Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1921-06-30
BIxBY ITEMS.

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c. G. Clay made a business trip to
Salem Saturday, returning Sunday,
bringing with him Mrs. Clays aunt,
Mrs. Watson, for a visit with them.
G. w. Hughes and family are spend
ing this week in st. Louis. Mr.. Hughes
is attending the Head Camp of the
Modern Woodmen; and Mrs. Hughes is
visiting her brothers and sisters fam
lilies, who reside in the city.
James A. Arnold, the captain of the
local baseball team, sustained a
sprained ankle in the game to-day,
which may incapacitate him for play
ing in the big" game with the Gran
iteville team next Sunday. We notice
that he is going on one leg tonight.
We trust, however, that he will recu-
perate so that he can play, for he is one
of our best players, and we expect to
have to put forth the best that is in us,
if we beat Graniteville.
The Bunker baseball team failed to
"show up" to-day as promised; but the
sWater Fork" team from north of
Stonehill in Dent county, came and
gave us a Twist. A. w. Schwieder
stwirled" for Bixby to-day, for the
first game he has played this season,
and held the visitors down to a very
few hits and but three runs. Our boys
took the game and ran away with it in
the very first inning, making four
runs in that inning and winding up the
game with a final score of fourteen.
Clarence Freeman scored the first
home run of the season for our team.
The delegates who attended the big
$50, 100000 road convention in the
state capital have returned home, and
report a large and enthusiastic meet
ing and hearty reception by the 51st
General Assembly and the people of
the city. The houseaof representatives
were kind enough to invite the conven-
ton to sit in their assembly room in
the capitol, which invitation the
convention accepted with much pleas
ure. The members of the house and
the senate were invited to attend the
meetings and take part in its deliber-
ations, which many of them did. Res
olutions were passed favoring the
building of at least two hard-surfaced
highways in each county, n running
north-south and one east-west as near
the center of the county as practicable
and connect with the highways in adj
Ding counties and to follow where prac'
ticable the inter-countyseat roads al
ready laid out; favoring the enactment
of laws defining hard-surfaced roads
to include graveled roads, a law re-
curing at least $5,000,000 per year tc
be spent in improving the roads
through all the counties, a law pro
viding for the states own financing oil
the bonds, a constitutional amendment
providing for the up-keep of the roads
from the proceeds of a part of thS
bonds; and opposing the patronizing Of
the cement trust until they were will,
ing to sell cement at a reasonable prof
it e cost of production. A minority
in the convention favored the improv'
ing of all mail routes; but the majority
thought that it would spread the
$50, 000,0 900 out so "thin' that none o.
the roads would be permanently bene
flied, since there are upwards O.
10000 miles of ~post-roads in the state
The main idea of the convention seem
ed to be to steer clear of the cemen'
trust and it's proposed solid concrete
highways, of which $50, 000,0 900 woult
build only about 1900 or 1000 miles
The ideas of the members of the legis
llataFe- who expressed themselves, AM
there were many, seemed to be in per
feet harmony with the majority of thu
convention; so if they vote like the!
talk, we may rest assured that tn
money will be equitably distributes
and economically spent, and the who'll
matter left entirely out of politics.
June II. NON PARTISAN.