The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-03-18
LEADW0OD

oapula, MO-, Che itVter part VI last
week
S. e. Williams was in Bismarck
Friday night attending Lodge.
The eleven-m onths-old child of Mr..
and Mrs. M. H. Beckett died Thurs
day, March 10th, of pneumonia. They
have the sympathy Of the entire COM
munity r
John Dinkens of Desloge transact
ed business in lockwood Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. C. Anthony, who
have been living here in Leadwood
for the last eight months, have NOV
ed back to Fredericktown. Mr.. An
thony has been working at the carpen-
ter's trade for the st. Joe Lead Co.
and was in the bunch that got laid off
last week.
Ernest Miller, who has been work
ing for the Mccarthy Construction
Co, on the new high school building,
met with a very painful accident last
Friday. He was wheeling some rock
up an incline when the scaffold gave
way, letting him fall to the ground,
a distance of about ten feet. He was
covered up with rock and lumber, re-
ceiving some bad cuts and bruises. He
is able to be up and around town.
Miss Leila Hill and Miss Gladys Fra
zier, two of Leadwood's efficient
teachers, were in st. Louis Saturday
shopping, returning home Sunday af-
ternoon.
Prof. Matthias, Supt. of the Desloge
school, gave a very fine lecture at the
Methodist church Sunday evening.
Prof. Matthias is very fluent and
forceful speaker.
On last Sunday night as Eldridge
Hatridge was returning from Desloge
he had picked up two men who want
ed to come to lockwood, so they said.
He was driving service car for Jas.
Bryant, and when they came to the
road that leads to Mitchell shaft they
said that they wanted to go to Mitch
ell. He had not gone very far when
the men ordered him to stop the car,
and they ordered him and small boy
that was with him to get out of the
car, and when they had obeyed they
tied him and the boy to tree and
drove off with the car Hatridge I'M
tied the boy with his teeth and the
boy united Hatridge. They have not
as YET lOuHu any IitiS w NiiS lSii'"o
who took the car. nor has the car
been found.
On Monday of this week Sam
Thompson bought the interest of B.
H. Bass in the pool room. Mr.. Thomp-
son is an experienced man at the pool
business and if he does not make a
success at this new enterprise, it will
be his first failure.
On Friday night of last week Frank
Hutchings and Mrs. Jessie Mcdonald
surprised their many friends hy steal
ing away to Elvins and getting mar
ried. Mrs. Hutchings has been clerk
ing in the B. A. Rea drsg store for the
last few years, and Mr.. Hutchings has
been working for the st; Joesph Lead
Co. on the diamond drills. They both
are among Leadwood's popular yonug
folks and have many friends who wish
them a blissful and happy married
life.
Ben Shouts of Desloge was in
Leadwood Monday short time visit
ing relatives.
]. W. Wright, of Frankclay and
Mrs. Ella Bohannon of this place
drove over to Potosi last Saturday
and were married.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. fowl were in st.
Louis shopping from Friday to Tues
day.
Miss Ora Akers and Miss Ollie
Trout were shopping in Flat River
Monday afternoon.
Mrs. r. Appleberry. Mrs. Acuff and
Mrs. Sam Craig of Bonnie Terre were
in lockwood Friday afternoon.
Miss Mildred Keith spent the
week -end in Bonnie Terre visiting
friends.
Work is getting very scarce here in
LeadwGod just now and there are lots
of men with large families who have
been out of work for some time. If
this kind of times keeps up for any
length of time, with the reduction in
wages that is to take effect the 18th
of next month, the unlucky folks that
are out of work will never catch up
with their debts when work does
start
H. L. Stapp transacted business in
Pennington Saturday.
The basket ball boys, accompanied
by their coach, Mr.. Masterson, re-
turned Sunday afternoon from their
first trip to the Cape Girardeau tour
nament. Among the sixteen winning
teams of S. E. Missouri represented
there, our boys tied with Kennett for
fifth place. The teams lockwood
played were: DeSoto. nlmo, Ste Cen
evieve, Senath and Esther. In these
five games thy won three. They de-
feated DeSoto. Ste. Genevieve and Sc
nath. One of Leadwood's best play
ers got one of his shoulders hurt and
was not able to play after a part Of
their third game was played and this
handicapped the team quite a bit.
Miss Gay has just sent to Cape Gil
rardeau very interesting lot of
health posters made by children in
various rooms Of the grade school.
These posters are for entry in
contest conducted by the American
Red Cross.