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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-11-14

Say He Stole Revolver,
Ben Smith, colored. was arrested
Yesterday on awarrant charging him
with stealing a revolver from Mike
George.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-11-14
Fined for CrA1fy

John Dunn and J. c. Phaup wSTe each
fined $40 and costs yesterday morning IN
Police Court for cruelty to horses.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-11-14

Motor Wear.
Golf Toys.
Riding Brooches.
LiVerieS.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-04-11

of these breeding places. Trash and
all decayimg auimal and vegetable
matter should be burned, coal oil
and chloride of lime scattered in
cess-pools and vaults, and homes
and all places where food Is pre-
pared, sold or stored, should be
thoroughly screened.
Especially should flies be rigidly
excluded from the sick room where
there is typhoid, tuberculosis or any
of the so.caIled germ diseases. Very
often the second and third cases In
the same house are directly trace
able to infection through the med
ium Of the fly.
An important factor in the dis
semination OF knowledge concerning
the fly is the moving picture show.
The life of the fly is put on the
screen in twelve minutes. On the
screen, the fly lays eggs in pu-
trid meat, the baby flies burrow in
| filth, emerge wingless, then grow
wings aud fly across the screen as
large rs chickens. The next act is
entitled How flies carry rOntagioh,
and ahsurbs the attention of the
most thuughtlcSs. \ fly rrawl'
| over hit of dcrnying fish, then Owen
u lump nt sugar, next into "A Gus
pidor, then it settles On the utppl,
Of the baby's feeding bottle or into .
/ dish of food on the table. BY meuu'
of these screens, thousands of PEG
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-04-11
County Correspondence
BISMARCK.

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Louis johnson OF Belgrade visited
ie'"'''e' ''oie "eo''e'N"s
Mrs. George r. hunt visited
friends In lronton Thursday
Dr. IL. T.. sheriff OF Little Rock
visited his FAMILY here SUNDAY
| j. w. Janison of lrondale was
transactlng business here FRIDAY.
K. NJ. Davis and wife are now in
their new home in the Barth's addi-
ton.
| Edward Sereui was kicked by II
horse, sustaining a painful injury
| to tire hip, saturday.
Mrs. John Hritztnau of IT. Louis
( il h.r..,his week sol.rtiuu F., hnuse
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-04-11
ESTHER.

MIR. Cecil Tenders moved his fam
lily to Pennington Monday.
Mr.. Kennett Dobbins and family
spent Easter in Pennington.
Mrs. VIM. Traucrnicht and Mrs.
Dobhins attended the Mothers club
on Friday.
Some old fences are being replaced
by new ones IN Esther. Let the
good work go IN.
The many friends of our genial
postmaster, Mr.. Emmett Calvird,
are sorry to learn TINT he has re-
signed.
Mrs Jack simmons returned Ia
her home IN Bonnie Terrc Tuesday
after weeks visit with her sister
in-law, Mrs. Henry Buchanan.
Rev. aud Mrs. Nichol attended
tn Arbor Day program given by
the pupils Of Misses Loula Counts
and Anna Michel of Central build
ing Flat River.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-04-11
PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES.

The music class of the High
School will give an operetta, 1.-THE
Jolly Farmer Friday evening,
NAV 3D. No charges for admission.
zone Night Only" Junior play,
HIS. Auditorium, Friday night.
The High School will appreciate
your presence Tickets may be Sc
cured from the students. Admis-
sion DC.
The baseball team played Marvin
College Of Fredericktown Saturday
in Fredericktcwn and Monday on
the Carleton grounds. our boys
lost both games, The Marvin team
was composed of more experienced
players, who began an early spring
practice. our boys expect To soon
be In much better form.
Mrs. Ed Klein entertained IN
honor of the Seniors of the High
school mt her home last Friday eN'
rniug. The Seniors, the Faculty
and quite II number of the friends
were present, and all had most de-
Iightful time. Easter eggs, rabbits
and chickens were abundant. These
together with the punch, Ice cream
and cake, music aud the pleasant
social relations made the occasion
one long to be remembered.
The Board Of Education held theil
regular meeting last Thursday ev
ening, April 4th. They transacted
the regular business and re-organ
lied by re-electing all OF the officers
of last year: w. Il. Rariden, presi
dent; Chas. Guessing, vice presi
dent; Ed Klein, treasurer; j. +
Cayce, secretary. Mr.. A. l.. Orter
was appointed to take the enumera
tion of school children. The boart
adjourned to meet April 10Th for thu
purpose Of clecting teachers for mex
year.
Remember these dates and the &c
casi0us: zone Night only Apri
II; Patrons Day, April u; lnca
Declamatory and Orat"rical contest
evening April %; Athletic Meet n
Bonnie Tcrre, April y; "The Jali,
Farmer" May ,; County Declama
tory and Oratorical contest at Dcs
l"pe, May !,
THE SrPERlNTENpENr.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-04-11
IN THE WATERS MIDST


