The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-02-03
at the Geo. Henderson home.

spent the Week-eHu Will HeT HiutHSAy
Mrs, L. G. Woodrow.
Miss Dorothy Vineyard, of Des
Monies, Iowa, is the guest Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ebert Belknap. Miss Dorothy
formerly resided here.
1t is reported here that Ben De-
Forrest, owner of the DeForrest mills
at Irondale and Desloge, is contem-
plating building an elevator and light
plant here.
Ira Eaton, of st. Louis, came down
Friday night for visit with home
folks and friends.
Mrs. V. Thomasson spent the last
week in Desloge the guest Of her
daughter.
Mrs. O. L. Cooley, of Desloge, spent
the weekend with her many relatives
and friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Erbe, of Ironton,
spent Sunday afternoon and Monday
here with the Polk families.
Chas. Disteli has gone to Chicago,
where he will work for construction
company, building railroads.
Rolla Sisk went to st. Louis Mon
day to visit his sister, Mrs. Homer
Hertz. He also intends to seek en-
ployment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Kendall, of IRON
ton, were weekend guests Of the Polk
families.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hood, of Bonnie
Terre, were weekend guests of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. N. Beard.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. N. Beard and
daughter, Eva, and Miss Marie Bone
accompanied Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hood
to Bonnie Terre and spent a few
hours with the latter Sunday after
noon.
/ Local news agents have informed
their customers that the st. Louis
Sunday papers have been reduced to
cents, the price before the war.
Miss Lillian Schmidt, teacher of the
Hickory Grove school, spent the week
end with her parents in Flat River.
Virgil Sloan spent Sunday after
noon with friends at Irondale.
Miss Alice Schierman, representa-
tive of the A. C. Thiebes Music Co. of
St. Louis, was here the latter part Of
the week taking inventory of the stock
of the local music store, which is be-
ing conducted by S. T. Middleton.
w. w. Wilson was able to be out
Sunday for the first time for over a
month, due to illness.
Prof. ]. Wood and Rev. Ellis, of
Caledonia, were here Saturday after
j noon on business mission. Dss.f-
&C. J. Hill was in Emminence Satur-
day afternoon on business.
Leslie Yount transacted business in
Ironton Monday.
Edgar Rowland returned home Mon
day from a visit of few days with
relatives at st. Louis.
Stanley Bisplinghof, Of st. Louis,
came here Monday to visit his parents.
James Carter, of Ellington. spent
the weekend here with his father, w.
z. Carter.
Otto Denton and Carl Bloom spent
Sunday afternoon in Flat River.
Mrs. Busch returned home from st.
Louis Monday after a visit with her
daughter. rsr
Emmett Belknap and daughter, Miss
Myra, spent Tuesday in Bonnie Terre.
Thos. Matkin and ORION Kirkendall
lwere Flat River visitors Sunday.
The regular monthly meeting of the
County Epworth League was held at
the local church Friday night. The
cold weather prevented a very large
delegation attending. The Leadwood
High School Orchestra was to have
furnished music for the occasion but
failed to show up. Lee Orten, who
had just returned from trip to Men,
phis, Tenn, where he attended a meet
ing of League Presidents, gave an in
teresting talk on the various things
that were considered at that meeting
The regular monthly business was
transacted and afterwards officers
were elected for the ensuing year, as
follows: Lee 0rten, president; Joe Da-
Wis, of Bonnie Terre, vice president
Roy l. .Coplen, secretary; Henry Zaph
of Bismarck, treasurer, and Miss Ella
May Johnson of Flat River, was Sc
lected corresponding secretary.
Miss Annette Adams, of Flat River
on last Sunday decided that her home
in Flat River no longer appealed to
her, and left to seek her fortune in
the lonely and cold world. She came
here and registered at the Bismarck
hotel under the name of annette
/. Williams. She informed Mrs. A. H
| Hinze that she was an adopted girl
and had gotten tired of living with hel
foster parents, and was running away
from them. She left here Sunday af.
ternoon, in company with young
gentleman, apparently headed fol
| Flat River.
The funeral of Mr.. Bridge Waters
who died at the home of his daughter
Mrs. Langdon Keay, was held at the
Hickory Grove church Tuesday, anc
interment was made in the Hickory
Grove cemetery. He was aged Sc
years. He was born in Indiana but
came to Missouri in early life. He
4 leaves number of children to mourn
his passing. We extend sympathy tc
the bereaved.
1t is reported here that our ole
friend, Richard Bergman, who is EN-.
ployed at Washington, d. G., Ms mar
ried. Congratulations.
Mrs. Auburn Edmonds went to St
Louis Friday to see her brother, Mr.
Hartmann.
Mr., and Mrs. ]. ]. Francis, Of Wi
mona, Mo-, spent Friday and Saturday
with Mrs. Davidson. 8@sa Ni'n
Norman Belknap, Of Bonnie Terre
spent Friday here with relatives
Il Paul Brunette, of Pennington
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