The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-02-04
Pennington was "shot full of holes"

in last Fridays storm. Still she was
mot materially damaged, and will be
J better than ever after the healing
process has been invoked.
II The w. C. T. U. will meet at Mrs.
Oscar Haile's Tuesday afternoon
4 promptly at 2:3O o'clock. There will
be important business, and all men,
bers are urged to be present.
| Twin boys were born to the wife of
1 w. j. Anderson on January 28, 1916,
one weighing 6 1-2 pounds and the
other 5 pounds. Billy is as proud of
them as if children were novelty at
his home, but he has a house full of
| them.
| Perfect sanitation is not only es-
sential to the health of community.
1t is absolutely necessary as a safe
guard to health and happiness-yea,
even to life itself. The warning has
been sounded, and it is now up to the
active and progressive citizenship of
this city to bestir themselves. And
they will do it. The health, happiness
and lives of their families must not
be placed in unnecessary danger.
DR.. and Mrs. Fugate have both been
quite sick the past two weeks, most
/
Of the time abed, but we are glad to
note that they are both improving.
Mrs. Fugate is able to be up and
about the house, and the Doctor is
able to set up part of the day in his
chair. The many friends of these
good people would be glad to hear of
their complete restoration to health.
John c. Mccormick, who has been
here visiting for few days, left
Monday for Lilburn, New Madrid
county, where he goes to assume
management of new mercantile
company's business at that point.
John is good, dependable merchant,
courteous and gentlemanly, and his
many friends here wish him the very
best success in his new field.
Owners of furnaces are generally
regarded as belonging to the more
fortunate portion IF the human fam
| lily, but there is a demonstration now
being made in Pennington that is cal
culated to contradict such a SUPPOSE
ton. Ever since last Fridays rain
practically all the cellars have been
flooded with water, something before
unheardof in this community, which
goes to show that "you never can tell"
This flooding of cellars has caused no
end of trouble, especially when there
is furnace located there. The large
amount of flood water bears testi-
mony that the amount of precipitation
was very great the last of the week.
NJ. A. Patterson of Marion township
announces this week as a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
Sheriff. "Mac", as he is Familiarity
known, hardly needs an introduction
to the people of this county. He was
born, reared and married in st. Fran
co.'s county, belongs to an old highly
respected family, and farmer by oc-
cupation. He was candidate for this
office four years ago, and only missed
out by a small margin. For the past
three years he, has been deputy as
SCISSOR under Assessor Wells, and an
efficient one. He is a man of courteous
bearing, full of energy and push, a
Democrat of the true blue stripe, and
if nominated and elected would make
good Sheriff.
Did you hear the fire alarm We'd
nesday night? This is no joke. One
man told us he failed to hear it, and
yet he says he was in Harrington all
that night. Therefore the above ques-
ton was suggested in the hope that
we might be able to secure little sup
port to the above claim. If we could
but find someone else to allege that
he also failed to hear that alarm,
then we would feel so much better;
we could feel that all men are truth
Rful-sometimes. We would then try
and secure some of those same slum-
Der pills. Just why that fire whistle
is so long-winded we have also been
unable to discover, unless he also took
one of those same slumber pills just
before pressing the button, and had
to sleep it off" before releasing the
pressure.
If February End is Ground Hog Day,
and if there is any truth in the old
saying about his Hogship seeing his
shadow, then we are tagged up for
a late spring, as shadows could be seen
on February End. However, there is
quite a sect who contend that Febru-
airy 14th is the day that the Ground
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