On THE IENEE Al
CRuSNO, Mo, April :,
Dear Friend Fisher: thought il
might lac of interest to your many
readers to hear from this part Of the
world at this time. and as We have
mail.conncction Just now | believe
can reach you. CrosnO is about {.
miles northwest of Belmont and -
miles southeast Of Deventcr, with Il
rise of about 10 feet from DeventeI
10 this place. This place Is about n
fourth of mile from the bank oi
the Mississippi River OF cOurse
YOU know we have small flood
here caused principally by the break
ing Of the levee, some nine miles
above Birds Point, so We hear. We
understand that the levee board had
80 men working nj that point, but
the Mississippi rose SO fast that 1t
virtually ran over the top of the
levee for distance of miles, which
flooded the country west and north
Of the Cotton Belt railroad, but Il
great deal Of that came through tres
sells aud over the road bed OF til,
Cotton Belt to flood our place. re
make matters worse, the leNer broke
: miles north of here, flooded our
country very fast. | stood on the
railroad dump TT Deventer last Tues
day evening aud saw the water rise
un that dump at the rate of ! inche.
an hour and running very swift
our house stands north oI tht
Belmont Branch and the water was
up into our house then about fuul
feet We got nearly all otuur S'url
Out toy rail the day before, bat haNt
some 900 bushels of corn put l."
crib. about feet above ground are
the water was up IN thes" "rihs yo~
terduy about feet, but the water t.
falling now. The Mississippi ha,
fallen in the last four days about
inches and the water west of her,
has fallen some = inches.
Their" have been no deaths her" hl
drowning that we have heard Oi, hut
a great many have lost all they haC
by not preparing in time FOR the
flood We were new corners in here
but were prepared better than mos
others. Yesterday we heard of tw,
families out here in Il barn that need
ed help to get out 4 man had 3
Nhltl ti'l'N nv ~ N'H' hA iiHi 'll' W
first offered him money for the rs,
! Of his skitf to go tn their rescue, hu
lac would not let ii go. Then ! pro
posed to make him II check for SlO
as an assurance that We would hrin.
( his skill back In good shnpc in tw,
| hours, then he would not let us hav'
I il.
We have our household goods it
/ storage up in the garrett aud the,
are vet safe. We were up Their
/ yesterday evening in boat and th
water lacked about six inches bciul
to tho top of the windows The LAM
about one mile this side Of Deventc
is about > feet lower, aud we knew
that we were cut off ut Samoa, AN
we also knew 1t was only matte
Of n few hours that the flood wuul
he over the railroad this side q
Deventer, then we would be entircl
cut off, SO about dark that night "
loaded push car with food, bed
ding, tent and even brought out a
old cook stove, so here we are wit
nothing to do but watch and pray.
Please send me The Times. On
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-04-11
BONNIE TERRE.

g. :. Parsons was IN st. Louis
Wednesday.
Paul Oleary went to Hazel Run
Monday night.
G. :. Parsons has purchased II
new automobile.
j. Nalle's house on Hungarian
II III burned Monday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amule DcBuchau-
anne were visiting here Sunday.
win Norwinc and Mr.. Torres were
visiting in Flat River and Farming.
ton Sunday.
Miss Virgie Walton Of Doe Run
visited Misses Ellie and Minnie
Lesser Tuesday.
Luther Creswell, who is working
in ST Louis, is visiting friends and
relatives in Bonnie Terre.
An operation was performed On
Charley Lesser for appendicitis. He
is getting along nicely now.
Bert Berry, who has been visiting
Boune Terre for couple of weeks,
left Saturday for St. Louis.
Er,.st porter has lost tho SIGHT of
bic right ava He WINS hit in II with
red hot iron. He was taken to the
Hospital for treatment.
vuI Norr;,,, goyo -, marty Erida =
.,.nirg -, his hone il, hnnor al n
f,tand who :. WISHING him. Mr.
,r,r,, Arrono fla, ont.of.towr
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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-04-11

