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undertaken by tho Washington Iry-
ing Group OF Riddle Kiub members.
After they had been reheafsinR a lit
tie while Cousin Eleanor Invited Mr..
William Lee, Supervisor OF tho Re-
creation Bureau OF tho Park Depart.
mcnt. 10 see The work. lie wns so
pleased that he stepped right IN and
helped, with the approval OF Com
missioner Cabot Ward. The hecren-
tlon bureaus big stan OF eighty in.
Blruutots has been at work And there
are i,beO children drilling daily.
The pageant will begin win rep.
resentntlon of the life ot the redskins
before the white men came. Then the
Indians discover tho Dutch lnml-
grants and courtoDuHly welcome thun,
There are Dutch and Indian dances
TO celebrate the meeting. Peter Min
uet with his counscl,ors enters and
buys the Island OF Manhattan for a
pitlful handful OF beads and glass
iowclry. Tho transfer OF the city
from Dutch TO British sovereignty is
shown. There ate characteristic
English dances scattered through this
part Of the programme.
Then George Washington, escorted
by Boy Scouts, establishes Liberty on
the pedestal OF American government.
The melting pot Is Bymbollzod by
dances OF tho many nations whose
sons and daughters make up modern
New York, and at the end all the
participants in the pageant rise and
chant the pledge OF Allegiance to the
llaE" ana then all. including the
audience, sing The star Spanglcd
BANNER"
Here and nov Cousin Eleanor in.
vltes all klddie klub members with
their families and their friends I,
come and enjoy the pageant. She /,
sure they will have mighty goo,
time. ana no matter how good AInori
cans they are they Will go away will
n new love for their country ana a.,
traditions IN their hearts.
Here In list OF the PARK play
grounds and what they are doinI
there.
scotch and colonlali Carl Schurz
s6th st. and East River. English
Carnnnsvllle, iblst Ht and Amstcr
dam Ave, scotch; Chelsea, 2Sth ~
aud 10th Ave-, French and Indian
Colonial. i6Oth St and Bradhurs
Ave, Scotch; Corloars Hook, Corloar
Hook and Jackson 81; he witt Clin
ton. SD St. ana nth Ave. Indians
East 18th st.. between ist nnd 2,
Aves.; East nth St, 18TH ST. an,
Fast River, Dutch and Russian: Fiv
Points. Baxter and Worth SITS
Dutch; Hamilton Fish, Houston an,
Pitt SITS, Dutch and Russian; Ilud
son, Clarksou and Hudson -ts
French: John Jay. 10th 81. and Eas
River. English; Ryan, 42d ST, an
Pleasant Place. English tSellnFer'
Round): 81. GabreNs. 36th 81. nm
9d Ave. English (sclinFpr's Round)
seward. canal and jefferson Street'
Dutch nnd Russinni Thomas Jeffer
son. IAN 81. and Pleasant Ave. ltal
inns Tompklns square 10Th st. an
Ave. A, Dutch: West 59th ST., botwec
10th and nth AVes.. Indlani Wes
lsth ST.. 18TH 81. and 10th Ave
French. NorkVille, l0lst st., betwee
"a and Sd Aves. May pole. Gym
nasiums -CRrmine ~, near Naric
ST., French; Cherry and oliver SITS
Cherry md oliver SITS. Dutch twind
mill dancc); East oath ST, near L.
Ave, English, West 2Sth st.. near 81
Ave. Sp!rlt Of 20; Rutgers plac,
near Jefferson s.. Russian.
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time Mrs. Allen discovered her dress
er had been opened and the jewelry
removed. Sveral stlckpins belonging
TO Mr.. Allen also were missing.
Wound had left the house. The
key TO the dresser and a bottle Of
hair dye which the butler had used,
was found on the lawn. A hurried
The evening world., 1917-05-14

can Kuupfor. twenty years ola. OF
no. 40 Houston street, was walking
along that street early Today when "A
man whose identity has not been cs-
tublished threw muriatic acid into his
and may lose the sight OF both eyes.
The reason for the oct Ia not known
aud Knupter claims TO know Of none.
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investigation disclosed that Wound
had been seen In a saloon In New
Rochelle at 7.3o Thursday night. No
trace Of him has since been found.
Two years ago the Allen home was
entered by burglars. who were caught
after a running fight with the police
and sent to prison for ten years.
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Cheml.t nurned Iu E1pIo.Ion.

