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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-01
FRANKCLAY ITEMS


Grace Whaley accompanied her
brother, Charley, as far as Irondale
on visit to Caledonia Christmas.
Ethel Walls was lockwood visit
or Monday
Miss Rosa Fairchild, who for the
past three weeks has been visiting in
Jefferson City, returned home Tues
day.
John 'Silvey of Desloge visited rel
atives in Frankclay Monday
Misses Larry Lawson and Bessie
Taylor visited in Leadwood Sunday.
Melba Jarvis visited in Leadwood
Sunday.
Mr.. Jim Parker and family visited
in Irondale Christmas.
Mrs. Geo Price visited in Cherry
vile Christmas with her son and
daughter, Mr.. Henry Price and Mrs.
Ray Northom.
Miss Leila O'Neal of St. Louis visit
ed her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O'Neal,
Of Frankclay.
Esther Arenz visited in Flat River
the first of the week.
Mrs. Louis Comfy made a call in
Leadwood Monday.
Miss Susie Scott of Leadwood Wis
tied her sister, Mrs. J. c. Rambo, the
last of the week.
Mrs. Tige Turner was shopping in
Leadwood Saturday.
Mr.. Fred McClain of Leadwcod call
ed on Miss Dora Comfy of this place.
Bert Whaley and family spent
Christmas in Frankclay.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-01
LIBERTYVILLE

Christmas was very quiet here
The young folks enjoyed skating.
J. E. Welker walked to Frederick
town last Saturday. He says that he
enjoyed the trip.
Prof. Frank Simpson spent the hol,
days with his parents and friends
in Libertyville. Frank says that he
has one of the best schools in Perry
county.
| Yount Cashion went down on Castor
[ to see his grandmother.
Prof. Louis Detring and wife are
visiting relatives here this week.
Mr.. Jim Ballard and family spent
Sunday with Prof. Welker and wife.
Rev. H. P. Grove preached here
Sunday at eleven o'clock. Rev L. E.
Sitton preached at eight o'clock Both
sermons were good.
Prof. Harold Sharock and wife of
Charlottesville spent Christmas here.
Harold is getting to be quite school
man.
Uncle Tom Alternately and son, our
blacksmiths, have been busy shoeing
horses since the ice fell.
There are only 40 days more of
school. The weather will be bad, but
why not help the children get to
school? The attendance has been
good, and let's keep it good.
DR.. f. L. Watkins of Pennington
was a professional visitor here last
Tuesday.
Paul Williams delivered a rice lot
Of hogsto Pennington Tuesday, which
he sold to Jacob Day.
Mrs. F. L. Graham and son, Ray
mond, and daughters, Mabel, Grace,
and Miss Margaret Stepp spent Xmas
visiting with relatives in Frederick
town.
Prof. L. A. Detring and wife Of
Omaha, Nebr., spent the holidays here
with the formers parents.
Frank Simpson, who is teaching
school near Longtown, in Perry coun-
ty, is home for the holidays.
Miss Mary Keith of Perryville was
home during Xmas vacation.
Prof. j. C. Jenkins and wife of Ber-
trand, Mo-, are spending the holidays
here the guest of the latter's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. 0. f. Presnell.
Prof. H. w. Sherlock and wife spent
the past week here visiting the form
er's relatives.
VIM. Detring and F. L. Graham
have each had installed in their homes
a lighting system plant.
Mrs. Henry Nell of Pennington and
Miss Elizabeth Mckenzie of near Ste.
Genevieve spent a part of the, past |
week here with their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. B. Mckenzie.
Roy Presnell of Elvins spent a cou-
pie of. days here this week.
Paul Price of st. Louis was the
guest of p. G, Keith one day this
week.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-01
CHRISTMAS PRESENT

