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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1918
Page
5
Rate card states space costs per inch for last page and inside pages at 10 sat per issue, front page space contracted, local notices priced per line at 5 cents per issue, copy due by Tuesday evening, resolutions of respect cards of thanks and obituary poetry billed by the line.
Mrs Ella Cline wife of Wm Cline died at her Jasper home last Friday after about two weeks with influenza and pneumonia Funeral service was held Sunday at home with Rev J W Moore of the M B Church officiating Burial was in Bradford Cemetery Music was provided by Mrs J W Moore Mrs A I Drake Omer Webb and J K Nowers Eleanor Ann Fairfield born October 25 1801 in Fort Wayne Ind came to Missouri in 1871 married Wm Cline October 23 1878 and left seven children Delia Williams Frank Cline Harvey A Cline Nestcome Cline Anna Smith Mont Cline and Maude Cline She leaves her mother and two brothers and a brother in law Card of thanks from the Cline Fairfield families acknowledges sympathy and assistance during the illness and death
Stationed in France during 1915 the writer describes hospital recovery on crutches after being wounded in the Argonne and Mount Sac fights. He recalls marching, shellfire, and hospital care, mentions upcoming return home, Thanksgiving meals in Paris, and plans to work next spring, signing as John.
John Taylor recounts his World War I voyage from the United States to France arriving mid October and describes ships, convoy protection, and enemy submarine activity. He mentions stopping in Brest Gilvres St Die Bar le Duc Rebigny Toul Metz and various French towns including Nancy Pont a Mousson Commercy St Mihiel Neufchateau and Twineville. He notes Metz’s liberation and the joyous display of French and Allied flags as Germans are pushed back into Lorraine.
A Jasper, Missouri letter dated December 18, 1918, denies rumors that Ben Welsh was killed in France. BE Welsh writes Editor Jasper News that a November 21 letter from abroad confirms Ben is alive after the armistice, noting neighbors had asked about his fate two weeks earlier.
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