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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-07-19
ROUTE 3

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Flat River visited relatives on this
route on last Saturday and Sunday.
Several on this route attended the
party at Coffman on last Friday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Wade and
sons, Clarence and Carol, of this
route motored to Doe Run last Sun
day.
Juel Bowling of near Yount visited
his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jas.
Bowling. He expects to go to train
ing camp real soon.
Albert Rancover is working for
Noah Counts at this writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hampton and
family of Flat River visited relatives
on this route last Saturday and Sum
day.
| j. Cowley, Burle and John Gordon,
Joel and Perry Hammers motored to
Ste. Genevieve on last Friday.
Frank Gregory and Dennis Tho
mure of this route left for training
camp recently.
Miss Hazel Wampler of Flat River
is spending the week with Misses
Mamie and Fannie Counts.
Mrs. Charlie Lang, Sr., and daugh-
tiers and son spent Sunday with Joel
Hammers and family.
A party was given at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Pingillie last Satur-
day night A large crowd was pres
ent and all left at a late hour, after an
enjoyable time.
Those who spent Sunday afternoon
at the home of Noah Counts and fam
lily were Misses Hazel Wampler
Mary Swearington and Viola Harter
and Wimple Gordon, Louie Bloom
Burle Harter and George Shinn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Boyd, ST., OF
Coffman spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Elijah Sebastian.
John Watts of Flat River was on
this route last Saturday evening.
Misses Mamie and Fannie Counts
who have been visiting relatives al
West Plains and st. Louis for the past
three weeks, arrived home on last
Saturday. .
Ralph Wade spent Sunday with ]
C. Harter.
Thos. Lee of River Mines spent Sat.
urday with relatives on this route.
James Bowling, Jr., of Yount spen'
Saturday and Sunday with his father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. jaime;
Bowling of this route.
Leo Fallert of Weingarten, the as
SCISSOR of Ste. Gcnevieve county, was
on this route the first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Williams of nea
Farmingtcr and Mr.. and Mrs. j
Cowley spent Sunday with Mr.. ant
Mrs. II. N. Waugh of this route.
Miss Grace Perry of Pennington i
visiting Misses Lillian and Eugenii
Bloom at this writing.
Dennis Thomure, who has beel
working for Judge Thomas i
Straughn of Ste. Genevieve for tn
past two months, is here for few
days visit before leaving for trainln,
camp
Uncle Carrot Counts Of Farming
ton spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Harter.
Dock and John Mackley and :
Horn of Pennington bought severa
head of sheep on this route last week
There will be an ice cream festiva
at Wesley Chapel on the 9th, for tn
. benefit of the Red Cross. Everybod,
. invited.
Mr.. and Mrs. Weile Cragg and fam
lily of Ponca visited Mr.. and Mrs. G
VI. Smith and family of this route.
Geo. Shinn of Route 5 spent Sat
urday and Sunday with his parent:
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Shinn, Of thi
route.
Miss Mamie Smith Of Farmingto
spent Sunday with relatives on thi
, route.
Aunt Orleana Boyd of Avon sper
i last week with Mr.. and Mrs. Andre'
Gordon and family.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-07-19
CROSS ROADS

The pie and ice cream supper, given
at Mr.. Pirtle's last Wednesday night,
was quite a success. The proceeds
amounted to SCI.
Miss Dora LEM spent the weekend
at Libertyville the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Homer Presnell and attended the
ice cream social Saturday night, re-
turning home Sunday morning.
DR.. Barron of Mine La Motto made
a professional call here last Sunday.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Wilkin-
son, last Sunday, seven-pound girl.
Lester Presnell of Libertyville was
in this vicinity last Sunday.
Ollie King, Aaron Hahn, Leo John
son and Marvin Wright of Womack
passed through here Saturday night
en- route to the ice cream social at
Libertyville.
DR.. and Mrs. G. L. Dimes and
daughter of Fredericktown spent
few hours last Sunday evening here.
Miss Dora LEM spent few hours
last Sunday evening at Womack the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Hines.
Joseph Vessels celebrated his 18th
birthday on last Wednesday. We
wish Mr.. Vessels many more happy
birthday anniversaries.
Clyde Hicks of Fredericktown at
tended the pie supper here Wednes-
rday night.
Mrs. VIM. LEM lost fine hog Sat-
urday.
Rev. Howe of Flat River will preach
at the school house here next Sunday
morning and evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Miles Barron and
daughters of Mine La Motto attended
the pie and ice cream. supper here
Wednesday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. C. Beard were
business visitors at Fredericktown
last Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzo Hicks and
daughters and Miss Mildred Beard
attended the ice cream social at Lib
ertyville Saturday night.
ARGUS Tucker, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Tucker, will leave Wednesday
for training camp. He has the good
wishes of his many friends for a
speedy and safe return.
MRS. VIM. Lunsford and Mrs. w.
E. Lunsford were Mine La Motto Wis
itors Monday.
1 Alfred johnson and Mr.. Hart of
Fiat River were in this community
Hay Bale Ties at Boswell & Hell
ber's.-.=s2s, ~ 2 wks.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-07-19
BONNIE TERRE

