The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-12-06
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI NOTES

SOUTHEAST MISSOURI NOTES
We are told that Geo. C. Howes
has spent in all about $4,000 on
clearinghouse Farm" in the valley.
This does not include the money eX-
pended on the Roblete place. Mr..
Howes desires to sell and some real
estate men were here last week to
look over the property.-Ironton Reg
lister.
Judge C. |. Garrett is out of job.
For some time the Judge has been en-
gagged in splitting his winters sup
ply of wood when on the Sabbath |
day some miscreant swiped the Judges |
axe. He might call on some of his |
neighbors and assist them in getting |
up their winters wood.-Bismarck Ca
zette.
J. A.. Kite, who is yard-master of |
the Miners Lumber Co. here, tells us |
he has purchased a home in Farm
ington. The house which is 7room
building with all modern convenien-
ces, was purchased through W. N.
Fleming, who is Pennington real
estate agent. Mr.. and Mrs. Kite
lived in Flat River for many years,
having located in Pennington about
year ago.-Lead Belt News.
An exchange says that one-third of
| the people in the country think they
can beat lawyer in expounding the
law. One half think they can beat
the doctor in healing the sick. Two
thirds of them think they can put the
minister in a hole in preaching the
gospel; and all of them think they
can beat the editor in running the
newspaper.
A memorial service will be observ-
ed at the Y. M. c. A. Thursday even
ing, December 5, in honor of George
B. Gale. At this time two pictures,
that have been presented to the Y. M.
C. A., by the children of Mr.. Gale, as
memorial to him, will be unveiled.
Mr. Gale who has been well known
and highly respected citizen of st.
Francois County. for many years died
at his home in Pennington little
more than a year ago. For several
years he had been president and gen.
eral manager of the Miners Lumber
Company in Flat River.-Lead Belt
News
J. F. Schroeder, treasurer of the
United War Work Fund, is in receipt
of letter from J. P. Cayce of Farm
lington, county chairman, which reads
in part: 81 note that your total sub
scription for Bismarck is 1,139.72, of
which amount $3.50 was raised by the
Victory Boys and Victory Girls, and
the balance of S859.72 was on general
subscriptions. This is a splendid re-
port and | want to congratulate you
and your committee on the good work
that you have done. The reports from
the districts all over the county are
very encouraging and it is now evil
dent that we are going to raise more
than our goal of $37, 500; in fact |
think we will exceed $4,000. Bis
marck Gazette.
It is indeed difficult to put aside
the feeling of revenge, when we think
of the brutes who instigated and en-
gineered the war When we think of
the deliberate sinking of unarmed pas
senger ships carrying innocent women
and their children; when we think
of chopping off the hands of little
boys and girls and otherwise mutilat-
ing innocent children with no other
intention than to horrify, humiliate
and discourage loving parents, it IS
hard to suppress feeling of revenge.
When we read the war Lords boasts,
threats and expressed intentions,
when victory was going their way, of
practically enslaving their opponents
when victory was sure CD to be real
lied, it requires brave heart to sup
press that feeling of rage that knows
no bounds. We may be letting this
feeling unduly sway our thought, but
we are disposed to believe that those
heartless brutes should be tried as
other criminals, at least for the viola
ton of international law. We know it
is not revenge we should seek, but the
welfare of humanity that should be
sought. What will be for the perpetu
al welfare of overwhelmingly?
1t is difficult question for the best
men alive today.-Arcadia Valley En-
terprise.
There has been one notable change
in affairs and in the way of doing
business since the war started. In all
the conduct of the war, but few agents
and speakers have been around. Ev-
erything was done through the news
papers. The Government has depend
ed in nearly every case, upon papers
to reach the people, and the people
were reached and everything called for
was secured promptly. When the
, Fourth Liberty Loan was started, the
} Newspaper men of Missouri were
practically summoned to meet the
!, Government officials at the Hotel
Statler, st. Louis, and the newspaper