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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-06-12
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Nathan Opplcman. who undcrvcn,
an operation at the Johnston VIM,
Hospital. Is reported as getting alonw
nicely. 'S
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-06-12

kokomo Rubber Co. nnd party. who
are touring the South. spent Friday
in richmond. visiting the National
TIL" and Rubber. local distributors.
Terminal Motor Company. Inc. hat,
made several improvements in its
building. installing u department to
CarrN a limo of nCccssOrics and iircs.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-29
THE NEW CONSTITUTION

An important duty devolves upon
the citizens of Missouri, and that duty
can only be fulfilled by each one going
to the polls on next Tuesday, the sec
ond of August, and voting for a Con-
stitutional Convention that shall give
Missouri Constitution more adequate
for her present needs.
Missouri is this year celebrating her
one-hundredth anniversary as d
State, and she is struggling along
with a constitution she has had for al
most half that time. 1t may be ar
gued that the Constitution of tho
United States has withstood the stress
of many times the years, but the Ma
TONS Constitution was written for all
time, it was written by men with
broad vision, and nothing was included
in it that belonged to other depart.
ments Of the government; the Consti-
tuition of Missouri was written for a
special time and to meet the special
needs of that time, and has much in
it that is strictly legislative in char
acter. 1t has become antiquated and
cumbersome, and its provisions do not
apply to the wonderful changes that
have come in the last half century-a
period that has seen a more complete
change in our social, economic and m
ffustrial life than centuries have ex-
perienced before. .,
Go to the polls next Tuesday and
do your share toward giving Missouri
a new civic robe for her birthday.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-29

paid into the state shall be available
for meeting interest on the $60,000,-
900 road bonds. This will enable the
heavy burden to be discharged with
out burden to taxpayers, as the prin-
cipal will in time also be paid off
through the same means. The general
supposition last year was that this
was provided in the road amendment.
Every friend of the Missouri boys
who served in, the World War will be
glad to support the third proposed
amendment, which provides that a
bonus of not more than $15,OOO,O00
shall be paid eN-service men, the Leg
islature to arrange for raising the
amount through taxation. The ina
bility of the Federal Government to
act in like manner at this time
makes more pressing the moral obi
cation of each commonwealth to do
justice to its own war veterans. The
four propositions are, it will be seen,
fully deserving of the voters support,
and all should win at the polls Aug. 2.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-29

efficient services in that institution,
Mr.. Lockridge did not care to wait to
be asked to get out, but voluntarily re-
signed. His place in that institution
has been filed by Mr.. and Mrs. Horton,
of this community.
Mr.. Lockridge seems to be we'll sat
isfied with his new work, in which he
soon hopes to become fairly efficient.
While his present line is quite a
change in employment, he has the ca
pacity, as well as the desire to serve
his patrons in the best manner posi-
Bile, so that all may be assured of the
best possible treatment from him. He
is also adding considerably to his
stock, SO that prospective customers
may have their wants in the harness
line supplied by him.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-29
AN EXPLANATION

Camp Roosevelt, July 81, 1921.
Editor Times, Pennington, Mo.
Dear Sir:--Being interested in true
sport and particularly in faip play, in
the interest of the Irondale baseball
team, | am asking that you correct,
through your columns, that which
seems to be somewhat misleading in
your recent article in reference to the
game played between Irondale and
Bismarck, indicating that, after being
invited to play the Irondale Grays, it
was found that the Irondale team was
made up of the scout trainers, for the
purpose of defeating the Bismarck
boys, when, as a matter of fact no
man played on the Irondale team that
was not member of the team. 1t is
true that three of the players are
scout trainers and spend the entire
season at Irondale every year. The
three scout trainers in question not
only play in match games at Irondale
but travel with the Irondale team, to
which they belong, in all games played
with surrounding towns.
Bismarck has an exceptionally good
team but was at some disadvantage
because they evidently were not used
to fast field, where, on the other
hand, the Irondale Grays were play
ing on their home grounds. The Bis
marck boys did shave on their batting
clothes" The offerings of the Irondale
pitcher were occasionally whanged to
different parts of the field but the ex-
Gallant faIdipo IF fha TronJolo Crox,
prevented Bismarck from scoring but
two runs. The true sport is the fell
low who plays a square game and
takes defeat cheerfully. 1t is no dis
grace to get walloped and while the
lrondale team won victory over
Bismarck the ties of friendship and
true sportsmanship should not be en-
dangered by misleading statements.
would seem perfectly natural for
the itondale team, knowing that the
Bis marrk boys had beaten everything
round the country for years, to put
the brake on the game by good field
ing. We were determined to shut the
Bismarck boys out for the first five in
nings and, as a matter of fact, they
did not score until the seventh.
| feel confident in stating that the
umpireS decisions were absolutely i'm
partial and add that the Bismarck
boys played good game and were
gentlemanly and hopeful until the end
of carrying off the honors.
A challenge for a return match on
their own grounds will be cheerfully
considered and we pledge to the Bis
r1iarck bbGsS bir heartiest co-opera-
ton and lasting friendship.
Very respectfully yours,
Maj. H. V. Fimmelhs,
s. Scout Executive.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-29
STATE ELECTION AUGUST 2