We are informed that Santa Claus
visited the home of Mr.. and Mrs. J
W. Rutledge Christmas Eve. night
and left fine big nine-pound Cir
with them.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Newkirk spent
Christmas with home folks at Knob
Lick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Brien of Lester
vile, Mo-, spent Xmas with relatives
in Desloge.
Mrs. Margaret Bouchard of Bonno
Terre spent Xmas with the family of
Henry Bouchard in Dosloge.
Percy Cole and Jasper Thomure
spent Christmas in ST. Louis.
The infant of Mr.. and Mrs. Ricahrd
Thomure of st. Louis was brought to
Desloge Sunday for burial.
Miss May Meyers of jefferson coun-
ty spent the holidays with her sister,
Mrs. S. P. Mothorshead.
Jack Kahn was a st. Louis visitor
Saturday and Sunday.
A. P. Mackley and j. II. Hunter
were in st. Louis on business Tues
day.
Mrs. NJ. L. Grady and two children
are spending a few days with her pa
rents at Knob Lick.
Mrs. Mary Mcfarland and little
daughter, Geraldine, are spending a
few days with relatives in Desloge.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-01

here to Colorado several years ago.
He says crops were very good there
this year and he likes the country
very well.
Rev. F. W. Matthews, pastor of the
First NJ E. Church of this city, re-
ceived very fine 20 pound turkey by
parcel post from Brush, Colorado, for
his Xmas dinner. Rev. Matthews
formerly served as pastor at Brush
before coming here and is held in
very kindly remembrance by his
former Pensioners.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-01
BONNIE TERRE.

Miss Emily Evans, Domestic Science
Teacher in the Public School at Cape
Girardeau came home Thursday to
spend the holidays with her parents
Mr.. H. d. Evans and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Evans and child
rem of Kansas City, Mo- arrived in
Bonne Terre Thursday to visit during
the holidays with Mrs. Evans father,
Mr.. T. P. Lesser and family
Misses Joyce, Hazel and jeff Poston
ATTENDED a boX-supper at Prospect
school-house near Wales Mines Thurs
day night, returning home. Friday.
They reported good entertainment.
Misses Susie Andrews, Jennie Long
and Louise Murrill who are attending
the Normal school at Cape Girardeau
are home spending the holidays with
their parents and friends.
Best Pratte and family of st. Louis
are visiting Mrs. Prattes parents Mr.
l.. L. Doe and family of Route l during
the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. O. Ross of Moberly,
Mo. arrived in this city Friday for a
few days visit with their parents, Mrs.
Susan Ross and John e. Compton and
family.
JONES Bowers for nearly thirty
years an employee Of the company at
this place, last week severed. his con-
nection with the company and left for
Strond, Oklahoma. For number of
years Mr.. Bowers was employed as an
assistant in the civil-engineer' depart
ment and there are perhaps very few
men in the employ of the company
more familiar with the records of the
surveying and engineering than he.
We wish him prosperity in his new
field.
Miss Marguerite Scheppeman of Cape
Girardeau is visiting during the holi-
days in this city, the guest of her
friend Miss Louise Murril.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Carvert of St.
Louis are here visiting with home
folks for a few days, Mr.. Calvert is
in an EXPIRES office in St.
Louis.
Frank Poston who is attending the
State University at Columbia, Mo. is
spending the holidays with his parents
DR.. and Mrs. C. P. Poston.
Sam Perry who is working for the
Electric Company as
field engineer with headquarters at
Oes Moines, Iowa is at home here for
he Christmas holidays.
Homer Poston, book keeper for the
Burlington Railroad in the Chicago
,ffice is spending the holiday with
lone folks, DR.. C. P. Poston and
amily.
The Public school closed Thursday
It noon with programme and Christ
mas tree at the High School and the
eachers living out of town departed
or theirhomes to spend the holidays
Nth homefolks. A Christmas tree
7as put up in every room in the cent
al building and the walls and black
cards were properly decorated with
rawlings and stencil work of the
upils which made the rooms appear
lost attractive. The Christmas trees
-ere very beautifully decorated and
ung full of small gifts of the pupils,
ne to another "Grand Pa" Thornton
he janitor acted as Santa Claus and
as very much welcomed by the child
IN and it made one feel good to note {
he very kindly feeling of the children G
ward "Grand Pa" as they call him. 4
One of the oldest landmarks if not q
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-01

