The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11

Festus station it struck and instantly
killed Noble Biggs of HORNE. He had
been in Festus and was walking home
up the track The inquest was held in
Festus Tuesday by Coroner Jarvis and
the remains were shipped to HORNE.
Mr.. Biggs leaves wife and one child
to mourn his sudden departure.-Fes
tus News.
The body of young man named
near Burlington last Sunday, parts of
the body being scattered over the
ground. A gun was found lying near
him and indications point to suicide.
The body had been dead about two
weeks and was badly decomposed.
The young man had been working
for relative, and, as he often took
trips away from home, his absence at
this time was no cause for alarm, as
it was thought he had probably gone
on hunting trip.-Sikeston Herald.
1t was noticed last summer that
Lake Killarney was muddy, and the
sports said it was because Of the
great number of suckers in the lake
Now the water is clear, which, if the
first theory is correct, would mean
that the suckers are not there any
more. There were thousands of them
caught last spring, and it may be that
the boys got practically all of them,
1t don't seem that there are very many
fish in the lake, and when we stop TO
consider the thousands that were
caught last spring, we would wonder
how any escaped.-Arcadia Valley
Enterprise.
The first cotton bloom Of 1919 is
brought to our attention by Judge J.
NJ. Brasher, being brought to the city
yesterday by Roscoe Hickman, a col
ored farmer, living in the little negro
settlement known as Needmore, two
miles north of Cottonwood Point. This
is not particularly early for cotton to
| be blooming, as seasons usually go, but
considering the lateness Of the pres
ent season it shows better progress
than the average. Needmore is a
prosperous little community of ne
groes, who own their own farms, have
their church and lodge societies, etc,
and a class of very industrious and
quite prosperous and well behaved
colored people live there.-Caruthers-
vile Democrat.
Cape Girardeau has employed a
community nurse for the months of
July and August. This move, which
is growth from a school nurse to a
community nurse, is progressive. Dur
ing the warm months, children are
more subject to diseases of all kinds
than in the winter. The poorer peo-
pie, especially, cannot afford physi-
clan often and the mortality rate is
very high during these months. A
trained nurse whose advice and help
are free will save many lives.
The body of Frank Lust, or Frank
Lewis, as he was better known, who
was drowned week ago last Satur-
day night off an excursion boat for
negroes just as it pulled out from the
shore in this city, was discovered last
Friday a short distance above Booths
Point by two men, Alex Williams and
Leon Dodd by name, who were load
ing logs onto barge in the employ of
! the Dillman factory, in this city. They
caught sight of the body out in the
stream as it was floating down, put
out in small boat and recovered it
Being in a badly decomposed condi
: ton, after it's weeks stay in the wa
= ter, they buried the corpse that eve
ming on the river bank.ACaruthers
vile Democrat.
Six was the total that landed in tn,
cooler for drunkenness or disorderly
: conduct last Saturday night and Sun
= day. The coming of the camel hat
|, haunted them with the fear that the.
would never again get to taste a drop
so they tasted too many. Two came il
as singles and the others formed I
: gay quartet.
Said one who believed that the jai
s was easy to get out of: "I'll show yol
: how to get out of here" and he CAV
n the window a wrench and the frame
S glass and all came in on him. Blu
t when it came to twisting out the bars
:: this Samson failed. When he wa
i hailed before the Judge, he found tn
= bill for the window awaiting him. Al
, told, he paid the city $31 for his las
n Saturday night.-Sikeston Herald.
n The city of Fredericktown and tn
5. county of Madison are still at logger
It heads over the matter of acceptin
j. city prisoners at the county Jail, an
J. it win probably require the service
Is of the courts to decide the matte
re The difference between the city an
i, the county came to a head last wee
ID when Marshal Higgins arrested Ro
l. Dubois and had to chain him to May
y, or Benedict's fence because Sheri
ii Chapman refused to permit him in til
l. Jail. The Sheriff based his refusal c
" the ground that the law does not =,
ut quire him to accept city prisoners ar
he that since the city refused to pay hi
e. some fees due him, he would let the
n worry along as best they can wit
is their prisoners. Later Dubois W.
N landed in Jail on a commitment in Il
T. absence of the Sheriff and served o.
ne his sentence before Chapman's retur
MS A conference Monday between Il
nd city attorney and the Sheriff failed
It's break the deadlock. Chapman stat