The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-05-19
LEADWOOD

J. A. Edmonds sold his interest in
the Tollison Mere. Co. to I. r. Tolli-
son, who will continue the business.
Mr.. Edmonds has not decided just
what he will do, but expects to take
a much needed rest for few weeks.
We trust that he will decide to stay
with us.
The Stratesky & Stapp Lumber Co.
are making some improvements to
their store by adding quite large
room in front of their building, CIV
ing them about twice as much room
as they have had. We understand
they will increase their hardware
stock considerably.
This is the last week of the school
for this term. The graduating ad-
dress will be delivered Saturday night,
May goth, by State Superintendent of
Schools Samuel A. Baker, of Jefferson
City. The board has the contracts
signed by the faculty for next year,
and while we lose two Of the present
faculty members in Mr.. Masterson
and Miss Frazier, who are two splen-
did teachers, we have two Others to
take their places who we believe are
splendid teachers also. We have also
added two more teachers for next
year, one lor manual training and one
for an ungraded room.
James Blankenship was passen-
ger to st. Louis on Monday after
moons train, where he expects to visit
his brother for few days.
James Blunt and family, of Desloge,
were visiting j. +. Taylor and family
here Sunday.
Mrs. J. F. Taylor was Bonnie
Terre visitor last Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Goldstine and daughter, who
have been visiting N. Levy and fam
lily the past two weeks, left Tuesday
for New York, where they will make
an extended visit with relatives.
Sam Thompson and Esquire G. W..
Conway were business visitors at
Pennington Tuesday.
Mrs. j. w. Scott and two daugh-
ters were Bonnie Terre visitors last
Sunday.
Captain A. N. Hahn was visitor
to Mine La Motto this week to visit
his daughter, Mrs. Geneva Pulliam,
who is renorted seriously i'll.
Misses Mabel Arnold and Eunice
Bennett and Messrs. Gilbert Schlewing
and Milton Dodson, of Flat River,
were on an outing at Dripping
Springs last Sunday.
Bert Meeks, of Frankclay, who was
taken to the Bonnie Terre hospital last
Friday, is reported TO be improving
very nicely, and unless he has some
backset, will be able to come home in
few days.
In the commercial contest. which
was held here last Saturday, our
school won more honors than any of
the schools inthe county. LIST period
tvpewriting, Miss Ethel Jones, of this
place, won first place; End period
tvnewriting, Miss Nav Virgins. of
this place. won first place; advanced
typewriting, Hugh Maurer. first, and
Field Simms, second. Both of these
prizes were won by our school. The
shorthand contests were won by the
other schools in the county.
There are eleven who graduate this
year from the high school, and twenty
eight from the grammar school. Those
who graduate from the high school
are: Jessie Mae Meek, Grace L. Wood,
Elmer Fl. Neel, Hugh +. Maurer, Err
nest l.. Tesreau, Leo +. Mcfarland,
Carter G. Taylor. Velma Evelyn Zim-
norman, Clares Labudde and Joseph
II. Harper. Those from the grammar
school are: Dorothy L. Eddington,
George w. Goforth, Marguerite H.
Taylor, Ida C. McDermott. Naomi L.
Henderson, Parthenia l. Hedgecorth.
Aline M. Goodins Georgia I. Downey,
Floyd T. Hulsey, Ossie G. Bennett,
Leona M. Laplant, Vester N. Penber-
thy, William f. Mathews, Ruby I.
Arnold, Olga A. Beiknap, Irene H.
Hulsey, j.. Bryan CavineSs, Dora A.
Jones, Alfred Pettigrew, Myra M.
Boyer, Lois H. Clay, Lester B. Fields
Elmer l.. Davis, Pearl Goforth, Bert
S. Bower, Ira H. Dickey, Paul A. Mills,
and Floyd Smith.
A. ]. Cain, of lrondaIe, was here
last Wednesday morning on business.
DR.. Lee Turley. Of Bonnie Terre,
was here last Wednesday short time
on business. -
Frank Keith, who il working at
Rivermines, was here Wednesday on
business. -r,.
W. o. vinyard. Preach Belknap and
James Denton were fishing on Big
RiverI asst Wednesday. From their
report they had no luck and only sue
ceeded in drowning few worms.
Albert Shanef. one of our best cit
liens, has resigned his position as re-
pair man with the st. Joseph Lead Co.
and moved with his family to a farm
near Irondale.
n Ws7T. Newby,fof near Hazel Run,
was here visiting his sister, Mrs. Mar
thu RA~kAtt last Thursday.
B. L. Haynes, of Doe Run, who is
travelling salesman, was here Thurs
dav calling on the business men.
J. H. McCloud, Of Bismarck, was
here visiting relatives last Friday.
Len Deforest, of Iropdale. was here
Friday calling on the business men.
He is member of the firm Of DeFor-
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