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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1922
Page
1
Charley Ward left peaches at The News office on Monday. A large market harvest from nearby orchards includes peaches as fine as the best in the area.
Trade day at Carthage during the Southwest Missouri Fair yielded strong business despite morning rain. Auction sales neared $1000 with 22 hogs, 13 cattle, a pair of mares, a Ford car and truck, and miscellaneous items sold. Vacation Bible School opened with 63 enrollees and active lessons, dramatizations, and crafts. Attendees and staff included Mrs. Bayne, Mrs. Nunnelly, Mrs. Wine, Mrs. Hammond, Mrs. Carns, Mrs. Houser, Miss Greenwood, and Rev. Sapp. Sapp attended a funeral in Joplin for Mrs. Crossman.
A temporary organization created to join a small fair circuit including Jasper Neosho Mount Vernon and Sarcoxie with chair J E Hull and secretary Homer Bayne to survey support. The Southwest Missouri Harvest Show Circuit plans September and October fairs in Neosho Mount Vernon Sarcoxie and Jasper. Committees seek farmer fundraising and volunteer help to ensure a successful season amid funding questions.
A neighborhood campaign urges residents to build better homes to raise property values and improve the town. It promotes planning assistance and hundreds of designs, with custom drawings to fit individual ideas, advertised via billboards near the office.
In the dam and fruit display winners include Tom Grain Poole wheat second John Brummett, Jonathan apples second Frank Plate Burbank plums second Frank Brummett, Plate gold plums Frank Brummett, Draft colt Frank Brummett. In the baby show the prettiest boy under one year went to Paul Isenmann, son of Frank Isenmann and wife.
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