The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-14
LEADWOOD

Ezra Francis was business yieitor
in st, Louis the middle of last week.
y Rev. ]. w. Ham, of Bismarck, WIS.,
tied friends here Thursday night.
Mr.. and Mrs, I. M. Jackson, OF
Desloge, visited their daughter, Mrs.
M. G. Mason, last Saturday morning.
DR.. J.. G. Ttrley, OF Desloge, was
here on professional business last Sat-
urday morning. g,a, r. "-
S. E. Williams was at home over
Sunday from three weeks trip over
part of Southern Illinois and South
east Missouri. 1854 ~
R. H. Ramsey is visiting his son, R.
F. Ramsey, and family in st. Louis
this week.
L. R. Reid, of Fiat River, was here
a short time Monday on business.
DR.. and Mrs. John w. DALEY were
in Flat River looking for house 'to
move to. Mr.. Daley owns his own
property here, but is working at Flat
River. we. tL,
]. A. Evans was called to Irondale
Saturday, where his mother died that
day. His mother had been sick for
some time, and her death was no sur
prise to her many friends. Funeral
services were held at the home Mon
day.
Geo. Montgomery, a former resi-
dent of this place, who has been work.
ing in st. Louis the past three years,
but who moved from st. Louis to
Irondale a few weeks ago. was here
one day last week shaking hands with
old friends.
The Methodist Sunday school here
is growing very fast the past two
weeks. The attendance has grown
in the last two weeks from lao to
III last Sunday. The collections Sun
day were 1921. The Mems Bible
Glass was organized Sunday, with j.
T. Simms as president, j. F. Poston
secretary, and Lynn Van Lear treas
urer. We are looking for a record
breaking crowd next Sunday.
Ernest Overstreet and wife were
here Sunday and Monday at the fun
eral of Mrs. 0verstreet's sister, who
was brought here from St, Louis for
burial
Mr.. and Mrs. C. B. Acuff, of Bonnie
Terre, were here Sunday afternoon
visiting friends.
w. l.. Moore, who has been working
on the Jacob Day plantation at Bosco,
la, for the past two years, is at his
home at Frankclay on a visit. lie
says the farmers are in worse condi-
ton in that part of the country than
they are here;' that it is impossible
for farmer to sell any kind Of farm
products at any price there. He says
that he made over 1900 gallons of as
fine syrup as any one ever looked at,
and he has been unable to sell gal
Ion so far.
Geo. Taylor and family, of DeSoto,
are visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. F. Taylor, here this week,
James Blunt and family, of Des-
loge, were visiting Mrs. Blunt's par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. j. f. Taylor, here
Sunday.
Miss Glennie Yeargin, of lrondale,
who has been visiting Miss Lucille
Smith. returned home Sunday.
]. Z. Baker and family, of Flat
River, were visiting at the home OF
J. C. Crossman last Sunday.
The school election passed off very
quietly last Tuesday. There were
twelve candidates for school director,
with only three to be elected. There
were 419 votes cast, the largest vote
by far of any school election ever held
in the history of this school district.
H, L. Stapp received 245 votes, A. B.
Jeremiah 239, DR.. D. Appleberry 202,
Edw. f. Karsch IA, J. A. Evans 1871,
w. P. Belknap 112, Rube Arnold 107,
R. B. Maurer 90. J. S. Francis IT, +.
A. Dicks IL, M. S. Mcfarland /. The
vote for both tax levies was carried
by large majority. There had been
lot of unnecessary criticism of the
school board by a few of our people,
things that there were not the least
bit Of truth in, and it done the folks
that used this unfair means but very
little good, as both members of the
old board were reelected by over
whelming maiorities, and thus put
their stamp of approval on the action
of the school boards work. There is
no use in condemning the whole board
in order to beat one or two members
who you don't want. The new board
met April 9Th and organized by elect
ing T. R. Tolleson president and A. B.
Jeremiah secretary. The same eve
ming the following high school teach
ers were elected: ]. W. Raves super
intendent; Miss Mildred Keith, prin-