Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-03-17

March III, 1904, at six O'Clock A. NJ,
Hattie NJ, beloved wife of New
man Farmer, aged 20 years, four
months and four days. The de-
ceased had been in very poor
health for several months and the
announcement of her death was
not unexpected. The bereaved
husband and other relatives have
the sympathy of the community in
their bereavement. The funeral
occurs from the Presbyterian
church here Tomorrow Thursday
at two o'clock in the afternoon
and interment takes place in the
K. P. cemetery.
Circuit Judge F. R. bearing is
occupying the bench here this
week with his accustomed regu-
larity. The present year, how
ever, will conclude the six years
term for which Judge bearing was
elected and whether he will be a
candidate for reelection he has
not openly minated as yet. AL
though he represents nothing in
politics that we can indorse, we
will give him credit for having
made a very satisfactory circuit
judge. His rulings have been fair
and free from partisan spirit, and
the fact that his decisions have
rarely been reversed is flattering
evidence of their ~iustnoss and
legal equity.-Poto8i Journal.
Louis Miller, Of Arcadia, has a
number of men at work clearing
of about twenty acres of land this
side of Tip-Top. Mr.. Miller in
tends planting the land in peach
trees-some three thousand in all.
The work will be done under the
suggestions and supervision of
Mr.. Butterfield, the nurseryman at
Pennington. Mr.. Butterfield says
the trees should bear fruit in three
years. We hope to see Mr.. Miller
make a grand success of the
venture. Mr.. Butterfield, who has
been over most of the fruit coun-
try in the United States, says that,
in his opinion, there isn't any
place better adapted for peach
growing than our hills. Mr.. Miller
expects to have all the trees planted
in the course of the next two weeks.
Capt. Thomas Fl. Macklind, a
former resident of Ironton, died in
st Louis last Friday, after an
hours illness. He was at one time
during the war provost-marshal
here, and will be remembered by
many of the older citizens of this
vicinity. did not form his &C
quaintance until after peace had
again blessed the country, but
knew him intimately for several
years thereafter. In 1879 he
conducted a mercantile business
in the building now occupied by
the firm of T. S. Lopez & Sons.
The REGISTER Office was then just
across the street north, where the
Budweiser Depot now is, and, be-
ing near neighbors, we were fire.
quent visitors back and forth. Mr..
NJ. was of genial disposition, full
of humor and entertaining, and I
missed him greatly when he re-
moved to the city to take a position
in the city Hall which he retained
until the day he a called to the
land beyond. So they go, one by
one, and soon the old generation
will be only a memory, having
served its purpose in the econo-
my Of creation.
w. E. Leach, chairman of the
Southeast Missouri Drummers'
association Mardi Gras committee,
was here, this week, and with Sec
rotary j. H. Dunmire arranged
with Mr.. Bruner, of the oil mill, for
the use of a large room at the mill
for storing the costumes and par
aphernalia for the parade. This
parade will be one of the great
features of the meeting here, and
will occur at 10 O'Clock Friday
morning, May 81. 1t will be a
public affair, and the parade will
cover the principal streets Of the
town. The public wedding will
be another interesting feature.
The association will give to the
couple that will be publicly mar
ried at noon on Friday, May 27,
a Charter Oak range, a box of as
sorted groceries and a bib. box
of fine chocolates; it will pay for
the license and the services of the
minister. 1t is not to be a bur-
lesque affair, but a dignifed cere-
mony. The first application for
the privilege made to Secretary
Dunmire will be given the honor.
So it will be well to commence
thinking about this early. The
association has engaged the cele-
brated Webster's Third Engineer
band, of st. Louis, for the meet
ing, and it will give frequent con-
certs, extended ones every even
ing.-Dunklin Democrat.
Walter L. Hensley returned this
week from a trip to Reynolds coun-
ty, and he informs us that he was
at Centreville Monday when the
county mass meeting was held and
when Congressman Vandiver and
Harry q. Halves spoke at that
place. We are informed that Mr..
Halves was invited to speak at the
court house and Congressman
Vandiver attended the meeting
with a number of his followers,
and that shortly after Mr.. Halves
started speaking Congressman
Vandiver and his party left their
seats and left the courtroom,
| creating SO much racket that Mr..