The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-10-11


pictures them. Where did he ger
his information that the road,
leading out of Pennington are ST
dlsgraced by drunken, cursing
spewiug, falling, helpless men!'
Our people are ignorant of such o
general condition of affairs, There
have been occasional instances OF
some of Madison county's habit
uals" coming here to get the stuff 4;
but they kept themselves discreetly
quiet while in town, and we deplore
their presence and the attraction
that brings them her as much as
any one can, and regret to learn
a few Madison county toughs have
oh several occasiOds made it very
unpleasant for decent people at the
DeLRssus station and on the train
homeward Pennington has several
dramShops, ii is true, but drunken
men on our streets and highways
are the exception, not the rule.
There is probably not more or
derby town in the State, Frederick
town not excepted, than Farming.
ton, and this exaggeratlon of eX-
isting conditions, spread broadcast
over the country by religious pa.
per that circulates in every town
aud county in the State and even
beyond its borders, is calculated
to do incalculable harm to our
schools and create an unjust PREF
udce against our people. What
DR.. Palmore is pleased to style the
Yankee Methodist church and
the Presbyterian church have each
Il very prosperous school here. He
certainly did not intend to adver-
tise the Dixie" Methodist church
school at Fredericktown to the
pre- JUDGE of the Yankee" Metho.
dist school at Farmington
The editor of THE TINES be.
lieves that dramshops are an un-
mixed evil; that no good whatever
flows out from them, and that it
would he blessed thing for the
country if not single one existed.
We believe this because it would
remove from the rising generation
of boys temptation that may mar
or ruin their lives and usefulness.
But the older ones who have ac-
quired the habit, with a few ex-
ceptions perhaps, will have their
stimulant, saloon oF no saloon, if
they have to order it from DR.. Pal
more's home town, which has so
many enormous saloons" to say
nothing of wine rooms and their
associations; and yet it is no great
surprise to us that a multitude of
splendid men, noble women, bright
boys and beautiful girls" are to be
found in st. Louis. But it seems
to have been wonderful surprise
to the learned and travelled doctor
to discover sucn quantity and
quality" even multitude" Of
such in Pennington. Hear him:
THE quantity and quality of the null
titude OF splendid men, noble women,
bright boys and beautiful girls massed
and packed around the large Presbytcr-
ian Church i'll the morning was a great
surprise, How so many wealthy, we'll
educated and elegantly refined people
should have survived in a county SO
cursed with liquor was somewhat
mystiiyingl At this service we were
surrounded and backed by all the Prot
estant ministers, AT the mass meeting
in the great opera house in the afternoon
we were introduced in very felicitous
speech by a Democratic Congressman
and to the overwhelming mass meeting
at night, i'll the same opera house, we
were introduced in very strong speech
by Republican Judge. So the reader
will see that WE succeeded not only in
getting the general church people near.
er together, but even the Yankee and
Dixie Methodists, preachers and poll.
ticansl
The reverend doctor perhaps was
not aware that Pennington and
st. Francois county have had Min
isterial Alliances for number of
years working together, that per-
Al