Waiter Gotham twcuty-four. a
chemist Of Hoboken, n, ], was badly
burned about m, hands ana face to-
day In an explosion which occurred
while he was experimenting in IN.
labo 'atOry OF the CarbuNO Chemical
Company at No. 1853 Wyeth Avenue,
WinlnmsbutH 'rhc explosion caused "A
blaze which did Rbout $500 dnmngr.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-02-09
JANUARY MISPLACED

The last day of January dawned
bright and beautiful, and so continu-
ed until about nightfall, when the tenn
perature began to fall quite rapidly,
and as the month passed out quite a
blizzard was raging. With the eXcep-
ton Of it's departure, the entire month
was most unusually warm and cheer
full But the dawning of February was
indeed cold and stormy, coming in
with the thermometer about Ia de-
grees below zero, and it has required
the past weel; for the temperature to
rise to anything like comfortable
ic doses.
All of which indicates that the
weather for January and February
has in some manner gotten mixed, so
that the assortment which was in
tended for the banner winter month
has been reserved for the present
month. But let us hope that the worst
is now past, and that the February
weather will now correct itself, and
that its assortment of weather will,
from this time on, come in ostheopath-
is doses.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-02-09
NJ. Il. & B. T. SAID TO HAVE
BOUGHT PART OF C. G.

Developments in the controversy
between Louis Houck of Cape Girar-
deau and the Frisco Railroad as to the
ownership of the Cape Girardeau
Northern Railroad reached q settle
ment last week, whereby the Frisco
gave Mr.. Houck 100000 to reassume
the ownership of the lines, releasing a
judgment of $1,037 900, which he had
previously received against the big
system for their sale.
The readjustment of the Cape lines
ownership, according to Cape Girar-
deau sources, comes with the report
that the road has been purchased by
the Illinois Central and the MisSissip-
pi River and Bonnc Terre Railroads.
The Bonne Terre railroad, it is said,
will take over that prat of the line
north of Jackson, with trackage rights
into Cape Girardeau, while the Cen
trail will buy the line between Ancell,
in Scott county, and Jackson, total
of eighteen miles. !"
By dividing the Cape Girardeau
Northern into two parts and dispos-
ing of it to two different. railroads,
might give Cape Girardeau two addi-
tional railroads. The Bonne Terre
railroad, it is understood, is willing to
buy the c. G. N. property from Farm
ington to Jackson, if it can make sat
isfactory arrangements with the Ill
inois Central to run trains over the
Cape Girardcau Northern tracks from
Jackson to limo.
AS the mining road would not be
regarded as competitor of the Illi-
nois Central, it is believed in railroad
circles here, that this arrangement
could be made. Whether negotiations
are at present under waV between the
two interests has not been learned.
Louis Houck, who owns the Cape
Girardeau Northern, is said to- have
negotiated with the Illinois Central
and the Bonne Terre railroad and
reached an understanding before he
consented to compromise the c. G. N
suit to force the Frisco railroad to
guarantee the bonds of the Cape Gil
rardeau road.--Charlcston Enterprise.
Courier.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-02-09
Child Burned
to Death


Tile ight ,eeeks.old baby Of Mr
and Alrs Nick DaWGy wa burncd u
death at Jhclr heme nCar the C8tho'ic
church III Farmiagt0n last Mouday
aitcraooh
Il seems .ha, Mrs. Dani9ly, who ac-
capies rooms on gte second facr 81
the auildiaQ had warmed 4 blgulcl
wrapped her sleeping babe IN il and
laid the child on the bed. She then
went dowa stairs 4, sit With Mrs
Prescott WhS occupies the first floor,
and to do 3 ae sewing. Shortly al
forwards they smelled smoke, and
going up stairs found the bed on fire
and the babe SO terribly burned that
il died a few moments after being
taken from the burning bed and car
ried down stairs. The head, face and
large part of the body were severely
burned. and it is probable the child
was sufTocated and rendered mcon-
scious by the smoke and fame. thus
Fastening death and relieving it OF
much suffering.
How the bed caught fine is some
thing of mystery. Perhaps in
warming the blanket in which to
wrap the baby. it may have touched
The hot stove and been set on fire in
small spot without the mother dis
covering it and then when wrapped
about the child continued to smolder
until It burst into a blaze. Or it
is possible that the bed clothes uiay
have been set on FIRE from the heat
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-02-09
Box Supper

