Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-12-05

went up from the hundreds drawn to-
gether to witness the impressive exer-
ciSeS.
The Beauty of Charity.
The Daughters of the Confederacy of
st. Louis gave their fifth annual ball
at the merchants exchange Thanks
giving night This ball has come to
be looked upon by many as the crown
ing event of the society season. 1t is
not, however. merely as a society event
that it is known. 1t brings together,
it is true. gallant men and beautiful
women, but with the beauty of woman
is blended the beauty of charity. The
proceeds of the ball are donated every
year to the ex-confederate home at
Higginsville, which is under the charge
of the Daughters of the Confederacy.
The home was built by them at
an outlay of $4,000 five years ago. 1t
takes nearly Sl3, 900 year to maintain
it, and as a means of defraying por-
ton of the expense the happy idea of
an annual ball was conceived. 1t is an
event, therefore, in which pleasure,
fashion and charity are equally blend
ed. There is one other feature which
gives it distinctive place in st. Louis
social life. 1t was originated by
women, as the idea of the ex-confeder-
ates' home was originated by them.
There is peculiar fitness in the fact.
As the daughters of the south minis
tered to the sufferings of the sons of
the south thirty years ago, SO the
daughters of the south minister to the
wants OF the sons of the south to-day.
short-Told Tales.
There are BAT pupils in the asylum
for the deaf and dumb at Fulton and
twenty teachers.
There were eighty-two marriage
licenses issued in st. Louis the day be-
fore Thanksgiving.
The funeral of ex-Park Commissioner
Klein, of st. Louis, on Thanksgiving
day, was largely attended.
The contest over the youngest con-
gresham between New York and Mis-
souri, has been settled in favor of New
YORK.
Matrimonial aspirants are inquiring
as to the stability of a Kansas City as
ISOLATION which offers $4,000 to mem.
beers who wed.
Daughters of the Confederacy netted
q nice sum for the Missouri Confed-
crate home at an entertainment at
Cape Girardeau.
Willie Eaton, a Boone county negress,
charged with the murder of Thomas j.
White, of Rocheport, was sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary.
The lumber season has closed at
sbo1 'bo 81 x,i1o1
is As, 500, 600. which the Hannibal Jour
nal says is the lowest for years
Miss Cora Daisy Copeland and w. B.
Pemberton, both compositors, were
married in the Office of the Columbia
Herald, where they are employed.
The Kansas City. Pittsburg 6 Gulf
railway may be extended from Kansas
City to St Joseph, giving an air line
connection between the two cities
There is some talk of organizing a
Missouri baseball league of the cities
of Hannibal, ST. Joseph, Sedalia, JEFF
ferson City, Mexico and Webb City.
Trinity Lutheran church, Sedalia.
celebrated its first anniversary by hold
ing Thanksgiving service, the pastor,
Rev. John f. Siebert, preaching the
sermon.
Miss Florence Lemon, daughter OF
the well-known banker and capitalist
of St Joseph, was married the other
evening to Mr.. William Walter Parish,
of New York.
The safe in the Missouri Pacific sta
ton at Sheldon, near Nevada, was
blown open with giant powder the
other night. Supposed to have been
the work of tramps-
L. E. Scott, a hack driver, aged "a,
was burned to death in a fire that de-
stroyed a livery stable at Springfield.
together with thirty-six horses. Scott's
mother and sister reside in Carthage.
1Thirty students of Baird college.
Clinton, went to hear Me1ba at Kansas
City the other night. and their chic
uniforms SO pleased the prima donna
that she sent each one her picture with
autograph attached.
Rufus Suites, aged So. a pioneer and
once a wealthy clothing merchant of
Kansas City, was found dead in his
room at the Midland hotel. Consider
able mystery surrounds the case,
though the circumstances indicate
suicide by morphine poisoning.
Between 200 and 800 teachers will
probably attend the meeting of the
Southeast Missouri Teachers associa-
ton at Poplar Bluff, December 20 and
81. State superintendent Kirk, sever
al members of the state university
faculty and some of the prominent
teachers in the st. Louis schools will
take part in the exercises.
THE MOTHER FATALLY INJURED.
The south bound Missouri, Kansas d
Texas nyer ran into a wagon near
Sc.lell CITY the other morning, in which
were Seated j. s. Burneli, wife and
daughter. Inc wagon was crushed to
pieces. Buzneil and his daughter were
not seriously hurt. but Mrs Burnel1
suffered broken leg and received in
ternal injuries, which were considered
fatal. The family resides at Boston.
Barton county. The accident was oc-
casioned by one of the horses taking
fright and pulling the wagon on to the
track after it had crossed, ami in front
of the locomotive.