The death of VIM. Frey, which oc-
Cured at his home in this city Sat
urday morning, takes from us one Of
our best citizens and a man with a
host of friends. He was one of the
main-stays of the Baptist church, and
for about 20 years was in the tele-
graph service of the M. R. & B. T..
Ry. here, being chief dispatcher. Be-
cause of~failinS health he retired last
winter, and had been i'll ever since.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon, conducted by his pastor,
Rev. w. w. Pierce, and the Masonic
Order, of which he was member, at
tended in a body and took part in the
services. He leaves wife and four
childrcn-Mrs Warren Prince, Mrs.
Chas. Bruce, Miss Mildred Frey--and
son, Howard, of California. All but
the son were present at the funeral.
Interment was made in the Bonnie
Terre cemetry. He was 81 years old.
Mrs. Eva Thomure visited her sis
ter in St. Louis this week.
A number of our people attended
the Methodist Assembly at Arcadia
last week and others went down Sun
day.
it is reported that Mr.. and Mrs.
Percy Poston of Kirkwood are the
parents of son, born July ID.
The children of Mrs. John Neil
gave her a surprise at the home of
her son, VIM. Rice, Sunday. The FAM
lilies of Daily Roberts, Lawrence
Pratte and Henry Whitescll attended
John Phillips and wife were guests
of their daughter, Mrs. Farrow, in
Desloge, the last of the week.
Miss Effie Lesser, an employee OF
the railway offices, is taking her sum-
mer vacation.
Miss Lucille Carnine, who had been
visiting in st. Louis, has returned
home.
w. w. League, head of the dry
goods department of the Wells Mere
Co., went to Chicago Sunday morning
to buy for the store and to attend the
meeting of the Commercial Buyers
Union, of which the firm is mem
Der.
Misses Elizabeth and Virginia Jol.
ly of st. Louis are guests here OF
Mrs. Geo. Nees, Jr., and other friends
Miss Blanche Hudson of Caledonia
is here visiting her sisters, Mrs. Fred
Hoskins and Miss Mabel Hudson,
Mrs. l.. E. Rhodes and children
have returned home from visit with
st. Louis friends. She also visited
at Ste. Genevieve.
Miss Mary Weik, one of the trained
nurses in the hospital, is spending hel
vacation at Detroit.
I Miss Maude Straughn spent tn
latter part of the week with Mrs
Henry Reuter- in Pennington.
Miss Fay Hunt was weekend
visitor with her parents near DeLas
sus.
| Miss Agnes Poiercr returned to Ar
cadia the last of the week, after Wis
) iting her father here. .
Mrs. W. S. Miller of Farmingtol
visited Mrs. Lee Miller of this plac
Sunday. Y,
i c.. w. Cronbaugh was at Bismarcl
!, Wednesday.
w. E. Donegan is placing a ney
fence about the post office grounds
to keep out the stock. 1t is a sham
that city of this size should be both
cred with loose stock, so that all yard
Unjust be fenced 6r protection. IL.
II Mrs. Amos 9 Norwine; Mrs. Chai
-tNelms and fanily.sand Mrs: Canno
picniced at the st. Frapcois rive
Sunday. =
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-07-19
WALES MINES

Miss Eta Moore of Flat River was
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Smith
Waller, few days during the week.
Mrs. C. R. McClain and son, Carl
Edgar, of Bonnie Terre visited rela-
tives here the latter part of the week.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-07-19
"COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE "
Mrs. Treeck Hampton and daughter,

