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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-03-14
JAYDEE.

A. Cole visited the family of NJ.
A. Patterson last Sunday.
Ellis Cunningham visited the fam.
ilv nf + u shelley Inst Sunday
Rev, j VI Btngh i,Il"d ms regn,
lar appointment nj AIshurE chapel
last sunday morning ana night.
Mrs RahrcE, pirg of Thurman
WINS fnkr, vcry I'M last Snturdpy
mint sunday DR.. Scott wns rnIlrd
hv uhoue and rnmnined until Mon
div. Ne are clad TO saw she is
some better.
Mrs. larry flhksi"h hau hoi"
ieli"h come on I'' Manu- Ait"T
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-03-14
GETTING READY FOR
DRUMMERs' CONVENTION
The Commercial Club Also Takes Up
Home Coming Suggestion and
Other Matters.

AT the meeting of the Pennington
Commercial Club last Monday ev.
ening several committees were mp.
pointed to perfect arrangements for
the Southeast Missouri Drummers
Convention at this place in May.
The first committee appointed in
this connection was one to wait up.
on the City Council and request that
1t furnish light for the convention
and have the streets cleaned up and
repaired where necessary. Mayor
George NJ. Wilson, DR.. G. II. Flem-
Ing aud Mr. Nixon were placed upon
this committee.
Committee on Arrangements
Rev, G. +. Hickok, Father Joseph
A. Collins, f.. j. Mckinney, A. L..
Davis, Ed Holler and Jake Karsch.
Committee of Ladies' to Aid in
Entertaining Mrs. John II. Jones,
Mrs. Harry Denman, Mrs. q. w.
Redden, Mrs. Gencvieve r. Logan,
Miss Anna Butterfield, Mrs. l.. r.
Castlcman, Mrs. David Heidelberg
and Mrs. j. A. Lawrence.
Finance Committee-M. p. Caycc,
George Morris, Fred Schramm, j =.
+. Cover and l.. II Williams.
Committee on Quarters and Meals
}. \. Lawrence, DR.. G. 4. Tctley,
Prof 6. W. Moothart, J. II. Wade
and Fred NJ. karsch.
Committee on Rrilroad Rates
w. K. Taylor, {. T.. Ruzicr, George
Forster, Rhinehardt Lang and C..
o. Nelson.
The Publicity Committee was en-
powered to invite all former resi-
dents of Pennington To make a
Homecoming event of the conyen-
ton, and to make known this fea.
ture by appropriate and suitable ad-
vertising.
Among other matters taken up at
the club meeting was the appoint
ment Of Il committee consisting of
Rev. G. +. Hickok, A. r. Nixon
and Harry Denman to wait upon
the County Court and present, with
the Clubs Endorsement, the propo.
sition of exhibiting St Francois
county products ut the State Fail
next fail.
y communication from the Mis-.
souri, State Board of Immigration
relative to advertising the States re-
sources was read, and Secretary
/ CLYDE Morsey was instructed to cor
respond further with the lmmigra
/ ton Board and secure additional in
/ formation in regard tu the result,
/ of similar schemes,
The Club adjourned To- meet or
| Tuesday night, March n.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-03-14
Carleton to have
Summer School.


