Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-09-13

Mrs. kelton White, whose wedding
in the early summer at Arcadia was
ore of the fashionable events of the
year, many St. Louisans motoring
down for the OCCASION"
a new movement for Food Con-
ser walton has been started in this
community. Miss Marian ii. Rogers,
a graduate of the Home Economics
Department of the University OF Mis-
souri,. has been appointed by the
government as District Home de-
Demonstration Agent, and will have
in her territory the six counties of
Ripley, Butler, Reynolds, Wayne,
Carter, Iron. The Agricultural Ex-
tension Service of the state Agricul-
tural College is in control OF the work
and it is financed by the new Federal
Food Control Bill. The work will be
dome in cooperation with the county
Agricultural Agents, the county
School superintendent, the county
Councils Of Defence, and other or
carnations interested in the welfare
of the community. Miss Rogers will
demonstrate canning, drying, baking,
house sanitation, and many other sub
jects of interest to the women Of the
county. She hopes soon to get in
fDltpl, with fro urpYY,Gniu and rir1si
clubs, the schools, and the M of
the various COMMITTEES so as to or
| ganize the work of food conserva-
ton. Any community desiring de-
demonstrations or help along any
line of Home Economics should
write to Miss Rogers at her head
quarters at Poplar Bluff.
For many months past the city OF
De Soto, 4j miles north, in jefferson
county, has been the Mecca OF those
| people hereabouts whose thirst re-
quires something more substantial
and satisfying than aqua pura to allay
it, In consequence frequent and nu-
meroug are the s~ojourners from the
arid wastes in the dry counties to the
oasis OF the Jefferson county metrop-
oils. Last Saturday afternoon a dem
lien of the valley boarded train No. 4
at the Ironton station to 20 to De Soto
where he purpoSed laying in q supply
ufthe comm oaity whose moderate use
is said to DO ''aDod for the stomach's
sake.' The train was late and this
Traveller OF ours realized that if he re-
turned to lronton on train g his So
iourn in De Soto would necessarily be
brief. But that didn't matter; he
would be abstemious i'll De Soto, lay
in a liberal supply, however, and have
Il big time when he got back home
again. (Another reason, it Is intimat-
ed, tuat this traveller had for being
temperate in his libations, when near
" half d hundred miles away from
home, is that in times past he has
bumped right into, come face to face.
, with that Missouri statute, made and
provided, which prohibits an intoXi-
Gated person from boarding a train
! Accordingly he confined himself tt
two or three glasses of beer while in
Do Soto, but he bought five full quartz
4 of bourbon whiskey, which he care
r fully packed in a basket and boarded
l train No. 8, homeward bound. AR.
/ irving at Ironton he placed his bas-
ket, with its precious contents, out
side the door, while he stepped inside
the station house TO deliver a mes
sage to John, the night man. He was
in the station not more than a min.
ute, no, not that long, but when he
rot outside basket and contents haC
: most mysteriously vanished, Gone!
absolutely disappeared! Just the
same as if the earth had opened aud
+, SWALLOWED them! Nor have any traces
/ of the missing treasure since beer
found. III bemoahing his great loss tt
( a friend the following day u travel
: er summed up his misfortune in these
8 words: "Did you ever hear Of sucl
: hard luck in all your life? Why, man
: they have stopped the manufacture o
whiskey in the United States, ant
g there are only $50, 000, 900 gallons lef
= in all this land Of ours! But I've
learned a lesson; v again will
t get off the train at the Ironton station
with such q load Of treasures! On Il
Arcadia every time for me %hereafter!
Seed Rye for Sale Famed an