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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1918
Page
8
Advertising rates listed include ten cents per inch for fast page and inside pages with front page space fully contracted. Local notices charged six cents per line. Copy must arrive by Tuesday evening. Resolutions of respect cards of thanks and obituary notices will be charged by the inch.
The War Industries Board issued an order to publishers to stop returning unsold copies, halt free distributions except essential office copies, and limit free copies to advertisers. Newspapers face cuts as exchanges cease and nonessential expenses are trimmed to save 15 percent of print paper and aid war efforts. Nonresponsive subscribers will be dropped after notices.
Baptist Church notes announce morning and evening services on Sunday August 25 with Sunday School at 10 a.m. Preaching in the afternoon at the Rural Schoolhouse. All are invited to attend. Everett Looney, pastor.
Washington calls on Americans to support the six week sugar program as a critical war effort. It recalls the wheat campaign’s success in uniting the nation and aiding Allied morale, urging immediate action to share scarce food with those abroad and bolster Hoover’s food council.
The notice promotes the Greatest Mother of All event by the American Red Cross, four days beginning August 27, described as full of clean entertainment and education. It urges attendance, claiming nearly everyone else is coming and it will be the viewer's fault not to attend.
A traveler on a crowded street asks about national identity. The reply emphasizes unity beyond origin, declaring, What I was is naught to me, in this land of Liberty, I am just American. The verse highlights a universal American identity over ethnic labels.
A wartime appeal cites Germany’s 1914 invasion of Belgium and occupation costs, estimating Belgium’s indemnity and a per capita seizure in Bucharest. It asks readers whether they will pay indemnities or buy Liberty Bonds and Red Cross stamps to avoid such charges, questioning leniency toward the United States.
Mrs. Anna Tabler hosted a large family reunion for her sister Mrs. Junia Loveless of Illinois. About 65 relatives gathered for a tree shaded dinner in the park, with many Corder families and Conroys among the attendees. A member of the party was noted in the narration.
Thousands will watch a German fort bombing by an American aviator at Carthage county fair next week. Captain Theodore leads a crowd pleasing aerial exhibit alongside barnyard races and stock shows. Proceeds support the Red Cross and soldiers overseas.
J P Gulleck, west of Jasper, started a sheep business two years ago with 500 western ewes and 15 registered Shropshire rams. After selling wool and ram lambs he kept ewes, ewe lambs, and some cash. He expanded with higher grade ewes, but found ewe lambs needed size, so he bought a large Oxford ram from Canada to improve next year’s lambs. The ram is described as a top specimen from a premier Canadian flock.
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