Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-03

jury could not be surpassed. AS
master pieces of modern day elo-
quence they are hard to beat.
Prosecuting Attorney j. F. Mead
or's conduct of the trial is to be
commended. AT no time showing
any personal feeling against the
defendent, Mr.. Holiday, he put
forth his very best efforts to guard
the interests of the state. The
civil suit against Mr.. Holiday
will be tried in the adjourned
term of court in December. An
effort was made to compromise the
suit with the county court, but
Prosecuting Attorney Meadors OBJ
jected to any compromise unless
Mr.. Holidays resignation from
Office was rendered. - Greenville
Journal.
Drummond Jones, son of Mr..
Clarence N. Jones, one of our
valley residents, is achieving con-
siderable celebrity in the world of
sport as a tennis player. The
following report of a recent con-
test in Kansas City is taken from
the Kansas City Post of last
Wednesday. can exhibition of
easy deliberate tennis playing
was the work of Drummond Jones,
the Yale champion, in his match
against Orrie Vernon, the st.
Joseph crack, and three times
Missouri Valley champion, in the
second round in the Missouri VAL
ley tennis tournament yesterday
afternoon. Jones won an easy
match in straight sets, 60, 6-1.
The match was begun on court
two at the Kansas City Athletic
club at 8 o'clock and a gallery of
of four hundred people had gath
cred to watch the game between
the two experts. Jones and YER
non have met twice before and
each time Jones has been victor.
There was some speculation as to
whether Vernon had profted by
the two previous matches and had
learned Jones' style of game, but
his playing yesterday showed
conclusively that he had not, and
that he was at the mercy of Jones.
Jones had everything his way
from the time the match started
until it closed. He played all
around Vernon and placed his
drives SO accurately that the st.
Joe expert could not return them
with any degree of certainty. He
displayed Judgment on balls which
went out that was appalling to
the gallery. He let nine close
ones 60 by in one set without hit
ting them and six of them we're
out by a margin of an inch. The
Yale champion made very few err
rors and when he went after a
ball he usually returned it. He
passed up the hard ones and rath-
er than waste energy gave his OPP
ponent a point. He never appear
ed to "extend'' himself and by his
easy, steady playing solved YER
mons game and beat him by Ver-
mons failure to return his drives
or smash them into the net. The
match was far from the spectacu-
lar. Jones attempted very few
spectacular plays and from a
spectators standpoint the match
was not as interesting as some of
the others for this reason. Jones
has the ability to change his
speed quickly and this shifting
of the speed of his drives kept
Vernon continually in fear"
There was a gathering last Sat-
urday afternoon at "Mountain
View" Mr.. R. D. Lewis summer
home. About seventy-fve young
people-the proprietor, his broth
er, Messrs. G. N. Jones and s. M.
Phelan, myself and three eompan-
ion juveniles included-were there.
| think it was a ''house-warming,"
but I am not sure. The host did
not to me give the occasion a spe-
cifc designation, and I accepted
the goods the gods did send with
out vain questioning. But what's
the difference as to how entitled, or
whether it was termed at all? We
have it on no less authority than
of him who wrote "not for an age
but for all time" that the rose
would smell just as sweet under
any other name; and, l take it, did
it bloom and beautify unnamed,
it's fragrance would be none the
less full and pleasing. Well, as
said aforesaid, there we're about
seventy-five participants in the
festivities of the day, and they all
participated. The weather-clerk
vainly attempted to put a damper
over all. He ignominiously failed,
further than to transfer the scene
from the old-oak-shaded grounds
to the ample porches %which-ff-
teen feet deep-surround the man.
sion. Luncheon? Yes, the finest.
Music? 1t was there: the old tunes,
reproduced by grizzle-locked and
bald. headed amateurs. Dancing?
Just a little, but that little artistic
ally executed to the feet-inspiring
staccato of the banjo in the hands
of no less a parsonage than the
host himself. He knows the gamut
and runs it like the expert he is.
Where he acquired his proficiency
I do not know, but there was a gen.
uine Ole Virginny flavor in the
plunks as they bounded from the
strings. From three O'Clock until
seven the wooded precincts of
"Mountain View rang with mirth
in reason, and held enjoyment
within their bounds. Talking Of
music-the laughter which springs
from youth and happiness is far
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