Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-01-25

prentice in the bank. They gave
up the banking business and sub
sequently Rucker published a
pamphlet in which he is alleged to
have attacked their banking meth
DDS and integrity. 1t is also al
legged he made afidavits in con-
nection with land entries in Ark
ansas which caused them to be
tried by the Federal Government
last April. They were acquitted.
st. Louis Globe Democr at.
| take the following from a re-
cent issue of a Murphysboro,
(Ills.) paper. The bride j. the
daughter of the late John H.
Delano, for many years a resident
of the Valley: "Miss Carrie Della
no, teacher at the West Side
school and one of the foremost ell
ocutionists of southern Illinois,
became the bride of no less prom
Using a young gentleman than Mr..
Oliver 7. Johnson of st. Louis at
the brides home on South Four
teenth street Wednesday at 4:30
P. M. In the contamination of
this marriage, Murphysboro is to
lose another of her accomplished
daughters, for Mr.. and Mrs. john
son are to make their home in st.
Louis, where he practices law.
The bride is the daughter of Mrs.
Matte Delano, and sister of
Lieutenant Harvey Delano of the
U. S. navy"
Some people seem disinclined to
patronize the home merchant ex-
cept when they can't help it. They
will ask a grocer to deliver a yeast
cake to their back door. But
when it comes to ordering a
winters susply of canned goods,
they write to some distant depart
ment store. 1t should be needless
to say, that if everyone did thus,
we should have stores to rent,
fewer opportunities for people to
earn a living at home. On the
contrary, if we all bought every
thing possible at home, our stores
could keep even better stocks. 1t
is a great convenience to be
able to make selections from a
good line of goods at home. This
becomes possible where everyone
Loyalty supports the home mer-
chants. Under such circumstances
existing stores could do a larger
business, employ more people,
and new concerns would start,
Every person owning real estate
or a business here would Q il
grow more valuable. Even the
man with nothing would gain.
There would be more property to
tax, hence more public improve
ments. With more money in cir
culation our fraternal societies
churches and clubs could serve
the community more efficiently.
The REGISTER is not "knocking'
Arcadia on the hotel question; or
the contrary, it wishes our neigh
bors across the creek godspeed ir
their endeavor to replace the
structure lately destroyed. May
the new exceed the old as the
mountain towers above the mole
hill. But, Notwithstanding anC
nevertheless, l insist that the idea
location for the contemplated
structure is the Emerson Park. I
is central to the Valley; tht
grounds are spacious and mag
nifcently shaded; the Gran
Spring has a fine, never-failinf
flow of as sweet and pure water al
ever delighted the thirsty palate c
man or woman; the Smith Hotel
adjoining on the north, and tn
new Kanouse hostelry just acros
the way on the east, would max
such adjuncts to the central sShote
as to insure accommodation to al
who might come. During tn
summers just past, when cit,
folk we're urged to come down t.
this God favored Valley, too ofteI
their reply was: "We would wer
it not for your lack of comfertabl
hotel accommodations" Tha
was a setback no natural ad
vantages of the Valley as a sum
mer resort could overcome. LIE
us abate the objection, and builc
not for Arcadia or Ironton, but fc
! the Arcadia Valley.