The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-31
LEADW0OD

S. C. Woodruff, editor of the Des-
loge Sun, was Leadwood visitor
Friday of last week.
A. G. Eckart received letter last
week from his mother in Germany.
Mr.. Eckart had not had letter from
his mother for many months and was
very anxious to know how she was
getting along.
Miss Ona Ray, who has been en-
ployed for some time by the Tolleson
Mercantile CO., is taking three weeks
vacation. She has waited until her va
cation to have the "hu" which shows
that she knows how to economic on
time.
Mrs. r. AppIeberry. of Bonnie Terre,
was Leadwood visitor Friday OF last
week.
Bert Stapp has beer working in st.
Louis for the past two weeks, having
secured position with a hardware
company in that city.
]. F. Poston, the Leadwood rostmas-
ter, has leased large lot near his
home in the north end of town, which
he has fenced for poultry yard,
L. McHenry, who is still in France,
sent Mr.. and Mrs. S. E. Williams
some nice souvenirs from that far off
country last week. Mr.. McHenry
saws he is anxious to get back to the
good old U. S. A. again. Mr.. Will
liams had letter also from Emory
Taylor. =.
Rev. Charles w. Dunmire, pastor of
the lockwood Church Of God, made a
business trip to Pennington Wednes-
day of last week.
Geo. Mcfarland, one of our Lead
wood BARRIERS who has worked for S. f.
Williams for some time, went to Bis
marck last week to accept position
in one of the shops Of that town.
Rev. G. A. Mcfarland made a talk
to the children of the sixth grade Sat
urday of last week. Miss Dunn is In
charge of the sixth: grade work.
Mr.. and Mrs. j, w. Denton re-
ceived six letters from their son, John,
last week, who is with the army Of
occupation on the Rhine river in Ger
many. They had not had letter from
him in a long time and could get no
information from Washington as to
where he was. Mr.. Denton had al
most lost all hope of ever hearing
from him again and of course it goes
without saying that he was greatly
pleased to get the letters, some OF
which had long been delayed. John
saws that he is getting along fine and
that he sleeps in fine fat German
feather bed every night. A telegram
from John was received by a relative
in Bismarck just before the letters
came. The message simply stated
that he was on the Rhine river in Ger
many and that he was all 0. X.
Geo. Belknap, who returned from
France a short time ago, has very
interesting story to tell of his expert
ences in France. He has consider
able scar on one side of his head which
gives sufficient evidence of at least
one "close call" which he experienced
while there. Mr.. Bellinap was also
wounded in the foot and he has ap-
piled for a government pension.
A big open meeting for men and
women will be held by the Leadwood
Labor Union at the Princess Theatre
next Monday night. Several speak
ers have been secured for the occasion
and there will be round-table discus
sion of the labor problem here in Lead
wood. Everybody is invited to this
meeting.
S. E. Williams went to Herculaneum
on business last Monday.
"The hardest bridges of life are
the bridges we never cross, accord.
ing to a certain writer who has given
the world some good things, and no
body believes this any more surely
than "Doc" Van Lear, since his ex.
perience last Sunday morning. Well
it was this way: There was smell OF
smoke that came from pine lumber
and soon after the cry of "fre" which
sent chill all over "Doc" and caused
him to see visions and dream dreams
of burning house in time such as
this. His first thought was to rush
out and set up fire alarm but he
finally decided to face it alone, and
rushing to the kitchen he got dipper
of water and applied it to the burning
portion of the building and the big
fire was all over and nobody hurt. 1t
is not known just how the fire started
but the writer is of the opinion that
it stared from a spark that came from
"Doc's" trying to take smoke be-
fore it got light enough for other peo-
pie to see. 49,"
DR.. H. D. Mckenzie has been max
ing some improvements about his
place during the past week.
Roland LeGrand Of st. Louis and