Enough has not been said concern
ing the special state election of Aug.
2, when Missouri will vote upon three
proposed constitutional amendments,
and also upon the question of holding
convention to provide for the revis-
ing and amending of the state consti-
tuition. Most Missourians bear in
mind that such an election will take
place, and majority have clear ideas
as to the matters to be considered
There are many who have not; how
ever, given the election enough
thought. .'e
There would be little opposition to
the plan for constitutional conven.
ton. The agitation for some such
step toward providing this state with
a constitution adequate to the COM
monwealth's wonderful development
has been going on for years. Surely
everybody knows the great need of
Missouri for modernized state or
ganic law. The good citizen will use
his voice and his oiufuenee, in behalf
of this forward movementii'f a9g,, ,
~Ail three proposed amehdmants are
also important, The. FIRST, which con-
veys full citizenship rightsiu upon WOW
men by State aetSas has already, been
done by the Federal Government, cana
not be opposed upon any ground of
consistency. 1t is probable that wo-
men could hold office without the
constitutional defining 6f'their right
to do So. There is common sense de-
sire. however, that the state shall not
maintain intthe letter. Of the law an
archaic spirit inthk matter.
The Second proposed amendment
provides that automobile license fees
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-29
MISSOURI A GOLD AND
SILVER PRODUCING STATE

Jefferson City, Mo-, July 27.-"Mis-
souri, is again officially recognized as
y gold-producing state by the United
States Geological tSufSey in a pamph-
let just issued, carrying the title "Min-
clal Resources of'tAe United States,
192o,"3whieh Rrcmulgates the fact
that. iha1920mineteen ounces of geld,
worth 5000 weferecovered by eastern
FfneitsSs1 fSSmisfead ores originating
in St. Francois, Madison and jefferson
counties.
A Missouri Bureau of Labor Stats
tics bulletin from which,the above quo
tation is an excerpt, gives out the fur
ther information that the smsltins
corporations which recovered the
nineteen ounces Of gold. in the same
year extracted 1920 ounces CT sill
e., wc:th $l25.0c3 frcm The same
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-29
MISS ELLEN MARGUERITE CROW

Mrs. Ellen Marguerite Crow was
born June 81, 1888, in Hopkinsville,
KY. Removed with her parents to 0s-
ceola, Mo-, in 1910, then in 1845 to
Pennington and in 1852 to the Grow
farm near Libertyville, where she died
July "a, 1921. in her seth year. She
was the eldest child of H. w. and Vir-
ginia (nee Moon) Grow. She is sur
vived by one sister, Mrs. Joplin of
California, and one brother, John G..
Grow of Pennington. In her teens
she united with the Christian church
and was an active member of that
body until physical handicaps for
babe.
Funeral services were conducted by
Rev. R. L. Allen at the Libertyville
church, and interment in the Liberty
vile cemetery.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-29
Notice to
Contractors.

