Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-07-06


State Department. These certificates
are equivalentto the hrst-grade coun-
ty certificates. In view of the fact
that Mr.. Gass further writes that IA
or aduates of the Training Course in
the various counties throughout the
state were denied state certificates,
Mr.. Shoop is proud of the showing
made by the Ironton graduates.
Rev. Joel T. Mitchell and wife left
Tuesday for Plainville, Kansas, where
they will make their future home. We
wish them well.
o. l.. Garrison, President, w. L.
Schmick, Vice President and General
Manager of the Big Muddy Coal & Iron
Company, Edward F. Goltra and W.
H. Ohnsorg, of st. Louis, arrived in
Ironton last Saturday on train No. 8
in Mr.. Goltra's private car The pur-
pose of their visit was to inspect the
Pilot Knob mines and arrange for i'm
mediate prospecting. The establish
ment of the new blast furnace in Ca
rondelet, which will soon be in active
operation, very likely mean the re-
sumption of work in our mines. We
certainly hope SO. The party return
ed to st. Louis on train No. 4. Satur-
day afternoon.
Two men, two women and two
small boys in a Ford car, carrying a
camping outfit, reached Bonne Terre
Tuesday forenoon. These tourists
are headed for the New York State.
They left their home in San Diego,
California, on May 10Th last, in the
little Ford car and made a stop of ten
days in Oklahoma. The men are
carpenters by trade and will be
employed here by Contractor Joseph
Stretesky. While the men ply their
trades, the women and children will
enjoy a much needed rest, after
which they will again bring the little
Ford into service and continue their
iourney.-Bonne Terre News.
Receiver B. F. Bush of the Missouri
Pacifc-Iro Mountain .said Tuesday
that he had been authorized by the
Federal Court to expend SIT 900 for
the Missouri Pacific and $780, 900 for
the st. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern, in improvements and bet
terments for the physical upkeep of
both properties. These OUTLAWS will
include new stations, passing tracks,
Improvements at terminal points,
shops, etc. The lines will be put in
J fine condition for meeting the heavy
| traffic demands of the fall season.
| The earnings continue to show large
: gains over last year and business in all
sections is on the up grade.-Globe-
Democrat.
Our north end friend, Aug. Rieke,
, was moving around quite uneasily
one day recently over the loss of q
new $50 watch. He looked, as he
thought, everywhere for the missing
time piece, but it could not be found.
| and he had about come to the con.
| ~clusion that it was gone for good
T But that night, while tossing on 9
8 sleepIess bed, and doubtless 5emoan'
ing his loss, he recalled that he haC
been pulling weeds in the garden
the day before and the watct
s might have fallen from his poke
D while at work. Bright and early mex
morning he hurried to the garden
and there, mid the weeds and grass
!, he found his watch, just where it hac
i fallen from his pocket.
E. w. Campbell, an employee of the
Bonnie Terre Company, came to Iron.
d ton Saturday in his automobile witt
his wife and boy, on his way to Rain
bow Dam, to catch frogs that night
On a former trip Mr.. Campbell sue
: ceeded in getting 40 fine frogs in one
night. A bright light is fastened tt
> the boat, and its rays either lure Of
Q blind the frogs, so that the occupant
g of the boat may glide up to them and
Q reach out and catch them with hi
a hand. Sometimes it is necessary tc
use q gig but not often. Mr.. Camp
n bell says it is fine sport. He belong!
It in this section, having been reared il
: the Roselle neighborhood, but ha
d been in Bonnie Terre the past eighteen
years, where he has a responsible ant
lucrative position with the st. Jot
Lead Company.
A. O. McKibbin, Campaign Mana
ger of the Permanent Bridge and Roa'
Association of Missouri, Mathew F
Morse, Secretary Of the st. Louis Aut
Club, and Edward Cooke, all of st
Louis, arrived in Ironton Friday ev
ening in an automobile on their way
y home from the Ozark Trails conven
ton, having left Springfield that morn
: ing. They came from Salem to Blk
by, thence to Brule and Ironton. Thu
road, between Bixby and Brule, a dis
i lance Of about % miles, should be re
moved from the creek bottoms anC
placed on the ridges, they say, an
y the cost, they maintain, would be sur
prisingly small. That accomplished
n Mr.. McKlbbin, who is an expert roa'
man, says the Iron county portion G
10 the proposed cross state line will bt
in good trim. When the route is es
is tablished ii is said it will be traverse
" bv. at least. On. non automobiles. annu