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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1919
Page
12
Advertising rates listed include space charges on last and inside pages at 124 percent per inch per issue. Front page space is fully contracted. Local notices priced at 5 cents per line per issue. Copy must reach by Tuesday evening. Resolutions of respect cards of thanks and obituary poetry charged per line.
Mrs May Matthews Dewey noted in local items. Paul Marcum, formerly a Deweyite, visited Salem Sunday School last Sunday. Carytown School gains a new organ for school and literary use. The debating society tackles topics like peace treaties and Mexican affairs. Joe Simmons and wife hosted Robi and Gresham Sunday. Families relocate and entertain. A Dewey School Christmas event planned. Nina Ogle recovering from tonsillitis. Several farmers report fresh pork and beef. Charle Bull-Kincaid letter from Germany. corporal in Army of Occupation. Nid society to meet at Mrs Mereynolds. Weather hindered activities. many families spent Sunday with relatives.
Mrs Zoah Lang and children visited Frank Carns and family while Stoy King and wife welcomed a new baby daughter. Mrs King was laid to rest at Waters Cemetery after a Saturday afternoon service. Roy King’s grandmother was well known locally. Various neighbors hosted and visited one another, with numerous Sunday gatherings and calls among families including Carns Lilly Yates Arner Hiner and Wardlow. The page finishes with a local slogan The News is worth four on the fence.
The Mastersingers quartet will headline the third Lyceum number at the M K H Church Friday night December 19. The program features vocal solos duets and ensemble selections with superb character sketches in costume. Fred H Crew will perform Scottish songs to the delight of the audience.
Mrs. M. M. King died Friday December 5 after a short heart illness at her son Hen’s home. She was nearly 72, a longstanding Iowa immigrant. Funeral held at Dos ton M E Church South, with Rev. J. H. Sapp officiating. burial at Waters Cemetery. Survived by one daughter Mrs Hyder and three sons Ben John J and Sam King plus grandchildren and many friends.
Jasper’s passenger train service runs one round trip daily at 8:20 a. m. northbound and 1:40 p. m. southbound. The Kansas City and St. Louis morning train and the Joplin evening train have been taken off due to the constitution. This week two births were reported: Dr. Knott assisted Roe Lowry and wife in welcoming a daughter southeast of Jasper on Friday December 5, and H. T. Campbell and wife welcomed a son northwest of Jasper on Saturday December 6.
Mrs Walter Wood visited Monday with Mrs alph Cline. Theo Mitchell and daughter Beatrice visited Mrs Lane. Mr Obergfelt and wife traveled to Harper Kansas to see her father Henry Lehman. The Ingles were ill over the weekend. John Wuzvard butchered beef Thursday and sold Friday. Guy Serafine returned from Illinois after shucking corn. John Buzzard and Ed Pfander with families spent Sunday at Bilas Denniston's. Tom Wood's family visited his parents. Frank Wood and family visited Chas Nett and family. Theo Mitchell and wife went to Lamar to see her parents. Beatrice Mitchell visited Jessie Hane. Guy Chapman and family visited Serafine’s Sunday. Nosebaugh bought two Webb City houses for teardown and barn move.
A reflection on solitude that a person thinking or working remains alone regardless of location. Thoreau argues loneliness is not defined by physical distance from others but by inner state and focus.
The 1920 World Famed Hicks Almanac, touted as the finest edition yet, includes weather forecasts for the year by J. B. Noyes. Price by mail 84 cents, 30 cents to newsdealers. The offer also includes Word and Works family monthly. Agents wanted with good pay.
Quote attributed to Bernard Shaw on progress and adaptability noting that change hinges on the unreasonable who push beyond current norms. The excerpt emphasizes that progress arises when individuals refuse to fit existing constraints.
Fragmentary line reads a paradox about flute and fate with uncertain attribution and missing context, offering no clear event, person, or place to anchor a news-style summary. The readable text presents a stylistic thought rather than a reportable item.
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