Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-12-05

hols. The warrant was sent to
Constable Reed at Des Arc who
arrested Nichols and locked him in
a room preparatory to taking him
to Middlebrook. When the officer
went away to change his clothes,
however, Nichols got out of the
room and fled. He was later To-
Gated at Gads Hill. Saturday he
was taken before Squire johnson
at Middlebrook who sentenced
him to thirty days in Jail. Mic
hols was brought here the same
day and will spend the holidays
as the guest of our genial sheriff.
Samuel Clay Bates and Ruth M.
Toney, both of Piedmont, we're
united in marriage by Rev. L. F.
AspIey at his home in Arcadia,
Saturday morning, November 80,
1913. Both parties were of legal
age, but it is said that the father
of the bride, DR.. Geo. W. Toney,
a we'll known physician of Pied
mont, bitterly opposed the match
and the young folk had to run
away in order to get married. To
get away from Piedmont without
being detected, the bride and her
kinsman, David johnson, walked
from Piedmont to Gads Hill, a
distance of five miles; there early
Saturday morning they met the
bridegroom, and the trio came on
to Ironton. The irate father tele-
phoned up and down the road and
sent word should the couple ap-
pear here not to grant a license
until he arrived. But both were
of age and license could not be re-
fused. After the wedding the
happy couple boarded the noon
train for home, and are doubtless
now, in full enjoyment of the par
entail forgiveness and blessing.
We hope so, anyway.
The Thanksgiving Entertain
ment at the Arcadia College last
Thursday evening was a treat to
those so fortunate as to be present.
l was debarred that pleasure, I'M
fortunately for myself, being abb
sent from the Valley. There was
a large attendance, am told, and
for two hours the auditors had
cause for elf-congratulation. Fol-
lowing is the programme, and it
speaks for itself:
The Misses Hildegarde Sellmeyer, &C.
leste Grimm, Fern Matthews and
Margaret Teahan.
THANKSGIVING Recitation and Action
.Minims.
PIANO QUARTETTE-Danse Neapolitaine
Sidney Smith..-.....The Misses Bessie
Flanagan, Margaret Lothman, Mary
Yates, and Elizabeth Lothman.
VOCAL DUET-"Autumn Glories" ...........
The Juniors.
RECITATIoN-''The First Party" ...,..M Miss
Alverna Greenburg.
ACTION S~oNG-"Play House With Me-
The Minims.
PIANO DUo-March asia....,.~G CORA
The Misses Carolyn McFadden and
Dorothy Quirk.
Aux rALIENs-Recitation......Mi Miss Fern
Matthews.
VOCAL DUET-Barcarolle.......- Denza
The st. Cecelia's Choral Club.
VIOLIN SoLo-Poet and Peasant. .Suppe
Violin-Miss Hildegarde Sellmeyer.
Piano-Miss Celeste Grimm.
Vocal SoLo-"Haunt OF the Witches"
Cassard........Miss Margaret Lind.
REcITATIoN-"My Lady's Leap"....Miss
Juliet Weinert.
OvERTURE-"Semirami ...~.-.,.. .Rossini
The Misses Kathleen Malugen, Marga-
ret Mason, Carolyn McFadden, Fran
ceS Mason, Elizabeth Schultz and
Agatha Kohn.
Vocal DUET-"Awake!" .......Pelissier.
The ST. Cecelia's Choral Club.
The friends of Herman A.
Kretschmar are mazing a determ-
ined effort to secure his release
from the Missouri penitentiary,
where he is serving an eighteen
year sentence for the killing of
Clarence N. Jones in St. Louis
about four years ago. Both men
we're we'll known in the valley.
Among those who have appealed
to Governor Hadley in Kretsch-
mars behalf is James Whitcomb
Riley, the Indiana poet of world
wide fame. Riley and Kretsch-
mar have been intimate friends for
a quarter of a century. MI. Riley
recently addressed the following
letter to Governor Hadley:
MY Dear Governor-Word has just reach
ed me that everywhere the friends of Her
man Kretschmar are making an earnest
and loving effort to secure by pardon his
release from the Missouri State Penitentiary,
As one who knew him well, who admired
him greatly, who was ever won to him by
his endearing personality and who is still
proud to call him friend, | wish to add my
plea to those already presented.
WereI able physically, l should consider
it a privilege to journey to Jefferson City
that l might make my duplication in per-
son. But this is denied me and / must ask
you to read into this letter the warmth and
urgency of the spoken word.
That my friend has,or ever had, any gull 1t
in his soul is as unthinkable to me as that
vice and virtue are one and inseparable.
If ever an honest, straightforward, kindly
eye sparkled in the head of a true man, it
sparkled in the head of Herman Kretsch-
mar.
If he were to be made a warning to 9th
ers, has not the lesson been driven fully
homer
And so, my dear Governor, | ask that the
poor fragments of my friends unhappy life
be given into his own keeping, believing in
all sincerity that he will weld them into a
golden whole, to his own peace and to the
benediction OF Him who grants them.
With great respect, believe me, faithfully
yours, JAMES WHlTcoMB RILEY.
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