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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1910
Page
6
A local merchant thanks friends for support and promotes a holiday sale featuring a wide range of goods. Tie hangers, fancy perfume, cut glass, shaving sets and mugs, lodge emblems, dolls, building blocks, medallion pictures, and more are offered as gifts. The note invites customers to visit the shop for holiday shopping and recalls a successful year.
Practical tips cover milk curdling for polish washing muslin with rice water for delicate fabrics and celery as a nerve tonic. Home decor notes remind large patterns shrink rooms while light plain papers enlarge space. Jasper reports a record trade day with a heavy Christmas goods rush and stock replenishment across stores. Wheat wants rabbits in a quirky close.
Local Pitts the Paint Man promotes high patent flour at $1.15 per sack and a full line of Christmas candies and nuts at Bishop's and Nunnelly's. Joplin and Webb City visitors, medical updates, and holiday notices fill the Jasper area listings with ads for creams, eggs, and fruit.
A public sale will be conducted at the seller s farm located four miles south and four miles west of Kenoma and five miles east and twenty four miles north of Jasper. Details follow in official notice.
On Tuesday January 3 1911 the estate offers a bay mare aged 13 an 8 year mare a 12 year blind horse a mule colt 4 head cattle two milk cows two steer calves and assorted farming gear including binder corn planter Deere gang plow 13 inch walking plow low wagon 4 horse harrow cultivator spader disc double shovel plow superior wheat drill road wagon hay frame broom corn rack about 1000 laths shocks and hay plus a cook stove dining table cup board lounge bed spring and mattress six chairs washing machine 250 pound scales and various other items. Usual sale terms 9 month note recash limit 8 percent interest 6 percent cash discount.
A Tuesday deal transfers ownership of the southeast Main street and Grand avenue corner store building from H. L. Tallman. W. L. Rice, grocer, occupies the premises. H. F. Pitts will move his drug stock to the location in January. The purchase price was 3500 dollars.
H R Goodrich and his wife from northeast of town left last Tuesday night to spend the holidays with Mrs Goodrichs parents near Memphis Tennessee. Many nice things for Xmas 2 Pitts'
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