The Board of Education of School
District No. "a. known as Pennington
School District, will receive sealed
bids, until Wednesday evening, Aug
ust 10, 1921, at 7:3O o'clock, for the
furnishing of material and labor for
the erection of two additions to the
Jefferson (South ward) School Build
ing, four room structure in the City
OF Pennington, Mo-; and the install
lation of a complete sanitary toilet
system including septic, or disposal,
tank; also a complete steam heating
system for the entire building, plans
and specifications for all of which are
on file in the office of the Secretary
OF the Board of Education, Julian P.
Cayce, over the Bank of Pennington.
A certified check for $4,000, paw
able to Ed Klein, Treasurer of the
Board of Education, must accompany
each bid.
Bids may be submitted for the con-
struction and equipment complete; or
for the construction of the additions.
and the heating and plumbing sepa-
rately.
The Board of Education reserves
the right to reject any or all bids sub
mitted.
Done by order of the Board of Ed
ucation, in special session, on this the
9th day of July, 1921.
BENZ. H. MARBURY, President.
W. L. JOHNS, Temporary Sec'y.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-29
INTEREST ON OUR WAR CREDITS

Undeniably, the terms in which Mr..
Borah spoke in the Senate about the
remission on our part of interest on
the indebtedness owed us by foreign
peoples are about the terms in which
the average man thinks about it.
More than 100000 day. Mr.. Be-
rah said, is being withheld from us in
interest byI foreign governments on
the, plas hfatlts pay ,it,asy Ut natures
woslas iimpHse too great burden on
'their, budgets. But the fact that we
are not collecting II imposes also a
very great burden on out Budget. Re-
fiecting on what that burden means
and on the manner in which it is car
fied. not only in a crushing weight Of
taxation, bu. in the addition Of that
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-29

Subscription, $l.5o year, in advance
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-29
BusinessG la1age

DR.. W. c. billiard, whip for the1past
several months has successfully con-
Quoted the harness business; which he
purchased from Mr., Rottger, turned
that business the last of the week to
T F. Lockridge, who for the past fif-
teen years has been chief cook at Hos
pital No. 4, Anticipating removal by
the present Republican administration,
notwithstanding his long! faithful and
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-29

and even that new taxes are proposed
before old taxes are decreased, he
should not be unaware of all the rea-
sons. And one of the reasons is that
the American taxpayer is not only
carrying his own heavy burdens, but
some of the burdens rightfully belong
ing to the taxpayers of many other
Observation-Disclosures
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-29

southeast Missouri lead ores. The av-
erage 1920 New York City value of
Missouri silver was $1.015 per troy
ounce and Missouri gold, the same
year( $2O.67 per troy ounce.
The 1921 Red Book of the State Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics will carry
complete chapter on Missouri as a
gold and silver producing state" Fur
ther advance information from the
same AYERS that Federal official cred
it was first given Missouri as gold
producing state by the United States
Mint in 1918 when the fact was given
publicity that in 1917 quantities of
Missouri lead ores put through high
grade Of refining to recover their sill
yer contents, also yield Is ounces of
gold with New York worth of $500.
From then on Missouri has been reg
ularly listed officially by Uncle Sam
as gold-producing state.
The total of gold, in troy ounces, re-
covered annually from southeast Mis-
souri, lead ores by eastern smelling
companies since 1917, and the total
worth follows: year 1917, Is ounces,
worth $500; year 1918, 10 ounces,
worth $500; year 1919, IA ounces,
worth $500; and 1920, 10 ounces,
worth $400. t!1
In the Bureau of Labor Statistics
bulletin dealing with Missouri as
gold and silver producing state, Com
missioner William H. Lewis declares
that Gin the last decade rumors has
repeatedly reached the money centeSs
of the state, from remote sections of
Missouri, that traces of gold had been
found, but the first official recognition
given Missouri by United States au-
thorities as a gold-producing common
wealth was in 1913 when the annual
report of the United States Mint an
nounced that among the 1917 pur-
chases of gold were fifteen troy ounc-
es originating in Missouri"
Annual Silver Output, 1910 to 1920
1t has been known for at least two
decades that the lead ores Of southeast
Missouri yield in high refining an av-
erage silver contents of an ounce to
a ton of the baser mineral. The annu-
al yields in troy ounces of silver from
lead ores originating from that sec
ton, put through the desilverizing
process by eastern smelters, and the
value of the yearly recovery; from
1910 to the close of 192BgM follow:
year 1910, $4,000 ounces, total worth,
$17,3S8; year 1911, .49, 100 ounces, to-
tai worth, $26.5O0; year 1912, 10000
ounces, total worth, $1S,450; year
1913, $4,000 ounces, total worth, $685.
500; year 1914, 10000 ounces, total
worth, $4,000; year 1915, 55,534 |
ounces, total worth, S27,70O; year
1916, l28,S0O ounces, total worth,
$84,S0O; year 1917, 63,344 ounces, to-
tai worth, $4,000; year 1918, 46,939 |
ounces, total worth, $46,939; year
1919, 1891 ounces, total worth, $685. |
176; and the year 1920, 123,9l9 ounc-
es, total worth, $125,0s3.
In the eleven-year period considered |
in the preceding compilation the low
est price per troy ounce of silver was
in 1911 when it was So cents as com
pared to 81 cents in 1910. In 1918 |
silver reached the price of a dollar an |
ounce owing to the huge demands
from Europe for the metal for coin
age purposes. In 1919 the peak was
reached with silver selling for an av-
erage of Sill per troy ounce. The
year 1920 saw the metal aveA age ST.
O15.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-29
PORK BARREL ROAD BUILDING

