Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-10-13


He made his home in Frederick
town until eight years ago when
he was elected a Judge of the Su-
preme Court. The funeral was
held at FredericktowD Sunday.
The Missouri Pacific Railway ran
special train from st. Louis and
many of the most prominent men
in the state attended. Judge Fox
was a great big-hearted, big
Drained man. Peace to his ashes.
A letter from Los Angeles ap-
us that Mr.. M. D.. Bells, a
former printer in this Office, almost
miraculously escaped death when
the Times Office was blown up in
that city early in the morning Of
October 1st. Mr.. Bells operates a
in that establishment and
had left his machine, for a moment,
when the explosion came. He was
stunned and shocked, of course,
but retained sufficient presence of
mind to grope his way to the
stairway and then out of the
building. He had scarcely reached
the pavement when the complete
structure tumbled in. 1t was a
narrow escape and had he been at
the machine when the explosives
were fred death would have been
instantaneous. AS it was, aside
from the shock, he escaped injury
and promises to be all right in a
few days.
There is nothing more inexpli-
cable than the DEGREES of fate /:
often harsh, severe and seemingly
unjust. I remember, as of yester-
day, the death of a young lawyer
named Wilson. 1t occurred over
fifty years ago, when the town was
newly laid out and it's streets as
yet unpaved: when it's inhabitants
were few and but lately associated.
The Wilson's, man and wife for
carce a year, came and establish
ed here their little household. The
future seemed bright before them
as why should it not abe? Yet but
a few months until the home was
broken by the grim reaper and the
sorrowing bride left disoonsolate.
1t impressed me peculiarly as be-
ing illogical and cruel, and the
thoughts that then came to my
youthful mind have required again
and again. With the death of the
young wife and mother chronicled
in this issue of the paper, they
come with renewed suggestion. A
few weeks ugo, in apparent good
health, happy in the care of a ten
der child and the love of a devoted
husband, life was to her a blessing
and the future full of promise.
Now the sleep that neither the af-
fiction of the one nor the loving
prattle of the other can dispel.
May the years to come deal kind
ly with them in part requital for
their present loss and affection, is
the prayer of the community.
Last Wednesday, October 9Th,
1910, a few intimate friends were
invited by Thompson Blanton to
spend the day with him in Flat
woods. The weather was any
thing but pleasant, a downpour Of
rain lasting all day, SO that a
number of those invited would not
venture on the other side OF
Grassy" but there were others
who would not be barred from
the enjoyment of Thompson's hos
pitality by a rainstorm, and be.
sides they knew the host (if con.
ditions were reversed) would nevel
"hicker" on account of inclemeni
weather. On arriving at the big
farm house it was ascertained thai
Mr.. Blanton was celebrating las hi
expressed it) the 40th anniversary
of his wife's "happy MARRIAGE
and Thompson knows how to en-
terrain. The day before he hat
killed plenty of game and giver
his wife a tip that he expected
company the next day. He mus
have told her that he expected {
great many visitors-for such {
table! Everything to eat that th'
store, fields or woods afford. Tit
guests, after driving over Grassy
Mountain, did ample justice to th'
bounteous spread. Mr.. Blantor
and family are living on the farm
where he was born. On Octobe
9th, 1870, he was married to Mis-
Caroline Frances Kinkead, OF Lib
ertyville, st. Francois county, Mo
He brought his bride Immediately
to his farm in the Flatwoods wher'
he has lived ever since. Tn,
Blanton family consists of tel
children-seven boys and tire
girls-four of whom are married
and if you could see Thompsol
riding his saddle horse after
pack of hounds, down the STEEP
mountain sides of the Ozarks
across fences and jumping fence
and mountain streams, you woul,
not believe he is grandfather Q
eight children. After dinner man,
interesting stories of an early da,
when there we're only a few set
tiers in the Flatwoods (Peaces
Lashleys and Belmars) were toll
and the guests departed with tn
sincere hope that happiness, peac
and prosperity might attend tn
Blanton family for many years t
come!
A woNDER-The special S7.t
Mems Suit with a pair of suspend
ers free at Browns is a wonder.