much more severe other places
than it was here in the hills. On
Marble Creek, south of town, quite
a hail storm a ccompanied the
wind.
At a meeting of the Southeast
Missouri Bankers Association,
held recently in st. Louis, Judge
Byrd Duncan, of Poplar Bluff, re-
ported for Group Twelve as fol-
lows: "Group Twelve is as big as
all out of doors; it contains more
square miles of good land than
any group in the State. 1t is COM
posed of the counties of Shan
non, Reynolds, Washington, JET
ferson, Iron, st. Francis, ste.
Genevieve, Perry, Madison, Boil
linger, Cape Girardeau, Wayne,
Carter, Ripley, Butler, Stoddard,
Scott, Dunklin, New Madrid, Mis-
sissippi, Pemiscot, and joins
Arkansas. Twenty-Five counties,