| --- -F't,
What has come to pass In Arkansa
is precisely what many have fearet
might come to pass in other states ant
have devised safeguards to prevent
Without any adequate system of cen
tralized supervision, $140,000,00O il
Arkansas road funds was turned over
to local improvement districts to he
expended by local road bosses of des.
potic authority The result is as de-
plorable an example of the vicious
pork-barrcl system in road making as
was ever given under the most i'm
provident rivers and harbors bill in
the cd extraVagant congressional days.
The only reason the waste has not
been greater is because the state Of
the securities market has made it diff
ticult for many districts to sell road
bonds. The recourse in current taxa
ton seems, however, to have been
utilized to the uttermost in many dis
tricts. Taxes SO heavy as to equal as
is said, the full value of much Of the
less desirable land has been imposed
even on re-forested lands. Virtually
all the income from many average
farms has been taken in road taxes.
On scores of communities whose bonds
have been saleable mountains of roaG
debt have been imposed which Gov
McRae says viii be impossible fol-
them to ever pay off.
If Arkansas were obtaining a State
system of admirable roads which
would endure for all time, it might be
hoped that the future would bring a
prosperity making the burden easier
to carry. Boss Shepard almost bank
rupted the City of Washington in his
street and city plan improvements be-
fore he fled to the west, but in after
years the benefits resulting from his
bold stroke were such that he was in
vited back to receive public laudation.
But Arkansas is only getting exactly
what might be expected from an I'M
supervised expenditure under local au-
thority, in which road making is Incl
dental and efforts for private profit
and doubtless also the building of per-
sonal political machines are para
mount. A supreme justice says most
of the roads begin nowhere and END
nowhere. The waste is colossal. A
Little Rock Grand Jury reports that
81 100000 has been squandered on a
single highway. The taxpayers were
quoted in some places for a while by
the representation that the Federal
Government was matching the dollars
expended from local taxes or the pro-
ceeds of local bonds. But they now
find that the Federal Government will
not cooperate in any such outrageous
pork-barrel system.
Put with the people rising against
the imposters and swindlers and with
outbreaks already reported in some
places and public violence feared gen.
orally if the system goes on, the road
machine has become so strongly in
trenched that a stubborn State Senate;
refused to repeal the laws under
which the imposition and squandet
have been possible. The lesson for
Missouri is a terrific one. Without:
a unified state road system, correlated
to state as we'll as local needs and rig
id supervision by state authority in
with federal experts at
every stage of planning and construc-
ton, results of the same ruinous kind
are possible everywhere Wayne
County Journal. 49,
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-29
TEACHERS EXAMINATION

The next county teachers examina-
ton Will be held at the Pennington
high school building August 9th and
9th, next, beginning at 8 a. m. on each
day. The schedule of subjects viii be
the same as in former examinations.
For additional information. lists of old
questions, etc, write j.. Clyde Akers.
County Superintendent of Schools,
Harrington, Mo. 29-3t
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-29
DON'T GUESS--BE SURE

