Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

opment soon. Saw mills, spoke
and hub factories will clear the
land, which will then be used for
horticultural, agricultural and
grazing purposes. Paul Brown of
st. Louis and other tobacco ex-
perts pronounce the land to be
ideal for tobacco, and much of it
will be used for this purpose by
Tennessee and Kentucky farmers.
Another deal has been closed by
st. Louis, Terre Haute and Gosh
octon (0hio) capitalists for 1000
acres near here, which contain an
extra fine quality of granite.
Quarries soon will be opened and
and a railway line constructed
from here, if the Illinois Southern,
which is extending west, does not
reach this property"
S During the session of the county
court last Friday, the petition
praying for submission OF the To-
cal option question to the voters
of Madison county, was taken up
for consideration, and upon in
vestigation the petition was found
to be in such a bad shape that it
was impossible to reach any INTEL
ligent conclusion regarding it's
legality. so the court by a vote of
two to one made an order denying
the petitioners a vote upon the
question at this time. What future
action the signers may take in this
matter is not known, but as the
matter stands now ouly the city
will have to vote on local option
in the near future. The city coun-
Gil, at an adjourned session last
Thursday night made an order for
a special election upon local option
to be submitted to the qualified
voters of Fredericktown on Satur-
day, September II, 1909, at which
time the people of this town will
be called upon to say whether
saloons shall or shall not be es-
tablished in our town.-Frederick-
town Tribune.
From fridays Post Dispatch:
According to telephone reports
to the Post Dispatch from Iron
Mountain and Bismarck, Mo-, a
dirigible airship of the cigar
shaped gas bag pattern, carrying
three persons, passed over that
section of Southeast Missouri late
Wednesday night, travelling swift
ly in a northerly direction. A son
of Supt. Parsons of the st. Joe
Lead Works at Bonnie Terre, who
is camping on the shore of Iron
Mountain Lake, said he saw the
ship distinctly. Other members
of his party also saw it, they say.
Mr.. Parsons said the airship car
ried lights which enabled him to
see that three persons were aboard.
He thinks the craft was flying not
more than 400 feet above the earth.
The Parsons campers were awak-
ened in their tents by the whirring
of the %propellors and the popping
of the gasoline motor. They
rushed outside and were astounded
by the mysterious craft, speeding
toward st. Louis with steady,
even motion. Mr.. Parsons hailed
the air voyagers, who shouted
down to him, but he was unable
to understand what they said.
The bag envelope, according to
campers, was about rs feet long.
At Bismarck, four miles north OF
the lake, several persons are said
to have seen the ship. Iron
Mountain Lake is an artificial
body of water made by the dam
ming of a creek on the 100, 000-
acre property of w. H. Smollinger.
who purchased the entire town OF
Iron Mountain and the abandoned
iron mines a few years ago. The
lake is in st. Francois county, neal
the Iron county line. 1t is five
miles north of the Arcadia Valley.
where many st. Louisans have
summer homes. The fact that the
airship seen by the Parsons party
and others had not been reported
since may be accounted for, it is
believed by those familiar with
the topography north of Iron
Mountain and Bismarck, by the
theory that the ship descended ir
the woodland region. many miles
from a railroad. There are sparse.
ly settled tracts of large extent il
Washington county, over which
the ship must pass if st. Louis wa'
its objective point"
Occasionally, I go to st. Louis
but never in hot weather, if avoid
ance is possible. The recollection
of two or three August experience
in that city some years ago is {
sufficient bar to a desire for it,
newer sights and summer garden
pleasures. The s~uffocating hea
of the grandest' ever Union Station
as it is recalled, makes me gas]
for breath even now, under tn,
outrageous spread Of the oal
with the breezes of heaven playin,
in my whitening locks. The vapor
bath bedrooms of certain down
town hotels open the pores Of my
cuticle in mentalic sympathy ant
beads of sweat crown my nobl,
brow or stream adown the stubble
field of my rugged (not corrugated
cheeks. Here in the aerial Ozark
heat p%rostrations are as rare as
snow-storms in July, while tn,
victims of sunstroke in the cit,
are numbered by the hundred
Thousands feel impelled to flee
their urban environments ant
seek mountain and lake in abate
ment of their sufferings. Man,
come here and abide with us unit
the cooling winds of "sweet Sep
tember" give them warrant TO