The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-12-24

he is now Superintendent Of Educa-
ton for this conference Of the Meth
odist Church and is here in the course
of a tour of his territory.-Carthag
Democrat.
Sheriff J. C. Williams, Judge E. E.
Swink, John L. Swink, Francis A.
Benham and Jake Day returned Tues
day from weeks camp in Mingo
Swamp, Stoddard county. They re-
port splendid time and some game
bagged.
Ernest X. Blue has been given the
management of the local plant and
business of the National Refining
Company in Poplar Bluff and today
E. G. Freiling Of the main Office at
Hannibal, was in the city checking in
Mr.. Blue.--Poplar Bluff Citizen-Dem-
ocrat.
W. H. Hunt left Monday afternoon
for Hamilton, Canada, for prolong-
ed visit with his uncle, j. D. Long.
Just before taking the car he called
at The Times Office and renewed the
subscription to his relatives in Cana
da. Mr.. Hunt has been spending his
winters there for some time past and,
it seems, has fallen in love with that
climate.
R. A. Swink of Maplewood, David
Carlisle of Coffman, c. H. Fake and
daughter, Miss Mary, of Bonnie Terre,
Misses Mamie and Jessie Hobbs of
Bonnie Terre, and Mr.. and Mrs. Ly-
man Matthews of Oran were here to
attend the funeral of Joseph E. Cover
last Tuesday.
7. P. Pigg of the Arcadia Valley
Enterprise, w. L. Bouchard of the
Desloge Sun and R. L. Lashley of the
Elvins Record, were welcome callers
at The Times Office Saturday. That's
right, gentlemen, we want to get ac-
quainted with all our Southeast
brother pencil pushers.
D. M. Lewis, late of Libertyville,
called at The Times Office Tuesday and
requested the address of his paper
changed to Knob Lick, Route /, hav-
ing recently changed his location. Mr.,
Lewis has been a reader of The Times
for many years, and could not feel
comfortable without its weekly visits.
Miss Glare Meyer of Berlin will be
the guest of Miss Miriam Bleeck dur
ing the Christmas holidays. Miss
Meyer is the niece Of DR.. Max Meyer,
head of the Psychological Department
of the University of Missouri. She
has been in America three and one
half years, finishing her education in
English and receiving her training as
teacher.
F. II. Meyer, of st. Louis, min
ling operator well known in this COM
munity, was here Sunday interview
ing some of our citizens in regard to
some mining schemes he is now pro-
noting. AS side line, he carries a
most interesting assortment Of facts
and figures to demonstrate the truth
fulness Of the Democratic faith that
is in him. In political argument he
is unanswerable.
Mr.. Charles Dittrich had the little
finger of his left hand crushed so bad
" in a corn crusher about five weeks
ago, that it had to be amputated. In
q few days blood poisoning set in and
he was brought to the hospital in
| Pennington for treatment. His
many friends win be glad to know
that he has so far recovered that h
was able to be out Monday Of this
week, and it is hoped that he viii not
have any more trouble with his hand
If you want Xmas or New Years
gift, for little money, can you think
Of anything that would be more use.
ful or appropriate for any one than 6
years subscription to The Farming.
ton Times? 1t would be more thar
welcome to any resident, or former
resident of this community. You
could ransack every Santa Claus
Headquarters without finding any.
thing that would give such real sat.
isfaction to the recipient, and its
cost is but $1.00 for the year 1916.
DR.. John P. Clark of Perryville has
been appointed by the Governor 9
member of the Board of Regents Of
the State Normal School at Cape Gil