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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1908
Page
5
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Judge Brock and family attended a Sunday school at Zion and had dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Berry. Ethel Goff visits Pittsburg Kansas. Robinsons of Kanane City dine with Mrs. Owens. Mrs. Near visits sister Mrs. Flowers, threshing crews work for Busbys Esteys and Brocks. Pike family at Busters. Katey employs two carpenters. Turner plans a Mt Veron visit. Town urges cash settlements by Sept 1 to sustain a dry Jasper. calls for local notices like Butler Democrat.
National banks report a rise of 116000 as crops thrive and shoppers urged to support hometown merchants. The note stresses prudent spending and paying locally rather than charging purchases, urging loyalty to local business. May 8 Marrurus.
Mr Lane and his two boys Frank Sharp Jr and Parl White of Jasper fished on North Fork Tuesday afternoon. A W Heston of Haskell County Kansas an uncle of Geo Strawn visits this week and notes wheat is poor while corn looks good. Wash Sharp pastured horses at Zoe Davis place Monday. Strawn works for the school board on a new floor in the schoolhouse and repairs. Harve Law had horse shoeing at the village blacksmith Monday. Miss Lucy Sharp made a quick trip to Kansas and back. Will Lane's father and mother visited him Sunday.
Earl Wood made a business trip to Miami and Oslo on Friday and Saturday. Lynnland school will begin on September 14. Various local residents visited friends, including Miss Clara Stevenson of Joplin and Miss Myrtle Teter visiting Misses Myrtle and Josephine Collier. Mrs. Jaccard of Webb City visited her daughter, Mrs. Homer Roberts. Several others were noted in neighborhood social activity and agriculture with corn crops benefiting from recent rains.
Residents report plowing after fine rains while visitors and locals move through Blue country. Josie Johnson from Dublin visited the neighborhood. Mrs. Keltner and Sophia Movius called on Mrs. McDonald. Mrs. Hice Hartley is due home from St Joe. Captain Beal plans a tea room house with bath near Blue. Jack Smith of Illinois plans to locate nearby.
Kansas City market report shows cattle prices mixed with grain steers advancing slightly while medium fed steers declined. Top steers sold near 6.70 to 7.26, grass cattle 4.25 to 6.10, cows 2.80 to 3.60, calves 3.50 to 6.25. Hog run about 6000 with top 6.70 and general 6.25 to 6.50, pigs weak. Sheep supplies rising, lambs 5.25 to 5.75, yearlings up to 4.60, woolly sheep modest demand. J. A. Riexarr.
Neighbors in the Sheridan neighborhood host and visit relatives across Warrenburg Clinton Carthage and Webb City. Families named include Radford Whitfield Ballard Klinefelter Tunnell Curtis and Robinson with trips from Kansas City and visits to parents grandparents and siblings.
Zion reports many attended Carthage fair last week while Zelda Covert and Paul Klinefelter toured Webb City visiting friends and relatives. Mrs M M Davison of No 79 Gifford Ave Bao Jove Cal touts Electric Bitters as a general family remedy for headache, liver and bowels torpor, praising its health benefits and noting Webb Bros. drug store sells it under guarantee.
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