The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-05-20

erS VINO met mere yesterday.
w. S. Sloan and family are this
week moving to Chillicothe, where
they will make their future home.
Many friends in this community will
be fsorry Ito lose this good family.
Mreland Mrs. E.. A. Rozier expect
to move soon to Bonnie Terre, where
Mr.. Rozier will be, more convenient to
his work. TkgM Son, Carlisle, and
wife will occupy their home here.
Dryden Hall, one of the dormitories
at the Chillicothe Business College, is
undergoing extensive repairs, new
floors, repapering and refnishing, in
preparation for tie big Summer Open
ing, May 30tli "Ht
Quite a number of the members and
friends of the Methodist church at Doe
Run visited the home of Rev. and Mrs.
j. P. Mcdonald Wednesday evening
and gave them good pounding, con
sisting of flour, sugar, canned goods,
etc.
The M. f. Church at Doe Run is to
have Home Corners Day on the fifth
Sunday, Mey 10Th, with all-day SER
vice and dinner for all. Everyone
that has ever lived at Doe Run, and
their friends, are invited. Come and
enjoy this reunion with US. 14r.
william, the ten-days-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. R. Collins, passed
through the Pearly Gates last Satur-
day, May 14th, from the home of W:
f. Bogard. in this city. The bereaved
parents but recently moved to Farm
ington from Nashville, Tenn.
At the meeting of the Missouri As
ISOLATION for the Prevention of Tu-
bercvlosis held at jefferson City,
April 27, Mrs. o. w. Bleeck was elect
ed Vice President of the organiza-
ton and Director of the Health Cru
SADIE work for Southeast Missouri.
Homer Hughes, who has been work
ing in st. Louis for some time past,
came in Friday for visit with home
folks and friends. He brought with
him quite store of wireless informa-
ton which he is distributing among
the local novices in that field of en-
deavor.
Mrs. o. w. Bleeck last week attend
ed the meeting of the State Board of
the M. F. w. C. and the Jubilee Bien-
NAL, which was held at Springfield.
Mrs. Bleeck is Second Vice-President
of the Federation, State Chairman of
Thrift, and Trustee Of the Endowment
Fund. She will preside at one or more
sessions.
The women of Pennington are raj
lying with zeal and enthusiasm to the
support of the movement to establish
a county home for the benefit of de-
linuuent and neglected children. This
enterprise has recently been endorsed
by every woman's club and missionary
society in the city. and the d. A. R.
has voted a $50 contribution to the
wcIk.
The baccalaureate services for the
graduating class Of the High School
were held Sunday night in the M. E.
Church, South, the attendance being
more than the church could accommo-
date. The services were edifying
throughout, and especially interesting
was the sermon, which was delivered
by L. R. King, pastor of the Presby-
terrain church.
Many friends have been pleased to
again greet DR.. John B. Graves, who
has been at his office the past week,
after serious attack of appendicitis.
He is slowly regaining strength, and
when he has sufficiently recovered
will submit to an operation to remove
his trouble, without which he is liable
to be brought down at any time with
even more serious attack.
DR.. J. P. Clark, of yerryville, was
visiting old friends in Pennington and
community the last Of the week. He
remained over to attend the Church
Rally at Libertyville, which he has
usually attended for many years past.
He called at the Times office to renew
his subscription. and stated that he
and Mrs. Clark would leave about Ju-
ly LIST for Westport, Conn, for visit
with their daughter, Mrs. G. W. Mead.
G. o. Nations, Jr., who has been
practicing law in st. Louis for several
years, was last week appointed by
Gov. Hyde to position in the State
Banking Department. His headquar-
tiers will be in Jefferson City, and his
special work will be to look after vio-
lations of the Blue Sky Law, in regard
to oil and mining operators who have
for some time been reaping harvest
in selling stock in violation of that
law.
Miss Marguerite Zoff, from the st.
Louis offices of the Federal Legal De-
partment, arrived in Pennington last
Friday and spent several hours in ex-
amining a number of foreign appli-
cants for citizenship papers. Her ex-
aminations were concise and to the
point, and the manner in which she
conducted them impressed all hearers
that she is thoroughly qualified for
the carrying on of this important
work.
Yesterday was big day in Farm
ington, and our people did themselves
credit in the manner in which they en-
tertained the delegates to the conven-
tion of the Southeast Missouri Trunk
line Highway Association. The dele
gates were very favorably impressed
with their reception, as well as var
ious activities of the county and par
ticularly with the unusually good con-
ditions of the roads over which they
were escorted.