Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-07-15

water knee deep going home. Across
the river, in Cincinnati, Ohio, there
was great loss of life and destruction
of property.
Sligo Furnace Co. has recently sold
100000 railroad ties to 60 to eastern
roads that are repairing their tracks
in order to haul war supplies to the
Atlantic seaboard. These ties all
come from the billiard Country in the
southern part of the county, and will
be hauled over the Sligo and Eastern
Railway to Sligo Furnace and then
to Goltra on the Salem branch road;
thence, to the main line of the Frisco.
The Sligo Furnace Co. is loading and
shipping six cars of ties per day and
at that rate it will take in the neigh
borhood of four months to ship the
entire lot.-Steelville Mirror.
-Four automobiles from Ellington
passed through Centerville Saturday
morning. The cars we're driven by
Senator Buford, DIR. T. T. O'Dell, DR..
W. A. Copeland and W. q. Carter, and
each was accompanied by his family.
They were on their way to Hunts
Farm, whicht they reached via the new
automobile trail. Treasurer O. @.
O'Dell and family joined the party at
this place and Mr. O'Dell informs us
that the trip was made without incl
dent, and that fairly good time was
made over the.new road, which is in
pretty good shape except for a few
places where the grades are still
pretty steep. The party returned
that evening.-Reynolds County Out
look.
The Flat River ball team added two
more victories to its seasons record
during the past week by defeating
Ironton and Pennington. The team
won from Ironton on the latter's
ground last Saturday by a score of 4
to 8. This victory was due principally
to "Fatty'' Watson's great work both
on the mound and at the bat. "Fattyn
was in rare form and was quite stingy
with hits, allowing but four all told.
He retired II on strike outs. Watson
was also a leader with the stick.
When the game was all over he
owned four safe wallops out Of four
times at bat. "Dutch" Understood
with two %safeties, was the next best
hitter. Robinson pitched for Ironton.
Pennington News.
AS the story is there was an inter
esting time at the picnic at Croker
Town, in the west end of Iron county,
July 3D.. 1t seems that the wife of one
of the picuickers became impressed
with the idea that another woman
was paying too much attention to her
liege lord, or the liege lord was de-
voting too much time to the other
woman, one or the other, and she
declared war on the other woman
There was a great deal of talking and
some fighting, and the peace and har-
mony of the picnic and the community
was somewhat disturbed. Application
has been made for warrants, but none
issued, we are told, up to date. II
seems that the aggressors want tc
prosecute and the minions of the law
are at a loss to understand just how
that can be done.
The Teachers Meeting and School
Board Convention held at the Ironton
Public School building, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday last, was a very
interesting and we'll attended meet
irg. The teachers, 81 in number,
were all present and performed faith
fully the duties assigned them. Fifty
eight school board officers were
present and took part in many of the
discussions. The sessions held Thurs
day afternoon and Friday morning
were for the purpose of studying the
State Course of Study and laying
plans for the work the teachers will
do the ensuing year. Friday after
noon and Saturday morning, were
joint sessions of teachers and school
officers. During the last two sessions
such subjects were discussed as would
interest both teachers and patrons
Mr.. E. M. Carter, field man, for the
Cape Girardeau Normal school, was
present Friday and gave a very
practical talk on the rural schools Of
Missouri. Mr.. Carter is, in every
sense of the word, a very practica.
an enthusiastic school man. Mr.. Irion
from the State Department was also
present Friday afternoon and gave
a very instructive talk on the State
Course of study. He pointed out the
important changes that are to be
made, when the course is revised. He
also talked about the Teachers Train
ing Course in the Ironton Higf
School.