The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-06-01
SOUTHEAST NEWS


SOUTHEAST NEWS
Insufficiency Of the number of sig
natures to the petition asking the
County Court Of Scott county to call
an election to bond the county for
$500, 900 for road improvement, has
caused that body to withdraw its or
der for an election on May IL. An
other petition signed by $50 names
was presented to the court, and on
this it has ordered an election for
June 9th.
On May 9th Dudley McLain OF St.
Mary's and young man named Glen
Monks, from California, went to a
dance on an island opposite Ste. Gem
evieve, and on returning home the
skiff overturned and both men were
drowned.
| An Illinois man was refused Ii
cense to marry a thirteen-year-old
girl of Cape Girardeau county by the
Recorder of that county.
Il Bernice Eaves, the little Cape Gil
rardeau girl who was burned April
26th while playing with matches, died
from her injuries on May 9th.
Adam Samuels of Oak Ridge, a
youth of 10 years, broke down and
wept because he was rejected by the
recruiting officer because of an in
jury to his arm which he received
when boy. Such loyalty as his
should be rewarded in some way.
A warrant for the arrest of two
men who are registered at the Pres
colt House as DR.. j. H. Young and
Henry Sherman of Flat River was
issued May 9TH by Justice of the
Peace Willer, charging them with OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.
The warrant was issued at the in
stance of Rue Trovillion, an employe
of the shoe factory, who charged the
men with swindling him out of 500.
The men were arrested yesterday eve
ming by Constable Scivally as they
were preparing to leave the city and
will be held in Jail pending the out
come of the preliminary hearing
Cape Girardeau Tribune.
Miss Kate Curd, a pioneer resident
of Scott county, died on the 9th inst,
aged so years. She leaves a hus-
band and one daughter.
James Simons and John Hutchins of
Smelterworth in pistol duel exchang-
ed eight shots, all of which went wild
If they should be drafted into the ar
my they would certainly need good
deal of training and good deal of
target practice before they would be
of much use as soldiers.
Sears-R oebuck Company have just
closed a contract for 10000 tons of
catalog paper for their 1917 trade
This paper alone figured at 2 cents a
pound, which is probably far less than
| it cost them, means an outlay of $4,-
100000 for paper alone. Add to this
the cost of getting out the catalog and
the mailing of same and it will make
an enormous sum this one firm is
spending to get business that should
and would go to the country mer-
chants if these merchants would apply
some of he business methods used by
this big mail order house. The coun-
try merchants cannot use catalogs, but
better than this, they can quote pric-
es and describe their goods to pros
pective customers each week by using
the columns of the local paper.--St.
Mary Review.
Paul Denman, oldest son of Mr..
and Mrs. Clint Denman, of Sikeston,
had narrow escape from being cleo
trocuted Monday night when he un-
dertook to remove an electric wire
which had fallen to. the street in front
of his fathers residence. The wire
which it was not thought to be live
one, knocked Paul down and rendered
him unconscious. Fortunately he fell
clear of the wire. His father was near
him at the time and rush to his as
sistance. A physician was hurriedly
summoned, but by the time he had ar
rived, the stricken lad had responded
to the Boy Scout first aid efforts which
were promptly and vigorously made
to resuscitate him. However he was
apparently lifeless for several min
utes and remained in stupor for q
few hours. He appeared to be al
right the next morning except for 8
slightly burned hand and bruised
shoulder. The wire carried 230O volts