Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-10

The marriage of Miss Bessie
Smith and A. G. Fouts took
place at noon yesterday in the par
lors of the Planters hotel in st.
Louis. 1t was a pretty ceremony
at which the Rev. R. L. Russell
OBLIGATED. A few relatives and
friends attended the wedding.
The couple, it is anticipated, will
arrive in this city tomorrow after
noon and likely will make their
home here. However, this is said
to be a matter of doubt, the happy
pair having made no decision as
yet. The bride has been a valued
attache of the Poplar Bluff post
Office and the groom is a travelling
salesman for the Swift Packing
company, making his head
quarters here. They had been
sweethearts for a long time
Weekly Citizen Democrat.
hope that no boy in the Area
dia Valley takes ''sport'' in shoot
ing at Robin Redbreast. He is
one of my favorite birds, and the
sight of him is good to my old
eyes, to say nothing of his notes
of cheer. l think the Taunton
Gazette Mass )misjudges the South
in the following paragraph, but
still | put it in the REGISTER, for
| endorse all it says concerning
the value of Cock-Robin to us:
ga contemporary notes that the
robins, which are said to be worth
81 a year apiece to the American
farmer in the North in destroying
worms, grubs, ETC., injurious to
to crops, are reckoned at 5 cents
apiece in the South during the
winter as game birds. Perhaps
the milder winters which we have
in the north nowadays are all
that is instrumental in saving the
robins from destruction, for more
and more of them stay around
every year in the thick cedar
swamp to come out as the early
birds. 1t is a pity that the South
cannot look at the matter in the
same light, for the robin is a a
most companionable bird, and
has o host of friends all over the
country who would rather see him
and hear him once than eat him
a hundred times"
Thomas w. Martin, the Demo-
cratic nominee for assessor of st.
Francois county, in the recent
election, is c~ontesting the election
of August Thomson, the Republic
can nominee, who on the face OF
the returns was elected by a plur-
atty Ct Al votes. Among the al
legations made by the contestant
is the following: "That at said
lockwood election precinct, after
the judges Of election had been
duly appointed and qualified and
had conducted the election up to
about two o'clock in the afternoon,
they, without warrant of law and
in violation of the laws made and
provided for the carrying on OF
the general election in this State,
appointed Joseph Butts and one
Prof. Smith as additional judges
and caused them to be sworn in
and qualified as judges; hat said
Butts and said Smith thereafter
acted as judges and especially did
. they hand out the ballots to the
voters and make out the ballots Of
a number of voters who could moi
read and write; that the ballots
SO made out were deposited in the
ballot box and thereafter counted.
which acts were contrary to the
, election laws of the State = y =
, and were unwarranted, fraudulent
illegal. and invalidates the entire
vote of said lockwood precinct"
From the Central Baptist: "Fine
drinking water has been found or
Arcadia Heights, at a depth Of one
, hundred and twenty feet, and the
drilling continues. There can now
be no doubt as to an abundan.
supply of pure sparkling drinking
, water right at hand to supply tn,
, thousands who will attend the Mis-
, souri, Baptist Assembly next sum
mer. Nor can there be any doub
as to the bathing facilities. Tht
plans have been accepted for tht
putting in order of Knob Lake a
the foot of Arcadia Heights. anC
: work will begin within the mex
two weeks. This beautiful body
of water, within five minutes wall
. of the Assembly grounds, will bt
an ideal place for bathing ant
boating. In addition to the five
) acre bungalow sites, which sell a
five hundred dollars, a number o
smaller one hundred dollar lot
have been laid off, near the fifty
a acre tract which constitutes the
Assembly Grounds. A number o
! these have already been taken by
individuals, by local unions, anc
organized Sunday School classes
Many more of the larger lots hav'
been purchased by Baptists. NJ
1 doubt, Arcadia Heights is destin
ed to become not only the plac'
: for the greatest Baptist Assembly
t in this country, but to also become
a Baptist summer resort for GU
! people from all sectisns of tn
state"
Pennington, Mo-, was made we
by a decision rendered by tn
court in a proceeding brought il
; the Court of Appeals originally by
t A. Retornaz, who, having been re-
fused a dramshop license by thu
it1dnaa nf the 81 Erannnis nnunt,