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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1910
Page
1
Webb Brothers Mercantile promotes Henney buggies with high and low wheels, steel and rubber tires, and a high-back design. They invite trades of old buggies, promise Black Hawk Corn Planters soon, and note Saturday clock stops at 3 30.
A.L. Luce sells grocery and meat market to A.J. Putnam and H.L. Bishop in Purcell. New owners assume duties quickly with Bishop running store while Putnam concentrates on realty. Eckles sells Jasper photography business to C.E. Keeling of Nevada. Eckles to do outdoor work. John Sheets promoting Reo auto. Flecks Louse Killers sold at Pitts Drug Store.
Voters cast 202 ballots in the school election versus 47 city votes amid rainy weather. O E Roberts and O Thompson led the long term slate, while Jay Gond and C L Hayzlett followed. Short term winner Tom Seal edged J W Crandall. A 60 cent levy passed 115 to 60 and a nine month term was approved 111 to 60. City results listed for police judge and ward offices. Results elsewhere note Republicans winning Carthage mayoral race, Joplin council, and Kansas City.
A Saturday night ice cream poisoning scare sent every town doctor into action. Dozens suffered colic from a contaminated freezer at a South Methodist church bazaar in the Jasper hotel building. Patients, including Mrs Omer Webb and others, recovered by next day after the cream was halted and authorities investigated the rust suspected source.
H C Ruckel E J McQuillern and PF M Lowell of the southwest Missouri and southeast Kansas Holiness church camp committee took fifteen acres south of the Frisco depot in Lamar to host the big Holiness camp meeting from August 9 for ten days. The gathering is billed as the largest in years with Indian preachers Berry Hill Allen from Oklahoma and others expected to assist.
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