The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-01-14

Saturday, January 18th, at Mrs. S. c.
Watts.
The wife of former County Judge
M. T. Moore of Desloge died last Fri
day morning. Besides her husband,
she leaves little son about five years
old, five sisters and one brother.
The Times management will greatly
appreciate it if you will give US any
news item you may have in mind. Or,
if you will telephone it to this office
it will be thankfully received. Call SO.
C. E. Porter, assistant cashier of
the Bank of Desloge, graduate of
the Ozark Business University of this
city and a most promising and worthy
young man, is new subscriber of
The Times.
Rev. c. R. Kineaid, pastor of the
Pennington Circuit of the NJ E.
Church, South, made The Times an
appreciated call last Saturday, and
had his name enrolled among The
Times readers.
Eugene Mitchell, son of Judge j.
D. Mitchell, left Wednesday for st.
Louis, where he has taken a position
in hotel owned by DR.. Geo. Brann.
Eugene's many friends here wish him
abundant success.
County Highway Engineer Fran
cisco returned Tuesday from Chicago,
where he went last week to purchase
road grader for the County. He
bounght one of the latest and best
model, the price being $500.
Mrs. Merrill Pipkin left Wednesday
afternoon for the bedside of her
youngest sister, Mrs. C. L. Norwine,
who has undergone an operation in
Barnes Hospital, ST. Louis. But small
hope is entertained for Mrs. Norwine's
recovery.
DIR. w. G. Patton of State Hospi-
tai No. left Wednesday for Poplar
Bluff, Mo-, where he had been called
as an expert witness in case COM
ing up for trial there. The Doctor
is well qualified along the line of
passing on the condition of ones
mental condition.
The heavy rains the first of the
week swelled many of the streams
surrounding Pennington to overflow
ing, interrupting travel for a time,
though no special damage has been
reported. Most of the streams, how
ever, fell after the rain stopped as
quickly as they had risen.
The new editor fThe Pennington
Times, A. W. Bradshaw, got to wan
dering, and landing up in the State
hospital for the dippies-as many
good fellows have done. After being
shown through, Brother Bradshaw
went back to his Office and made a
splendid write-up of the institution
which was published in last weeks is
sue of The Times.-Doniphan Pros
pect-News.
W. A. Pratt, of st. Louis, who re-
sided here about twenty-five years
ago, was here Monday paying taxes
and renewing old friendships. For the
past eighteen years he has been en-
ployed in the postal department. He
made The Times office pleasant call
and fixed himself for the news of this
vicinity during 1916 by leaving his
name enrolled on our subscription
list.
The Rev. R. Jesse of st. Louis will
deliver an illustrated lecture at the
Lutheran Church under the auspices
of the Berean Bible Class next We'd
nesday evening at 1880. The subject
Of the lecture will be: Lutheran Mis-
sions Among the Colored People"
This is the second of series of lee
lures arranged by the Bible Class of
st. Paul's Congregation. Everybody
is welcome to attend the lecture.
Many former subscribers of The
Times, together with others, are
Coming back" They are coming in
by the score every week and having
their names again enrolled on The
Times subscription list. The Times
management will never be entirely
content while there is a non-subscrib-
err to this paper living in st, Francois
county. So if you desire peace and
happiness in the household, you know
what you must do.
MEETS WITH ACCIDENT