GRANVILLE J. BARTLOW PENSIONEDIn 1952 workmen in the Leadwood Mill of the St. Joseph Lead Company began an extensive modernization of the motion machinery of their 55 concentration tables. These tables by a shaking motion separate much of the ore content from the finely crushed rock as it passes across their furrowed surfaces in water solution. When the project was started, the tables at Leadwood were agitated by open head motion devices driven by belts from an overhead shaft. Each table is now equipped with an individual metal housed motor driven, self-lubricated unit. Granville Bartlow was one of the men assigned to install this new equipment. The project was completed during his last week of employment with the company. He was pensioned on May 1, 1955. Mr. Bartlow was raised on a farm near Belleview, Mo., as was his father before him. His father, Robert N. Bartlow, lived to the age of 90, and spent all his life in the Belleview community. The son left home at the age of 23, the same year in which he was married to Miss Maude Eye. Miss Eye came from Shirley. Her family moved to Belgrade in 1912. In 1913 she married Mr. Bartlow, who, according to his story, "had his eye on Miss Eye from about the time she arrived in Belgrade." Bartlow's first paying job was as a farm hand. For this work he received $18.00 per month and board. He learned the carpenter trade, also to lay bricks. On May 20, 1925 he was employed as a carpenter by St. Joe. He worked in House Repair, did shaft work at No. 22 for about two years, and was "borrowed" here and there at times to do bricklaying, but most of his work was at Leadwood. There he helped construct the crusher building, and the changeroom. He was classified as a carpenter when pensioned. Maude and Granville Bartlow have 3 sons and 6 grandchildren. Two of their boys, Lloyd and Lynn, live in St. Louis. Lloyd is an electrician; Lynn is a teacher with a Master's Degree in Public School Music. The third son, James E. Bartlow, 802 Tyler Street, Flat River, is a Locomotive Engineer in St. Joe's Hunt mine. The senior Bartlows live in Irondale. They purchased a small farm in 1948, together with equipment and several pure-bred Herefords, but had to give up this plan for retirement when Mrs. Bartlow was seriously injured. They now plan to stay in Irondale. Mr. Bartlow has been active in Masonic work for 37 years. He likes the out-of-doors, and now intends to catch up with a lot of delayed fishing, and to devote more time to his gardens and his raspberry patch. Published by THE LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, Fri. May 6, 1955. |
