Ironton Sililoquy

February 3, 1966

Submitted by: Robert Kingrey

Refreshing memory is a wonderful way to stay as happy as you were. Memory thoughts looking at the deep snow yesterday were of snows of other years when Johnny Spiry drove two dark brown mules for the city to help keep the streets clean. When it snowed, he hitched those "Hee Haw" mules to a homemade snowplow and cleared the sidewalks downtown about the courthouse, post office and the banks. If snow fell during the night, before the school bell rang, Mr. Spiry had a path on sidewalk from his home on Seventh at Madison Street to Kingsbury school so his daughters Theresa and Alwina (Mrs. Dr. Henninger) would have dry feet when they got to school. On a Sunday morning he’d have a path made about the downtown churches. During those good old mule days, folks paid no city income tax, yet they got their sidewalks clear to do business downtown.