The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-08-18


DR.. James H. English, of Flat Riv-
er, the popular Democratic candidate
for Public Administrator, was in
Pennington Tuesday meeting with his
host of friends, and dropped in for a
pleasant call at The Times office.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rocco DeSteffano of
Chicago are here, the guests Of Mrs.
DeSteffano's sister, Miss Gerty Petty.
Mr. DeSteffano is successful young
lawyer of Chicago, and Mrs. DeStef-
fano will be remembered by our peo-
pie as Bessie Petty.
w. w. Waters left Monday for New
Madrid, in the extreme southern con-
ner Of the State, to look after proper
ty interests He formerly lived there,
and will return soon for Mrs. Waters
and they will make a prolonged visit
there. Mr.. Waters has leased his
print shop here to a Mr.. Poston.
Mrs. Frank L. keith and daughter,
Miss Mildred f. Keith, visited in town
this week. Mrs. Keith reports that
DR.. Keith is rapidly gaining strength
and will probably be home the Latter
part of this week, which is very good
news to his many friends.
The official statement of the receipts
and expenditures for the City of
Pennington for the first six months
in the year, from Jan. LIST to July 1st,
1916, appears in this issue Of The
Times. 1t is worthy your careful at
tention, as it will tell you just how
the city's money is being handled. 1t
will also be good thing to preserve
for future reference.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Mitchell of Balboa
Heights, Panama, arrived in Luffkin,
Texas, last Sunday, where they are
visiting Mrs. Mitchell's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. w. Cheshire. They will
leave there the 21st inst, and should
arrive here the 23rd inst, for sew
eral weeks visit with Mr.. Mitchell's
parents, Judge and Mrs. ]. D. Mitch
ell, and many relatives and friends,
The Lemp Brewing Co. of st. Louis,
owre-s CT the old Markert Hotel of
this city, is having the property
thoroughly overhauled, repapered,
freshly painted and refurnished
throughout, and will make of it a
! first class rooming house. The work
! is being done under the supervision of
o. w. Bleeck, local agent, and Capt.
Kennedy has charge of the rooming
house.
Sheriff J. C. Williams will have a
big sale of live stock next Friday.
August 25th, at his farm, y miles
north of Libertyville. Joe" prcpos-
es to sell large amount of his fine
blooded stock, and it will be a SPLEEN
| did opportunity to secure anything
you may need in the way of cattle,
horses, mules, hoge and sheep. Ev-
erything put up viii go to the highest
bidder. qv. s
Both Bonnie Terreqoad Elvins had
several cases of trough house" re-
Gently. No fatalities have been re-
ported, though there have been num-
Der of skinningsy opsactically all of
which has been the work of John Bar
leycorn. These two places are the on
ly ones in st. Francois county where
the officers have appeared to be I'M
able to keep down the roar Of the
''blind tigers" which appear to grow
and propagate there
Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Young and
daughter, Miss Laura, of Alton, Ore
gon county, Mo-, are the guests this
week Of Judge E. e. Swink's family.
They motored through from Alton, a
distance Of 248 miles by the route
they came. Mr.. Young has been a
member of the State Board of Agricul-
ture through several administrations
and has been Chairman of the Oregon
county Democratic Committee for
twelve successive years.
w. A. Mitchell of Esther was in
Pennington Wednesday on business
and received the congratulations of
many friends over securing the Dem
ocratic nomination for County Judge
in the First District, in which he do
feated j. w. Hobbs of Bonnie Terre,
man Of acknowledged strength. Mr..
Mitchell told Times Reporter that
he had some farm work that would
keep him busy for few days, after
which he proposes to spend all his
time in the political field, garnering
votes.
G. II. Hall, president of the First
National Bank of Campbells vile, Mo-.
and J. S. Woodall of Jackson, Mo-,
accompanied by their families, drop
ped into Pennington Wednesday to see
the big lead mines in st. Francois
county, and also to visit State Hospi-
tai No. a, on their return from trip
TO st. Louis. The entire party Of
twelve people were nicely taken care
of by Capt. Kennedy at his new
Rooming House. They left at 8 O'Clock
yesterday morning for their homes,
expressing themselves as being well
Pleased with their stop in Farming
ton.
Pennington and vicinity has been
favored with several splendid rains
the past week. Some of these rains
have appeared to be of a general ma
ture, but all Of them have been, in
fact, Of a local character. Only few
miles out Of town, in one direction or
another, there was little or no rain
fall. A cold wave Sunday afternoon,
following a rain, caused the mercury
to drop near the frost stage, and made
sleeping under a. blanket that night
very comfortable. But Monday morn
ing the mercury rapidly arose to it's
normal state. While the "coid spell"