The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-12-27
FLAT RIVER

Mr.. and Mrs. ". Z. Ledbctter.
Mrs. Carl Kennedy's grandmother,
also her mother, Mrs. Green, and two
daughters, OF Bonnie Terre, were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy
Christmas day.
Martin Wolfner, salesman of the
Tucker store, was called to st. Louis
on account of the death of his mother
Sunday.
G. N. Mcclure. who is in the Gov
eminent service in New York, ar
rived Sunday evening to spend the
week here as guest of Miss Eta Ken
nedy.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Ledbetter are
expecting their son, jim, of Green
vile, ILL.,, Friday.
Bud Watts and family of st. Louis
spent Christmas with relatives here.
CASHIER RAINY, the manual training
teacher of the school here, had the
misfortune of getting the end of two
of his fingers cut off with a circular
saw in the manual training depart
ment.
A baby boy arrived at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Laws Dec. "a.
Mrs. S. d. Wood has been i'll the
past week.
Miss Esther Lashley was a Farm
ington visitor Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. f. Justice and two
daughters spent Christmas with Mr..
and Mrs. w. f. Golfer of Pennington.
Mrs. L. A. Hunt is reported on the
sick list.
Kenneth Kirkland, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. H. Kirkland, also Earl Scott
Of this place, were discharged from
the Government service last Thurs
day and came Friday to spend the
holidays. Kenneth expects to return
to the Cape Girardeau Normal to at
tend school.
J. NJ. Cobb is moving his family to
Wales Mines this week.
Mrs. A. j. Parker entertained at her
home with a Christmas dinner. All
the family, including children and
grandchildren, were presnet, also
some friends, among whom were Mr..
and Mrs. j. F. Fitzpatrick and Mrs.
Wallace of Libertyville.
Miss Ruth Hawk of st. Louis is
spending the week with her uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Abshier.
Miss Loretta Absher, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Abshier, is very
ill., and on Wednesday was removed to
the National Hospital for treatment.
Mr. and Mrs Jess Mattingly and
Mrs. Jane Book were shopping in
Pennington Saturday.
MIR. and Mrs. Claud Lincoln and
children visited Mr.. and Mrs. j. White
of Desloge Saturday night and Sun
day.
Fay Norwine is home from Cape
Girafdeau Normal to spend the holi-
days,
Mrs. d. E. Wilson and daughter,
Miss Esther, of st. Louis, spent the
week visiting the formers sister, Mrs.
John Bennett, and family.
Jim Northcut of LcadwCod was a
visitor here Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Woodmansee
went to Fredericktown Saturday to
spend week visiting relatives.
Claude Lincoln and Uncle Reve
White of Desloge spent couple of
days this week visiting in Frederick
town.
Mrs. D. N. Hunt is reported very
i'll at this writing.
Marvin Miller and sister, Mrs. j. w.
Watts, were called to Cornwall Sun
day on account of the serious illness
of their father, J. E. Miller, whose
home is near there. Mr.. Miller had
an attack of influenza and pneumonia,
causing his death at 8 o'clock Sunday
evening. Deceased was an old resi-
dent of Flat River, having lived here
for good many years when the lead
belt was in its infancy, but for some
time had been making his home near
Cornwall on a farm.
Mrs. Treecy Hampton received a
card from her son, Luther, who is in
France, saying he was expecting to
leave for the U. S. A. Immediately.
j. w. Watts and children left for
Cornwall Monday to attend the fun
eral of his wife's father, at that place.
Deceived too late for last week.
James Emerson was called to Qulin
Mo-, on account of the death of his
father last Friady, having had pneu-
monia following an attack of the in
fluenZa.
CASHIER Ramey, Manual Training
Tacher of our school, returned from
his home at Cape Girardeau Sunday,
where he had been the past weeks
on account of sickness.
Miss Minnie Alper has graduated
from the Columbia University as a
journalist, and is now home to spend
the holidays with herparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jake Alper. Miss Minnie COM
pleted four-year course in three
and one-half years and now has a po-
sition with the News Capital, daily
paper published in McAlister, Okla.
and as soon as the holidays are over
she expects to take up her. work at
that place. Her many friends wish
her success.
The family of Will Mosier is down
with influenza.
The parents of Mrs. C. R. Bramb-
let, Rev. Vaughan and wife were
called here from Piedmont Sunday
on account of the serious illness of
little Clarence Robert. Rev. Vaughan
is pastor of the First M. E. Church
of Piedmont.
Miss Reulah Hicks of Fornoip o+op