Iron Man of The Month

By Joe Fachnestock
Published on September 1, 1968
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The sixteen horse Advance snorts at the belt as young Jim Gibboney yanks throttle whenever head sawyer, Iron Man Norman Gibboney (Pop to him) waves his sawmiller's paw to out the next slab. Jim doesn't know who pops off the most Ol' Advance or Pop Gibbone
The sixteen horse Advance snorts at the belt as young Jim Gibboney yanks throttle whenever head sawyer, Iron Man Norman Gibboney (Pop to him) waves his sawmiller's paw to out the next slab. Jim doesn't know who pops off the most Ol' Advance or Pop Gibbone
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FAMILY TYPE SAWMILL JUST KEEPS GETTIN' BIGGER Pop Gibboney (Iron Man and head sawyer) heaves the lead end of heavy hickory beam onto truck, while Mom and Jim bring up the rear.
FAMILY TYPE SAWMILL JUST KEEPS GETTIN' BIGGER Pop Gibboney (Iron Man and head sawyer) heaves the lead end of heavy hickory beam onto truck, while Mom and Jim bring up the rear.

UNION CITY, INDIANA.

The whine of the big saw-blade, the bark of the vibrating stack,
the pungency of coal smoke and fresh-sawn hickory slabs what finer
haunt to ferret out ye Iron Man of the Month, his spouse and his
progeny, than where resides these ‘sawyers-three’.

The faithful old 16-horse Advance fairly shook itself to pieces

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