The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-06-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Warsing spent
Sunday in Bonnie Terre. They were
accompanied BY Miss Ruth Mayberry;
" that place, who had been visiting
Iem. Miss Evelyn Mayberrysretdrn-
ed home with them fora VISIT
Mr.. and MEs.sE dbl Laakman went
fias GLADYS Villa, wha ifSs bssn Wis
ting relatives in LeadwQod and Bonnie
Terre. MiassG ertgpSe MIpsk, a ssster
FsetIhNed home Win them for q visit.
Z MI. and Mrs. e. Fl gsftlelilM and
son, .FifIhan, Jr., returned last evening
from st. Louis, were they had mos
tored the first of the week to matt
theft daughter, Miss Virginia, VIVA
had been attending school in Virginia,
4; Miss Edith Davis, who has been
teaching school in Cape Girardeau, ar
fivedhere Monday for a few days visit
with her brother, Floyd Davis, and
family. She left Wednesday for st.
Louis to spend the summer with her
mother.
The first load of watermelons for
the season arrived in Pennington on
June 9Th, about three weeks in advance
Of their customary arrival. All deal
ers are handling them, and they are
the sweet and watery kind from cid
Alabam. f. 4
II Mrs. Bryan S, Halter arrived Mon
day for a visit with her parents, Mr.,
and Mrs. L. H. Williams and many
Pennington friends, from her home in
Camp Lewis, Wash. She expects her
husband, Lieut.. Halter, to join her
here later.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Robinson and
children, of Webster Groves, drove in
Monday morning for visit with
Pennington friends. Mr.. and Mrs,
Robinson returned home Monday eve
ming, but the children remained for a
visit with the family Of J. G, Watson.
Mrs. Bert Byington and two daugh-
tiers, Misses Maxine and Dorothy Mae,
left yesterday for visit with rela-
tives in st. Louis. From there they
will go to Colorado and Wyoming for
the summer, and expect to return only
in time for the girls to enter school in
September. i.s
Mrs. Alma Rider left Monday for a
visit with Kansas City relatives and
friends, where she will remain during
July. After that date she will 60 to
Chautauqua, ILL.,, where she will spend
the remainder Of her vacation, return
ing home just in time to take up her
school work.
A party of twenty-three members
of the Eastern Star of this city went
to Bonnie Terre Wednesday evening to
attend a school of instruction, which
was conducted by the Grand Lecturer
of the State. The Grand Worthy Ma
tron was also in attendance and de-
livered an address.
The deed in the recent transfer of
the Illinois Southern Railway COM
prising twenty pages and carrying
$3.50 of war tail stamps; has. just reach
ed the office of the Recorder off Deeds
of st. Francois county, to be recorded.
It has already gone through a similar
process by several county recorders,
and it is to be filed of record in all the
counties touched by this road.
Mrs. Lloyd, i, Mrs. Murrill, Mrs.
Downing and Miss Halter will leave
next week for St Louis, where they
will occupy fiat within walking dis
lance Of the Harris Teachers College,
which they will all attend this sum-
mer. This fiat is now occupied by
Mrs. Virginia Wet and daughter,
Mrs. Loetier and three children, who
expect to occupy Mrs. Lloyd's cottage
in her absence.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. r Zimmerman left
Sunday for Chicago, where Mr.. Tim
norman will enter upon another
course of treatment for his health.
His former treatment there resulted
most beneficially, and his friends hope
that his trouble will be entirely oblit-
Grated by his present treatment. They
expect to locate permanently in Chica-
go, where Mr.. Zimmerman feels so
much better than in this climate
j. d. Hughes, one of the pro-
prietors of the Pennington Hardware
Co., came in from St. Louis the first
of the week on vacation, which he is
enjoying by helping to look after the
business here. He is pleased with the
business the firm has done since open
ing here, with Pennington, her peo-
pie and the contiguous country. and
nothing would suit him better than Id
remain here permanently, which he
may conclude to do. r.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Denman, Miss
Bessie Margaret, Harry King and
Earl Smith Denman left Friday for
South Bend, Ind, with the intention
of spending several weeks with their
daughter, Mrs. C. E. Carleton. The
News has been left in competent
hands, with Mack Denpnan in, charge.
But even with such satisfactory ar
rangement, week viii seem like a
year to afatwR", and we rather expect
him, to come tfailing in. next week.
Practically every property owner in
this eitS hasSbeen busy this shring in
cleaning, painting andSimprovtag his
premises, so tRAt everything row 10
spicl and spin abAut FarmiHeton. Even
most Of t;le STREETS are in splendid
conditions and require only assprink'
ling Of oil to make them perfect. The
oil Is expected any day now, and when
it arrives the streets will be given a
good beth in that fluid, which will in