The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-10
LEADWOOD

LEADWOOD
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Stapp have in
| stalled new furnace in their home
which gives splendid service.
The ice in Big River is fine for skat-
ing now and the Leadwood skaters
have been making good use of it for
the past week or so. Skating was one
of the outside sports that occupied
place of first rank with Leadwood
young people last winter.
The w. c. T. U. met at the Metho-
dist church Thursday of this week to
observe the national day of prayer.
The Leadwood w. C. T. U. has a
large membership and the organiza-
ton has done a great deal for the
temperance cause. The l.. T. l.. of
which Mrs. A. C. McMulin is the pres
ident, met in the basement of the Me
thodist church Monday afternoon.
j. S. Boyer, our I.addwood under
taker, has been very busy this fall and
winter in taking care Of large unm-
Der of funerals which lockwood has
had.
The Leadwood Postmaster has re-
ceived large supply Of the new 1919
Thrift Stamps and War Savings Ger
tificates. The old stamps had been
almost entirely disposed of before the
new ones came. This will be a chance
for all who did not invest in the 1918
stamps to get into the game now as
, the government will need your money
= just as bad now as it did during the
days Of actual hostiities. Who will
be first to make substantial pur-
chase of the new stamps?
T., C. Adams, who was depot agent
, here for long time, is now located at
Sheridan, H., and is said to have a
, salary of more than 5000 month.
: Ma. and Mrs. Adams writes that they
are delighted with their new home.
Bernice Page, the little daughter of
f Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Page, has been
having some sort of spells for the
;, past month which the doctor believes
to be epileptic fits. Bernice is only
r three years old and is the picture of
y health. The spells last three or four
minutes and are very severe while
they last.
The first snow of the season caused
" the hunters of Leadwood to declare
war on the rabbits that live neal
town. But though the hunters were
in great power as far as numbers are
concerned, the casualties were very
V light on the rabbit side of the battle
Santa Claus brought Mr.. and Mrs
e Z. b. Acuff a fine new phonograpt
It for Christmas present.
Edward Burns, who was superin.
n tendent of the Wild Cat mines as long
as the mines continued to operate, ex.
e poets to move to his farm near Fred.
g ericktown some time before long. Mr.
Burns recently traded fine farm
e near Libertyville for the farm neal
Fredericktown. Leadwood will LOST
> one of its best citizens in the going
of Mr.. Burns.
d John McEwen, who was in st. Louis
+ last week looking for position, re
5, turned to the city Tuesday of thi!
g week.
Another very fine musical program
e was given by Misses Jenna Logan
e and Alice Gay at the school Tuesda,
of this week.
T. Mrs. VIM. Scott has gone home t.
v be with her mother until she has re
covered from influenza. Mrs. Scot
e has long trip and will probably b,
gone for long time.
d The company store now has mic
1t new furnace which was installed las
week. The old furnace had burne
lie entirely out and the clerks had
]. freeze-out for couple of days unit
the new one could be put in. Thi
e was rather hard on "Doc" Van Lea
who takes cold so easy that he vii
Y. 60 to sneezing if anybody happens t
y leave his yard gate open at home. Tn
new furnace is thoroughly up to dat
lie in every way, having an automati
lie damper to regulate the fires.
n. Walter McEwen, who has bee
home on a furlough for a few days
y returned to the training camp las
week.
Clarence Van Lear and Emmett
Mason were Bonnie Terre visitors las
Sunday afternoon.
at Quite a number of the high schot
s. boys went over to Bonnie Terre las
Sunday to have their pictures made.
TX Robert Ramsey, who has been i
the training camp for some time, ha
IN written that he expects to be HON
]. by the 18th of this month.
The body of Mollie Davis, daughte
in Of Mrs. E. M. Davis, who now lives
st. Louis, was brought here for bul
p ial Saturday Of lastFweek, The fur
,g eral party went directly from til
Of train to the cemetery where Rev. {
A. Mcfarland conducted short sci