The box supper and program at
Chestnut Ridge on last Saturday night
Feb. 3. conducted by the teacher, DR..
G. B. Perkins, was a swell affair, and
grand success nj every way. The pro-
gram was short but fine. and the short
ness of the program is to be recon-
mended for many of the programs in
the rural schools are entirely too long
The school house was crowded even 70
standing room. After the program,
e. s. Womack, teacher at the Burgs
school, was called on to sell the ~
boxes, which went like hot cakes and
brought the sum of $15,S2. and then
fine cake baked by Miss Melvina Per
kins, daughter of DR.. Perkins, was
cried Off for the most popular young
lady present. Miss Katie Resinger
daughter, Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Res
niger, of the Burks School house and
Miss Pearl Thomas of Jonca. were
placed in nomination and the voting
at 5 cents each was the most spirited
your correspondent ever saw, and con-
tinued with out any abatement till the
cake brought the unprecedented sum
OF $4215.,
Miss Resinger finally won out by re-
ceiying 2205 votes and Miss Thomas,
the loser, received 2010. Miss Resing-
er then most graciously cut and di-
vided the cake among her host OF
friends, and 1t was the consensus of
opinion that 1t was as fine a cake as
was ever tasted, and that never before
did the names of two worthier young
ladies come before an assembly to de-
eide who should "get the cake" and
never did a worthier young lady win,
or worthier one lose. The entire
proceeds amounted to the unusual sum
OF $57.47.. which is the largest sum
this writer has ever known to be, taken
in at a box supper. and will be used
for the benefit of the school.
We congratulate the people of Ches-
tnut Ridge for their up-to-date push,
and the get-up-and-get spirit of their
childre.
Thus has passed into history one of
the best box suppers this writer has
ever attended. -
Iii T. B. Chandler,
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-02-09
BISMARCK GOOD ROADS
BOOSTERS VISIT COURT

a delegation of between 25 and 30
or more from Bismarck were here
Wednesday to urge the County Court
in the matter Of some emergency road
Improvements affecting their thriving
lit5le city. The people of that vicinity
have been enthusiastic advocates and
workers for good roads, and have a
good deal to show for it, but there are
several little stretches that give them
considerable annoyance, and they
want these remedied as soon as poss-
ible.
The particular piece of road that
needs the most pressing attention, as
we understand it, is only about three
quarters of a mile in length, 1t leads
out from Bismarck to the Washington
County lire and connects with the Cal
edonia road, The Caledonia road dis
trist is bonded and is putting the
Washington County stretch of the
road which is about the whole thing,
being distance of eight or ten miles
in first class condition. The three
quarters of mile leading out from
Bismarck is very bad piece of road,
some times almost impossible. This
want put in prime condition just as
quick as possible.
The old mail star route has been
changed from Irondale to Bismarck,
and the Caledonia mail now goes out
from the latter place, which is one
reason for haste. Another is, the CAL
edonia district is thriving fertile
farm community, and Bismarck is the
best outlet for it's products and at
which to trade, so we are not sur
prised at the interest which the for
ward looking business men and citi-
zens of Bismarck are taking in this
matter @h
They doubtless deserve and are en-
titled to all they ask.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-02-09
Leadw0od a Thriv-
ing Little City

Tiiaes reporter made visig
tlreuah the Load Belt recently aHa
While qii Ms trip had the pleasNre of
visiting the huallrg little city on
lcaGNegl, .5elng hia arst Wsit bis
acqpainsascc 3hip was necessarily
GmHed 6ut be was not treated a5
stranger Everyone was obtigns,
auft, us, willing and seemed pleased
to s%teud any service in their power,
~ thar he was made TO teel that he
wa arnong friends, and that impress
s.aa continued to grow
Ieadwod is a well built town with
substantial business district. and
from tie residence area one would
judge that it has a population OF ap-
proximately 1900 The business
houses are all well equipped. have the
appearance of doing large volume Of
business, ard the general activity
seen on all sides is proof enough that
Leadwood is a live wire. The peo-
pie possess local pride and seem to
take a delight i'll showing the visi-
tor around and telling of the rapid
development of this comparatively
new mining town. In and near this
place the St. Joseph Lead Co, and
the Baker Lead Co, have operating
mines, and shaft No. 6 of the Desloge
Lead Co, is here.
One of the things that most inn
presses the visitor is the modern, well
equipped High School, with its ef-
fcient corps of teachers under the d.
rcction Of Prof ] C. Jadwin. This
school was recently enrolled in the
ranks Of the hrst-class High Schools
OF the State which entities any of its
students, upon graduation, entrance
TO the State University Some of
their leading business houses are the
Tollcson Nero. Company, A. 7. Good
win and Z. c. McMullin, dealers in
general merchandise; the Francis
butcher shop, Buhl Bakery, Rudolph
I.ange, dealer in fountain drinks and
confections. and the Mason Hard
ware Company, The town has weu
conducted bank. and tour churches,
the M. +. South, Baptist, Church OF
God and Catholic.
Another noticeable feature is the
number of one and two story rest
dcnces that we're being built and
number more ~iil sot,s be construct
ed
The visit though short, was one. Of
great pleasure, and the reporter felt
on leaving that he had been among
old friends whom he had known for
many years. He hopes to make an
othet visit in the near future and
cement the friendship begun.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-02-09