the oldest in this section of the county
the old Brick Church near Big River
Mills, or Skintown, as it is known by
the older inhabitants was destroyed
by fire last Tuesday night. According
to the best information we can get, the
building was erected away back in the
3O's and was used as a church and
school house. For the past fifteen or
twenty years it has been used only as
a school house. The rear end of the
house was utilized as a store room and
it contained quiet lot Of stuff 1t is
thought some one entered the back
door and that the fire started in that
part of the building. Miss Eliza Tot
ten of East Bonnie Terre is teaching
and had prepared to have a Christmas
program and entertainment. Most of
the boks of the children were burned
in the building.
Miss Magorie Morris who is teach
ing school near st. Marys, Mo-, came
home Christmas to visit during the
holidays with her parents Mr.. j. |.
Morris and fomily of Route l.
Miss Joyce and John and jeff Poston
Jr. spent Christmas holidays with
their parents Mr., and Mrs. j. d. Poston
of this city.
Edward johnson who is clerking in
a grocery store in st. Louis came down
Christmao Eve. to visit his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Olaf johnson during the
holidays.
Rev A. H. Dace of Elvins spent
Christmas day with his mother Mrs.
Lulu Dace of this city.
Jas. Demier and wife of Elvins Wis
tied with M. A. Covington and family
Christmas day.
Mr. Jas. Turley and wife of Desioge
spent Christmas day with their daugh-
tire Mrs. TKuelling of this city.
Mrs. j. H. Malnger and daughter
went to st. Louis Christmas day to
visit for few days with friends.
Miss Magorie who is teaching school
near st. Marys, Mo. is spending the
holidays with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs.W. l. Morriss of Route 1.
Miss Joyce, John and Jeff Poston Jr.
who are teaching school out of town
are spending the holidays with their
parents Mr.. J. D. Poston and family
If this city.
Miss Pearl Wellington, who is at
ending school at Clayton, Mo-, IS
home during Xmas with her mother,
Mrs. A. Wellington, of this city,
Miss Emily Evans, domestic science
eacher in the public at Cape Girar-
leau, came home Thursday to visit
Turing Xmas with her parents, Mr.
ID Evans and family.
Mr.. Guy Evans and family of Kan
as City, Mo-, arrived in this city
Thursday to visit Mrs. Evans ia
her, Mr.. F. P. Lesser, and family.
Misses Susie Andrews, Jennie Long
nd Louise Murrill, who are attending
he Normal school at Cape Girardeau,
re home during the Xmas holidays
listing parents and friends.
Bert Pratte and family of St. Louis
re visiting Msr. Pratte's parents, I
fr. and Mrs. L. L. Doe, of Route l {
uring Xmas. ,
L. o Ross and wife of Moberly, |
To-, are visiting with their parents. d
lrs. Susan Ross, and Mr.. and Mrs. j. '
. Compton, of this city q
Jas. Bowers, who for nearly 80 {
ears has been an employee of the i
'mpany at this place, last week sew t
ed his connections with the company
I'd departed for Strond, Okla. For h
number of years Mr.. Bowers has d
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-01
Cssus Bell.

why do they hate each other SOP"
They are rivals" "Oh. both trying to
marry the same girl. Ell? That sort Of
thing certainly does arouse mans pri-
NAL passions" In this case it is
worse than that, They are both try
ing to marry the same fortune.'--
Houston Post.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-01

