The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-02-07
LEADWOOD

]. F. Poston went 10 Pennington Il
look after some business matter
Monday of this week.
Rev. and Mrs. G. A. Mcfarland Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Taylor las
Sunday.
Edward Burns little son has almos
entirely recovered from Spanish in
f1uenza.
Milton Dodson, who is employed b!
the A. C. McMullin Mercantile Co., re
ceived telegram Monday of thi
week from his brother, George, a
Fort Riley, Kansas, saying that HI
was in a critical condition. The writ
err has no information as to just what
his trouble is.
Curtis Hendrix and Gilbert Gunnett
two of Leadwood's boys who have
been in France, returned to LeadwooC
last week.
A. C. McMulin made a business
trip to Pennington Monday of this
week.
Lynn Poston, the little son of ]
F. Poston, has been quite sick for sew
eral days and Mr.. Poston is afraid he
is taking pneumonia fever.
Charley Fields and J. E. Morris
were in Pennington on business Mon
day of this week.
Mrs. Charley Miller went to St
Louis Wednesday of this week to Wis
it Mr.. and Mrs. John McEwen.
Geo. Montgomery went to st. Louis
the first of this week TO look for work
in that city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cllas. b. Acuff motor
ed over TO Fredericktown last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Acuff attended services
at the Methodist church while there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Taylor received
several letters from their son, Emory,
who is in hospital in France, last
week. Emory is very anxious to get
back to the good old U. S. A. In one
of his letters he tells about his first
Christmas in far off France. He re-
ceived quite few little remembrance
es from the Red Gross and said that
quite few French people called on
them Christmas day. One of his let
ters which was written under date of
Jan. 9th, is as follows:
Dear Mother: Received your last
have seen any mail since. How is ev-
erybody at home? 1t rather seems as
the boys are getting to come home
rather fast. | received one letter
from Horace but have never received
any more. | wrote, to him after re-
ceived letter from him but | haven't
heard anything of him. How are
George and Grace? l sure would like
to see Junior and Katherine. | really
have begun to think of home now and
then. | haven't any more to tell so
/ will close, hoping to hear from you
all soon. AS ever, Private V. f. Tay-
lor, Base Hospital AZ, A. E. F.
Frank Laturno and his two sons-in-
law, Homer BelBnap and James Sea-
bourn, visited Mr.. Laturno's old home
place five miles northwest of Lead
wood last week. Mr.. Laturno had not
been back to the old place in 30
years and says that it made him feel
go # to get back to the haunts of his
childhood. They ate their dinners
near the old spring and after dinner
visited the rattle snake" spring.
They hunted some while they were out
there and got several rabbits.
Jessie Mckenzie, the little daugh-
ctr of DR.. and Mrs. ID. II. Mckenzie,
gave birthday party to a number of
her little friends Saturday of last
week. Jessie is a very sweet little
girl and Saturday was the occasion of
her 10th birthday. A large number of
her little friends were present and all
reported fine time. She received
quite a few little remembrances.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Burns left |
here for Flat River Tuesday of this
week, where they will remain until
Saturday when they will start on their
long trip to Lone Pine, Cal. Mr.. |
Burns is going there to take charge |
of a gold mines. He does not think |
he will make their permanent home in
but expects to return to
Leadwood sometime in the future. Mr.. |
Burns is a first-class Christian man |
and all-around good citizen, and the |
good people of lockwood hope he will |
make his word good and come back to
our town again.
Wanted-Somebody who can tell
the people of Leadwood what sort of |
plans to make for the future. No
body knows and everybody knows that |
nobody knows.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Laturno and |
Mr.. and Mrs. James Seabourn were
guests last Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. |
Homer Belknap, it being the occasion
Of Mr.. Belknap's 26th birthday. After
the enjoying of big spread the af-