The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-07-21
RURAL ROUTE NO, 8.

the sun shines.
+ NJ. Laws returned to st Louit
last Saturday.
VIM. Porter is threshing wheat with
his steamer near Vale Forge.
jefferson Hawn and son have O
splendid crop of corn. "uncle JEFF"
is one os our best citizens and has a
good farm,
Our farmers have large number of
cattle "n the range and in pastures in
the bounds of Route No. 3, and they
are looking well.
Mrs. C. J. HARRISON scalded her
ankle very badly by accidentally spill
ing some hot water on it; she is also
suffering from a rising on one of her
thumbs.
met my old friend Warren Dalton
in Pennington the other day on his
way TO lntcsville to see his brother
He says he is going to travel for a
Chicago firm.
Eliza Burgess and Bert Boiling had
an alteration of strong words II not OF
deeds the other day. Eliza brought n
shotgun into play and Bert pitch
fork, Dangerous weapons, boys
II. HARRISON dropped down home
from St. Louis Friday over the Frisco,
returning Monday. He and his broth.
or Elmer represent the Metropolitan
Insurance company.
Miss Margcrie HARRISON has secured
the school at Aurora, st. Geneyicve
county, for term of six months at - 3
per month. She taught two years in
succession in an adjoining district
Corn i, looking we'll, grass is short
aud some meadows are wcedy. The
nat crop is limited on account of dry
weather early in the season and small
acreage. There is very little fruit
along Route No. 3.
A youth was seen hauling wood
along Route No. 3 with pistol stuck
in his pocket. Another walked out of
a field in the prcsence of some ladies
driving along, with pistol in his
hand. Boys, better he careful.
think that c. &. SimmS at Vale
Forge has the banner hay crop of that
vicinity. John and Taylor Vance al
so have splendid crops, together with
some very fine Shorthoru and jersey
cattle They are "out with the hog, -
they say.
Claude Gillum, who is helping L
j HARRISON farm, must have some at
traction at Chestnut Ridge, for he at
tended church there Sunday and took
dinner at the home OF widow The
widow has Il girl, though Claude
says he saw a snake : or feet long
out in the field the other day, but it
escaped in the weeds.
Carrier of Route no. 3 seems to
take offcnse at your correspondent for
heading his items from Route No =.
lie seems to think that because he is
the carrier he has the exclusive right
to write up all the items along the line
| and that he and the News have n mo
nopoly on the line; that no one else
has q right TO write aud no other pa
per right to print anything that may
occur on Route No. 3, lie might
rs well understand at once that when
the Postoilicc Department employed
him to deliver the mail on Rural Route
No. 3, that "Cucle Sam did not con.
| tract with him to write items for the
News or any other paper, mach less
give him an exclusive monopoly OF all
the news that might be gathered along
the route, and to solicit subscriptions
to Republican papers Neither was
he employed to send men out along
the route to catch terrapins and mark
them with dates over 100 years old,
nor to haul them in his buggy and
mark them "Daniel Boone Bah
talk about "windyn items. Then,
when he thought he had everyone else
downcd with the most "wind,' or
with "Danicl Boone on the back of a
tcrrapin, he came ont in his next
batch of hash and said he thought it
was time to end the tcrrapin episode.
II was time to stop before he begun.
Your scribe has no intention of tres
passing on the rights of this partic.
ular mail carrier, who imagines that hi
is ait" with great big |; but hi
should remember that this is free
country, and claiming to be Demo.
Graf he ought 10 know that the yer,
principles of the great Democratic par
ty are liberty OF speech, press ant
religion.