The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-01-09
LOCAL MENTION

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The present weather makes sleigh
ing preferable to autoing.
Extra good potatoes at Kein's.
County Court has been in regular
monthly session this week.
Still it SHOWS, and there is prospect
for long spell Of good sleighing
weather.
Mrs. H. W. Coffield, who has, been
on the sick list the past week, is re-
ported to be better. &t
Miss Anna Pullman, who spent the
holidays with friends in Ste. Gene
We've, returned home Tuesday.
Sweet potatoes at Klein's.
Miss Edith Kite returned the first
of the week to Columbia, Mo-, where
she is q student in Stephens College.
The Parent Teachers Association
will meet at the High School build
ing at 2:30 p. m. on next Friday, Jan.
10th.
Get out your sleighs and bob-sleds
and enjoy this weather. The bells, al
so, would add much cheer and merri-
ment.
"It's fresh at Klein's."
Mrs. Glenn S. Hensley and baby re-
turned the first of the week from a
visit with Mrs. Hensley's parents in
Illinois. ~.
W. B. Rariden & Son sold and
shipped the first of the week ten head
of mules and two horses to T. c. High
ley, at Kennett, Mo.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Wickman, old
citizens of this community, left We'd
nesday for Northern Illinois, where
Mr.. Wickman will take charge of a
farm.
James Watson, whose home is with
his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. G..
Watson, returned Sunday from visit
with his mother, Mrs. Vance DeDona-
to, in st. Louis.
It's fresh at Bethel's Meat Market.
Both the boys and girls basket ball
teams of the High School will go 10
Flat River tonight to engage in a
double-header basket ball game with
the Flat River teams.
]. H. Whittier is receiving the con-
CALCULATIONS of friends on the appear
ance at his home Wednesday night of
a son and daughter. The mother and
little ones are doing nicely.
Mrs. Ben O'Dell and son, Bud, left
Sunday for St. Louis, where they will
make their future home. They will
be Joined soon by Mr.. O'Dell soon as
he completes some unfinished business
here.
Fresh lettuce every day at Klein's,
Mrs. J. H. Ball sold nineteen tur-
keys Christmas that Melted her $107.-
As. She has one more left that will
bring the total to something like $114
for the twenty turkeys. The old Tom
brought $1,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. F. Castleman re-
turned Sunday from st. Louis, having
accompanied their daughter, Miss
Virginia, to that city on her return to
school at Randolph Macon College in
Virginia, after having spent the hol-
idays at home.
A full line of Sausage Castings at
Bethel's Cash Meat Market.
Mrs. Adler returned home Sunday
from several weeks confinement in a
st. Louis hospital, during which time
she was successfully operated upon
for appendicitis. She is feeling fine
and thinks her health has been COM
pletely restored.
A splendid snow fall visited this
section of country Wednesday night,
covering with about five inches of the
f,,1v h. xxyb oh in
fine condition to receive it. The in
dications are that this blanket over
the earth's surface will remain for
some time, and that it will prove to be
very beneficial to the wheat crop.
Try some of the fine Veal at Beth
els Cash Market.
A farmer in New York State who
suspected muskrats of killing his ducks
was astonished to learn that swapping
turtles were the guilty ones. When
he applied to the Conservation Com
mission for permission to kill musk
rats, an agent visited his farm and
soon proved that the muskrats had not
changed their usual diet of roots and
stems. Big swapping turtles will
seize even large ducks and drag them
under water.
We guarantee everything we sell al
Bethe's Meat Market.
The Times is sorry to announce the
departure of DR., R. Appleberry from
this city Immediately, to again re.
sumo the practice Of his profession II
Bonnie Terre, where he will practice il
conjunction with DR.. Monroe, super
intendent of the Bonnie Terre hospital
Since his rather brief residence ii
this city, during which time he has
been in partnership with DR.. Watson
DR.. Appleberry has made many new
friends, who recognize in him not only
a high-class physician, but also an ex
cellent and progressiye citizen. whom