warked as an assistant in the civil
engineering department of the com
pany, and very few men in the en-
ploy of the company are more ia
miliar with the records of the sur
veying and engineering than he. We
wish him prosperity in his new home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Calvert of ST..
Louis are here during Xmas visiting
relatives and friends. Mr.. Calvert
has position in an express office in
st. Louis.
Frank Poston and Jesse Wolpers,
who are attending the State Univer-
sity at Columbia, Mo-, are spending
Xmas with home folks in this city.
The public school closed for the hol-
days at Thursday noon with a pro-
gram and Xmas tree at the High
School, and the teachers living out of
town departed to spend Christmas
with home folks and friends. In the
Central building each room had
Christmas tree which was very arts
tically decorated, and the displays of
the pupils drawing work on walls and
blackboards Of the rooms was very
beautiful to behold. The school will
open Monday, January the 4th
One of the oldest, if not the oldest,
land mark in this section of the coun-
try, the old brick church near Big
River mill, or Skintown, was destroy
ed by fire last Tuesday night, Dec
%. According to the best informa-
ton we can get, the building was
erected back in the early 3O's and has
been used for both church and school
For the past several years
it has been used for school only. The
origin of the fire is unknown. Miss
Elvira Totten of East Bonnie Terre had
to give a Christmas enter
tainment. Most of the books of the |
children were burned in the fire.
Sam Perry, who is working for the
Westinghouse Electric Company as
field engineer with headquarters at
Des Moines, Iowa, is spending Xmas
with relatives in this city.
Homer Poston, who is employed as
bookkeeper in the Burlington Rail J
road offices at Chicago, is spending
the holidays with home folks and
friends in this city.
Mrs. Rev. J. Stephens of st. Louis
spent Xmas visiting her mother, Mrs.
A. W. Keith, and her sister, Mrs.
Bette Perry, of this city, returning
% her home Monday.
John Blackwell of Melzo transact
I'd business in this city Monday of last
week.
Mrs, Harry Mathews of st. Louis
yisited during Xmas with his parents,
Rev. F. W. Mathews, pastor of First
VI. Z. Church of this place.
Peter Falk, long time resident and
ligAy respected citizen of Bonnie
Nerre, died at his home in this city
sunday morning of Bright's disease.
lr. Falk was born at Valley Forge,
ear Pennington and moved with his
'arents to this city when a mere lad.
lie worked in and about the mines
or a number of years and has been :
with the business and So
ial life of Bonnie Terre for great
lany years. He retired from active I
usiness few years ago, owing to ,
evlining health. Funeral services
'ere conducted at st. Joseph's church ]
nd his remains were laid to rest in {
ne Catholic cemetery Tuesday morn /
lg. He was. in his 52nd year at the
me of his death. If
jeff McGhee of Hugo, Colorado, is
ere visiting old friends and relatives ,
lring the holidays. jeff went from t
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-01

The Times" stands up lifty-twO
times year for the best interests of
our home city, and the county as a
whole.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-01
Daily Thouuht.

Daily Thought.
1t is indeed a desirable thing to be
well descended, but the glory belongs
to our ncestDrs-Plutarch
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-01

WOOD FOR SALE - Delivered
promptly. Max Freeman, Farming
ton, Mo. Phone Loida Line, No.
5000.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-07-22
Who Is RIGHT?

The Crown Prince of Bavaria, in
command of one of the German
armies in France, says the French
have used between 3 and 4 million
shells against his army in 6 weeks
and that half of these came from
America. The French government
is reported as saying that no
American shell has yet been used
by the French; and the same as
sertion is made in this country
that no shells have yet been ship
ped from the United States to
France.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-07-22

that judgment for ST 100000 was
recently rendered in favor of the
railroad company promoted by the
Missourians.
The outcome of this litigation
should be gratifying to Missourians
for two conspicuous reasons: 1t
proves that we, as people, must
be shown" even by tricky Wall
Street manipulators, and that we
are represented in the United States
Senate by man who is as capa-
BILE as he is fearless and tireless in
a righteous cause.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-07-22
The Moving Picture
Route to California
ExpOSitiOnS

You don't get half the joy of trip
to the Pacific Coast if you take a
route that bringe you through Col
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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-07-22
ATTRACT ATTENTION
Missouri Equines at State Fair to
Be in High Favor This Year.

With every type of the Missouri
horse being drawn on to supply
mounts and artillery animals for
the belligerents of Europe the horse
industry is to take on an impetus
this year that will be truly emark-
able. Never in the history of
America has there been such a sit.
uation confronting the farmer who
produces horses. Never vas there
such a demand for good animals
of all classes. With Belgium out
of the horse producing business for
years to come and forced to come
to America, whenever the war
ceases, to secure breeding stock,
draft horse business is looking up.
Light harness horses of the type
that are still utilized at home as
being in great demand abroad are
to be in equally great demand. The
exhibits of horses at the Missouri
State Fair this fall. September IS
to October 2, will take on unusual
interest. The cash prizes are the
best ever offered by the Missouri
State Fair Board. Missouri pos
sesses some of the best Belgium
and shire horse studs and breeding
farms in America and must take
the place to considerable extent
of Belgium in the horse world.
Breeders will be pleased to note
that $3.50 has been added to the
draft horse premiums.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-07-22
Missouri Versus New York.

