This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chitwood, Farmer, Adams, Adams, Erbschloe, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/979 Message Board Post: IRON COUNTY REGISTER, Ironton, Iron County, Missouri, Thursday, January 24, 1889. FROM KAOLIN. Ed. Register--News is scarce, but we will gather up what we can for this week's publication. Since Christmas and the other feril (sic) days have ended, everything has been very quiet and still in our vicinity. The measles, which have been so violent in our neighborhood for some time, have also terminated. There are no cases at present reported. The writer was one who had them, and I tell you what those little measles are pretty bad. We had a coalescence of good rains, which have deeply drenched the ground so that the roads are powerfully muddy and in a wretched condition for traveling. Some litttle plowing for corn and oats has been done. The ploughers had to suspend their work on account of the wet weather. But should the mildness of the present weather still continue they can resume their work in the course of a few more days. Lately the writer received a copy of the Christmas number of 'Selma Enterprise', a newspaper recently established at Selma, California, just six months old. It gave a most admirable description of San Joaquin valley and city of Selma, which is noted for its unparalleled growth in population in the last few years, the great fertility of its soil, its productions, etc., and hence the legible reading matter was enjoyed very intensely. Mr. Willie Chitwood gave us a most delightful visit on the 12th and 13th. He is an exemplary young man from Logan's Creek, and is now attending High School at Belleview. Success to you, Mr. C. The writer gave the Cedar Grove Alliance a delectable visit at the last meeting, January 13th. Some time ago, Mr. C. C. Farmer, of near Cedar Grove, emigrated to Selma, in southern California. Charles is a kind, noble-hearted, promising young man, greatly above the average, and it is with regret that we must lose such a friend. Oh! may success and prosperity ever bloom in his future life is the felicitation of this correspondent. In order to attend to some business of importance, a visit was necessarily made to Pine Grove on the 19th. While there I went to regular meeting of the F. A.., and was glad to find things working in such a lively condition. The following day being Sunday we had preaching by Rev. Zenas Adams. A large assemblage was present and enjoyed his remarks most agreeably. While at Pine Grove I met with two friends, Mr. D. R. and Miss M. F. Adams from Goodland. Prof. R. Erbschole, of Goodwater, was seen passing by this way, one day last week, on his way to attend the Alliance Convention of Iron County, held at Ironton on the 15th. G. W. B. January 21, 1889.