Mrs. G. M. Raines and daughter
Martha, attended the funeral Of Mrs
Raines' uncle. J. c. Ramey at Freder-
=fciitown last Sunday.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-02-09

! wealth in the hands Of these great
concerns, for especially th4 first and
second named mining companies have
been with us a long time Their be-
einnings may have been on limited
scale, but through the persistent and
unstinted devotion and efforts of the
star laborers they have reached gil
gantic proportions. Some of those
laborers have passed over the river.
but many remain with us. Were
those laborers that are no more. and
are those who still remain through
all those years OF toll and depriva-
ton have they, or did they, or were
they able to lay away great stores and
build stately mansions for their en-
loyment during their journey down
the sun-set-side OF this life? Hardly.
Have you heard of any of those
faithful ones ever enjoying a rest at
Palm Beach or Pasadena Or. per-
haps, luNuratng OH the most FASH
iopanle street, owning and occupying
TIE most stately y mansion, III the mil
Ilioniare row OF New York or some
other great city: Not often What
Of the magnate owners of St. joe
Doe Run, Desloge. etc? Have they
erected, or are they erecting, a home
where the INDECENT worn-out toilers.
who have served them so well and
faithfully for so many long years, can
bask in peace and comfort during
their few remaining years: Have
they?
Yours.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-02-09
Rush Continues

Notwithstanding the cold and
stormy weather of the past week, the
general interest in The Times contin-
ues unabated, as is evidenced by the
following listSof new and renewal sub
|scribeTs:
New Subscribers-Jake Barger and
James Devie of Bismarck; A. W. Her
aid of Bonnie Terre; Emmett Swink,
of Humphrey, Ark, Lizzie Taylor. OF
Leadwood; J. F. AuBuchon of French
Village; C.eF. Williams Of Jackson,
Mo, Perry McCarver, of East Prair-
lie, Mo-, Noah Sebastian, Of Grass
Range, Mont, DIR. Ray Matlin Of Rocl'
port, Mo.
Renewals-R. E. Hope Of Route l.
Chas. F. Meyer, of Route 2, J. E,
Klein, DR.. E. C. Mccormick, S. W.
Robinson, Thomas Smith and Vernon
Doss, all of Pennington; J. R. Evans
Of Knob Lick; Mart Matkin and Geo
Matxin of Bismarck.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-02-09
LITERARY SOCIETY
PROGRAM TONIGHT

Tonight friday is the date for
the regular meeting ,of the Farming
ton Literary Society, at the High
School Auditorium, b g n II g
promptly at O'Clock. Admission is
free. as always, and this fact, perhaps,
has served to encourage few unruly
souls who attend frequently to get
the impression that good behavior is
not Just as essential at a free enter
tainment as it is at an entertainment
to which one pays admission.
The President at the last meeting
made it quite clear that disorder is
not going to be tolerated. One OF the
reasons it is and has been so diff
cult TO GET adults to serve upon these
programs is the frequent lack Of quiet
and decorum during the rendition OF
number, Those who attend owe 1t
to the people who are trying to enter
tain them to give close attention,
without talking. laughing, foot-shuti-
ling, scutfling or other manifestations
OF an inability to behave ones sell IN
public place. Admonitions have
been given from the platform time
after time, until some apparently
have been led to think an unruly
youngster or two whl be forcibly
elected with promptness and DIS
patch il the thing doesn't stop. Those
who go to enjoy the entertainment
RIGHTLY expect to do so without in
terruption and noisy outbreaks. And
those who contribute their time and
talent to the program rightly expect
and demand samely behavior upon
the part OF those who come to hear,
So. while the entire public is well
come at these Literary Society
meetings, and the enterprise is car
ried on for the enjoyment and enter,
tainrnent of the whole public. it i
pointed out that Village cut up
tricks are going to be nipped in the
bud right suddenly hereafter. so i
YOU can't behave, sthy' away. or you'll
be put ont in disgrace. ~
The uncertainty attending 3almpsl
every program has made it advisable
rot to publish the program as hither'
to, on the day of the regular meet
ing. This copy must be given tn,
papers on the FIRST or second week
dav of the week. Thereafter, "fal
downse are reported almost daily
substitutions must be 1nade, and final
~. on the night the program is given
there are always substitutions q
omissions which must be suddenly
made. Therefore it is deemed bes
to assure tire public only thai a gooC
program will be given. following al
nearly as may be. the auppuncemen
Of the program when il Is made ibl
the program committee,
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-02-09
Star Magnates