Educated people have agreed al.
most unanimously that the summer
vacation is too long for students,
that students not only have more
time than they need for rest and
recreation, but that after six or
eight weeks they begin to actually
forget what they have learned.
Moreover there Is II class of stu
dents that is deficient in one or
more subjects. The summer school
offers an excellent opportunity for
these students to make up their
back work Again, many high
school and academy graduates are
planning to enter universities and
colleges in the fall. Some Of these
students will desire coaching In GER
tain subjects that they may enter
without conditions. Also many
teachers will welcome the oppOrtun-
ity To spend six weeks of pleasant
study in Carleton.
The summer school ut Carleton is
not "wOrked-up," money-making
affair, but comes as the response to
demand, since several young PEG.
pie hHv" already asked for this sort
of thing. The summer Session he
gins Immediately after the Com
mencemeut exercises, June 9TH, and
continues until July Il. The facul-
~ will be composed of Pres. &. V.
Gilliland, A. NJ, u. ID. Dean +. NJ.
Smith, 4. NJ, u. D.; b. G. Glover,
Il. s.; II. u. Mead, Is. A.; Ethyl
Chandler, Is. a; Helen II. Mead
and one member elected from the
public schools.
The entire property of the school
including athletic grounds, tennis
courts, baths, library of 200 vol
umes and the entire labrntory equip.
ment will be Mt the disposal Of SUN.
mer school students.
The charge for tuition is $1,000
for the six weeks. For only one
subject the tuition is 500. Men
and women may secure board at the
college dining hall at cost. Women
may secure rooms at the college
dOrmitory at 7jc per week. The
rooms are provided with bed, springs,
mattress, study table, wash-stand
dresser, chairs, electric lights.
BY special arrangement semes-
ter credit for work done will he al
l'"fh WI NtIluiU tbNl HtF. F1lNUtlllS
desiring credit must apply for same
at the beginning OF the session.
There will be series OF public
lectures during the session. There
viii be opportunity to organize base
bali teams. Saturday picnics are
also planned for.
The courses offered are Latin,
Normal English, t. :. History,
Ancient History, Physiology, Agri.
culture, Geography, business Pen
mauship, Arithmetic. y lgr bra,
school Management, Child Psychol-
"gy. Also, If there is sufficient de.
muul. the following course, will hr
offered: Advanced Algebra, Plane
Geometry, Solid Geometry, Trigu-
u"Inrtry, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil,
Livy, Greek. Physics, Chemistry,
Field Zoology. European History,
Philosophy, oil Painting. China
Painting, outdoor sketch Glass.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-03-14
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.

ltWhereas, God in his infinite wis
worthy comrades, Henry G. Baker
and Peter Kriminger, therefore he
It resolved by Picket Post No, 10
q. A. r.,
|. That while we how to the will
of our Creator, we feel deeply the
loss of our comrades from our
midst, and extend our sympathy To
the bereaved families of our de.
ceased comrades.
>. That copy of these resolu-
this Post.
AMOS PIERCE,
ID. j. DOCGHTN,
Committee.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-03-14

The most common cause of insom-
mia is disorders of the stomach.
Chamberlain Stomach and Liver
Tablets correct these disorders and
enable you to sleep. For sale by
City Drug Store.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-03-14

Seven dogs In Lutesville were
killed last week after they had been
bitten by a dog supposed to be mad.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-03-14

A fine specimen of the golden
eagle was killed In Ste. Genevieve
last week by n young man named
Samson. 1t measured Z feet from
tip to tip of its wings and weighed
pounds. 1t is to be stuffed and
mounted.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-03-14

Bouillon cubes, something new, at
Barbam's Sanitary Bakery.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-03-14

Mr.. Delano Of IrOnton, who has
for years kept a weather record,
says that 1912 has had 81 inches of
snow this winter.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-03-14
BONNIE TERRE.

The Bonnie Terre notes Of week
before last, stated that DR.. Swear
engen had died in California and
his remains had been brought to
Bonnie Terre for interment. 1t
should have been Mr.. S. T. Schnied-
er. The Doctor, who is Mr.. Schnied-
er's son-in-law, accompanied the re-
mains. Your correspondent regrets
the error, and sincerely begs the
Doctors pardon for this inadvert-
ence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-23
PLAY FOR PAY.

The eldest was John. he elected
To play the trombone in the band.
He said it had been much neglected
And this would enhance the demand
So John learned the trombone and started
A worthy position to seek
The last that was heard OF his cases
twas averred
He was earning eight dollars week.
The second was Joe, he predicted
The bassoon would come to Its own
With horrible sounds like groan.
Then off for the West he departed
To show to the world his technique
He wrote from Seattle: '"They treat US
like cattle.
I'm getting six dollars a week.
The third son was Frank, he debated
The pros and cons quite Whlle-
But chose the oboe much eIaIeo'
And learned, too, to play In Ilne sty1s'
Then eager for fame and for fortune,
Forth Jared he, with hlgn manIAns
cheek
This word came from Bangor Fas
pardon my anger,
I'm making five dollars a week.
The last son was Tom, though the latest
To make his appearance on earIn'
OF all he was up-to-datest
And showed, too, he knew ms own
..Nyo trornbones or bassoons or oboes!
He Numbered Away with them all!
And Tom now makes yearly ten tnousano'
or nearly,
For he is the one who PLAYS BALL
William Wallace Whitelock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-23
EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON.

