Iron County register., 1922-09-07
Yours for service,
r. W. STANDFIELD, Pastor.

rldb RifoE N6We' luo COuphuy
operating the iron mines at Iron
Mountain are making extensive pre-
.parations to resume mining at this
old property on large scale. Fred
Beard has been awarded the contract
to sink shaft 400 feet deep. Work
on this shaft was started last Satur-
day. Three shifts are being employ
ed and the shaft will be bottomed as
rapidly as possible. The company is
also making preparations to erect a
mill. We have been informed by
miners at work at the Mountain that
an extensive body of ore has been
discovered there"
The wheat yield in the valley was
very light as a rule, ranging from 21-2
bushels per acre up. The best yield
reported in this immediate vicinity
was trife under IA bushels per acre
by Stark Farm. The strain of wheat
is called Michigan Wonder and was
obtained by Mr.. Stark few years
ago from the College of Agriculture
at Columbia. That it is superior
variety is proven by the fact that this
is the second successive season that
it has out yielded anything else under
similar conditions, making 20 bushels
per acre last year on Mr., SIS seed plot.
1t is smooth headed wheat with a
very strong straw.
DIR. and Mrs. J. L. Hickman arrived
home last Friday from their automo-
bile trip of three weeks duration
through Iowa, Minnesota and Ne
braska. According to the Doctor
their trip was most enjoyable one,
and one which he hopes to take again
next summer. After leaving st. Louis
the party found excellent roads
throughout the entire trip and at vari-
Gus towns which they visited or stop
ped for the night, they were accorded
the fullest hospitality of the citizen
ship. DR.. Hickman says that practic-
ally every town OF any size along the
main highways in the northern states
has tourist campin or near the town,
where tents, water, fuel. stoves, in
fact most every convenience, is furn
ished without charge to visitors. In
formation bureaus are also at hand to
direct tourists to all points of interest
and to furnish information regarding
the condition of roads, etc. DR.. and
Mrs. Hickman were accompanied by
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Miller and Miss
Minnie Miller of Des Arc. Piedmont
Journal Banner.
| Fredericktown Democrat-News
conservative estimates place the
crowd that assembled in front of the
Thompson and Ivy stores Saturday
afternoon at 5000. The occasion was
the drawing for the Ford automobile
which these stores were to give away
For more than three months both
stores had given a ticket with every
so cent purchase and by that means
about $4,000 tickets had been distribut.
ed. One of the rules of the contest
was that at the drawing the holder OF
the lucky ticket must be present
which rule contributed largely to the
crowd. A huge receptacle contained
the stubs Of the numbered tickets and
after, they were stirred and mixe6
thoroughly, Alfred Rowland drew out
the winning ticket, Number 1854
Mr.. Rowland was called upon to dc
the drawing because he was one ot
the half dozen in the crowd who had
no tickets of his own. After few
moments, Miss Louise Damron dis
covered that she held the correspond
ing number and the car was given her
1 Sh ortly thereafter Miss Damron sole
the car to Floyd Sanders of lower
/ Twelve Mile.n
Desloge Sun: "Carl Brim, who
spent last week in the Annapolis
country, twenty miles south of Iron
|ton, reports that the Annapolis Leat
Co. is now building mill, has 2O'
men on their pay roll and expects t,
add to this number as soon as con
struction is completed. The Stat,
\ Highway to Poplar Bluff, which i
liz now under construction, passe
through this section which also SWELL
the population of Annapolis. Apou
i fifty men are employed as road build
ers on this project. Sixty govern
ment buildings, that have been pur.
4 chased at q Tennessee cantonment
are now in transit and will relieve tn,
\ housing situation. Men who have
! held responsible positions with loca
lead companies are in charge OF con
struction. the plant is ELECTRICAL,
\ equipped throughouttw two dynamo
that cost approximately 100000 hav
recently been installed. =. e. ;Trox
Ter, formerly Of the Desloge Consoli
II IL s<x4 T ~, "A M, ia l., ,,f,eaxs<, 80 ~.