Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-08-14


ments will be provided and 3 speaker
OF prcminence will be in attendance
and discuss the important issues of the
day. There will be a ball game in the
afternoon between the Graniteville
and Pilot Knob clubs. The dance
will take place in Workmen's Hall at
night. Admission, 81 per couple.
Everybody invited to come and have
a good time.
Poplar Bluff Republican: "Joel
Ketcherside of Chloride, Iron County,
and Miss Stella Gale of Poplar Bluff
were married Tuesday afternoon at
the Office of Probate Judge D. B.
Deem, the latter officiating. The
groom is a well known farmer of his
community in Iron county, and also
a railroad man. The bride has made
her home with Mr.. and Mrs. W. N.
Pace of this city and is an Accomplish
ed young lady. The wedding by
choice of the contracting parties was
a quiet affair, witnessed by Mrs. Pace
and a few other friends. The couple
will make their home in Iron county"
Willis Tate, who is working with
the surveyors out of Centerville,
brought to our Office last Friday an
old insulator which was found about
two and a half miles south of Center
vile. The old insulator is about six
inches in length and is incased in
wood. In 1862 or 1868 the govern
ment put up a telephone line from
Pilot Knob, in Iron county, to Van
Buren,, Carter county, and the insu-
lator was one used on the line 1t is a
peculiar design covered with wood
and between the ~insulator and wood
is a thick coating of pitch. Center
vile Outlook.
Monday evening Miss Bernice Buck
ey's class, composed of Mae Light,
Mildred Calvert, Gladys Lovelace,
Maud Light, Roberta Rudy, Margaret
Reed, Mabel Lovelace, and May
Whitehead, accompanied by their
guest, Alma Kinney, and c~haperons,
Misses Bernice Buckley and Catherine
Bush, walkediout to Mr.. W. Fl. Lights
farm for a picnic supper. After a
delicious supper and pleasant time
spent at the spring, the entire crowd
enjoyed a hay ride to Pilot Knob.
Among others who joined the class on
the ride were Misses Ester Kinney
and Ruth Rudy and Messrs. Delmer,
Ranie, and Louie Light. Everyone
appreciated very much Mr.. Lights
kindness in giving them the delightful
ride.
The Times is pleased to note that
the work of pumping the water from
the immense reservoir, or lake, al
Iron Mountain continues to go for
ward uninterruptedlys and that the
Is horse power pump keeps chugging
away day and night, drawing an un'
ending stream of water of considera.
BILE size from that immense body, the
effect being that the reservoir is being
rapidly lowered. When this work il
completed, then mining operations
will be pressed forward on a better
regulated scale than it has ever be-
fore been carried on in Iron Mountain
and the hope of Capt. Elledge, the
new owner of that great property, il
that very soon he will be able to keer
a large force of men regularly en-
ployed in taking out that splendid iror
ore, of which there is every evidence
of being unlimited quantitie s.-Farm
ington Times.
In the Clayton Advocate of Angus
1st is found the following under thu
head of "The Ancient Mariner" from
the pen of John w. Jaquith, a forme
resident of Pilot Knob: "It was al
Ancient Mariner, and he stopped on,
Of three. "Canst tell" quoth he
San ancient man where he can int
some 'skee'?" He held me with hi
%glittering eye, l could not choose blu
hear-"The best that l can do,o quot
/, sis ONE two -three-quarter beer.
He held me with his glittering eye
II shot an albatross, and now, for
sooth, a shot of rye, 80, DO, pleas
come across" "Heaven help thee
Ancient Mariner, from the thirst tina
; plaques thee SO; you may have sho
an albatross, but there's no shot 0
} IOld Crow" "There's water in tn
bub'ling brook and at the fountain
brink; yea, water, water everywhere
but not a drop to drinks"
@. H. Cox and son, j. R. Cox, for
mer residents of ~Belleview, are nov
in Wichita, Kansas, and the followin
from a recent issue of the Wichit
Eagle will be of interest to their Iro.
county friends: "A deal has recently
been completed whereby O. H. Coz
| and son, ]. r. Cox, succeed to thu
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