The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-15
LEADWOOD

Ike IlenSley, Ol bOneuellJ MO-,
former citizen of this place, transact
ed business here last Wednesday.
H. L. Stapp, Jake Goodman, j. F.
Poston and son, Lynn, were in Bis
marcll last Wednesday advertising the
Chautauqua for this place.
w. o. Vineyard and G. C. Winning
were fishing at Iron Mountain lake
Friday evening.
Leonard Mason left Saturday for st.
Louis, where he will look for work.
B. F. FOWL, J. Adam Karsch and
Prof. j.. w. Reaves were in Irondale
Wednesday afternoon in the interest
of the Chautauqua.
Henry Harper, who has been living
at Collinsville, ILL.,, for the last six
months, has returned here to make his
home. Henry says that times are very
dull there. He only worked two
months.
Walter McEwen and Luther Shaw
are down from st. Louis visiting rel
atives and friends here.
Rev. j. w. Ham and B. A. Rea were
in Desloge Thursday afternoon in the
interest of the Chautauqua.
T. r. Tolison, H. l.. Stapp and Geo.
Armon were fishing at Iron Mountain
lake Friday night.
Emory Taylor has accepted po-
sition in L. M. Chapman's barber shop
here.
B. Il Bass and family spent Friday
at the Ilon Mountain lake fishing.
The revival meeting which hassbeen
in progress at Frankclay for about a
week is progressing fine. Up to date
there have been about 20 conversions,
and the church has been greatly re-
vived.
Burglars broke into the Cash and
Carry store here about 2 a. m. Mon
day and blew the big safe open and got
about $50 in small change. They did
not get into the part Of the safe con-
tanning the green back or they might
have been little better paid for their
trouble. The explosions were heard
by several of our people who live close
to the store, but they did not know
what was going on or the burglars
might have been caught. From what
folks say who heard the explosions
there were about 6 shots, and they
were in the store about one hour. TIe
explosions did quite a lot of damage
to the inside of the building and put
two of the telephones out of commits
sion.
Robt. Sellers and F. T. Halle, OF
Bonnie Terre, were in town Monday
morning looking after the damages to
the store, done by burglars Monday
morning.
For Sale-One Ford car with a pts.
ton ring, two rear wheels, one front
spring; has no tenders, seat made OF
plank, burns lots of gas, hard tc
crank. Carburetor busted half way
through, Engin, missing, hits on two
Only three years old, four in the
spring. Has shock absorber'n every
thing. Ten Spokes missing, front axle
bent, all tires punctured-not worth
cent. Got lots of speed-runs like thu
deuce, burns either oil or tobacco juice
If you want this car, inquire within
Helluva good car for the fix it's in.
Mr.. Donald Goodin was transactint
business in St. Louis the fore part O.
the week.
Mr.. L. G. Eckert, of Rivermines
was here Saturday night attending tn
Masonic Lodge.
DIR. Daily Appleberry and wife wer,
visiting his father near Silver Spring
Sunday afternoon.
We read a notice on one of gu
bulletin boards one day last week tina
a citizen of our town wanted to sell TO
cash, all of his household goods on :
certain day this month. Then a fey
Idays later we noticed that this sam
fellow put up notice that he ha'
called his sale off, for the reason so h
stated that the people did not have an.
money. He is talking quite differen
to what he talked last fall just befor
the election, in the event of Mr.. Hard
| ing's election.