nd MrG flanhn M0nnAV L
anu mrs oi"'oe A''''''' + "
'ernooh o;. coo+. 80 c. Iou;v VIII,
miS So ohe,sa ~ $50 ovt ~ visit with
Mns I D IT u pohinsnn returned IN her
bn n D. " TrasdaU Of This week
NJ III Nc Jonah Sbennard ar
oonn,n;nd Me- DolI Watts as far as
S e. a,,;s cn nJ. and ratnrned home
H oI. LouiS "u'i'"S anu ''" '
'G d T;rr;r If Marouand visited
s;n darohtar Mrs Sid Tong from
1ris uauh' ,t;, Satrndav '
MI MI 9u oSd MIS- Ms Waltz McCuira and
o,; MI. anu Unont sunday with Mr., and
NIL a,la'i r en- 'p Prown;no "
Nil NJ w. - NJ Chas M;tcboll and lit
a. Va Ior ,,.iu NJ and M and Mrs.
GI ri us TSn,oasson went for an out
ia" S,Indou an Tho 81 Francois River.
ing liz; nu" pa;d 0 ;s ' ronorted III with w.
JiIi helu 10 'ep0i 'e0 - WV" y
P p n Tinnin and family of Horncrs.
IN ~ m No ', nno+ a,o throyob to Mar
S Snne, w. nrd wis;ted for Several DAVIS
qqu ud' 5ro ",t' hern Thursday and visited
b;s sister Mrs Sid LONG and other
ms $lsteri MIS-, 1,u +h hGe ret nT home
G eia.nsL,o, 'e"'''e VII ''e
0aS NJ ya Mr. V Smith o++andad
t MI, anu No. a. nosIono SUNDAY NJ
a. AMY my, ie ~ Me- rS w n Vandiyer
S Tni,d noi,le VI ~ ~, ch;Idron Of Mr. and
MI IiioT BIZ "' SrUJ T MI he;ne nresnn,
MlS. 10y ~ nny Nh rras nhrent IN ars
e~uep' 4iio o;o oI,, ""' Coor%o SNYDER of
I G, ~ o.. o,eN po,'fo VIII SnyJor of
Eari,li"S I'll Son M NJ. Cbos Edison If
Poline d. M. Eru;n o,,d v
S IeLtt % niU Eiot p :, Mrs W r Pa
r ON NJ W. Az Fator and Mrs w M
Pt,, J; H. o. 81 naS1ono Mrs II r. Da-
Vi, Va"u az P;U NJ I'i ri There were 20
r W" and G preat-prand-
g raIuc1i,u no e ; ~; all tbore we've -
enl,uio t r. ~ rarn;on M and Mrs.
presGmI IT, az .lG h lon'i rns;donts Of The
9i'y g poi ny w. O r,nru vnnrs
Leau DelV L Ioi many I L. KolIv of
lyman r"Ile ..;,; ANY fninmds IN Fla
r Pi> iC,G Ei'l'e' iiie''0' III '"'
hlNer oul,uny, ropo Cn,r,n of no
M S 3,iu "' -. 10y hon,a .ftor
trolC' Micn, ictui i! i'J i,ano U Uin;.;ro. NJ
spetiIi's '''' "'0" '0l0 '''''7 ~
tei NJ ", wobb novo q norty
r., Mrs W. :. n. "eGo 80 go e 4bp tx
birthday Of her little granddaughter,
Edith Chiffon. There were about 70
of her little friends present and little
Edith received many nice presents.
Mrs. f. f. Davis and daughter,
Mrs. Maude Brown and children of
Kincard Ill, are here visiting Mrs. A.
V. Smith and other relatives.
Mrs. J. H. Montgomery and daugh
ter of Fredericktown visited Mrs.
Frank Edwards this week.
Mrs. Chas. Armstrong and sons,
Herbert and Glcnwood, of st. Louis
spent the week visiting Mrs. A. V.
Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs Marion BeSS Oh St.
Louis spent several days this week
visiting Mrs. Frank Edwards.
Miss Pauline Tucker was given a
surprise party by a crowd of her
friends Friday evening, the occasion
being her 18th birthday. Those pres
cnt we're: Melba and Iva Haney, Ha-
eel Dobbins, Lillian Prather, Ida May
Kennedy, Iva Richards and Josephine
McGeorge of Loyal, and Clara Elnore
Pullman of Pennington, Cloud Cole,
Earl Scott, Lawrence Jierson, Sam
Ill
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last week valued at 5000. She was
tied to swinging limb, and getting
the halter strap tangled around her
neck, threw herself breaking her neck.
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Hay Bale Ties at Boswell & Hell
ber's.-;ssiss3 ~ 2 wks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Empsy to Go "Ovsr
the Top" in Graphic
Motion Picture Play

