The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-31
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McKlNNEY'S,

Miss Susan V. Beeson of st. Louis
spent Christmas with her niece, Mrs.
NJ. =. Cayce, returning home yester-
day.
Miss Ella B. Vance of Ste. Gene
We've county and Miss Laura Thomp-
son, who is tcaching at Elyins, were
in town Wednesday.
Elmo Mason returned home Wedncs-
day from College Station, Tex, where
he is attending school, to spend few
days with home folks.
Miss Viola Verst of Ste. Genevieve
and Miss Dazic Eggerman of st. Louis
were at the home of MIR. and Mrs. Ed
Zcllcr during the holidays.
Miss Rosebud Cundiff, daughter of
John Cundiff of Scdalia, spent Christ
mas with her grandparents, MIR. and
Mrs. l.. j, Cundiff of this place.
Carl Grow, erstwhile pencil pusher
on various papers in st. Francois coun-
ty, now with the Columbia Herald,
came down for brief visit Saturday
Monday evening the tailors in the
three Pennington shops laid aside the
"gosoc" and rolled ten pins. The
are better tailors than ten pin players.
Barrett Conway of Chicago and V.
Conway, student in Westminster Col
lcgc, Fulton, Mo, spent Christmas
with their mother, Mrs. Cora Conway
We have had an immense Christ.
mas trade Come now and get your
bargains, as everything in Holiday
goods must go. Tux FAIR.
MIR. John Horton of near Bismarck,
one OF our best citizens, had business
with the tax collector Monday and as
usual left Tn TIMES a Christmas gift
The rock crushcr purchased by the
county court at its last sitting has been
delivered ut Dcl.asSus. 1t is gunrsn-
tccd to crush eighty yards of rock per
day.
Mrs. Catherine Sicdekum died at
her home in st. Louis on the 9th
inst, aged 20 years, months aud Is
days. Mrs. scdckum has children
and relatives living in Doe Run.
Misses Maud and Zoe Rozicr of Ste.
Gcncvicye, aud 81 Gcmme Ebert of
Florence, Italy, who is attending
school Mt Philadelphia, spent the holi.
days with their uncle, Hon f. A.
Rozicr.
j. W. Buck left Friday for San An
tonic, Texas, in response to n telegram
announcing the serious illness of his
brother, Walter Buck, though intclli.
gcnce has since been received that his
brother died.
Mrs Jennie T. Forster and Mrs. j.
Paul Caycc attended the bedside OF
George Forster in Deslogc Sunday.
George was taken suddenly III while
returning from Pennington where he
had spent Christmas.
LosT-Lady's gold watch, between
Merrill Pipkin's residence and Cole &
Nixon's store. On back of watch
were the initials NJ. L. A. Finder
will please return same to TIE TIMES
office aud receive reward.
Miss Mamie Tucker, who is teach.
ing in the Dcslogc High school, and
her brother. Preston Tucker, who is
book keeper for Dcslogc Consolidated
Lead Company, spent Christmas with
their parents, MIR. and Mrs. X. c.
Tucker.
Miss Good of ST. Louis, sister OF
Phillip Good of this place. died We'd
ncsday morning, December 23rd
On receipt of the sad intelligence Mr
Good Immediately left for the city,
accompanied by his son Carl, They
returned yesterday.
Elmwood Seminary will reopen
school next Tuesday, January 5th, af-
ter the close of Christmas holidays
The second term of the 10000 school
year of this institution will open Tues
day, January 18th. That will be a
good time for new pupils to enter.
The Sunshine Society, along with
the other Christmas sunshine shed
abroad by it, sent blooming potted
plants to all the elderly and sick peo-
pie in town. The Society has done
much good work during the year and
is deserving of thanks and congratula-
tions.
Presiding Elder A. D. Bail of the
Methodist Episcopal Church will ar
rive Saturday afternoon and hold the
fourth quarterly conference that even
ing. On Sunday morning he will
speak at the usual hour at Karsch's
Hall, after which the sacrement of the
Lords supper will be administered.
Philip Pipkin, who entered West
Point Military Academy last spring,
has returned. With characteristic hon.
esly Phil said he returned because he
failed to make good in mathematics.
Students returning from school because
of failure in their studies usually dis
semble and plead sickness, II some
thing else which no one believes, but
not so with Phil. lie states that he has
until next September to make up his
deficiency, and at that time will try
again.
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