Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-04-22
A Raw Deal.
tFarmington News.

(Farmington News.)
A few years ago there was verbal
understanding between the st. Fran
co.'s county court and the Jefferson
county court that if the former would
erect steel bridge over Big River
aud improve the seven miles of the
Bonne Terre and DeSoto road from
Bonne Terre to the county line that
Jefferson county would improve that
part of the road in its county. St..
Francois county carried out her part
OF the agreement. The bridge alone
cost nearly $1,000, and the road fully
as much more. Jefferson county lack
ed three miles of very rough road of
finishing her part. Recently County
Clerk Wulfert received letter from
the County Clerk of Jefferson county
stating that the court there would
take up the question Of finishing up
the road on Wednesday and inviting
any of our citizens interested to APP
pear before the court that day. Notice
was made of the letter in the county
papers and on Wednesday perhaps
as many as 25 automobile loads of
people from Pennington and the lead
belt made the trip to Hillsboro.
Among the number were the members
Of the present county court, Mr.. Wul-
fert, Assessor Wells, e. A. Rozier,
president Of the Pennington Com
mercial Club, Ex-Judges John Mar
shall and 0. J. Mayberry, heads of the
various lead companies and many
others. There were also present at
Hillsboro q great many persons from
st. Louis, DeSoto Ironton and other
places interested in the Improvement
Of this stretch of road. The Jefferson
county court surprised those present
by stating that if they would raise
$4,000 and the State pay $4,000 that the
court would appropriate a like
amount, provided if the work amount
ed to more than $4,000 the visitors
would raise the balance. Those pres
ent agreed to donate approximately
$4,000 if the court would make the inn
provement, but the latter would not
agree to do this. Thereupon Ex-
Judge Marshall, of Bonne Terre, told
the Jefferson county officials in plain
English how they had utterly failed to
keep their agreement with the people
of this county. While the three miles
of unimproved road is very rough, it
is said that it would be easily graded
and with abundant road building ma
terial nearby its improvement should
notcost over $4,000 at the most.
While the visitors from this and
other counties were before the court,
the sheriff of Jefferson county in
vestigated the fifty or more automo-
biles in town to see il he Couldn't find
license tag out of place or some
other excuse for making an arrest
He found three or four cars without
tags, two of them from Pennington.
One of them was the car driven by
Judge Mayberry. The tag happened
to be lying in the car instead Of at
tached to the rear end, it having come
lose and had not been replaced. The
other car was new one from the st.
Francois County Motor 90. in which
Assessor Wells and other members of
the county court had made the trip.
This car was operated under Dealers
permit as are all new unsold cars.
Jefferson county officials insisted that
Mr.. Wells plead guilty but he refused
to do so and gave bond for his appear
ance in court there on June 9th. He
said no less than 20 Jefferson county
citizens volunteered to GO his bond.
Of all the raw deals we ever heard
Of, that given their visitors by the
Jefferson county officials Wednesday
takes the cake.