Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-05-28

st. Louis from the time of the mound
builders to the civil war. The Masque
will be given after dark and will be a
spectacular, symbolic Interpretation
of the future st. Louis.
W. D. Wright, for seventeen years
a member of the police force in st.
Louis, and his wife were callers at
this office last Saturday. Mr.. Wright
recently bought what is known as the
Payne farm, near the Silver Mines in
Madison County, and will make his
home thereon in the future. We
found Mr.. Wright and his good wife
to be most pleasant folk and we hope
they will be much pleased with their
rural home. For a number of years
past Mr.. Wright has served as desk
sergeant in one of the police stations.
Mrs. Efie Chiffon, aged GA years,
and wife of a prominent farmer and
stockmsn, of near Des Arc, died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. ]. B..
Reno, at Rivermines about three
o'clock Wednesday morning. Mrs.
Chiffon had been at the home of her
daughter only a few days. The cause
of death was pneumonia. The re-
mains were taken to Des Arc yester-
day for burial. The husband was in
st. Louis at the time of his wife's
death, having gone there a few days
ago with a car load of CATTLE
Pennington News.
Married, at the Methodist church at
Holcomb, Saturday, May 18th, in the
presence of a few friends, Miss Allie
Hogue and Robt. s. Douglass, Rev.
]. w. Hatcher officiating. Both are
well known Dunklin county young
people, the bride being the daughter
of John A. Hogue, and m OF the
teachers in the school of that city,
and the groom a son of A. W. Doug
lass, of Senath. Both have hosts OF
friends who wish them a long and
happy married life, among whom the
Democrat wishes to be numbered
They will make their home in Hol-
comb.-Dunklin Democrat.
The committees in charge of the
various arrangements for the Burke
and Hobbs revival which begins al
1880 P. M. on Sunday, May 31st, will
begin work next week, completing
final arrangements for the meeting
A meeting Of the revival association
which was organized several week
ago has been called for next Monday
at 9 O'Clock at fuckers Hall and thu
members of the various committee
are especially requested to be present
The large tent-90 by 100 feet-arriv
ed this week. The evangelists ar
now at their home in Kansas City
They recently concluded a very sue
cessful meeting at Kingfsher, Okla
homa.-Flat River Correspondence,
to the Pennington News.
The Missouri Supreme Court in a.
opinion handed down a few days ag'
declared unconstitutional the bill
making the probate Judge a Judge 0
the JUVENILE court in counties havin
SO, 900 population and less. Judg
r. F. Walker, who wrote tn
opinion in the case, said the pu1
. poses and intentions of the law ar
good, but it conflicts with the con
stitution and is of no force. Judg
Walker in his opinion, spoke of tn
excellent purposes of the law, hoy
it served to separate erring boys fror
hardened criminals and how orphan
may be cared for and homes found TO
them. The decision of the court
abolishes the Juvenile court and pro
baton officer.
The closing exercises of the Ironto
Public Schools were held at tn
Academy of Music last Wednesday
{ Thursday and Friday evenings. | at
tended the first evening, but, OWN
to other engagements, could not b
present at the other entertainments
, which I am told were very gratifyin
to the auditors. The said first evenin
was devoted to the Primary Depart
ment, and the exercises were indee
entertaining. The little folk appei
: to me-: they are SO earnest in the.
!. ehdeavor, and themselves SO EMO
the several parts allotted them, thu
i, I do not envy the heart that does M
respond to their efforts. The song
dramatizations, ETC., quickly passe
the two hours required for their pre-
!, sentation and the big audience de
: parted with self-approval for havin
attended.
f The board of directors of the Piet
8 mont Tri-C ounty Fair is beginning
lay plans for a fair this fall SO mue
Q superior to all past expositions hel
: that the attendance will be greatly il
creased, the exhibits more extensiN
than ever before, and general sati
faction be assured. In furtherance
this policy it was tentatively resolves
! at the regular semi-monthly meetin
. Of the board, Friday night, to doub
. the premiums this year on horse
? cattle, sheep and hogs. Some con
plant has been made in the past
: the amounts of the premiums on sue
exhibits. The action Of the board
% doubling the premiums is intended
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