Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-06-04


fered to take the bonds at par provid-
ed he is allowed a commission of $500
for printing the bonds and other ex-
pense incident to making the issue.
The ordinance provides that the in
terest on the bonds are payable here.
An endeavor viii be made to change
this so as to make the interest pay
able in st. Louis. To make this change
it may be necessary to enact a new
ordinance.
Judge VIM. A. Townsend this week
announces as a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for County
Judge of the Western District of
Iron County. Judge Townsend has
filled this position the past two years
and has proven himself a careful and
painstaking officer. On the record
he has made his friends insist that he
is entitled to a denomination and
election.
The neighboring little city of Pied
mont has made a ten-strike in be-
coming a member of the Midwest
Associated Chautauquas, a circuit
which embraces several of the larger
cities of the State. The program
includes lecturers of international
celebrity, and musical organizations
and entertainers famous throughout
the country. Adult season tickets,
$500; Children, 8 to IA, $1.00. The
Chautauqua opens Juue 21st afd con
tinues six days, with two sessions
daily. You can get tickets by writing
to any Bank or Business House in
Piedmont, or to B. French, Secretary,
Piedmont, Mo.
The Pilot Knob school board has
been in a dead lock the past month.
or more over the election of teachers
for the ensuing year. Three mem
beers of the board Messrs. Phalan,
Miller and Janke, are in favor of re-
employing the teachers who taught
the past year, r. E. Marshall and
Miss Essie Tolleson. The three other
members of the board, Messrs.
Schleuter, Mauzy and Koehler, want
to employ James McCallum Of Madi-
son county and Miss Virgie Mauzy of
Pilot Knob And there you are.
Prof. Marshall says that unless the
board soon makes a choice hee will
: withdraw from the contest. Pilot
Knob has an eight months school.
The principals pay is $75 a month,
the primary teacher gets $50a month
Rev. III. G.. Colwell, OF St. Louis,
Secretary of the Missouri Baptist AS
sembly, was a valley visitor Saturday
= He spent most of his time on Arcadia
; Heights and was most agreeably sur
prised at the many improvements
that had been made since he was here
last summer. Three attractive pri-
vate bungalows have been completed
! and the four Assembly bungalows are
well under way. The big reservoir
and other improvements are in pro.
gress. Mr.. Colwell says the 1914 As
sembly promises to excel all that have
3 gone before. Just at present, though
r he is more interested and enthusiastic
over his own household than anything
e else. A baby boy arrived at the Col
r we'll home sever weeks ago, and, o
: course, there never was n just liK'
: him. Mr.. Colwell, wife and bah,
leave st. Louis this week on a tire
# weeks visit to relatives in Loveland
Colorado.
"Uncle" Chris Oesterle, of st. Louis
spent a few days with Farmingtoi
relatives and friends the past week
d Prior to last year Mr.. Oesterle ha
been in the mercantile at Middlebrool
for fifty years. He was one of tn
s. German pioneers Of that country an
d we'll remembers Iron Mountain be
: fore and during its palmiest days
# When the Iron Mountain railroad wa
surveyed through that country in tn
%fifties> he was a young IA and re
ir members plotting the surveying Gre
on a turkey hunting expedition on
If day. Although game was very plenti
/. full in those days the average hunter
equipment was so crude that he di
IN not have much better success tina
r. the hunter of to-day has with h
"a automatic repeater. Mr.. Oesterle
as nearing eighty but is enjoying vel
good health. Since the death of h
is aged companion about a year ago |
ca has been making his home with b
lie son, Fred, in st. Louis. He has mar
friends here who are always glad
see him.-Farmington News.
H. Last Sunday evening for two fu
n hours I was free from the cares
ty earth, being transported into the Lar
il of Music and Song-about the nea
at est approach to the bounds of heavt
Oh we mortals are permitted to attai
he | had been favored with an invit
,st ton to attend a Senior Recital at A
or cadia College given by Miss Hid
NO garde~ Sellmeyer, assisted by Miss @
leste Grimm, vocalist, and Miss Eliz
Il. beth Schultz, accompanist. Miss Sci
a. meyer is wonderful in her proicien
~ on both piano and violin; Miss Grim
l. is as entertaining a vocalist as | ha
~ ever heard; while Miss Schultz as a