FARMINGTON TIMES, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, June 16, 1905 TWENTY YEARS AGO __________ This Week In St. Francois County __________ The locusts were doing damage at Iron Mountain. The county officials vacated the old court house for offices over at Braun's Hall. Rev. George Steele of DeSoto delivered the annual address to Farmington College students. Thos. Lang returned from a trip to the Southeast, on which he sold about $3,000 worth of wagons. The Farmington brass band had just provided themselves with new suits resplendent with brass buttons and gold lace. The Odd Fellows Lodge of Farmington gave a large picnic at the Fair Ground, at which about 1,500 people were present. M. H. Cahoon made the address for the occasion. There was a knightly tournament with a saddle for first prize, which was won by Phip Hunt, and a bridle for second prize, won by Tom Brown. Twenty-one young men competed.