The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-10-04
:COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE"

| town returned to her nome tuesday,
after two-weeks stay here with her
sister, Mrs. Jonah Shepard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phil Murdick and chill
dren left Sunday to spend week Wis
iting at Richwoods, Mo-, with the pa
rents of the former.
Mrs. E. P. Schafer expects to leave
for St. Louis next week, where she in
tends spending the winter and prob
ably longer.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. W. Schlick and
daughter, Miss Elsie, are planning to
go to Arcadia Sunday to spend the
day. -
Mrs. D. L. Delaney was in Farm
ington Monday visiting friends and
old neighbors.
Ray Steward has bought property
in Crawley Bottom and moved there
this week from Pennington.
Mrs. M. Dempsey was a Desloge
visitor Wednesday.
Sergt. Dempsey was entertained by
the Knights of Columbus and his
friends at the Lyceum at Bonnie Terre
last Friday evening. A large crowd
was present and everyone had an en-
joyable time.
Mrs. R. Fugate of Pennington
called on Mrs. D. L. Delaney Wednes-
day evening.
Mrs. A. H. Bess and daughter, Mrs.
A. NJ. Mcfarland, of Desloge were in
Flat River shopping Wednesday.
Little Virginia Hough of Freder-
icktown returned to her home Tues
day, after visiting her grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Schlick.
Miss Esther Lashlcy left Friday for
Chester, ILL.,, where she will spend the
week visiting friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Estes and daugh-
ter, Mrs. Warner Norris, of st. Louis
passed through here going to Bis
marck Tuesday on their way to Fort
Worth, Tex, where they will visit
their son, T. Estes.
DR.. and Mrs. Ed Griffin visited Mrs.
Kollmeyer, two miles south of Farm
ington, Sunday, and Miss Eta Kenne-
dy and Miss Alva Conway accom-
panied them.
H. Tucker is in st. Louis on bust
ness this week
Emmett Moore arrived Saturday
from Ecorse, Mich, and will spend a
couple weeks visiting home folks.
Chas. Rehkop is making living
rooms in the back of his store, where
the family will move for the winter.
He will rent his residence.
Mrs. Lloyd Richardson and little
daughter have returned TO their home
at Pitcher, Okla, after visiting rela-
tives here the past month
The High School girls basket ball
team played with the Desloge team
Friday evening, in which the Flat
River team came out victorious.
Ralph Tucker passed the eXamina-
ton at the Washington University,
where he went last week to enlist in
the Students Army Training Corps.
Mrs. W. II. Lyons of Baldwin, ILL.,,
and her sister, Miss Sadie Wilson
are here visiting their brother, |. H,
Nelson, and are being entertained by
Mrs. Theo. Gottlob.
Mrs. M. H. Topping is reported on
the sick list.
Mrs. Carol Norwine was taken to
st. Louis Sunday to hospital, where
I she underwent an operation Tuesday
for appendicitis. She is getting along
as well as could be expected.
| Mrs. W. C. johnson of Esther is
spending few days this week with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Hunt
Emmett Calvird and Mr.. Halter of
Pennington were business visitors in
st. Louis Tuesday.
Miss Fannie Williams visited home
folks in Pennington Saturday and
Sunday.
John B. Hart, father of S. B. Hart,
died suddenly at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Clara Kay, of Des-
loge, Tuesday at o'clock p. m, at
the age of 92 years. Mr.. Hart was
born July 8, 1926. He leaves six
children to mourn his death-one son
at Flat River, S. B. Hart, who is well
known here, and Mrs. Aaron Hood
and Tom Hart of Desloge, Mrs. An
COVE and Mrs. Frank Calvird of
Bonnie Terre. The funeral was at the
M. E. Church at Desloge, conducted
by the pastor, Rev. Combs, at 1
o'clock Thursday, and interment at the
McHenry cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. r. Bramblet enter
tanned at their home Tuesday evening
with a Golden Rod party, the house
being decorated with the national
flower. The guests were number of
the Flat River school teachers and
soldier boys-about 26 in all. Games
were played and good time is re-
ported. b
Mrs. Felix Bloom received mes
sage Monday of the death of her I'M
Gle, Louis AuBuchon, who lived in st.
Louis. Mr.. AuBuchon was SO years
old on the End day of last May.