When medicine must be given to
young children 1t should be pleasant
to take. Chamberlain Cough
Remedy is made from loaf sugar,
and the roots used in its preparation
give il IA flavor similar to maple
syrup, making it pleasant to take.
1t has no superior for colds, Group
and whooping cOnEh. For sal" by
CITY Drug Store.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-04-11

pie all over the country are shown
how the fly mancu9ers against hui
manity.
In our counter-maneuvers against
the fly. cleanliness must be the
heavy artillery, vigilance the ma
chine guns and determination the
Mausers. II each home is made an
outpost, the most dangerous animal
in the world that kills more people
than all the beasts of prey and all
the poisonous serpents together,
, will take to its heels.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-04-11

Constipation brings many ailments
in it's train and is the primary cause
Of much sickness. Keep your DO wells
regular madam, and you will escape
many Of the ailments to which
women are subject. Constipation
is n very simple thing, but like many
simple things, 1t may lead to seri-
Gus consequences. Nature often
needs little assistance and when
Chamberlain Tablets are given at
the first indication, much distress
and suffering may be avoided. sold
by City Drug Store.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-04-11
Business College Notes.

John Robinson went to Frederick
town on business Monday.
Mrs. Parkhurst Hough tnee Alma
last week.
A number of our students spent
last Saturday and SUNDAY visiting
relatives and friends at home.
our night school class in p"nmau-
ship is still receiving new students
and others may he accommodated.
Enroll next week.
Prof W. II. AuBuchUn, of our
Dexter school, was up to spend
Eastcrtide with his parents and also
called on Prof. Moothart.
Miss Stella Ferguson, VITO has
been spending her vacation ~ home,
made her Alma Mater II visit last
Wednesday. Miss Ferguson Expects
to return To- ST Louis To- take NJ the
steuographic work again in thr near
future,
Prof. Moothart has just received
a letter from Miss Allrue MullerS-
man saying that she has good
stelOgraphic position with the
An erican Woman's Review, 2s07
Locust St, st. Louis. Miss Null
leIsman's friends will be pleased to
know of her success in the Mound
City
The Muothart base ball team eN,
poets to go to Fredericktowu next
Tuesday, 10th, playing the strong
Marvin College team. Marvin will
play return game with rs in Farm
ington, the eth inst. Thes" games
sh0lld he hostly contested as APP
parently both teams are about even
~ matched.
The honor students in last week,
examinations are as follows: Arith
metic, Otto Sanders aud Blanch,
HUFF; business English, Harry
Thomasson; letterwriting, Fiber
James; pcumanship, Miss Eur,
Crow, Messrs. Beatty and Eaton
spelling, Miss Lena Silvey and Ar
thur Hodson.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-04-11

boys who are taking care of stock u
Charleston, asked me to 90 TO town
with them but told them was too
well satisfied here.
Yours truly,
j. X. PRATT.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-04-11

"Our baby cries for Chamberlain 5
Cough Remedy writes Mrs. T. b.
Kendrick, Rasaca, Ga. at is the
best cough remedy on the market
for coughs, colds and Group For
sale by City Drug Store.
The Springfield herald., 1912-02-23
NEWS
EP|TOM|zED
FROM TELEGRAPHIc REPORTS
THAT COVER THE WEEk's
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST IMPO RTANT
CURRENT TOPICS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service
WESTERN.

