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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1920
Page
8
Advertising rates listed for Inet page and inside per inch at 16 cents per issue. Front page space available at reduced rate of five cents per line for local notices. Copy due by Tuesday evening to insure insertion. Cards of thanks and obituary poetry charged by the line.
Christmas visitors and long distance relatives populate holiday reports across Carthage Webb City Riverton and Milwaukee. Entries name Joe Dearhorff Elmer Trowbridge Hugh Robinson Grace Snyder Mary Haines Grace Ballard Bertha Rose and Rev. Sam Keys plus ties to Joplin Independence and Washington noting travels employment and a soldier son Burson Keys in the Army.
The note praises 0 hear good pictures and sax music by John Crow recovering outdoors in fine weather. It lists visits by Mrs. Frank Crow and family with relatives in Webb City and Joplin, Mrs E E Johnson and Harold from Springfield visiting Covez, and other local residents visiting kin. A lost spotted Poland China sow pig about 125 pounds is reported by Ode Rice.
Miss Lida Drake will teach a beginners piano class starting early next year. She is finishing a course in teacher's training at Lua R. Holiday's School of Music in Carthage. Snakes in Idaho and Pennsylvania are discussed, highlighting Idaho as a major rattlesnake region with many skins and a rattler harvest industry.
E G Osborn formerly of this city brought the body of his wife Ide Leverna Wilson Osborn to be buried in Brethren Cemetery alongside their infant daughter. Ide Wilson Osborn, born October 24 1870 in Madison Kansas, lived later in Carytown Jasper County Missouri and Topeka Kansas where she died December 23 1910 after two years illness. Survived by husband Luther two sons Allen and Luther Osborn and extended Wilson and Osborn families express thanks for kindness and sympathy.
A man in a misguided plan to wed the first to consent sent duplicate proposals to three women. He failed to foresee that the two later suitors would sue for breach of promise, exposing his rash scheme.
A description of the black apes found in Gaines noting their long silky hair and the use of their fur for muffs and capes, highlighting historical or regional context.
Edwards Coffee Building in Carthage Missouri promotes Continental policy protection for fire lightning tornado and hail insurance needs stating it is safer to be prepared and inviting contact for coverage.
Fray of short family visits continues in Blue and Bethel as Frances and Mary Carn, Heulah Cather, Nellie Lane, and Mary Lane join relatives. Tom Armstrong buried at Waters Cemetery. Clyde Wagner and family visit Alba. Vera Hobson and brothers visit Cline's. Yates, Wood and families attend Christmas at Yates and Budd’s. Christine Boyd visits Doyle Lilly and wife. George Arner returns home. Clarence Hiner travels to Nevada and back. Violet Hadd and Len Quillen celebrate birthdays at Budd's with several locals.
Lewis Moore retired after 25 years editing the Border Telephone at Hume and handed control to his brother who trained under Moore. J. H. Heath & Son sold the Golden City Herald to John P. Gilbreath, a young printer who served in the U S Army, with hopes for strong local support and continued newspaper tradition.
There will be services at the South Methodist Church next Sunday January 4. Everyone is invited to begin the new year well and attend Sunday school at 10 a.m. Church services follow at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. D. J. Dowless, pastor.
A traveler notes Italian women as indefatigable workers across classes. An eighty year old crone pictured crosses a busy Lugano street alone with a large basket of fagots, while men are described as talking. The passage highlights gender roles and labor in Italian life.
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