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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1912
Page
2
Neighborhood news note urges readers and contributors to send items to the office by Monday evening or Tuesday morning for inclusion in the column. The instruction emphasizes timely submissions from correspondents and readers.
Local Dewey region items include April 16 events as Nortis Crum returns, Charley Johnson named road overseer, and Larrick Spaid orchard work. News from San Diego reports Harry Pringle’s marriage to a Missouri girl. Mrs Orlena Elliott Owens has a California-born son.
The report notes April showers slowed oat sawing last week while some fields near readiness for corn. Early sown wheat looks better than late sown. fruit peaches are not favored. Fred Miller bought a fine mare and Chas Awick bias bought a new pony plow. Weather and farm activity dominate the fragment with several misread names.
Local Dixie school shuts Friday due to fog and hosts a fine program enjoyed by patrons. Proceeds from the entertainment total 10.35 dollars. Teachers and residents note ongoing travel and upcoming plans as several residents visit relatives and prepare for trips to Springfield State Normal. Community members report mine injuries improving and a series of local visits and chores around Carthage and Neck City.
Bethel reports a Saturday hailstorm while Leonard Lawless and Lou Worley travel to Jasper. Giants remain undefeated. Roy Brouse is consulted about crossing Lats. At a surprise party Gerald Arner's horse bolted into a coal bank, and the buggy toppled. Misses Arner and Blevins escaped. Dolly Blevins quits farming for painting. Guy Arner away, Leah Arner visits, Green Livingston builds a new barn, Vern Cloud buys a new item, and Garrett does carpentry for Lear in Jasper.
Dublin notes A. J. White of Hopeville Iowa visiting his sister Mrs E J Armstrong they have not seen each other for about 35 years White plans to return home late in April Also mentioned Dortha Webber visiting Jim Yeyer and family of Borom neighborhood last Saturday
The report notes a northbound freight train derailed near town last Sunday drawing local attention. It mentions Mrs Ells Davis and family of Boston visiting, and Mr E J Armstrong weaving a striped carpet for Mrs Anna Herring. Nellie Helm of near Nashville visited her parents, Mix Griffitte, last Sunday.
Henry Graham is confined to his home with rheumatism Mae Woodrow is sick and Mrs Chas Woodrow is improving Grandma Rogers left last week to visit her son Madison Rogers in Kansas Jack Stansbury and family visited Charley Stansbury and wife Ernest Rex and Arthur Armstrong made a business trip to Golden City Mrs Maggie Winters mother and sister were visiting last week Mrs Lloyd from Pleasant Kans and Mrs Ed Russell from Webb City
In Malta farmers work worn fields as J P Bell injures his shoulder delaying his labor for days. J O Wilson adds new scales to his farm while Will Mayers visits Jamie Stratton. Pleasant Valley School plans to close April 26 after exams at Kenoma.
A quiet storm weekend left little damage. community updates include Wardlow visits from Neck City and sheep work for Oscar Paskin and Philip Budd. Maud Hartley plans a Town visit. several families shared Sunday at Louis Lucas’s home. Birthday cards poured in for Grandma Castlebury's 72nd, and local residents visited and hosted across nearby towns.
The Harrison Waltz surprise party drew a sparse crowd Saturday night due to heavy rainfall. Local residents and visitors, including Tom Dodd and family, Rev. CW Sample, A L Thomas, Nina Leidenslayer, Mary Curtis, and others, were noted at various gatherings. Illness claimed Martin Isenmann last week, with burial Sunday at Mount Carmel cemetery. Several neighbors, including the McClintocks, Ballards, and Curtis family, are mentioned in routine social visits and errands across town.
The notice invites all to Sunday school with Charlie Nett visiting John Buzzard on Sunday. A large crowd attended the Friday last day of school. Mr Crabtree bought three fine hogs at the Stalter hog sale in town.
George AL Beal of Republic Kansas purchased 160 acres from Thomas Seal in Barton County Missouri three miles northeast of Opolis. The land lies on the county line and was bought at 50 dollars per acre totaling 6400. Ice Ice Ice at Wiscai's grocer.
The water content of dairy is valuable, state experiment stations report. Creameries in Kansas Oklahoma Pennsylvania and Washington show varied profits per hog fed on buttermilk and other feeds of 0.60 to 5.20 dollars. Averaged across reports the profit per hog is 6.52 dollars, including labor and buttermilk value, with little extra labor risk for creamery.
Thomas Seal bought 101 acres from Frederick Cather of Barto County. The land lies 24 miles northeast of Medoc. The price was $6,200, about $62 per acre.
J. Deardorff swapped his stock of clothing for a tie in a proved Cass County farm with Mr. W. D. Mullen. The deal was handled by Cap Beall and comes on a recommendation emphasizing practical clothing expertise.
A fragmentary tale recalls a girl’s midnight ride to warn others about a fearful forest fire. The text touts Dr King’s New Discovery for lung trouble and a coughing cure, claiming dramatic relief from a drowse cough and lung disease.
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