At the opening of an aviation meet
in Oakland, Cal. one man was killed
and six others seriously injured in an
accident.
Death by shooting was selected by
Farley McWhinney when the court at
Salt Lake, before passing sentence,
asked him his preference.
Aviator Horace f. Kearney, after a
mile minute flight across the bay
from Oakland, successfully threaded a
maze of electric wires and landed in
one of San Franchises streets.
Senator Guggenheim introduced a
bill providing that but forty acres of
an enlarged homestead shall be cult
waited instead of eighty acres, as is
provided for by the present law.
Headquarters for the National Irri-
cation Congress have been opened
here by Arthur Hooker, secretary of
the congress. The time of the meet
ing in Salt Lake next fall will be des-
lgnated soon by the board Of control.
The Seminole National bank, Semi
mole. Gaines county, Tex, was robbed
of $500 by two mounted men, who
rode up in front of the bank during
the absence of the cashier and with
drawn revolyers compelled the assist
ant cashier, to hand over all the
money in sight. The robbers escaped.
President Taft has signed the proc
lamation admitting Arizona to state
hood. The Inauguration of Governor
Hunt was witnessed by many promi-
nent people, including William ]. Bry-
an. The news was heralded by the
explosion of forty.eight sticks of dyna-
mite at Bisbee.
Four persons were killed and nine
injured at Bingham, Utah, a mining
camp near Salt Lake, when an engine
hauling three cars loaded with ore was
derailed on steep grade of the Cop
per Belt railroad and rolled $50 feet
down the mountain side, crashing
through the roofs of two of the prin-
cipal buildings of the town.
Thousands of protested land en-
tries in the West are to be taken in
hand at once by the Interior Depart
ment and pushed toward settlement
pursuant to an order issued by Sec
rotary Fisher as result of pressure
oxerted by Representatives Taylor of
Colorado and Mondell of Wyoming of
the House public land committee.
Twenty-eight hundred entries in Colo
orado alone, some of which have been
under a cloud of the governments
rubber stamp" protest system for
years are to be certified to the Land
Office at once. with, reason why they
Lave not been examined by govern
ment agents.
The Springfield herald., 1912-02-23
They Hoisted Distress Signals.

noon freshened to q strong gale. We
were then drifting In toward the
Shoals, and the tow headed out to sea,
as the barges and tug were laboring
in the heavy seas.
AT 8 p. IN. barge Pocomoke hoisted
signals of distress, and an English
steamer. which later proved to be the
Clivegrove, stood by and circled
around the tow to render assistance.
Under the conditions we were unable
to do thing and had all we could do
TO take care of ourselves. Night came
on rapidly, and the steamer stood by
until 7:45 p. m, when we saw the
last of the steamer, as a heavy rain
shut in, lasting the better part of the
night. The wind in the meantime in
creased, and we were going astern
about three and half miles an hour.
At 1885 p. m. the barge Alabama hoist
ed her red lights. but the conditions
rendered it impossible to do a thing,
as 1t was only occasionally that we
could see the length of the tug.
In the heaviest squalls the wind
blew at least 60 miles an hour. and at
3 p m. shifted suddenly to the south
west with increased violence, causing
4 heavy, confused and cross sea. We had
our doubts that tug and barges would
live out the night, as the wind kept
yeerng back and forth from south
east to southwest. AT 3 n. M. Tuesday
the wind changed to the northwest
blowing a heavy squat for short
time when 1t backed to the south
west and again to the northwest. blow
ing heavy all the time.
AT daylight we still had the two
barges, but they were laboring heav-
lily and seas piling all over them. We
did not see anyone on the Pocomoke.
but the crew were still on board the
Alabama. We did not know whether
any OF those on the Pocomoke had
been taken off by the steamer, as 1t
was pitch dark when she left. We
were waiting for the crew of the Ala
oama to launch their lifeboat, but no
attempt was made.
AT $50 a. m. Tuesday the Ala
bama went down so suddenly that we
had not time to get the tug turned
in the sea. On looking back both
barges has disappeared"
The Springfield herald., 1912-02-23
FOR

After occupying the throne of China
for nearly three centuries, the Manchu
dynasty, represented by the child en-
Eeror. Pu vi, abdicated. Three edicts
were issued, the first proclaiming alb.
dication: the second, dealing with the
establishment of the republic, and the
third, urging the maintenance of
peace and approving the conditions
agreed upon by the imperial premier
Yuan Shi Kai. and the republicans.
A reflex of the threatened national
coal strike viii go into effect Feb, 20
in Scotland, unless meantime the own
ers accept the principle of a minimum
wage for all men and boys employed
underground, is seen in notices given
by the blast furnace owners through
out Scotland to their workmen. The
contracts of the workmen are thus ter
minated Feb. %. The furnace owners
are OF opinion that a national coal
strike is inevitable. 1t will affect
about 100000 men.
The Springfield herald., 1912-02-23
SPORT.

