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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1910
Page
1
An old saying invites shoppers to Jasper Missouri for Xmas bargains at a big store offering a full line of goods at low prices. The ad highlights the King Bee Hot Blast stove with features and low fuel use, mentions O. V. B. and Turkey flour, dry goods and shoes, holiday items, and a Saturday 3 50 p.m. shoe giveaway for shoppers.
C. K. Bothwell and R. R. Trimble of Joplin, new district passenger and freight agents, visited Jasper to address long standing service problems on the Kansas City Joplin branch. They blamed the machinists strike for months of poor service and asserted conditions would improve once the dispute ends, noting the pay and hours are not the issue though workers demand foremen be named by the company. A local reader remarks on the optimism while Christmas advertising closes.
Word reached Jasper of the death of Mrs. E. C. Allen at Nevada State Hospital after a brief illness. She was 97, active in church work, a longtime M. E. member, and sister of Mrs. John Fairfield and Mrs. Margaret Gardner. Undertaker Teeter will retrieve the body for burial at Bradford Cemetery, with funeral at the M. E. church pending.
A note seeks the return of a sausage grinder with a threat of fatal harm. It mentions a person named S. R. Mitcnect and implies a future loan return. The writer also comments that the recipient would appreciate chocolates from Nunnellys.
J W Buzzard, a noted Duval farmer, plans to move to Jasper early next year and will hold a public sale at the farm next Thursday. Chas Nett will add stock and implements to the sale list. both men will relocate to town and start a transfer business. They have bought Horton and Corder brothers interests to form a single partnership venture.
A local seller announces a line of S2.50 shoes ready for inspection claiming they equal or surpass many $3.50 models. The ad urges customers to try a pair and verify the assertion of superior value.
A December deadline urges buyers to choose from a suit overcoat or Worth hat. H.tJ. Deardorff offers Jasper’s finest holiday goods at Dr. Schooler’s. Local shop promotes quality clothing with a festive push.
Fred Crandall has bought roller skates and will run a skating rink this winter in the opera house. The rink opens tonight, Thursday, marking Jasper’s first roller skating since Long & Long removed their pavilion last spring. It is expected skaters will glide fast and furiously for a while.
Dr Knott records two births: a boy to Mr and Mrs John Lee nine miles northeast of Jasper on December 4 and a girl to Mr and Mrs H G Sherrel nine miles southeast on December 9.
Pastor E W Blaver of Byers Avenue M E church Joplin will preach at the local M E church Sunday morning. There will be no preaching service Sunday night.
High school students host a pie supper tomorrow at the school house Friday night with a program. Proceeds go to the Mirror fund and a display of dolls and blocks at Pitts.
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