Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-07-18

Omohundro, where the funeral viii
take place at 2 o'clock to-day. Rich
ard NJ. Omohundro was born in Flu
wanna county, Virginia, in 1928, ant
spent his youth and early manhood il
that place. At the outbreak of the
Civil War he entered a Virginia bat
terry of artillery and served for foul
years. In 1870 Richard OmohundrC
came to Missouri and settled in Annap
oils before the building of the Iror
Mountain Railroad. He was a promi'
nent figure in the Democratic politics
in that part of the State, and, although
he never held 3 public Office. he was
potent in the party councils in that
section. He left five children, seven
grandchildren and two great-grand.
children, all of whom will attend the
funeral"
Remember the Arcadia Valley Cos
pei Assembly will be held in the Pres
byterian Church, Ironton, beginning
next Tuesday July % and continuing
until August Z, The night meetings
will be evangelistic in character, Rev.
H. Msgill. D. D., OF st. Louis, will
have charge at the beginning and
preach every night. from July % to 26.
inclusive. There will probably be no
evening meeting on the 27th. On
Sunday night, the 28th. there will be
a union meeting in charge of the local
pastors. Monday night Rev. j. l..
Alsworth, of Pennington, will preach
Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Rev.
r. w. Mason, OF DcSoto, will preach.
Beginning Thursday night, August 1,
Rev. Chester Birch. the celebrated
musical evangelist, will be on hand and
conduct the night services to the close
of the meetings, August Z. At all the
night meetings there will be a large
union chorus to lead the singing and a
double quartet to provide special music.
Also vocal and instrumental music will
be given from time to time. Begin
ming on the morning of the oath, there
will be daily meetings for Bible Study,
Workers Conferences, prayer and tes-
timony, and study of s'the deeper
spiritual life" These meetings will
all be in charge of competent leaders,
and give promise of great h~elpfulness
to all who may be privileged to attend.
We expect a good number of visitors
from the neighboring towns, and from
St. Louis. Many out of the Valley have
expressed concern for the meetings and
will come If personal affairs will per-
nit. We have every reaso to believe
that all these meetings will prove a
great blessing to all who desire such
experience. A most cordial invitation
is extended to everybody in Arcadia
Valley and surrounding country,
whether church members or not, to
come in and enjoy the services, and to
help in the good work for the cause of
religion in this community. Let this
be a time of spiritual refreshing. Let
US rise above such discouraeing condi-
as the oppressive hot weather,
and do a good work for our Lord and
Master. THos. F. MARSHALL.
A friend, the power of whose pen is
beyond the dead-level of mediocre
period-rounding, sends US this thought
full communication: IAN apparently
epidemic form of the wandering fever
to hive invaded peaceful
and seized upon our juvenile
In what might be called
3 sporadic form, it has chosen as its
boys of the most diverse tenn
permanent and contrasting environ
and. as if by an irresistible
it has hurled Thorn Northward
DR. Southwark in the throes of this
strange Unrest 1t would be we'll for
Us, of mature minds, to pause and
a~nalyze this factor among US especial
ly we, who are in any measure affected
by the ofenders), before We add to the
which is rushing our adventu-
boys away, by the bitterness or
harshness OF a passionate r%etribution.
In a certain sense this impulse of wan
so mysterious in its operation,
Is entitled to our friendliest interest.
Few of us there are, with any stamina
at all, who have not felt this mystic
nest and try our sprouting wings
among other scenes-tO feel the full
ebb and surge OF the life-tide around
US, and to plunge into it's alluring
In past years these longings
had not the stimulus which modern
life and literature furnishes to our
present-day boy. Travel, Adventure,
deeds of heroism and dariug-these
are the mental pabulum of press and
while above all and per-
neating all things is the all-engulfng
sense of haste, hurry. rushing enter
prise-all Of which are molding and
into this being the very spirit
which, when active, leaves parent and
friend aghast at it's daring. We forget
walking is a lost art. Even the
is yielding to more rapid form
Of locomotion; distance is merely q fg-
.rative term. its old meaning lying
buried in the phone and transmitting
wire, and it is daily growing more OBJ
liberated by the race of the steel mons
ter OIL the tracks-nay, we are vault
ing into space itself, and trying to
grasp ~fraternal hands on a neighbor
Shall, then. the rod and re-
counteract these tendencies
breathed, as it were, into the boys
nostrils at his BIRTH Is it not 8 mark
Of his virility-that strong impulse to
we owe the memory of Column
bus and Plymouth Rock-and, rightly
may it not ennoble rather
than degrade him? Moreover, the in
tendency, dating back into the
hazy mists of an unknown Past, when
and nation took up its endless
Of migrstlon-until the earth
should be spanned by wide-eyed trav-