This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Giovanoni, Grandhomme, Cowhey, Jordan, Andrews, Baugher, Vick, Wyatt, O'Neal, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/976 Message Board Post: IRON COUNTY REGISTER, Ironton, Iron County, Missouri, Thursday, January 24, 1889. LOCAL BREVITIES [CONTINUED] The patrons of Giovanoni & Grandhomme will be pleased to learn that Mr. Jno. [John] Cowhey has returned to Ironton and can be found at his old place behind the bar of the above named firm serving out liquid refreshments to thirsty customers as in the days of yore. Johnny is a fine fellow and we are happy to chronicle his return to the Valley. An obituary of the son of our old friend, S. J. Jordan, appears in this week's paper. The deceased was an exemplary young man and his sudden taking away, just as he was entering the prime of young manhood, is one of those dispensations of Providence that is beyond human ken. To the bereaved and heart-stricken family we extend our sincerest sympathy. The railroad authorities have reconsidered the matter and decided not to discontinue the Accommodation as stated in our issue of last week, but it will continue making the trip as usual. This news will be hailed with delight by the people of the Valley and clearly demonstrates that the railroads do have some regard for their patrons wishes, the almost universal feeling to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Andrews, of Arcadia, last Thursday evening gave a dance and reception in honor of their niece, Miss Annie Baugher, of Richwoods. Anyone who has ever been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. need not be told how pleasantly the hours were spent and how nicely everything moved off. Good-nights were said about one o'clock when the company dispersed for home, all agreeing how much pleasanter this world would be if it contained more folk like their host and hostess of the evening. The celebrated "Hanging Gardens of Babylon" were within the precincts of the palace called "The Admiration of Mankind." They consisted of gardens of trees and flowers on the topmost of a series of arches 75 feet high and built in the form of a square, each side of which measured 400 Greek feet. The city Babylon, with it's famous gardens, was razed to its foundation, 690 B.C.. Two Thousand, Five Hundred and Seventy-Nine years later we find the celebrated gardens of James Vick in Rochester, New York. For description, Catalogue of seeds, advice how to obtain free copy of Vick's Floral Guide and also of the famous new rose called "Vick's Caprice," address, James Vick, Seedsman, Rochester, N.Y. Our friends of the Farmers' Alliance gave us an out-and-out surprise last Wednesday. The County F. A. had been in session a couple of days at the courthouse, and after they adjourned, behold, a committee from them (Messrs. W. P. Wyatt and W. T. O'Neal) came to our sanctum and presented the editor a box of fine cigars! We are gratified at this token of good feeling -- there's no need of denying it through false modesty -- and we trust to be able to show them in the future, as in the past, one and all, that the REGISTER is for the men who in the sweat of their brows earn bread -- for them first, last and all the time. We are no professional "friend of the laboring man," but as we are one of him his interests are our interests, and it would be strange indeed if we were not to advocate them. Friends of the F. A., our thanks!