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SEA COAST ECHO JULY 4,	1908
(Died July 1, 1908)
Sea Coast Ecbo.
ECHO BUILDING.
Entered at the Bay St. Louis postofllce as second-class mail matter.
LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE ’PHONE: 3.
Subscription: $1.50 per Tear, in Advance. ANNOUNCEMENT FOR CONGRESS.
We are authorized to announce HON. E. J. BOWERS, of Hancock County, at a candidate ia the Democratic primary for re-nomination to the 61it Congress from the 6th District of Mississippi.
THE BAY
PICTORIUM,
On tho Beach Front—Opp. Echo Bldg.
CHANGE OF MOVING PICTURES DAILY. Beautiful Illustrated Song at Every Performance.
A popular resort for ladies, children and gentlemen.	C
Nothing cheap but the price of admission. W. A. S1GERS0N, Prop’r.
DEATH OF JOHN B. 100R.
Hon. John B. Ioor died at his homo in Hancock street on Tuesday morning at about 1 o’clock, after a lingering illness extending oyer a period of five months. During the winter he fell a victim of the then prevailing grip, and, while he recovered from the!malady, he never rallied from its effect, but continued to grow
The death of Judge Ioor, while not a surprise to our people who were acquainted with long illness and the seriousness of his condition, came nevertheless as a shock, for no man was better known, more highly respected and regarded than he. For twenty y,ears continuously he served the people of the city of Bay St. Louis in the official capacity as tax-assessor and collector and so well did he hold this trust and so efficiently did he discharge the duties of the office, that his hold on it was well-nigh impregnable. Before his election to the office in 1888, he was justice of the peace for this, the fifth district, having first been appointed by the governor, then elected for another term by the people, and finally he resigned, at no time wanting the office. When the governor first appointed him he was urged by his friends to accept the trust and the honor and when elected to another term it was at the solicitation of his friends. A candidate for assessor every two years since 1888, he never made a canyass, nor solicited one vote, for he would tell his friends and the public that if the people wanted his services to continue and if he had served them well enough to be rewarded with another term they were the best judges, and it was left to their consideration to do so.
As tax-assessor and collector he was particularly painstaking and always successful in the discharge of his duties. No man knew better the location of property, values, etc., than he. He was a strong champion of a full assessment and small tax levy; for, he said, the present method of a low assessment cheapened property and the high rate of taxation kept outsiders and investors away—a contention in which he was eminently correct.
Coming to Bay St. Louis thirty-one years ago, he resided in this city ever since. He had never married, but lived with his two sisters, Miss Ella Ioor and Miss Maria Ioor, and one brother, Harry Ioor, the only surviving near relatives. He was particularly fond of Bay St. Louis, and never failed to put in a good word for the place, and his shoulder was ever ready to brace the wheel of industry and progress, connected with a number of its industrial enterprises from time to time and identified with every move ment calculated to redound to its moral, material and general welfare.
One of his large and successful undertakings of late years was the building of a new town, “Clermont City”, in which work he was associated with F.
C.	Bordages, Sr., ancl which enterprise helped considerably to build up that part of the county in which it is located. His doath occurred just on the eyo of big developments, but these will not be interrupted bj his demise.
John B. Ioor was born in Wilkinson county, Miss., and was 63 years of age. At the outbreak of the war between the States he went forward in the conflict and bore arms all the way through and was finally discharged at the close of the war. At the time of his death he was a member of Camp Featherstone, of Hancock county, and his comrades in arms acted as honorary pall bearers, namely: D. B. Seal, G. \V. Maynard, W. A. Dill, S. P. Driver, Charles T. Cowand, Edwin Carver.
The funeral took place oA Wednesday afternoon at 5 o’clock from the late residence, Rev. Dr. N, Logan, pastor off Christ Episcopal church, officiating. Services were conducted at the late residence, where • the choir, led by Mrs. Will T. McDonald, rendered a number of soul-inspiring hymns. The active pall bearers were:	Joseph	F. Caze-
neuve, E. H. Hoffmann, Frank J. Ladner, F. C. Bordages, Sr., Richard Men-des and John A. Breath. Interment was had at beautiful Ceder Rest Cemetery, where all that was mortal of our friend, Judge Ioor, was tenderly laid to rest beneath the hallowed sod, to sleep the peaceful sleep that comes only to those I who have labored within the narrow j paths of loyalty and fealty to his Maker, ] to those who have followed the precept^ that makes us all better Christians and citizens—the golden rule.