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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1908
Page
4
A terse reader comment questions how the drug business is coded and contrasts it with other systems. The note suggests scrutiny of terminology and classification used in reporting pharmaceutical issues.
Missed services due to cold weather and rain. Mrs Thomson presided over the Easter fund and hens plan egg offerings for Salem church. WGCU meetings at Mrs Crow and Mrs Estey discussed plans, valentines and a contest in Deweytown with visitors from Dasaney and Carth age.
Fragmentary readable OCR mentions ages and small currency values with unclear context. Looks like data row or notice from a local source, including numbers such as 20, 08, 106 and references to ages and coverage, but the text is garbled and not clearly connected to a definite event or entity.
Fragmentary OCR text appears to mention Jasper post office, subscription rates for one year six months and three months, single copies, and advertising rates. Details are garbled and require the original to confirm exact figures and terms.
Miss Evelyn Thomson of Pleasanton visits Mrs. Tom Flowers as mothers of James Goff and his Kendricktown family receive help after Goff’s quarry injury left him unable to work. Donations bought a washing machine, groceries, fruit, and other provisions. a partial donor list is noted and a cleanup day at Salem church is planned with tools to dig posts.
A Texan, bedridden five weeks, recounts a spider bite that caused large gashes to his leg from which three doctors could not help. He credits Becklen's Arnica Salve with complete recovery, adding testimonials for eczema, boil rash, and piles remedies sold at Webb Bros. Drug Store.
In Dublin and vicinity Mrs. Bertha Webber visited her parents in Vernon county Buoday. Arthur Hatfeld began school this week with a sprained ankle improving. J. C. Webber travelled northeast of Dublin on Tuesday, and Hyder moved to the Paisley place on Tuesday as J. C. Webber bought bay from Harry Cather on Wednesday.
Inclement weather kept crowds light at Stevens sale. Presbyterian ladies earned eighteen dollars from lunch. North Star beat Gloomingdale 4 to 2 in a junior basketball game on North Star court. Charley Callard planned a trip to Carthage Friday. Summit School pie supper drew a large crowd and ten dollars in pies. Me and Mrs. Campbell visited the Lattern parents. Curtis Ballard is listed sick. Mr. Keith hosted guests from Carterville last week.
Local column records frigid weather and social updates. Paisley family hosted Jett Friday night while Abb Hyder plans to move from the Paisley farm. A Dublio School House pie supper drew crowd and praise for a showy cake awarded to Grace Crow and Yvonne Iney. Mrs Grider and Miota connected to Lamar on a short business trip. Emma Clark spent several days there.
A very quiet wedding occurred last week uniting Miss Emma Lester and John Lucas of Blue neighborhood. Grider traveled to Carthage on a business trip a day last week. George Seybold and his father plan to move from their Rand place residence soon.
In Diamond the Sunday school is thinning as several neighborhood Tulka youths attended a Lynoland box supper last Friday for a fun evening. Marshal Smith stays busy, avoiding midweek town trips, preferring Sundays. Frank Crabtree frightened by rowdy boys, Landon Digringer visited Wm Wardiow who is reported very ill. Wm Wood built a new sled and John Crane plans to buy a mule team.
A well attended box supper at Lyonland School house Friday evening featured a pupil and patron led program. Mrs F Pace visited Preston with Mrs John Smith. Tanne Teter and family hosted by Mr and Mrs Jacob Dyers. Francis McNulleo visited home folks Saturday and Sunday.
Rev Rogers will preach over Saturday and Sunday morning and evening at the regular hours. Everybody invited.
The Alpha Club held its monthly meeting Friday afternoon with Mrs. O E Roberts leading roll call. Members shared travel notes from Farcoug to monuments and monasteries, describing journeys in Wyoming Tennessee Pennsylvania Texas and California. A Lincoln centennial program included a paper by Mrs. Laughead on Honest Abe and readings by Mrs. Ballard and Mrs. Good followed by Lincoln anecdotes and a singalong of America.
A letter from Myra and Chas Heffner of Enid Oklahoma to Mrs A B Schott reports Ben Heffner suffered a bad leg fracture while sliding into a base during a university baseball game. A nearby physician attended, and he is expected to recover without long layoff.
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