Sergeant Arthur Guy Empey, author
Of "Over the Top" and one Of the wide
ly known personalities developed by
the war, has signed a contract with
Albert K. Smith, president of the Vita
graph Company, to appear in a specisl
feature to be called "Over the Top"
and will start work at once.
Lois Meredith has been specially en-
gagged TO appear with Sergeant Empey
and the production will be directed by
Albert E. Smith, assisted By Wilfrid
North.
Empcy served eighteen months in the
won his promotion for bravery in &C
ton.
Empey has to his credit the sale Of
81 OH GOO worth of Liberty bonds in
the second Liberty Loan drive.
He has collected for the various
Smoke" funds more than $4,000.
The screen version OF "Over the Top"
has been prepared by Robert Gordon
Anderson. of the Putnam Company He
has woven thrilling love story in be-
tween the stirring events which Ser
gcant Employs book details. It shows
Empey IS q machine gunner and bomb
! thrower and introduces a thrilling air
plane episode wherein Empey forces a
German f'ier to carry him from behind
the herman nncS TO those OF MS own
comrades.
Sergeant Empey, who is thirty-four
years old has had a most adventurous
career. He ran away to sea when he
was only 4 lad and travelled several
times around the world. He also went
around the Horn. ard has written =
stor; OF this experience. When he left
the sea he Joined the United States
cavalry and remained in it for six
years. seeing active service on the
Mexican border in 1911. At the expira-
ion Of his enlistment period he settled
n Jersey City and was working there
when ne received word Of the sinking
Of the Lusitania. This act of German
atrocity stung him into action and he
lost no time in getting to England.
where he enlisted as private in the
1st Royal London Fusiliers.
After being three times wounded,
Sergeant Empey was invaded horne
/ and honorably discharged. But lie did
not quit fighting when he quit the
! trenches. because Immediately upon his
arrival in this country he took IN .toe
work of writing and lecturing with the
purpose of arousing the American peo-
pie to their highest lighting pitch by
actually showing them what the war
means to this country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
sHeiress For a Day"

Two pictures just completed by Tri-
angle are "Heiress for Day" featur-
ing Olive Thomas, and Director Gill
bert p. Hamilton's picture, captain Of
His Soul" with an all star cast, in
Guiding William Desmond, Charles
Gum and Jack Richardson. s"Keith of
the Border" from Randall Parish's
novel, is more than half finished. It
stars Roy Stewart, the cowboy actor,
and is directed by Cliff Smith. Di-
rector Freffron expects to complete "The
Hopper" a crook comedy drama, from
"Collier's Weekly" story by the same
name, in another week. Director Jack
Conway is working on "Little Red De-
cides." Western magazine story, and
Walter Edwards and Mrs. 'Corbaley, au-
thor Of the "Trianglc Photoplay Maya
zine" prize story. Real Folks" are very
busy planning great production for
this scenario. 1.-THE Work and It's WORTH
has been assigned to Director Frank
Forage, whose last Offering was "The
Gun Woman" and is said to be worth
all the work that Borzage is putting
into it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
New Talnadge Picture

When Norma Talmadge begins work
within the next few days on her next
production, "By Right Of Purchase"
members of her cast will discover that
the interior of the big Talmadge
studio, at 3lS East Forty-c:ghth Street,
has been transformed into an exact
reproduction Of Hero Land, the great
patriotic bazaar held recently at Grand
Central Palace.
Casting for the new picture has al
ready begun. Eugene O'Bricn will have
the leading male role in the produc-
ton, opposite Miss Talmadge. rs he has
had in Poppy" "The Moth" and "The
Ghost of Yesterday"
"BX Right Of Purchase" is society
photodrama, in which Miss Talmadge
pcrtrays the role of wife purchased
b. her husbands wealth, Charles Mil
!cr will direct the picture, which will
be presented by Joseph NJ. Schcnck
through Select.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06

and he would rather browse over one Of
the elaborate piles of puffs and curls
and ringlcts which made up the head
dress Of some stately court beauty Of
long ago than anything he knows. The
modern wig he views with scorn. 1t is
too simple. 1t lacks technique.
All history meets in Billy's wig
boxes, piled high on the shelves Of his
little room. Tremendous curled and
powdered wigs Of all tho "perods" he
recalls so fondly jostle against the top
pieces of such celebrities as Grant and
Lincoln and William Jennings Bryan.
Tha polished dome Of the last named.
however, takes up but little of the wig
makers time.
Billy came over here with the great
spectacle Of Beauty and the Beast" in
which production he took care Of more
than seven hundred wigs. In 1914 he
Joined the forces OF the Hippodrome
where he has remained ever since
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Two Thousand WIGS
Are Billy's Joy

