Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-26

Quite a number of our people respond
ed to the alarm and a bucket brigade
was formed. By hard work the blaze
was put out after having done about
$500 damages. The fire is supposed
to have started in the basement, and
was caused from the furnace. This
has been the third fire for Bismarck
in less than two weeks. Carpenters
were at work the first part of the
week putting in a new floor and re-
paired the damages, and everything
is again in first class shape.-Bismarck
Gazette.
A petition was filed with County
Clerk Reyburn Monday asking the
County Court to establish a special
road district to be known as the
Glover Special Road District. The
proposed road runs from Glover, IL
miles south of Ironton, on the Iron
Mountain Railroad to the Reynolds
county line, thence to Centerville.
1t is about four miles from Glover to
the county line and fifteen miles from
there to Oenterville. Reynolds county
people, it is said, have already sub
scribed 81, 900 to help build the road.
This is the road Mr.. Fred 7. Hunt has
been working for and it is proposed
to bridge Black river at or near his
farm. A number of railroad officials
were at Glover Sunday in a private
car where they met by an appointment
of a number of people from Iron and
Reynolds counties who want a depot
established at Glover. The officials
told their petitioners that they would
put a car in at Glover to be used as a
station house, and, after a trial of
several months, if the business %justii-
ed it, the company would gladly put
up a building at Glover.
Ever since the close of the big
Burk- Hobbs meeting there has been
.dissension in the ranks of the South
ern Methodists in the valley. The
pastor, Rev. Vaughan, has abandoned
the church on Fort Hill, and has been
holding services in the tabernacle in
south Ironton, built for the revival
lists. This doesn't suit the Arcadia
members of the congregation and for
several weeks there has been con-
siderable discussion, pro and con, and
not a little feeling developed. Finally
the Arcadia adherents resorted to
"poetry" to relieve the tension and
sometime during Saturday the follow
ing effusions-one of them set to
music were literally scattered
throughout the valley:
YOU SHALL NOT MOVE FOR HILL URc
When Fort Hill Church was built,
But few are here who know;
Our dear old fathers did that job,
Some fifty years ago.
My mother kiss'd me there,
MY ldlucI uClu my ndlluS
While l have strength and mind to act,
You'll let that old church stand.
l went to Sunday School,
Before / had a shoe;
The thorns and thistles scratch'd my
feet;
Now move thai church dare you?
My sweetheart held my arm,
Wewent there ION the lark"
Before the pastor HStruckSa light"
squeezed her in the dark!
My parents now are dead,
We held their funer1s there;
While am able to resist,
You'n move that church no where!
BY ONE WHO MouRNs.
There was peace in our pleasant valley,
Our hearts were filled with loye,
And our lives were full OF blessings,
Sent to us from Him abovei
But now our hearts are saddened,
n our brain is full OF loot,
Nothing now seems to cheer US,
Since our pastor flew the coop.
And we've grown weary waiting,
Longing for him to come home,
For we know moss will not gather,
on a rolling, restless stone.
We are weary, weary waiting,
Hoping he will loop the loop,
For there is nothing here but sadness,
Since our pastor flew the coop.
And we've got the feast all ready,
And we've killed the fatted cali,
Everyone is ready waiting,
And we won't do things by half!
When the prodigal returns to US,
We will sing, our horns we'll toot,
And We'll whisper to him gently,
stay with us, don't fly the coop"
Early Tuesday morning Sheriff
Blue received word that the post Of
fee at Middlebrook and J. Baltisser's
store at Pilot Knob had been burglar
lied the night before. The message
from Middlebrook said that two
strange negroes had been seen in the
village Monday evening and the
snpposition vas they were the bur-
glars. The Sheriff concluded that the
jobs at Middlebrook and Pilot Knob
were done by the same parties. He
at once departed for Middlebrook and
dispatched Deputy George w. Mar
shall to Arcadia to ascertain if any
negroes had passed down the rail-
road. On arriving at the Arcadia sta
ton Mr.. Marshall learned that two
negroes had been there a short time
before and gone south. The official
started in pursuit. About a mile be-
low Arcadia, he saw a negro walking
the track about a hundred yards in
front of him. MI. Marshall left the
track, went through the woods, took
the negro unawares and, presenting
a gun, commanded him to surrender.
The negro offered no resistance an6
the officer started back to Ironton
with his prisoner. They had proceed
ed some distance, when the negro