wildcat" Ferns of Kansas City and
Clarence English of Omaha have been
matched for fifteen-round bout at
st. Joseph, Mo.
Carl Morris. the Oklahoma giant.
had the better of every round In a
ten round bout with Jim Stewart, the
Brooklyn heavyweight, in Brooklyn.
1t is almost certainty that the Jim
Flynn-Jack Johnson battle for the
heavyweight championship of the
world will be staged at Las Vegas, n.
NJ.
The National League baseball
schedule for 1912 has been adopted
and made public. The schedule pro-
vides for 1874 games but the season
Will be three days shorter than last
year, beginning one day earlier and
closing four days earlier. The season
will open on April 18th.
Jack ("Twin'D Sullivan of Boston
and Howard Morrow OF Syracuse,
fought ten rounds to draw in Cleye-
land. Morrow was a surprise, as he
got to" Sullivan frequently and eff
fectively. He had Sullivan's eye and
nose bleeding. Morrow's best work
was in covering, avoiding many heavy
blows.
The Springfield herald., 1912-02-23
WASHINGTON.


James x. Polk. Jr., direct descend
ant of President Polk and son of
Bishop Leondas Polk, first Episcopal
bishop of Louisiana, dropped dead in
Paris, Texas.
The House passed an anti-loan shark
bill establishing twelve per cent. as
the legal rate of interest that may be
charged by loan agencies in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The nomination of former Gov. My
ron T. Herrick OF Ohio as ambassador
of the United States to France, to
succeed Robert Bacon, resigned, was
confirmed by the Senate.
Secretary Fisher of the Interior De
partment has supplemented his oral
testimony given before the House pub
lie lands committee against the Borah-
Jones bill to reduce the term of a
homestead entry to three years, by a
written report, which has reached the
committee.
The twenty-five army posts which
experts of the War Department advo.
cate abolishing will not be provided
for in the army appropriation bill now
before the House. BY a vote of 80 to
10, money for their maintenance or
repair was withdrawn. A reduction of
$4,000 in the fund for barracks and
quarters also was made.
Plans for a military government
for the Panama canal zone modelled
after that of Gibralter are being drawn
by the War Department Between s.
600 and 5000 troops are to be sta
toned permanently on the zone. The
fortesses guarding the ends of the
canal will be made the most powerful
in the world.
The Sherwood so-called "dollar-a.
Cay" pension bill was rejected by the
Senate committee on pensions, and
another measure, which would in.
voIve an annual expenditure of $24,,
100000 proposed as substitute by
Senator Smoot of Utah, was adopted
Comptroller Murray has ordered
that boards of directors of national
banks hereafter shall meet the federal
bank examiners at every examination
to discuss the affairs of the institu
lions, especially thes loans and dis
counts.
Mai. Gen. Fred G. Ainsworth. adju
tant general of the army, was stripped
of his office by order of President
Taft, and will appear before a court
martial on charges said to embrace
The Springfield herald., 1912-02-23

bedraggled man feebly haul himself
out of the stream and struggle over
the side of mud scow moored half
way between Madison and Monroe
street. They ran to the mans aid
and helped him to get up to the
bridge and over the the First precinct
police station.
There the man collapsed When re-
vived he said:
1T was baby, all right. And 1t
was alive. l had a hard time swim
ming between the ice cakes to get to
the package l got it, and lifted 1t
above my head. l tried to keep afloat
with one hand and my feet.
Il got along some little way, when
a big cake struck me and 1 went I'M
der. In the struggle 1 lost the pack
age. l tried to find it and found my
self getting cramps. Then l swan to
shore to save my life.
But it was a baby-a sweet little
baby. I saw It's FACET was alive"
Matthew went into Mysteries. The
police called an ambulance, wrapped
him in horse blankets and sent him
over to a hospital.
do you believe the story?" the po-
lice were asked
Sure we do. That chap was
member of the United States marines
at Portsmouth. He's an athlete and a
hero"