Editor Pennington Times:
The caption to this article is strill-
ingly peculiar, bus embraces some
phases that the writer wishes to i'm
pose on your large audience of read
ers.
In our world to-day there exist
magnates of many kinds and varieties.
viz: Baseball, lead-mining and on
down through the professions and
businesses. adj inhnitum. Magnates
of whatsoever kind are rhe products
of the labor and activities of others
than themselves.
As the baseball magnate IS first in
mind, we win review him and his
achievements, but like all of the rest,
his great emoluments were Handed
him as toll exacted from his chattle
slaves. In one particular he differs
somewhat from his brethren in the
magnate, craft, from his seeming con-
Germ ofthose who have placed him on
easy street with all that that means.
He advocates the establishment OF a
home for the INDECENT down-and-out
and disabeled ball players. without
indicating who or by whom such place
of refuge should be built and main
tanned Again Mr., Johnson, base
ball magnate Of the first water, as
serts, that the ball-player gets all OF
the money there is III the game. Then
perchance. he has in mind in his home
building idea, the poor aged, INDECENT
and disabled magnates OF the diamond
Yet, in either instance, his human in
stincts are made manifest.
We ask, where are. and what is the
condition OF the star bali players, who
have won iaurels and money for their
overlords in so many hotly contested
games on so many fields? Amos
Rusie, the greatest pitcher the game
ever produced, was driving a coal
wagon, when last heard of; Willie
Gundhoff, another leading star player
is in mad house, and Rube Waddell
the principal architect in building up
the stupendous fortune of magnate
Dreyfuss on the diamonds at Louis-
Vile and Pittsburg, is no more. Sc
have Chick Stahl and Figgs Donohuc
been relegated to the scrap pile.
The fact Is, that the star player
| fights. all Of the time to retain hi;
place. and finally sees his hard earned
position transferred to another. Tho
star players life is ephemeral. con,
tinuing to-day and gone tomorrow
This is the inevitable fate of the stat
player, and if he has made and garner
cd no wheat, corn or hay he's gon
ner. We have few like Petty still
with us. who garnered and quit thS
game before they were down and out
What Of the magnate? He is al
ways in clover. Hedges may b'
hibernating in the genial climate o
California, swimming in luxuries tha
only such as hesean afford or possibl,
| he may be on a Hawaiian japnt seek
ling the pleasures that are only indi
geifous to that hospitabie cline. TIL,
magnates. Johnson and Dreyfuss, cal
always be found where the best ther,
lis is ohtainable.
|. Among aud constituting the Leaf
Mining Magnates The St. Joe-Do,
Run, the Desloge and other grea
/ concerns Of our cohnty are Stars .
the FIRST magnitude and possessed o
means world without end. Wher
are the star laborers that made then
Imhat they aref You have seen them
| You know them. You can pick th
ones who have put the enornou
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-02-09
WINS SECOND GAME.

The Pennington Eighth Grade boys
and the Flat River Eighth Grade boys
played an interesting game of basket
ball on the Flat River court last Sat
urday night, Pennington being victors
by score of-2S to %. The game was
fast and clean from start to finish.
Pennington worked their signals all
through the game. and succeeded in
making some nice plays, and on one
occasion Woodard threw a field goal
from the center-of court. This makes
Pennington boys victors in two games
with Flat River. whic gives them the
championship of the county.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-02-09
Local News Omitted

Owing to The Times linotype opera
tor being unavOidably detained in St.
Louis this week, we are compelled to
omit considerable local news from this
weeks issue.
We are not ofteA so placed as to
make such excuses, and we feel certain
that our subscribers will forgive US
for any shortcomings there may be in
The Times news departments this
week.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-02-09
IMPORTANT TO TRAVELLERS

It does not apear to be generally
known in this city that the Sunshine
Special, the fast train on the Iron
Mountain, receives passengers at
Bismarck for all points south where
that train stops. It has been doing
this for the past year. This train
reaches Bismarck about $40 p. m,
This obviates the necessity Of going to
StD Louis in order to make long trips
west or south.