A court decision in which all
Missourians may take pardonable
pride was recently rendered by the
Kansas City Circuit Court, when it
awarded a verdict of $1,500,000 in
favor of the Interstate Railway
Company, an enterprise promoted
some years ago by MlssouriaDs
against the Kansas City, Clay Coun-
ty & St. Joseph Electric Railway
Company a corporation fathered by
a syndicate of New York frenzied
financiers, who sought to deprive
the Missourians of a good thing
they were developing for themselves
and their State.
They did; but at cost Of 81, $780,
600 to themselves, and the story of
how the Missourians trimmed"
them after a ten-year legal war
would make fitting climax to the
masterpiece of a Rex Beach.
In 1904 the Interstate Railway
Company, backed solely by Kansas
City and St. Joseph business men
was chartered and authorized to
build a railroad between the two
cities. 1t acquired the necessary
rights of way and franchises, made
surveys and had begun actual con-
struction of the road when. 10, the
New Workers discovered that the
MisSourians' right of way would
shorten the rail distance between
Kansas City and St. Joseph by ten
miles, and concluded that it would
be a good property for them to pos
sess themselves of.
They stopped at nothing to &C.
complish their end, they re-surveyed
the route and began the construc-
ton of their own road on the Mis-
sourians' right of way, all the while
throwing obstacles in the way of
their opponents; the crews in the
Missourians' construction camps
were freely supplied with liquor and
riot accordingly ruled; sagacious
agents of the New Workers mad it
impossible for the Missourians to
interest foreign capital and succe ed
ed in dissolvine an injunction to
prevent their employers from occu-
plying the Missourians' right of way;
and the New Workers then forced
the Missourians to suspend opera
tons altogether by indicting E. D.
Martin. the head of their enterprise,
for fraudulent use of the mails. The
indictment was quashed. but, in
effect, it rendered the financing of
the Missouri project impossible, and
the New Workers proceeded to build
their road on the Missourians' right
of way.
But the Missourians had come
back" and in May. 1914, Martin re-
tanned James A. Reed, now United
States Senator from this State, and
instituted suit against the New
York company for the damages
sustained by the conversion of the
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-07-22

newspaper which may be depended
upon for soundness of views, for
accuracy and variety Of news is
the newspaper that will gain and
hold the public" Henry F. Urban
of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
Germany said that yellow journal
ism does not exist i'll his country,
where the people are too serious
minded for it.
Upon instructions from Secretary
of the Navy Daniels a trip about
the bay was given the congress on
the battleship Oregon. While a de-
light to the land-lubbers, this out
ing was evidently regarded with
some contempt by the sailors on
board. One young midshipman
disgustedly remarked, You could
tell by this alone that the U. S. is
at peace. Who ever heard before
of using a battleship as an excur-
sion boat?" On this afternoon also
receptions were rendered the con-
gress by many of the foreign COM
missions in their respective build
ings; among them the Netherlands,
China, and Japan. New York also
served the delegates in its hand
some exposition home.
Social affairs predominated dur.
ing the two remaining days of the
congress. A luncheon at Hotel
Oakland Friday, given by the Oak
land Chamber of Commerce was a
brilliant and enjoyable function.
The apartment was the ballroom of
the hotel, which with its lofty pam
elled walls and great crystal chan
deliers, was in itself source of de-
light. In the evening some of the
most interesting concessions on the
Zone, the amusement section of the
exposition, were open to the press
members. One of those visited
was the Grand Canon of Arizona
which is said to be most excel
lent reproduction of that famous
piece of scenery.
Another bay trip (but this time
not on a battleship) concluded, for
the ladies in attendance, this
season of good times. Points of
particular interest about the bay,
to an inlander. were the fortifica-
tons; most of these were masked
batteries where only by close
scrutiny one could see the CLEAN
of gun. The party disembarked
at Wineharen, the home of the IA
nous Calwa wines. Here was
served a generous buffet luncheon,
enriched by the products of the
cellar. The men of the congress
were given farewell smoker, the
invitation to which was to come
at nine prepared to remain until
nine next morning."
The next meeting of the Interna-
tional Press Congress is to be held
in Sydney, Australia, in 1918. Mr..
Walter Williams was elected presi-
dent for the next term.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-07-22
For Quick Sale.

10 acres, large new house, all out
buildings, cement walks, fruit, plenty
of water, well located, a real bargain,
owners going away, can make terms.
Node Green.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-07-22

We try to keep all lenses so il
you break one give us a try.
r. Manning Walker.