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THE FLORA JOUIWALJtECORD, FLORA, ILUNOIS
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L. H. Smith and family visited at Mrs. Martha Benner's Sunday.
Margaret Howi(rd spent the week¬ end with ber aiint. Miss Medora Howard in Xenia. Mlases Alice and-.\niy Harlin enter- taidvd Miss Irene Brian of Lawrence¬ vllle, who gave an entertainment at the Zion church Friday evneing. Mias Brian was much in demand as an entertainer in tund raising cam¬ paigns during the war. She is now head of the Art Department ot Man¬ ual Training High School, Kansas City./Mo.
Sherman Cantrell and tamily vis¬ ited at Tom. Cantrell's Sunday.
J. J. Smith waM in Olney Satur¬ day and Sunday.
There will be a Community picnic at J. L; Forsythe's grove Saturday, Juiy 2. Everybody la invited to come and bring dinner. There will be entertainment in the afternoon.
John Hlggasou wus on the sick list last week,    -
Roberi Walker and sister. Miss Vera, and Misses Alice and Amy Hartin motored to'Salem Friday af¬ ternoon.
Hiss Leo Krutslnger entertained her young friends Saturday evening. A good time was enjoyed by all
Irma and Ruth Anderson visited Fay   Belber,   Sunday.
Mr. and Hrs. Charlie Lowe, ot Oklahoma, visited a few days with their aunt, Mrs. Ida Jones. They came tho Ford route.
Lee Walker and tamily visited al .^ngie Walkers' Sunday.
Tom Whitman and wife visited their daughter, Mrs. Frank Songer, and family. Sunday.  '
Arthur McConnell is driving a new Ford.
('halk Talk at Zion
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Miss Irene Brian, of Kansas City, gave a Chalk-talk at the Zlon Pres¬ byterian church Friday evening, June 24. The house was well filled and everybody enjoyed tbe enter¬ tain m.ent very much altho it was rather "Buggy". She depicted many practical lessons In a novel way. The Christian Endeavor So. ciety is to be congratulated upon bringing such talent to our commun¬ ity  .
Mrs. Fred Tolliver was a Monday shopper in  St.  Louis.
H. Smfth and B. Puckett.. clerks, were on sick report last week.
Jas. Puckett was a St. Louis vis¬ itor last Friday. Since Jim removed. his miistache bis eves got weak by looking at that nose.
D. F. Hodge, A. G. Davis and S. T. Finch motored to Buck creek last Wednesday, "fishin". The two that .\'Mi brought home would tit nicely in a thimble.
Miss    Oeorgia    Brydon    departed/ last Saturday for Denver    and    La- I Junitu, Colo., on an extended visit. ]      Mr. and Mrs.    Frod    Taylor    and ! daughter. Leslie, were week-end vis¬ itors  in   Taylorvllle.
Ben Hoard and Frank Berry at¬ tended the U. B. picnic laat week, and had a beautiful sunburn and tbe way the chicken bones did pile up in front of these gentlemen was larg¬ er than the coal on their engines.
Mr. and Mrs. Rolla Bunnell mot¬ ored to Olney last Friday
F. H. JenningB, conductor, has bid in a run from shops to Oiney and return. We miss his gentle voice asking When will I get out?
Qeneral Superintendent F. B. Mitchell in his private car 914 was on our rails last week. Flora to Shawneetown and return to Cincln. nati.
Chief Dispatcher C. F. White is taking bis vacation. C. D. Russell is Chief  in  Mr.  White's absence.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Davis were Cincinnati visitors .Monday.
Mrs. C. A. Wade is visiting frienda and relatives at Peoria.
L. S. Umbenhower and Olen Bier motored to Kokomo, Ind., iast week for repairs for Sam's Jack Rabbit. Went up on one side, but returned by the Jaclt keeping up her reputa¬ tion for speed.
Mrs. Jennie Gillmore was called last week to Creston, Iowa, owing to the serious ilifaess of her sister, Mrs. J. B. Wilderson. Mrs. Wilderson was formerly Miss Besse Davis of Flora.
i^oman loves a clear, rosy com¬ plexion. Burdock Blood Bitters is splendid tor purifying tbe blood, clearing the skin, restoring sound digestion. All druggists sell It. Price,   $1.25. S7-41
Herbert Harrison and wife of near Flora, spent Saturday, evening here with Willard Brown and tamlljr and other friends.—The Farina News.
Tin Miners Have Privllegea. Tbe men wbo work In tbe Cornisb tl" mines aie a class iiy themselvea, and all tbelr dliTerences are adjusted by the atannary courts, as they are called from the Latin word stannum, meaning tin. These curious courti bave existed in their present fomt since thp middle of the thirteenth cen¬ tury, aha. In a simpler fomi, mncb earlier; snd the miners claim to ba tree from all other Jurisdiction, "except In matters aflfef^lng tbe land, life of limb."
Washington first'—be arranged finance;
Tben came John Adams, who   quar- ,    reled with Prance. '
Thomaa  Jefferson  third—Louisiana he bought:
Fourth.  Midison, under whom  Bng¬ land was fought.
James Monroe gave the doctrine and let In Misaouri,
Then Adams,  whose tariff    aroused men to fury,
Jackson, seventh,    refused    to    the bank a new charter.
And made poor yanBuren to    panic a martyr.
William Harrison, died and- by Tyler was followed
Under Polk all the troops in a bloody war  wallowed
Taylor, eleventh   had trouble    with slavery; i
Fillmore put through the Clay com¬ promise, with bravery.
Then  Pierre struggled througb    the .