The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-04-19
Lies Spice
Variety is the spice of life. "
By 5. Nick. +.

How many clocks have you in
your housel If more than one,
do they have the same time, and
are you sure that it is the correct
time' take it for granted that
the same answer is given by every
body, and know you realize that
one of the needs of Pennington is
a town clock ! believe the Civic
Improvement Committee from the
Monday Club have interested them
selves enough in the matter to find
out that a town clock will cast
$500 Now, | don't want to steal
their thunder, for | want to help,
not hinder, any good project for
the benefit of the town; but | want
to suggest that it be everybody's
clock, and to this end know there
are five hundred people in this
town who will give one dollar each
towards it. Right here is a dollar
when il is called for, so there is
only $499 more to raise, and !
know just exactly where there is
about five OF that, ready whenever
the committee is ready for it, Mrs.
Logan, Misses Virgilia Conway
and Anna Butterfeld are the Mon.
day Club committee. Somebody
please say something about this,
and start the town clock ball roll.
ing, and see how many dollars will
flow in without being asked directly
The County Court of course would
supply the place for such a hand
some donation.
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Some years ago. when | was a
school girl, one of the sentences in
the grammar to be diagrammed
was this: Green is the most
refreshing color to the eye, there
fore Providence has made it the
universal dress of Nature" That
is true, but it is just as true that
the color is equally refreshing and
quieting to the nerves. One day !
this week there was a bIunder
about trunk and | was obliged to
go to the Bonnie Terre depot in
Flat River to rectify it. ] started !
in most beastIy humor, but as |
rode out on the electric car my
mind ypnc diuartaj 10 fbo ,,o,.i,,r
greens Of the new foliage, and that
grammar sentence that | had not
thought of for half a century
flashed to my mind. In those days,
color was color; red was red,
and green was green, without all
the distinctions that give us dozens
of shades of each color. There
were trees with leaves 50 light that
they looked almost white, and so
down through all the shades, light
ank dark, and occasionally there
was a dogwood tree in full array
of white blossoms, and the redbud
just showing its color. When | !
reached the Bonnie Terre station
found that Mr.. Hohl had very
c0urteously lightened my burden,
and so | walked back through Flat
River to the electric ear, and | was
n gratifed woman that my lines
had fallen in Pennington and not
Flat River. My! but they need
civic Improvement there with every
letter in the two words with big
box ear capital. | have heard it
said on good authority that the
pigs were the salvation of
Flat River, for unless they dispose
of the refuse east into the streets
disease would abound. ! learned
lesson from the green trees in their
spring dresses, and | was not as
sour and heavy hearted as when | I
had started on my journey.
Il y
The idea of the Trinity is found
Ill through our lives, and | have
found this little clipping which ]
much worth needing, for
each one is a little sermon in itself:
Three things to do-think. live