Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24

memory: he wa5 q manly man,
honest and true, endowed to an
unusual extent with those qualities
of head and heart we all admire.
That he should be taken in the
first flush of his young manhood
80 years of age-is n of those
inscrutable acts of Providence that
mortal cannot comprehend. He is
at rest!
The following about an Iron
county boy is taken from the
Bozeman (Mont.) Republican Cour-
Ter of the Sth inst: "Rev. P. D.
Hartman, of the M. E. Church,
South, leaves this week for Butte
to attend the annual State confer
ence of the church, which con-
venes in that city on Thursday.
The members of Mr. Hartman's
church have sent to the conference
a unanimous request that he be
returned to this charge for an
other year. Mr.. Hartman Is an
unusually genial and progressive
young man and the community
in general will be pleased to have
him return years without number.
He takes with him a report that
the church dues and all obliga-
tons for the year have boon paid
in full and that the church is now
in a very prosperous condition.
Mr.. Hartman will also report that
there have been 81 accessions in
his church during the year, which
is indeed a record to be proud Of"
Tom L. Cannon, for eight years
secretary at the st. Louis Manu-
features association and promoter
of the irrigation and drainage
movement for which he labored
until a year ago, was in Poplar
Bluff this morning. to confer with
business men regarding the pur-
chase of a large track Of land In
this vicinity. "It's land | want"
he said, smilingly, "good land, in
big qualities" He had just come
from Pointsett county, Arkansas,
where he closed a deal for 100, 200
acres of land, giving an indemni-
ty bond and carrying the title in
to the, Federal court. He arrived
in Poplar Bluff this morning and
departed for st. Louis this after
noon. Mr.. Cannon, who ia in the
land business, forming syndicates
only, has had great opportunities
to study the political situation in
various sections of the country in
the last six months. He declares
the outlook is for q brilliant victo-
ry for Bryan.-Butler County Demo-
crdt.
The play, "Nance Oldfeld,"
presented at the Academy of Mu-
sic on the night of the 18th inst. !,
under the auspices of the Young
Girls Guild of st. Paul's Church,
deserves a better notice than my
feeble Faber can set down. | am
no dramatic critic, and | know it.
Still, it is my desire to not let the
occurrence pass barely noted in
the fve-line paragraph OF last
week. The play was well render
ed in all its parts: dialogue, mon
ologue, exit and entrance were
without fault, and the amateurs
who gave us two hours of enjoy
ment would put to shame more
than one "troupe" of profession
ais | have seen. The cast is of five
characters-three male and two
female, and, as I have said, all
acted we'll their parts. They al
once put the auditors at their ease
Il think the surest test of ability
and genius. But the lady of the
title roll, Miss Mary Potter, as is
intended by the playwright, won
the hearts of all. She was grace
| ful-but nearly all the ladies are
| that on the stage-and natural
. did not tear passion all to tatters
while giving full force to her lines
l do not remember having seen {
more pleasing picture than she
presented as she threw from hel
, the coarse robe worn through the
scene of her affected rudeness anc
!, unrefnement. Nothing was over
!, done; nothing pertinent left un'
, done. But there! While one may
. think ever so fervently, it is to MT
:. difficult to give expression to tn
nice things | would like to say
!, Suffice it, that in it's twenty-tiv'
years the Academy of Music ha
not seen a more gratifying enter
!. tainment nor one with fairer title t.
= commentator. And Il have m,
neighbors' numerous encore s t
back my Judgment.
0 On Saturday, the 18th inst, a.
] assemblage of some sixty peopl
gathered at "Ozark Home" tn
!. commodious and elegant residenc
= of Col. James M. Lewis in Rus
9 sellville. Among them were man,
of the all-the-tim residents of tn
!, valley, as we'll as those who com
8 and 90 from year to year with tn
g changing seasons-who seek res
. and recreation from the toll an
: heat of the city during the summe
months, fleeing the cribbed an
cabined confines of brick and mol
tar to Natures grateful green an
the chest-expanding elbow-roor
of broad acres. Here in the Ozark
they have erected summer home
: possessed of all the comforts O
= modern life, and l trust, as tim
goes by, it will but increase thei
love for and admiration of the Ar
cadia Valley. We want to kee
/. them with us. When the othe