The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-07-26
%COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE"

M0reh0uSe Tor some Jlmc, mas Gn-
listed in the army and is expecting to
be called at any time. His wife, who
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. G.
Haney, expects to make her home
with her parents here
Mrs. Murrill McAllister of Dexter,
Mo-, left Wednesday for her home.
She had been staying at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Payne for sew
eral months.
Miss Mary Thomure of Cantwell
visited Mrs. Henry Payne Monday.
Clarence Wood was taken to the
Barnes Hospital at st. Louis last
Thursday to undergo an operation, it
is thought, for gall stone. But after
arriving the physicians thought he
had some symptoms of typhoid fever,
and decided to keep him under treat
ment for while.
Mrs. Arthur McGraw and Mrs. S.
d. Smith of Elvins spent Sunday in
Pennington visiting Mrs. G. M. Lon
don and Mrs. Henry Foard.
Miss Grace McAllister left for her
home in Dexter Wednesday.
FINS Boyd is reported on the sic6
list this week.
Sunday was the closing Of the
Methodist Assembly at Arcadia and
quite a few from here attended.
Among them were: Mr.. and Mrs. ID.
S. Browne and children, Lee Fatchett
and family, Sherman Humphrey ard
family, J. w. Phillips and family, and
J. H. Cozean of Marquand.
Mrs. Frank Pritchett and Mrs. Fred
Boyd went to DcLassus Monday to
bid goodbye to a brother of Mrs,
Boyd, John Brewin, who was leaving
for training camp.
Jas. Cozian and family and Miss
Esther Lashley spent the day. at Ar
cadia Sunday, stopping at the Iron
Mountain Lake on their way home.
j. N. Thomasson and family motor
ed to Iron Mountain Lake Sunday af-
| ternoon.
J. W. Phillips and family motored
to Arcadia Sunday and spent the day
at the Methodist Assembly.
A temperance mass meeting will be
held at the Y. M. C. A. Friday, July
26th, at one o'clock p. m. The pur-
pose of the meeting is to organize the
temperance forces of St. Francois
county, preparatory for the State
wide prohibition election which will
be held this fall.
The new electric shovel which has
been on demonstration in the No. L.
shaft of the Federal, is considered by
the company success and is now IN
operation. They will install three Or
four more in different shafts.
Little Virginia Lea Johnson, the
3-year-old daughter of Mrs. B. A.
johnson, had the misfortune Wednes-
day evening of falling on Ratchet
and very seriously cutting her throat.
The little one was playing with the
hatchct when the accident occurred.
1t was feared for time that it was
fatal, but nr. G. +. Cecil was called
Immediately and it is thought now
she is getting along fairly we'll
Mrs. E. +. Davis and daughter,
Mrs. Milton Brown, and children who
have spent about four weeks here Wis
iting relatives, returned to their home
at Kincaid, H., Thursday of this week.
Earl Smith, son of A. V. Smith, is
on the sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry RabadcauX are
the proud parents of little daugh-
ter, born July 21sL.
Miss Blanch Beaudin and aunt,
Mrs. Minnie Lee, left Sunday for ST.
Louis. Mrs. Lee returned homes and
Miss Blanch to visit relatives.
T. C. Marsh, general secretary Of
the Y. NJ. C. A., returned Friday
from a two weeks stay at Black
Mountains, North Carolina, where he
has been attending the Industrial
Conference.
Mrs. r. j. Smart is reported i'll at
this writing.
Mrs. Birdie Longgrear and son CT
Kennett, Mo-, visited her sister, Mrs.
Treecy Hampton, on Tuesday and
Wednesday, returning home Thursday.
Mrs. Frank Edwards and children
leave for St. Louis Saturday, where
she expects to be gone a couple Of
weeks, as her little son has car trou-
BILE and he will be under treatment
while there by competent physician.
Miss Caroline Kercheras of near
st. Louis returned home Thursday,
after a few days visit at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. T. C. Marsh.
Mrs. John Ball and children have
just returned from several days WIS.,
it with relatives at Loyal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Head and little
son were returning from business
trip to Loyal Monday afternoon when
in some way the Reuter- Milling Co.