Fragmentary Jasper News masthead from 1808 era
A partial OCR shows the Jasper News masthead with publisher Arthur F. Drak and notes of Jasper, Missouri. It indicates postal filing as second class matter on September 21, 1808.
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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1922
Page
5
A partial OCR shows the Jasper News masthead with publisher Arthur F. Drak and notes of Jasper, Missouri. It indicates postal filing as second class matter on September 21, 1808.
Local notes from Forest Grove and Boston recount visits by Mrs Geo Fowler and others. Families like the Clements, Dohrers, Stansberry, and Armstong siblings travel, attend fairs, and visit relatives in Kansas City, Carthage, Lamar, and nearby towns. Shown are farm sales, threshing, melon shipments, cider press injuries, and preparations for the Lamar fair with a closing report of a church conference in Boston.
Report from Lebanon notes attendance at the Southwest Missouri Fair in Carthage with five days of activity. Poultry coops were set up and fair attendance recorded. The piece expresses support for the News and mentions Mrs. Conner’s return and Mrs. Ellie Harris’s arrival home.
Sunday services included morning and evening preaching with infant baptism of Glenn Cuthbert Scott. Visitors Cuthbert Scott family and Bernice Southwick stopped by. they brought a chicken. The Ladies Aid served refreshments. a town roof upgrade at the Baptist Church is planned. Rudo Scott left for Columbia University, with Sunday School next Sunday.
The W C C U met Wednesday August 2 with Mrs Covert and daughter Mrs Magers. Devotional exercises led by Mrs Wine. Mrs Houser sang One Sweetly Solemn Thought. The program was interesting and instructive. A forthright talk urged the necessity of women voting. Next meeting set for September 5 with details to follow.
H. H. Hammond of Bowling Green Ky returned home this week after a several weeks visit with his sons T. H. and Clarence Hammond. A notice mentions subscriptions to the Drovers Telegram and visits of Mrs. D. G. Greenlee of Horton and A. L. Handley of Belton, relatives of R. E. Greenlee, to Mr. Greenlee’s family.
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