Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-09-17
Fall festivities at St. Louis.


The committee having In charge the
St. Louis Fall Festivities, which have
contributed so much to the pleasures
of the good people of the Mississippi
| Valley, as we'll as those residing in ad-
jacent States, again announces It's pro-
gramme covering the nineteenth an
nual season of mirth, melody and mys-
terry. After voiuminous correspond
ence. carried on with the aid of Uncle
Sans postal service and mysterious
messengers from foreign lands, it was
decided that all the novelties OF the
world, including the queens of song.
kings of humor, princes of melody and
wiseacres OF mystery. could by land.
water and aerial fight, reach st. Louis
September 9th, 1896, and take their
placss on her carnival stage where no
curtain will drop between the twilights
of September 9th and October Oath.
The first attraction announced on
the programme of gilt is the opening
of the Thirteenth Annual st. Louis
Exposition, which throws its doors
open to the public September 9th, and
for forty days and nights, until Octo-
Der oath, will be the home for all wish
ing to be delighted with its magnih-
cent displays and enraptured by the
strains of Gilmore's and Innes' Peer
less Bands.
The master of ceremonies next an
nouuces our newly discovered but high
ly esteemed friend, King Hotu, SUI
preme high chief of the Funny Fellows.
The jolly king with his band of hui
morous chaps will entertain the young
and old on Saturday afternoon, Octo-
Der Sd, by mirth-provokiug parade
through the decorated thoroughfares
of the city. Act No. on the pro-
gramme of gold will be delineated by
the st. Louis Fair Association through
its Thirty-sixth Annual Exhibition.
The stage for this event will be set on
the morning of Monday, October 9Th,
and will not be disturbed until Satur-
day, October 10Th, when the curtain
drops on pleasing feature OF ST. Louis
Carnival. A blaze of light athwart the
darkened Eastern skies, strange Great
ures of iuconceivable forms darting TO
and fro in the heavens and weird
sounds on discordant tom-tems waited
on the breezes from the seas announce
on the evening of Tuesday. October
9Th, the approach of mysterious ca
valcade of beings from another
sphere. As this mighty army settles
on the streets of ST. Louis for trium-
phant march through its avenues OF
wealth and beauty, his august high
ness, the Mightiess Of the Mighty, the
astute Yelled Prophet, is seen in It's
van, robed in purple and gold and car
rying wand charged with the powers
of magic. In order that the season of
carnival be highly successful, his high
ness, the Yelled Prophet. King Hotu
and couriers from the Fair Association
and ST. Louis Exposition have issued
an edict ordering the MISSOURI PAcI-
FIC RAILWAY and IRoN MOUNTAIN
RoUTE to sell tickets TO st. Louis and
return at greatly reduced rates from
all points on their lines. Complying
10 full with the edict OF such notables,
the management OF these lines will
place the above mentioned rates in es-
feet For full particulars and copy of
programme giving attractions In de-
tail. call on local agent. or address II.
G. Townsend, General Passenger and
Ticket Agent, st. Louis, No.