The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-03-03
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ing of the circuit court Of St. Louis.
Hickman gave deed Of trust on st.
Louis real estate for $15,500 on Sep
TENDER 10, 1900. The obligation was to
bear interest at 6 per cent and become
due In two years. Four annual inter-
est notes for S465 each, bearing s per
cent, were also given, Three payments
were made on the notes.
a model demonstration school will
be established at the Dickens school
near Forsyth under the direction Of the
Southwest State Teachers College at
Springfield. The college will make up
the funds for an eight months school
after the district has voted the legal
limit of a levy for the same purposes.
The teacher will be paid minimum
of 500 a month and must have speci-
fed amount of credit in college work.
Plans to- Increase the advertising In
the newspapers of the Ozark section OF
Missouri will be one of the principal
topics that will be discussed at the
meeting of the Ozark Press Associa-
ton in Carthage February "A and %.
Fred Hull, of Maryvllle and president
of the Missouri Press Association,
will submit plans for keeping an adj
vertlsing secretary in the field on full
time.
Robert Hampton, 20, and Wesley
Glerth, 20, prominent persons, are held
on 81 900 bonds, charged with the theft
of 10 cases of cigarettes from the
Barnes Grocery Company at Poplar
Bluff. The lot was valued at $3.50.
Suspicion fell upon them when an in
formant told Sheriff Hogg that the
boys had approached him relative to
securing safe storage for the loot.
Earl worley, %, is held at Poplar
Bluff, charged with possessing Illicit
liquor. Seven and half gallons were
taken in a raid on garage In the
heart of the city by Sheriff HOff and
police officials. The whisky was found
locked in a large tool box. The lock on
the box was heavily charged with
electricity to prevent any tampering
with 1t.
william Simpson Hurst, of clifton,
| O., and Miss Mary Blanche Gray, OF
this city, were married here. The
bride was a graduate of the California
High School and the Warrensburg
State Teachers College. She has been
teaching at clifton this year. Hurst is
cashier of the First State Bank at OIL
Moxie Manuel merchant at PascOla,
who is also well known as baseball
player in semi-pro circles Of Missouri
| Arkansas and Tennessee, has filed @
voluntary petition in bankruptcy al
Cane Girardeau. His liabilities are
placed at $320S7.61 and his assets at
| $3705.27.
The March % issue Of the Bowling
Green Times will he issued by the
pupils of the Bowling Green High
School. The students will furnish the
speclal articles, will write all of the
news on the regular runs and will
solicit all of the advertising,
The taxable wealth Of Howell Coun
| ty has increased more than $2,OO0OOC
In the last year, according to the
books of County Assessor A. G. Gose
at West Plains. Last year the tota
was S1O701 OIL and this year the tota
is $12,713573.
Albert e. Jones of Poplar Bluff, {
section employee, is confined to the
Missouri Pacific Hospital at st. Louis
with broken leg, caused from steam
shovel weighing 1900 pounds falling
on him IN the Missouri Pacific yards
More than 100 cOnvicts in the peni
Tertiary at Jefferson City have beer
III with the influenza and under care
of the prison physician. So far ther'
have been no deaths.
NJ. H. Mooney, engineer Of the Mer
Ger County Drainage District, an
nounced at Princeton that contracts
for digging nine miles Of bitches vii
be let soon.
News has been received In Yves
Plains of the death of Frank Cole, 3
wears old, which occurred In Ahwah
nee, Cal, where he had gone for hi
health.
Sealed bids will be received by COun
ty Clerk Sporting at Cape Girardeau
until March 7, for the erection of tn
new building at the County Farm.
Is to be two-stOry brick structure.
Ward Blackburn, while working o.
n tank, fell and was Injured so severe
" that he died three hours later q
EIdon, Mo.
Lee Carl Overstreet Of st. Louis,
student In Westminster College, a
Fulton, has been chosen as a membe
of the Westminster debating team.
Robert r. White has been contirme
as postmaster of Greenville and wi
tack charge about March l.
A petition asking the City Commi!
sfoners of Kirksville to call specif
election to vote on the proposition
changing from the present commissio
form of city government to the oil
form failed to receive the 20 per Ger
of qualified voters necessary, 1t We
announced.
The big rock crushing plant nef
Gallatin, which has been idle for 81
ara will resume operatiOns at OnS