The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-01-28
!: COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE !"

=. II. Williams was visiting MS old
home at Oposum Ridge in Jefferson
county the first part Of last week.
A. N. Sheriff., of St. Louis, was
transacting business in Leadwood the
latter part of last week.
Chief Traffic Cop j. +. Becker is
having things quite easy for the last
few weeks, as the traffic between
Leadwood and Frankclay has been
stopped on account of the quarantine
between these two towns. John still
makes his daily trips to Gumbo to
look after the traffic business over
there.
Henry Harper, who has been res
ident Of lockwood for several years,
moved with his family to Collinsville,
ILL.,, last week. VIM. McClard took his
furniture through in his truck.
VIM. FOWL, assistant cashier of our
local bank, is thinking of taking an
extended vacation in the near future
and visiting his old stamping grounds
near Pull Tight, Mo.
VIM. Jahncke, received the sad news
Wednesday that his father had died in
Germany on Dec. 9th and was buried
on New Years day. Mr.. Jahncke is
aiming to visit his native land this
spring, after which he will locate again
somewhere in the good old u. S. A.
Coin Poston, of Bonnie .Terre, was
visiting in Leadwood Tuesday.
Prof. j. w. Reaves was transacting
business at Flat River Wednesday af-
ternoon.
J. A. Robinson, of Irondale, was Wis
ting friends in Leadwood Sunday.
James Devine and family attended
the funeral of his niece at Bismarck
Saturday.
C. H. Dixon and family were at
Bismarck Saturday attending the fun
eral Of Mrs. Jessie Smith, of Elvins.
The indications are that we will not
have much more cold weather this
winter. We have seen several gangs
of wild geese flying north, and on
Jan. 22nd Stanley Dixon killed a
snake about two feet long crawling in
the street in front of the postoffice.
]. C. Dotson and wife, of St. Louis,
are visiting friends in Leadwood this
week.
The boys basket ball team of the
high school here defeated the Elvins
boys at the Y. M. G. A. court Saturday
night, 40 to %. Our boys are at a
disadvantage in not having any place
to practice during the week. The
company here expects to have new
community house ready within two
weeks. Then we will have games here
at home.
Emmett f. Mason was at Bonnie
Terre Sunday to visit Lynn ManLear,
who is still at the hospital there. Mr.
VanLear is expected home by the mid
die of this week.
The Knights of Pythias and the Py-
THAN Sisters held joint installation
Friday night, after which a bounti.
Gus supper was served by the Sis
ters. Deputy Grand Chancellor J. F
Poston installed the following Off
GERS for Knights: l.. E. Walsh, c. c.
Thos. A. Harper, V, c.; H.. S. McFar'
land, Prelate; r. C. Baker, M. of W..
w. P. Belknap, M. of F.; Fred A
Dicks, M. Of E.; j. C. Fields, X. of r
& s.; s. E. Williams, M. at A.; H. l.
Mcfarland, |. G.; j. E. Harper, l. G
Mr.. Williams is to do all of the police
work at Cherryville and Mitchell, IL
addition to his regular work at Des,
loge. The following officers were in.
stalled for the Pythian Sisters: Mrs
Lulu Mcfarland, f. s.; Mrs. Mollie
Virgins, NJ. E. c.; Mrs. Lizzie Nc,
Farland, E. s.; Mrs. Eula Becker, K
! j.; Mrs. Sarah Belknap, Manager;
Mrs. Lucy Boyer, NJ. r. & c.; Mrs
Allie Simms, M. of F.; Mrs. Lille
Clark, Protector; Mrs. May Level
Guard.
w. o. Vineyard and family were
visiting relatives in Flat River Sun
day.
Our genial merchant, A. C. Nc,
Mullin, got one of his knees very bad.
ly sprained one night last week while
in Desloge at garage. He was hav-
ing some repair work done on his car
and while waiting for the work to be
finished he was walking around anC
stepped into repair pit. He has beer
going on crutches this week.
Dr.. Daley Appleberry and J. A
Edmonds were at Bellevue Monday af.
ter the Doctors furniture, where il
has been stored since his absence in
the army.
J. E. Stewart, of Bonnie Terre, was
in Leadwood Monday with a truck
load of furniture for DR.. Appleberry,
C. E. Williams went to Perryville
Monday.
The st. Joseph Lead Co. has beer
shipping in quite number of men to
work in the mines here for the last
week. We understand that most OF
them are coming from St. Louis. There
is one good thing about the men that
are coming-they are Americans.
The club house of the St. Joseph
Lead Co. was set on fire Monday night
and came very near being destroyed
before the fire was discovered. From
all indications the building was set
fire by someone. From the way that
some have been breaking street lights
and the like Of setting Buildings or
Gre and throwing rocks through store
windows, will get somebody in bad
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