The way in which we have come to look
at the conveniences and luxuries of mod
ern civilization as absolute matter-of-fact
necessities, is rather an amusing and
starting thing, if you will stop to think
The other day, in an office building
where occasionally have business, ]
found the elevator out of order. Word
again for fifteen or twenty minutes, and
yet constantly increasing group of peo-
pie stood at the bottom waiting for it.
Apparently the idea that they might as
cend to their offices by way of the stairs
did not even occur to some of these peo-
pie. The elevator-an invention which has
not been in common use over SO years had
become such an integral part of their ex-
istences that when the lift stopped run
ming they were quite at loss how to get
upstairs.
Because of a leak in the water main,
the water was turned off in our street
during the daytime for several successive
days recently, and such upset and dis
gruntled households you never saw. To
be sure, we were given warning each
morning in time to fill up pitchers and
other vessels with a days supply of wa
ter but despite that, the empty faucets
were a constant thorn in the flesh. It
seemed almost impossible to get it through
our heads that we could not have the GUS
tomary supply of water at our service by
a twist of the hand. A dozen times a dag
we turned the faucets and then stood like
rueful genii, remembering that our
should-be magic touch was no longer pc
tent. The foreman of the gang who was
working on the leak was continually be-
seeched to tell when the work would be
done, and an almost palpable peace sec
tied upon our households when the siege
was over. 1--WE certainly will remember
how much having running water means,
after this we said. And we did-for
day or two.
At several of the informal little gather
ings which constitute the chief social in
tercourse of a certain group, young
girl was missed. why isn't Gretchen
here?'' asked some one, "She hash been
with us al all lately
WELL confessed the hostess, 81 just
got this up the spur of the moment,
and she hasn't a telephone and so I
couldn't get her I was awfully sorry"
"Why, that's just the way 1t was with
me-" cried the girl who had been the
hotess of the last gathering.
''And me, too" contributed another
hostess.
''why didn't you write her a noteY''
asked some one.
Goodness me-" said the first girl, Il az
most never do that. Writing a note
seems like a terrible task nowadays. Be
sides, you can't get an answer until the
next day. I suppose I would have had
time for that, but I've just gotten out OF
the habit We usually reach Gretchen
aunt has been away these last few
weeks
Suppose telephones should, in some I'M
imaginable way, be swept right out of ex-
istence. Can you picture life withou.
them?
And yet they say that as great a civil
ization as ours persisted in the darkness
of the middle ages, and that thousands of
years ago in Assyria many of the won
derful contrivances which we call mod
derful things for the year 1000. What will
the year 5000 bring us?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-23
THAT THIRD TERN.

Discussing Colonel Roosevelt's en-
deavors to be elected to a third presi-
Dental term. Ebert Hubbard has this
to say in THE Fra
This proposition to destroy the Con-
stitution of the United States will de-
feat Theodore Roosevelt at the polls
even if possibly it should not at Chi
cago.
But the one thing that will kill him
as a candidate, aside from all ques-
tons Of his personal fitness, is the
third term
The words and the action of George
Washington that two terms was the
limit to which any man shall serve as
president are fixed in the minds of the
people.
To override the wisdom of Washing
ton would be to open up a weIl-settled
question. If three terms, why not four
or five? Indeed, if we have only one
man really fit for the office, let's put
him in for life!
Three terms is a move in the direc-
ton of a monarchy dictatorship
and the thought of a monarchy the
people of the United States will not
tolerate.
1nree terms would means an adTnlS-
sion that one certain, particular man is
necessary to our political salvation.
And this one-man proposition is an I'M
American idea.
But, granting for arguments sake
that Theodore Roosevelt is the most
competent, clear-seeing, sympathetic,
gentle, altruistic and able man in the
world today-granting that he acts with
malice toward none. but with charity
for alive can not afford to ignore the
George Washington precedent by elect
ing him to third term.
Is Roosevelt any more necessary for
president now, than was Washington
in seventeen hundred ninety-seven
Washington had no desire to set up a
monarchy, and he would never had
done so; but to save the country from
future danger, he fixed a limit to the
presidential term that any one man
should serve. The question now is,
shall We declare George Washington
our first president, back number?
I think not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-23
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCH1soN GLOBE.

