The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-12-23

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Misses Brown and Grimes of
Elmwood Seminary will spend the
holiday season IN st. Louis, and
Miss Sneed will go to Columbia.
DR.. Richard Thompson, dean OF
Crescent College, Eureka Springs,
Ark, will be the guest ofhis cousin,
Mr.. NJ ?. Cayce, for several days.
Mortified HUFF went to St Louis
this week to meet his sisters, Misses
Dorothy and Lottie, who are returning
from Springfield, where they attend
Drury College.
Mr.. J. T. Claywell sold to the
st. Francois County Packing Go.
this week six year-old hogs that av-
eraEcd $50 pounds each, and for
which the company paid him Scents.
Last Saturday night ut annual
roll call Flat River Lodge No. 400 l.
O. o. +. burned up the mortgage on
! their building and all evidences of
Indebtedness, having paid them all
off.
The st. Louis papers all agree
that Barney Petty was the best
pitcher of the st. Louis Browns,
and he ranked twenty-nine among
the pitchers Of the American Lea
que.
Friends in town have received the
announcement of the birth OF little
daughter to Mr.. and Mrs. w. G..
Beard Of Kings Bridge, New York,
on December &, 1909. Mrs. Beard
was Miss Mamie Eisenbcrg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barret Conway and
! V. Conway OF Chicago, and Miss
Elcanora Conway, who has been
teaching at Pattonville, will he here
TO spend Christmas with Mrs. NIr-
gilia Conway.
Five dollars and ten cents is n
pretty good price for n single tur-
key, but that is what the Cole &
Nixon Mercantile Company paid
one OF their customers this week for
30-pound gobler.
The Christmas exercises of the
Sunday School of the Southern
Methodist Church will take place
Christmas Eve night, instead OF
Sunday afternoon, as was men,
toned In our notices last week.
Hunt 4 Son bought II hog of J. G.
Williams the past week that weighed
535 pounds, for which they paid
S4l ~ gross. They also butchered
two hogs last week for John Shrop.
shire that averaged over 500 pounds
each.
I Steward Mackley Of State Hos
pltal No. 4 this week ordered from
the St. Francois County Packing
Company, 500 pounds OF sausage
, and 800 pounds of spareribs ant
backbone for Christmas eating a
the hospital.
J. w. Stevens of Caruthersvlll,
4 says he can get more pleasure ou
OF spending 500 for the poor ant
needy than he will to give some
friends presents to that amount, sC
, he has arranged to give that amoun
away where 1t will do the most good
{ Elder Alden Il. Wallace OF Wi
! mona, Mo-, preached at the Chris
. tian Church here last Tuesday
1 evening. The church has giver
him call to preach for them, which
, he has accepted. He will take NJ
, the work here about the first OF
p March.
The public schools were visited
on Wednesday and Thursday after
. moons by the parents and friends of
the pupils, to see the very fine work
> done by the pupils of the various
. grades, and to listen to the Christ
mas exercises. Pennington people
should be proud Of the corps OF
( teachers employed, for they are al
r doing most excellent work.
There will be Il Missouri Land In
dustrial Congress ut Springfield OF
= January %, - and 2s. This county
, with its wealth and varied resources
: ought to be- well represented at thi'
! Congress with exhibits, aud oul
people should take the matter III
T.. at once and confer with Mr.. j. II
= Curran, Chief Commissioner of th'
4 Missouri Board of immigration.
OF the eleven children born to tn,
late Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Hopkins
= all are living, there never havini
i been n death among any of thci
y children. The oldest of them i
= now about seventy years of age