The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-03-05
COUNTY COURT.
Court Holds County is Under Local
Option Law Outside Pennington
May Term Petit Jurors, etc.

lbNTlitu HtsNlbll, WIN All lIt bHi'''o
present, and the following business
was transacted:
The Court appointed John q. Do
hcrty road Oversecr Of district No.
II to Ill vacancy caused by refusal
of j. j. Westover to accept; and
Ieno f.. Kerlagon overseer of dis
trict No. IL to fill vacancy occas-
toned by refusal of Chas. r. Fowler
to accept.
Further proceedings were dis
missed in the application of Joseph
Alsbach for dramshop license, filed
January 2lst; same order was made
in applications Of l.. A. Chandler
and J. ID. Highley.
Parkhurst Sleeth presented Treas
urcr's receipt for subscription of
500 for Improvement of Potosi road
near Federal mill, and the court
made an appropriation of like
amount for the same purpose: also
appointed Mr.. Sleeth as superintend-
ent of the expenditure Of the sub
scripti0n and appropriation, he Civ
ing bond OF 800.
The Court appointed } II. Rolens
n justice of the peace Of Randolph
township to fill vacancy occasioned
by resignation of f. W. Porter.
The following named road over
seers have filed bonds: W. II.
Smollnger, NJ. :. Eaton, Il. G..
pigg, Il. l.. Fitc, j ID. HUH, Icno
f.. KerlagOn, f.. b. Shelley, II. II.
O'Bannon, john Il. Bowling, John
johnson, W. b. Murrill, Thomas
Dees, W. b. Ritter, G. w. Johnson,
II. j. Braming, l.. n. Beave, J. A.
Gibson, i. q. Porter.
VIM. Good, constable of St. Fran
co.'s township, made quarterly set
Element, which was approved.
c. T. Tullock filed settlement as
supervisor of road appropriation,
showing balance on hand of S2j.23.
The court directed that the value
of railroad and telegraph property,
returned ut less value than that
fixed for 1908, he raised to that value.
c. Il. Denman, county collector,
flied his bond in the sum of $lSj, 900,
signed by himself as principal and
| by Harry Denman, G. II. Denman,
| J. r. Evans, Johr Guessing, John
W. Karsch, Edward HELLER, W. r.
Taylor, Charles Guessing, Ed. Klein,
j. w. Mccarthy, VIM. Lee, Kos
suth G. Weber, Thomas Lang, Carr
Hartshorn, }. w. Calvird, +. G..
Mccormick, =. A. Shaw, l.. H..
Williams and &. -. Gale.
w. +. Gillespie, constable of
Perry township, filed settlement,
which was approved.
John A. Gibson was appointed
road Overseer of district No. %, to
fill vacancy occasioned by refusal
of G.. w. Sebastian to serve.
The court took up the petition of
Joseph Smith for dramshop license, ),
and finds that II contains the names
of two-thirds of the assessed tax
paying citizens of the block, etc,
bnt refuses to grant said license for
the reason that the local option law
is In force in the county outside the
city of Pennington. The same order
was made In regard to F. p. Kenner,
r. j. Cain and John Alexander. all
of the city of Elvins.
John w. Russell was loaned $3.50
school money on real estate and
personal security. Satisfaction was
ordered on old bond.
Petit Jurors.
The court drew the following
named persons to serve as petit
jurors at the May term of Circuit
Court:
st. Francois Township Felix
Bloom, John ID. Flannery, J. w.
Galutia, Wesley Pratt, Isaiah Nc
Daniel.
Perry. f. Counts, Matt Fran
els, G. l.. Norwine and Jacob Muir
ply.
Randolph-John Phillips, Marion
Thurman, G. S. Bryan and w. J.
Layne.
Pendleton-Abe Elser, David w.