Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-10-02
STATE SITE ALLOTMENT.
This Week Will Mark Another
Epoch In the Development
of the Worlds Fair.
ALLOTMENT OF SITES TO THE STATES.
Governors of Several States, Gov
and state Commss-
sions, Board of Lady Managers
and Many other NotabIes Will
be the Guests of st. Louis.

President Roosevelt has made neces.
sary a revision of the programme for
the entertainment of guests next
week at the ceremonies in connection
with the allotment of building sites
at the Worlds fair.
The principal event on that occa-
sion aside from the ceremonies at the
exposition grounds will be a ban
quet given by the Business Mems
league at the Mercantile club to the
visiting governors of states. The din
ner will be served Thursday evening.
Acceptances have ] en- received by
the Exposition company from Gov.
Orman of Colorado, Gov. Yates of Hi
nois, Gov. Heard of Louisiana, Gov.
Van SAINT of Minnesota, Gov. Dockery
of Missouri, Gov. Toole of Montana,
Gov. White of North Dakota, Gov.
Ferguson of Oklahoma, Gov. Sayers
of Texas, Gov. Wells of Utah, and Gov.
White of West Virginia.
Governors of several other states
will be represented by special depu.
ties
Secretary of the Treasurer Leslie
NJ. Shaw will represent the national
government. The United States gov
eminent board in charge of govern
ment exhibits It the exposition will
be present.
United tSates Senator William E.
Mason, of Illinois, has accepted an in'
vitation. James Knox Taylor, superin-
yising architect of the treasury; Ro-
land P. Faulkner, of the Congression-
al library at Washington; John W.
Morton, secretary OF state of Ten
nessee; Thomas Taggart of Indiana,
Lieut.-Gov. John A. Lee of Missouri
and other notable persons will be
present.
President Thomas II. Carter and all
the members of the national commits
sion will be in the city. Former SEN
ator John II. Thurston, of Nebraska, a
member of the commission, is now
en- route from Honolulu to attend the
meeting of the commission at the
Southern hotel on September 80.
Members of the state commissions
to the Worlds tair will come from
Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Maine, Mis-.
souri,, Texas, West Virginia, Wiscon'
sin, New Mexico and Wyoming. Will.
lam Larrabee, Iowa's commissioner.
at-large, will be present.
Members of the national commits
sion, of the board of lady managers
of the state Worlds fair commissions
of the board in charge of the United
States government exhibit and other
invited guests will assemble, Tuesday
at $50 a. m. at the Planters, the
Southern hotel or the Exposition of
fees at the Laclede building, and take
special cars at 10 a. m. by way of the
Worlds Fair grounds to the Country
club, where breakfast will be served
at noon.
At 2 p. m. special cars will convey
the party from the Country club tt
Skinker road and Lindell boulevard
where a special observation train will
be waiting on the Exposition termin
ais to carry them to the reservation
on the wooded plateau, where thu
dedication of the sites will take place
At $3.50 p. m. the party will take spe
cial cars at Lindell pavilion and re
turn to the hotels. A reception viii
be held at the Southern hotel from
p. m. to IL p. IN.
Special cars will leave the Southern
Planters and Exposition offices down
town at ten o'clock Wednesday morn
ing for the Worlds fair grounds
where the ceremony of alloting tn
sites will be resumed. Formal assign
ment of sites to the Philippines an
t6Hawaii, to the Worlds Fair Frater
nal Building association and the Trav
elers' Protective association will b
made the same morning.
At 1880 p. IN. luncheon will be serve
at the Cafe La Frohm in the Admins
t~ration building. Rooms have bee.
provided there for meetings OF stat
and territorial commissions for tn
transaction of business. No entel
tainment has been provided as yet fo
Wednesday evening.
Thursday morning and afternoo
IN \. :.o~ 30. I,,eip acc naafinpc n
commissions and conferences b.
tween commissions and officers OF tn
exposition. In the evening the dill
ner of the Business Mems league I
visiting governors will be the featur
1t is probable that some separate el
tertainment will he devised for Il
board of lady managers.
Mammoth Products of Missouri
st. Louis, Sept. 27.-An immen'
Missouri pippin and a gigantic ca
of Missouri corn are on exhibition
the Lindell hotel. They have attrac
ed the attention Of nearly every ma
who has visited the hotel within tt
last day of two. Both were sent fro
the IeOTld COTu Cdihifdh ~ $3.50
and the fruit were raised in centr
Missouri, according to the inform
ton accompanying them. The app
weighs 6 pounds, and is almost
large as a good-sized watermelo
The ear of corn is IA inches long, al
contains 947 grains by actual cour
Daring Gang of Burglars.
Youngstown, o., Sept. ga gar
Of burglars, early Friday mornin
blew the safe of the Beechwood II
provement Co., of South Sharon, p
and secured $500 in cash. After 70
bling the safe, the men, four or fl
in number, were first seen by Polio
man Newton Stamp, whom they owe
powered, bound and gagged. Geor
Haynes, another policeman, W