The Gasconade County Historical Society is seeking information from local residents about the historical Old Iron Road. 
The road may have come by your property and remnants of the road may still exist. If so, we want to hear about it. Your ancestors may have shared stories about the Old Iron Road and the St. James Iron works that made the road necessary. We want to hear about those stories. We hope you will share those bits of information with us.

The writers who create crossword puzzles make words up. Especially those who write the New York Times crossword puzzles. Then they bribe the publishers of dictionaries to include those words in their latest editions. A good example of this travesty is the above headline: Give the orts to the dog. Exactly what are we giving the poor dog? Table scraps, that’s what. Table scraps are orts, according to the diabolical and devious crossword puzzle creators who den up somewhere in New York City, or maybe Los Angeles.