Iron County register., 1921-07-14
The Home for Aged Baptists.
(word and way,

On tne seventh instant, a speclal
meeting of the Board of Directors of
the Missouri Home for Aged Bap-
lists was held in the Home at Ironton.
The purpose OF the meeting was to
formulate some plan to go forward
with the new building without cessa-
ton. This writer's. M. B. is mem
ber of the Board, but had not seen the
new property which was purchased
for the Home more than year ago.
To say we were surprised at what we
found would be putting the matter
tamely.
Some years ago well-to-do man
went down from st. Louis, purchased
and improved farm of 175 acres in
this beautiful valley among the noun
tains, intending the place to be re-
sort of comfort, interest and rest dur
ing the summer season. He told his
friends that he kept account until he
had spent more than $50, 900 and then
he shut his eyes and went on. Nature
had furnished this man with found
alton for his enterprize of comfort,
convenience and aesthetic grandeur
and beauty which human effort could
not produce. So he took advantage
of the situation. One would guess
that at present costs what this man
did here would require an expendi-
ture of from $4,000 to 800, 900 in
money. His work there remains prac-
tically unimpaired. A beautiful COM
modious residence, with every mod
ern convenience, having heating by
steam or hot water-baths and lava
tories, several elegant hard fin
ish, eight or ten great rooms with
every possible appointment for con-
venience land comfort, q spacious
porch surrounding two sides of the
building, a perfect cement foundation
and 30 on. Added to this is a fine
barn with its concrete floor for the
entire building, all supplied with wa
ter, hog house, chicken house, a
great tenant house, a great outdoor
cellar or cement cave in the side OF
the hill, and fine spring which is en-
closed in a house with cement floor
and cement basin for the spring and
in which is installed a fine engine in
operation supplying the place with
| pure water. Below this spring are
beautiful pools, one after another, the
system ending in larger one, where
fish swim and big frogs croak. The
lawn abounds with great oakssome of
which measure as much as three feet
through the body. In fact this man
had fifty varieties of trees and shrub
berry in his fine retreat. Then there
is fine orchard, with pastures, fenc-
es, and so on. When you see this
wonderful place and learn that the
managers of the Home secured all this
property-175 acres-for the sum OF
$15 600 you will have to admit that
what you have put into the Home has
certainly made showing God has
multiplied it.
More than $50, 900 has been spent or
the great new building which, when
completed, will cost some 100000
The structure is of Missouri Red Gran
ite, trimmed with Carthage stone. The
walls of the basement are complete
and large amount of material is or
the ground and all is paid for.
The Board decided to offer to oul
Baptist people notes of one hundred
dollars each, upon which interest will
be paid annually by the Home, in or
der to finish this building without ces'
sation in the work
| This writer decided that if our peo'
pie could all see this place, the econ
omy with which the little money the
Home has had has been invested, thai
these notes would all be sold at once
and that the work would not cease.
I S. M. BROWN.
H;ob T.xae Th;a Fall