Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-09-13
Letter From Texas.

fENlEL, Len, Oept. 5, v
Ed. Register:-I send you a few
items tor publication. We are
having very hot weather. We are
about $50 miles southwest OF Iron
ton. | was born and reared in
Iron county, and will never forget
the place. This place is in a cot
ton belt, cotton being the principal
crop, and the picking season is
now on. The cotton seems to be
fairly good around here, but re-
ports are coming in that the bole
weavil is destroying the crops in
places. Wheat makes about
twenty bushels per acre here, and
they usually raise enough for
home consumption. Corn makes
from thirty to seventy-five bushels
per acre; potatoes and garden
truck do we'll here when it is not
too dry, but it takes dry weather
for cotton. Alfalfa does we'll here,
some years cutting four and five
crops. This is a good farming
country, no hills and rocks here.
Greenville is the county seat of
Hunt county, and the county polls
about 10000 votes. Greenyille is
a railroad center, about four roads
coming through it's limits: The
M. K. Il t., Cotton Belt, Midland,
and Frisco. Greenville is a fine
business town of eight or ten thou
sand inhabitants. I have seen the
streets so full of teams that you
could not pass through certain
places.
We are in q new town of 500 in
habitants, two miles northwest of
Greenville. This town is seven
years old; that is, it has been
seven years since the old COW pas
ture was laid off into town lots.
We have d fine college here-the
Texas Holiness University. This
school is governed by a faculty,
which is chosen by a board of
trustees, said board being COM
posed of saved and sanctitied men,
who belong to the Texas Holiness
Association; no man owning a
dollar in the school. The school
is dedicated to the Lord and is run
in harmony with His spirit. Great
car is taken of all pupils entrusted
to the care of this school, and per-
sons seeking a place to educate
their children will find a safe and
reliable place at the Texas Holt
ness University. No whiskey sold
in the county and no tobacco sold
in the town of Pencil, where the
school is.
We have been here since the 9Th
of December last, and | have heard
no quarreling or profanity. But
very little tobacco is used here
sometimes you will see some
transient men using tobacco, but
most of them will put it up when
they find where they are. I have
not seen a drop of whiskey during
the nine months we have been
here.
Students come here to school
from almost every State in the
Union, and some rough ones, but
they generally quit their bad
habits soon after arrival here. We
have had over 1900 conversions
here since the school began. This
is a poor atmosphere for sinners
they can't stand in the congrega-
ton of the righteous, so they just
tumble in and get saved, and
sometimes sanctitied. But I am
afraid the word sanctify is too
consecrated a term for most news
paper men; pardon me for using
the word, and don't throw this in
the waste basket because of it,
Two Of my letters, along in the
winter, were thrown in the waste
basket. | subscribed for the Sun
at its birth; always took it, and
paid for it during the time l took
it; was ever extra friendly te
both the editors, and kept the
latter one over night when he
came around and wanted to stop
with me. But when he refused
to let religious literature from my
pen go into his paper, | said that
kind of a ''sun'' should not shine
in Texas, so l cut it out as a paper
not worthy to come under the roof
of any religious home. | stood by
the Sun because its former editors
stood for local option and the
right, and that, too, when it was
not popular. When a man will
stand for the right, because it is
right, the people should stand by
him. But if they stand by it for
popularity's sake only, and are
tender-footed, it may be a good
idea to watch them; for when they
think they can't use you any more
they will turn you down.
We own $4,000 worth of property
here; have a nice home, a store
and q thriving business. Expect
to run three clerks during this
school term. | have two clerks
now and we are crowded to keep