Neither is joy riding entirely safe on
ocean liners.
1t may have occurred to you that the
early bird didn't get much.
Some people not only see your faults;
they don't see anything else.
When hard-earned money goes looking
for the easy variety, it doesn't have much
luck.
martyrs crown isn't such becoming
headgear if put on for advertising pur-
poses.
patriot who is paid for it is never 50
inspiring as the one who donates his ser
vices.
Every man likes to say it is better to be
live coward than dead hero, but he
knows better.
An Atchison man nibbled the automo-
bile bait nine years before he finally
swallowed the hook
One of the unluckiest persons is a
woman who doesn't like smoke, and has
to work around a bunch of ornery men.
Woman, whose work is never done, does
most of the weary waiting for the next
installment of the continued stories
A bride, is less finicky than an older
married woman, but, on the other hand,
groom behaves better than an older mar
ried man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-23

the house for a drink of water and
found her sitting the steps. She
introduced herself and said she was
resting after walk. Mr.. Thomas sat
down beside her, and they chatted
for half an hour, and he gathered
her bouquet when she departed. She
1ntimated that she might call again
Why not? She liked the looks of MI.
Thomas. AS she walked homeward she
thought to herself that he would make
a very good husband.
One day, a week later, as Mr.. Thorn
as was hoeing corn, Miss Abigail made
her appearance in the field She hao
taken a walk for the purpose of gather
ing materials for a dandelion tonic.
Mr.. Thomas hung up his hoe on the
limb of a crabapple tree and assisted
her, and then they sat down and talk
ed. She drew him out on this and
that question. Men do the same thing
with woman. They want to know
she can sew and darn and patch and
cut over. They want to know if she
is a good cook and if she can cut car
pet rags and put up picked peaches
Miss Abigail found Farmer Thomas
up to her idea! True, he had too many
whiskers, but a little diplomacy and
a safety razor would fix that after
marriage. Perhaps one of the best
things she drew from him in an hours
talk was the assertion that he never
had to have an alarm clock in the
house to get up by. That showed am
bition and industry. He was not the
man to be snoring away while the hogs
were squealing for their breakfast.
The spinster didn't hustle things too
fast Many a man has lost good
wife by his impetuosity in counting.
She had walked out to the Thomas
farm at least ten times before the
crucial moment arrived. She had grown
holder and holder with each visit. That
is, she had come to realize more and
more that she was only giving herself
a square deal. And when the moment
arrived she was ready for it. She walk
ed out to the farm to find Mr.. Thomas
mixing the dough for a loaf of bread.
He was making a botchf of it, and 1t
gave her the courage to say:
Ezekiel, you must know my feel
ings towards you. I love you, and
hope that I have inspired the same
sentiment in your heart. If you wish
to make me the happiest woman in
the world say that you'll be mine.'
And Mr.. Thomas rubbed the wei
dough off his fingers on the roller
towel and put his arms around her
and replied:
"I'H be hanged if I won't!'
Talk? OF course there was talk!
They said that Abigail camped on his
trail; that she had run him down;
that she had scared him into it. oh,
yes, they talked and talked and talked
and rolled up their eyes, but Abigail
had a husband and Mr. Thomas had
a wife, and it was a happy marriage
Copyright, 1912, by Associated Lit
erary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-23
RY THE WY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