He Is the master Of two thousand
wigs, and his habitat is a little 2 by 4
rubbyhole tucked away down in tho
mysterious depths Of the Hippodromc.
While "Chcer Up!" is cavorting on
its way upstairs he is brushing and
combing and curling the hair of tho
three hundred chorus girls-the lock.
in question obligingly posing on wooden
blocks as tho real heads smile and bow
and sing for tho crowd above.
His name is Billy King, and he knows
his historical periods from Augustus to
Victoria. Only he thinks Of them In
terms OF hair instead Of dates, which "a
little confusing to the average work
sday historian.
For instance, he is very fond of tho
time Of Charles I, because it was what
he describcs as "long and full Of ring
let's"
There is excellent reason for his his
torical accuracy, for Billy learned his
tradc after the good sound tradition of
tho old wig makers to the royal family
at the famous house of Clarkson, in
London. Clarkson still retains his pre-
negatives as wig maker to his ma1e.t,
the King, and rs late as Victoria's rcigr
the head Of the house was frequently
summoned to appear before the Queer
in connection with the care OF tho
powdered wigs of the royal lackcys.
Clarkson is also the greatest of The
theatrical wig makers, and furnished
the wigs for all the gorgeous panto
mines. AS a little apprentice lad Bill,
King spent long hours porting over his
torical book plates from the libraric:
and museums, and as a result lie cal
| give pointers to many so-called author
tiles on the fine points of historic cos
tuning. But wigs are his weakness
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
From Ingenues to Eccentric Comedy

comedy part. Harrison Grey Fiske
offered her the part Of Mrs. Bump
stead-Legh's mother, and her success
in this was such that she has never
played straight role since. She was
with the Fiske management For five
years, being featured in "Where Ignor-
ance Is Bliss" She appeared in two
productions with Mime. Kalisch.
Though an actress Of her peculiar
talents would seem to be admirably
suited to musical comedy, Miss Arnold's
one and only experience in this line
WAS with Glove o'Mike" last season
but she disliked the work so much
that she will never appear IN n:uscai
comedy again
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
leo City through to St. Louis, Chicago,
Washington and Greenwich Village
Crnduo1l1, thiruc ouia+ down &c +h>

leo City through to st. Louis, Chicago,
Washington and Greenwich Village.
Gradually things quiet down as the
merry villagers repair to their studios.
On the way out one is rewarded by a
sweet smile from lovely Mary Pyne,
the most beautiful girl in the village
Mary, too, is a poet, an actress and the
wife of Harry Kemp.
One by one they have gone, until a
small group is left of the original
''theatre crowd" Then the new play
is discussed, or plans for the future.
1t is then that Everett Glass, poet
laureate and batik artist Of the Green
r'ich Village Theatre, admits modestly
that he has written "little skit," that
proves to be really poetic book for an
opera for which FRANKIE Harlng is to
write the music. One by one the lights
60 out, the walters pile chairs on tables,
and final good-nights arc said as the
last few players trudge reluctantly out
into the snow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
"a Second Look"

The American Academy of Dramatic
Arts will give it's first matinee OF the
season on Friday afternoon, January
II, in the Lyceum Theatre. "a Second
Look a comedy in three acts, by c. A.
de Lima, will be presented COR the first
time in this country "Pomp," play
in one act. By saba Cowan, viii pre-
cede the longer play.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Gretchen Eastman in The Grass
Widow

American producers of "Scvcn Days
leave received tho permission Of Mr..
howard to have Mr.. MARGIN impart an
American flavor to many Of the scenes
and to the story itself. IN other words,
lieutenant Fielding, thc hero in the
play, now running at Sir Henry lrv
lhs's lyccum Theatre, London, is an
hngiiShman, but in the American pro-
auction he VIII be an American, born
OF irish parents, who becomes an officer
m the British army. Mr.. MARGIN has
oeen ut work for the past two weeks
win the producers, and with Lawrence
'arSden, who is staging thc play.
ME- Marsden is the man who rave
70 the American stage such mclodra-
"'atc successes as "rhc Round ID" and
The Price of rcace,' and the col
i"Noration OF Mr.. Marcia aud Mr.. Mara
zen IS likely to prove happy one
'cVeF Days Leave" by the way. was
"'Ft produced at the Lyceum Theatre
IN London. February, 1917. 1t is said
mat there has been a line in front of
we box office at the Lyceum Theatre
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Vieux-CoIombier Production

LA Nouvelle Idolc' is to be given at
the Theatre du Vieux -Colombier Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday evenings
and on the Thursday and Saturday
matinees of the coming week. LA
Nouvelle Idolc" is in three acts and is
by Francois de Curel In the cast are
Francois Gournac, Robert Bogacrt
Marcel Millet. Emil Chifol,&u. Valen-
tine Tessier, Suzanne Bing, Paulette
Noizsux and Jane Lory. The costumes
were designed by Valentino Gross and
executor in the atclicrs of the Nieux-
COlOmhier