CONTENTS XXV SECTION VIII CHAPTER XXXIV SOCIAL LIFE AND INDUSTRIES Isolation of Many Communities — Deprivations Suffered — Houses — Food — Dress — Household Implements — Schools and Churches — Amusements — Unity of Feeling Treatment op Disease — Versatility of the Pioneer — Development of Character Farming — Mining — Manufacturing. 439 CHAPTER XXXV RELIGIOUS HISTORY— Continued Catholics — Methodists : Quarterly Meetings, Circuits and Districts — Baptists : As- sociations — Evangelical Lutherans — Protestant Episcopal Churches — Congregation- ALisTs — German Evangelical and German Methodist Churches— New School Presby- terians — Cumberland Presbyterian Churches — Christians (Disciples of Christ) — Southeast Missouri Presbyterian Churches — Presbyterlinism in 1854-64 — 1864-1874 — Division in Presbytery — Decade from 1884 to 1894 — History Since 1894. 448 CHAPTER XXXVI RAILROADS Beginning of Railroad Agitation — Companies Formed — The First Railroad — St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern — Cairo & Fulton — Present Condition of the Iron Moun- tain — The Cape Girardeau, Pilot Knob & Belmont — The Houck Lines — The 'Frisco System — the St. Louis Southwestern — The Illinois & Missouri Bridge Company — Mis- sissippi River & Bonne Terre Railroad Company — The Williamsville, Greenville & ' St. Louis Railroad Company — St. Louis, Kennett & Southeastern — The St. Louis & Missouri Southern — The Paragould Southeastern — • The Illinois Southern — The Missouri Southern — The Paragould & Memphis — The Butler County Railroad — The St. Francois County Interurban. 496 CHAPTER XXXVII GENERAL STATUS Location — Area — Topography — Timber — Industries — Transportation — Towns — Population — Schools — Wealth — Bollinger — Butler — Cape Girardeau — Car- ter — Dunklin — Iron — Jefferson — Madison — Mississippi — New Madrid — Pemi- scot — Perry — Reynolds — Ripley — St. Francois — Ste. Genevieve — Scott — Stoddard — Washington — Wayne. 510 i
