Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-31

We cannot speak of their merits. but i,,doe
from the uncouth appearances of the men
ana the hungry looks of bruin, that they
| were fair representatives of like combina-
lions which have in the past, visited this
| section.
DE Soto Nelcs: "Mrs. DIR. Farrar enter.
| tanned the euchre club in royal style last
Wednesday evening, Jan. 16. The guests
began PLAYING about half past eight and
from the looks on their faces, the game was
highly interesting. They played until eleven
O'Clock when the prizes were awarded.
Among the guests were DIR. G. ". Farar of
Pilot Knob. The happy crowd came away
| satisfied that our dignified Doctor and his
charming wife know how to entertain"
The officers of Valley Lodge, No. 1870,
knights OF Honor, for the year 1899, are:
ID. N. Baird, Dictator; j. S. Jordan, Vice
Dictator: W. T. Gay, Assistant Dictator; J.
A. Markham. Reporter; W. G. Fairchild,
Fin. Reporter; Edward Blanford, Treasur-
er; w. b. Newman, Chaplain: Thomas
Newman, Guide; DR.. 4. S. Prince, Guard
ian; Walter Fisher. Sentinel: VIM. Hills,
DIR. A. S. Prince and Thomas Newman,
The young men of the Valley will give
Grand Bal Mosque compEim entGire at the
Academy of Music ON Monday, February
18th. The boys are using their utmost en-
beavers to make this affair worthy success
or OF the late Leap Year Ball and will spare
neither pains nor expenses toward that end.
The best Of music will be provided. The
supper will be furnished by Mrs. II. 3.
Peck, which is sufficient guarantee that 1t
will be the best the season and market af-
fords, served in style that can be equaled
only by caterers of Mrs. Peck's experience
and judgment. The invitations will be is
sued this week. Parties desiring to make
arrangements for obtaining costumes will
leave word with Mrs. III. o. Davis.
ENOCH ARDEN OUTDONE.-Away back in
the olden days of 1850, in the quiet still VIII
Iage of Eldred, in Mckane county, Tenn,
lived Sarah E. Garfield, a handsome young
girl of about 10 years of age, and John Bar
ton, youth of IS years. They were neigh
bors, and as in this instance familiarity did
not breed contempt, courtship followed, and
marriage was the final result, somewhere |
about 1882. Time went on, and several chill |
dren were born to them. One day in 1861, |
John Barton was missing. He was gone
no one knew why or where, only-he was |
gone. The forsaken wife, in about two years, |
obtained a divorce and married Arnold |
Ford, a neighbor. Time rolled on some |
more, and Ford and the wife and children |
moved west, and, after wandering about for |
several years, finally settled down at Iron
60, 20
that John Barton was dead; that he was
killed in the terrible battle of Stone River. |
As subsequent events proved, he had in
listed in an Iowa regiment i'm 1861 One |
child was born of the marriage to Ford-a |
daughter, who is also married and is now a
mother. The children By the first marriage |
are also married and have children of their |
OWN. Arnold Ford was a shoemaker, and |
lived for long time between Ironton and |
Arcadia, "Delano row. and later had
shoe shop in north part of Ironton. Many of
BUR people will remember the little, old,
homeless looking man. After while Ford |
moved to farm below the Shut-In, and
here, with Sarah, was living peacefully and
quietly, when one day in December, 1888,
there appeared at the door an old man who
looked strongly about to see if anyone recog-
nized him. Sarah did not know him-grey-
haired and changed. 1t was John Barton,
He knew nothing of the divorce, and pro-
,eeded to make himself at home, naturally
20 the discontinue Of Arnold Ford, but with
seeming delight on the pirt of Sarah. Re-
suit: hot words, trouble, and a lawsuit
brewing. as Ford had to get out. Thus, af-
er % years absence, the supposed dead, like
IN apparition, appears on the threshold to
disturb the peace of so many years.