Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-07-10

years. The deceased spent his boy
hood days here and was a son of the
late Paul GARNER, who for Sc many
years conducted q tailor shop and
clothing store in Ironton. Mr.. Gar
nier had been a letter carrier in the
st. Louis post-ofice for a number OF
years. He is survived by a widow,
three IONS and three daughters. In
terment was made Monday in VAL
halla cemetery.
The first threshing done in the val
ley this season was on Howes' Morn
ingthorpe FarmTuesday and Wednes-
day last. The yield was about $50
bushels from 40 acres. The thresher
went from Howes' to A. L. Schwab's,
west of town where 1900 bushels were
secured from 50 acres. The yield, in
quantity and quality, is hardly up to
expectations. The t~hresher, which
belongs to Mr.. Short of Pilot Knob,
went from the Sehwab farm to Iron
Mountain, where there is a big crop
to be threshed.
Automobile drivers in the valley
are telling of a dastardly practice be-
INDUCED in in the community; that of
placing tacks or nails on the highway
for the one purpose, of course, of
puncturing rubber tires. In many
instances the nails are driven through
a piece of card and placed on the
street or road with the point up. A
tire that happens on to one of them is
almost certain to be punctured. An
investigation is being conducted and
it is expected to make examples of
those gully of the nefarious practice.
County Superintendent Hanson
writes from Cape Gira1deau: 81 am
we'll located here and working hard.
Iron county is we'll represented in this
school. The following teachers are
here: Lizzie Russell, Belleview; Claud
Midyett, eViburnum; H. W. Lued-
decke, Pilot Knob; Alma Kendall,
Bernice Buckley, Esther Mckinley,
J. w. Mckinney and Edith Hotson,
Ironton; Ernest Funk, Anna polls;
Carl Farr, Des Arc. Will be home
for the meeting and hope to meet all
the teachers and school directors"
There was a large attendance on the
4th of July picnic given by the Iron
County Chapter of the American Le-
gion at Goulding's Park. 1t was an
ideal picnic day and the stands were
literally patronized. When evening
came everything had been sold. A
hundred and fifty cases of soda were
disposed of and as many gallons of ice
cream sold during the day. In vi9w
of these conditions the public was
somewhat surprised when the an
nouncement was made Saturday that
the picnic had been a financial fall
ure, the net proceeds being small.
R. L. Parks has been awarded the
contract for carrying the U. s. mail
from Glover to Centerville, at 49,
900 per year. This route is now being
carried from Glover to Lesterville by
car, and as soon as temporary bridges
can be put in between this place and
Lesterville the service will be extend
ed to Centerville. We understand
that as soon as the new road between
Centerville and Lesterville is open to
travel the route will be changed.
When we get a through car service to
Glover we will receive our st. Louis
morning mail by 9 or $50 O'clock
Centerville Outlook.
Elmer Cantrell, the negro bootleg
ger from De Soto who was convicted
in Justice Rasche's court a couple OF
weeks since and given a fine of $500
and costs, was released from custody
last Thursday, having given bond in
the sum of $500 for his appearance at
the October term of circuit court, to
which tribunal he had appealed from
the finding in the ju stice's court. The
bond is signed by Mr.. s. M. Bre VS.
ter, defendants attorney. Cantrell is
said to be under bond in the sum oil
$4,000 for his appearance at the Sep
TENDER term of the jefferson county
circuit court on the charge of high
way robbery.
We understand that the State High.
way Engineer will be here Saturday
June 9th, to meet the county court
and decide on the kind of bridges to
be erected between the Iron county
line and Ellington. This is a matter
that should concern every.citizen, at
least, we should all favor something
in the way of respectable bridges.
The people of the county are "paying
the freight" therefore why not have
some bridges that will serve the trav-
cling public in a satisfactory manner,
We have spent too much money or
our roads to now fall down on the