Private or business questions of law
FULLY answered. Reliable, honest, con-
fidential service. Send $500. Law
Information Bureau, 1854 Nassau, St.,
New York City, N. Y.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-02

brown,
Strapwrist South African capeskn with
embroidered sparpont backs and black
at $2.85.
Women's Skating Gloves
Of thick and we'll
In Copenhagen
at $175; in camelsha banded with brown, $2
For Children-The Best Values in Years
SOC pair for feeeined fabric gloves in brown.
CSC pair for furtop feecelned mittens in brown
$1.25 for tan leather feece-lned gauntlets.
$135 for capeskn mittens feened eecened
tan capeskin gloves.
Knitted wool gloves in white and brown tones, &c.,
Scotch wool gloves in heather mixtures, 81.
Skating wool with long
in brown and ST. heather Scotland $25
For Men-Wonderfully Fine Gloves
Low Priced
$65 pair for suede gloves in buck color with backs
$1.65 for feece-ined black leather goves-very
$S5 for brown capeskn selection leather
for fine suede gloves feecened with black embroidery
the backs
$3.50 for black capeskn gloves with knitted dwoo Innings.
$85 black motor gaunlets feece-ned with
gauntlet cua perfect gift for chauffeur
a
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-02
Mems and Women's
Umbrellas, ST to SIS

81 for women's taped-edge
cotton umbrellas with mission
handles and wrist cords. $1.50
for mems cotton ones with
natural wood, crook or opera
style handles; $5 for women's
all-silk umbrellas with cases
to match and with bakelite
handles (some combined with
leather), in green, garnet,
brown, purple, navy and black.
Pretty Pillows
81, $1.50, $3.50
81 for round pillows covered
with bright cretonne or terry
cloth.
$3.50 for square pillows of
tan rep with strips of green,
rose or blue velour.
$3.50 for round pillows of
gayly colored silk-and"cotton
poplin.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-02
For a MAN S
Christmas

You may spend what
you like on shirts for a
mans Christmas and be
sure of getting your
moneys worth in the Gal
lery Store for Men.
Percale shirts in the
clean looking patterns
that men like are $1.30
and $1.50.
Good looking cheviot
shirts with neckbands
or attached collars are
$1.65.
Woven madras shirts,
in clear stripes, are $1.85.
Shirts of silk-striped
madras are S2.65.
A. combination Of artifi-
cial silk-and-cotton is used
in shirts at $3.50, and
shirts of silk-and-cotton
that look very much like
all-silk are Sc.
They are all cut on the
satisfactory Wanamaker
dimensions, best for both
comfort and wear.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-02
Wanamaker's Down Stairs Store

Christmas Sweaters
Little Special Lot of Fine Hand-knit Sports
Coats and Slip-ons Very Much Lower
in Price
of this that has been
able them opportune time But two OF
models famous Philadelphia maker Of fine
absolutely perfect but there no fault
that noticeable will shorten the life of the sweater In fact
beautifully soft and in the fashionable
knit others quite The coors lovely dull blues warm
russety browns henna and
$3.50 for slip-ons IN small sizes
$3.50 for slp-ons and sports coats
$3.50 for sip-ons and uxedos
CamePs-Hair and Mohair Wool
Sweaters, $3.50
navy the ames-har natural color
only.
SIS Can Scarcely Buy
Better Christmas Gift Than
L'Artiste Phonograph
down and IS month, that
the initial outlay will be great.
But either the investment will dividends enjoyment
the whole family whole
LAre is of sound construction proven principles and
is attractively finished.
Clarion DoubleFaced Records, 55c
records among them . 4bass&fHIxMMFE1KWM
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-02
Christmas
Opportunities
Central Aisle

Camisoles that are dainti-
ness itself Of flesh and white
satin combined with Geor-
gette crepe, lace, ribbon, tiny
rosebuds and tucks, 81 and
$3.50.
Envelope chemises Of heavy
satin trimmed with imitation
filet edging, rpsebuds and
tucks, in flesh, white and
orchid, $685..
Fabric Gloves, 81 to $1.50
Low prices that vary ac-
cording to length and style Of
the gloves, including 2-clasp,
strap wrist, 8-button and 12-
button lengths in wanted
shades. White duplex chanois
Isle gloves in strap-wrist
style,' $1.25 pair.