Crop bulletin: The spring mouse
crop seems to be doing nicely, although
Hon. Coburn has issued no report on
the subject. And, such being the case,
we are hoping the cat crop is in an
equally hourishing condition. Anyone
who can spare a cat,-one colored
something like a. m. on moonless
night Preferred,-wiu confer favor
by dropping him in our yard. (Kindly
observe the pronoun HIM.)
DR.. Julia Seaton Sears of New York
figures that she can figure out some
thing or other. BY adding something
or other to something else and the
number of letters in the name of the
victim, she arrives at "a basis of har-
mon1ous vibrations, '-'whatever that
is. Harry Thaw, and other reasonably
lucid nuts, however, are still in Mat
teawan.
The Chi. Tribune has a paragraph
which may be swiped and localized
like this; Visitors at the art exhibit
stand around and wonder how the ar
lists do it,-and why the writer of
this colyum does it.
Robbers who cleaned up on Rock
Island sleeper forced the porter to help
with the good work. They showed
rare Intelligence by avoiding the serv-
ices of an amateur assistant
A test or nitro-glycerin tablets is to
be conducted by the chemical labora-
tory OF Kansas university, and all
though the professors may not well
come suggestion, it is free: why not
demonstrate the potency of the tablets
by feed1ng bunch of them to a fresh
man, and then driving him across a
campus full of sophs when he didn't
have his monkey cap with him.
(Note: The monkey cap is the
badge or servitude which the fresh is
required to wear.)
And maybe YOU have noticed, also
that the man with the cheap second
hand car usually has the fullest rega-
liza OF gauntlets, goggles, cap and linen
buster.
The number of bachelors corre-
spondence clubs being organized in
Kansas does not indicate that home
grown girls are scarce. It merely in
d1cates that the state gambling laws
are being well enforced Man is a
natural gambler, and If he isn't per-
m1tted to shoot craps, he will take
some other chance,-even the desper-
ate chance of marrying a bunch of
soft-boiled love letters and a photo
graph.
Lots of women think just as their
husbands do. But they are the women
who have succeeded in making their
husbands think as they do.
Here's hoping the public doesn't
knock Gear any harder than he has
knocked the ball during the opening
series.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-23
RECALLING HIS DECISIONS.

Here are some facts presented by the
Cleveland News:
At Grand Rapids February II, 1911
Colonel Roosevelt congratulated the
, Michigan farmers on 1.-The likelihood
that we shall soon have close reciprocal
relations with the great nation to the
north of u.s." In New York on Feb
ruary ID, 1911, he was glad because
his hearers responded to the appeal
ito uphold the hands of President
Taft in his effort to secure re-
ciprocity with Canada" He added:
TT should always be a cardinal point
in our foreign policy to establish the
closest and most friendly relations of
equal respect and advantage with our
great neighbor on the north. And :
hail the reciprocity arrangement be-
cause it represents an effort to bring
about a closer, a more intimate, a more
friendly relationship of mutual advant-
age on equal terms between Canada
and the United States
April 8, 1912 the colonel having dis
covered that some of the farmers were
sour over reciprocity, and being en-
gagged in upholding his own hands,
made this recantation, apology and
promise:
my desire was to support the ad-
ministration on every point I possibly
could, and at first supposed that the
reciprocity agreement was one upon
which I could support it, and was glad
to do so. I have looked into it care
fully, and under no circumstances, sc
far as 1 have any power, will I ever
sanction the reintroduction of such an
agreement
Under no circumstances is a for
mula of the utmost solemnity and YER
acity to the colonel. 1t is his oath by
the Styx. The farmers whom he is
trying to catch may judge the inviola-
BILE sanctity of the pledge by that more
famous instance of it on November s,
1904:
Under no circumstances will be
candidate for or accept another nomi-
nation
Under no circumstances, in fact, will
the colonel be. bound by anything he
has said OF promised. He makes no
decision that is not subject to recall at
his convenience.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-23
QUAKER MEDITATIONs.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

[F'rom the Philadelphia Record.J
The one man who finds it pays to fight
other peoples battle is the lawyer.
One way to make yourself solid is to
eat a piece of cake a girl has made her
self.
Tell a woman the crime is on her own
head and she will want to know If it is on
straight.
Lots of things can be cured by the lay
ing on of hands, especially spanking bad
habits out of small boys.
If a man is looking for trouble he will
find it and if he isn't it will find him, so
what the-well, what's the use?
You can't always tell the walters from
the guests at a fashionable reception, ex-
cept that the walters generally keep
sober.
Hoax-~Here's an advertisement of ~
hurt book sale" Joax-''What hurt
them?" Hoax-"Probably the cut in their
prices"
1t isn't every woman who comes up To
our expectations, but they can all fill the
bill, according to the reasoning of the
married man who has to pay them.
Sillicus-'It is not until I gaze upon the
wonders of nature that fully realize the
insignificance of man. Cynicus-"YoI
can get the same sensation by getting
marrie@