Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-10-05

reached the day was devoted to
speech-making, story telling, re-
viving acquaintance offorty years
ago and a general reunion. Adj
dresses were delivered by Col.
Dave Murphy and Pat Dyer, of st.
Louis, Col. G. w. Pavey, of Mount
Vernon, Ills, Gen. Fairbanks,
Commander of the G. A. R., and
B. B. Cahoon, of Fredericktown.
DR.. G. A. Peterson, of st. Louis,
corresponding secretary of the
Pilot Knob Memorial Association,
was present and gave some inter-
esting statistics relative to the
battle and It's survivors-of whom.
he thinks, there are yet about three
hundred. A few less than sixty
of them were present at the cele-
bration. DIR. Peterson is very anx-
ious to have the government pur-
chase the fort and the adjacent
grounds and convert the same into
a National Park. An effort will
be made to direct the attention of
the next Congress to the matter.
1t was originally intended to de-
vote three days to the celebration,
but a majority of the visitors de-
parted for their homes Wednesday
night and Thursday morning, and
there was little of interest Thurs
day and Friday.
Edwin j. Reed, a wagon maker
who makes his home in this city,
is in the Iron county Jail charged
with bigamy. Reed first made
his appearance here five or six
years ago, and he and his wife re-
sided in Ironton for some time. A
few years ago they left here, and
it was understood they had separ-
ated. A year or more since Reed
returned to Ironton bringing with
him another wife, and said he had
been divorced from his former
wife. His story was believed until
last Friday morning when wife
No. l., who now makes her home
in Decatur, Illinois, arrived on the
scene. She denied that Reed had
ever secured a divorce from her,
and went before Prosecuting At
torney Damron and had a warrant
issued for Reed charging him with
adultery. The case was called
before Squire Fairchild that after
noon, and Reed, to refute the
charge of adultery, sent to his
residence and had wife No. 2 send
his marriage certificate, showing
that sometime in October, 1902, in
st. Clair county, Illinois, he and
Nelly Celia were united in mar
riage. On the evidence shown by
this document Mr.. Damron at once
dismissed the suit charging adult
cry, and in lieu thereof filed an
information against Reed alleging
bigamy. Reed at first contended
that he had obtained a divorce
from wife No. |, whose maiden
name was May Peck, somewhere
in Kentucky, but he could not
even give the name of the town or
county where he had obtained the
decree. Squire Fairchild fixed the
bond at $500, and in default there
of Reed is now in jail, where he
will probably remain until circuit
court. In attempting to refute the
charge of adultery, which is only
a misdemeanor in law, Reed prac-
tically convicted himself of biga-
my, which is a felony, and will
probably send him to the pen
~itentiary for a term of years.
Reed, previous to his arrest, was
working for Granville Shular in
Arcadia, but was living in Ironton.
He has two children by his last
wife. Wife No. 1 seems thorough
ly aroused and has intimated that
she will endeavor to see that her
recreant spouse gets the full PEN
atty of the law.
There we're five burglaries and
attempted burglaries in Ironton
last Saturday night. The first
place visited was the residence of
Herman Davis. There were none
but women folk at home and they
were badly frightened a few min
utes before eleven o'clock, by
hearing the glass in the front door
crash. An Investigation revealed
that the door, which had been
closed by a chair, was partly open
and the glass considerably shat
tered. The noise made by the
breaking of the glass probably
frightened the intruders away, as
they made no further effort to gain
an entrance and quickly disap-
peared. They then proceeded a
couple of blocks south, where they
made an entrance into the resi-
dence of Geo. D. Marks through
the back door. Here they secured
two watches belonging to MI. and
Mrs. Marks and So from Mrs. Dob
bins, a visitor from Pennington,
Then they went to the pantry and
helped themselves to a good meal,
tarrying about the premises until
they had eaten their fill. The next
place visited was the home of Mr.