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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1914
Page
2
Farmers oppose liquor despite push from Carthage backers and wives would vote against a wet town. Mrs May Matruewe hosts Sunbeams with sweets and fruit as Jasper names appear among attendees. A long list of local visits, parties, and errands fills the week from blue to Jasper, Carthage, and surrounding communities.
Lebanon news notes Miss Althwea Armstrong visits Norris Crumm and family. Mrs Crumm and Katharine ill since visiting. Katharine Follmer and Herbert visited W.S. Lane. Van Deventer sale drew good attendance and stock sold well. Chas Stansberry and Naomi visited ARinger family. Edward and Irvin Armstrong delivered fat hogs at Ward, Jasper. Stansberry painted barn. Ernest Rex and wife with Frank Thacker family. Althea Armstrong called at J H Selaur’s. Gerald Selver visited Chas Woodrow. Laura and Althe Armstrong called at George Brown home. Mrs John Fields returned from Seneca. George Woodrow visited Norris Crumm. Mrs Allen Miller and Mary Lyman visited. W B Lyman family with Mrs Motley and Luther. others dined with Alec Keith and family. Miss Kittie Wolf back from Baltimore visiting Jasper County kin. Wolf is daughter of Dr. B F Wolf, longtime Jasper residents.
Mrs Cungees Evrina and Fes Milton with Mrs Wagner were in town Tuesday and Wednesday. Chas Elting, Chas Nett, Chas Buzzard, Tom Ward, Silas Dee have been working to wood the past week. Will Wood and wife visited Jantha last week. Grace Gulick spent Thursday with Mrs Frank King. Mrs Tom Wardrow and Mr Chas Buzzard spent Wednesday with Mr Oxborn. Silas Deniston enjoyed one of his best workhorses last week.
A plea for reporters to confine items to their own neighborhood unless no rival correspondent is available. It urges notifying the rightful originator if a news item belongs elsewhere and emphasizes professional courtesy in sharing information.
A long list of local names and visits unfolds across Jasper and Carterville. Residents share weeks of calling on relatives, church events, and social gatherings, noting birthdays, meals, and Sunday School turnout amid winter weather.
Community notes from Rose Bank and nearby: Miss Ethel Cline visits Mrs Cave. Milt and Charley Cline prep for summer veal. Jay Bradford’s horse injured by wire. trips to Neck City and Roy Ross’s. Shapley school seeks a new teacher after Mrs Cave-Haugh retires to Barry County. Hazel Cave visits Opal Bowers and Robert McFerris. Elmer Bowers hogs butchered. gatherings at Bert Payls home. Miss May Wrodree visits school. Garnett Forrester visiting Scammon. Dehotiey trading farm for Joplin property. Elmer Bowers under neural pin treatment. Walter Por rester of Pittsburg injured in mines.
A four year old large fox hound with brown patches on hips and flanks cream ears and a cream spot on top of head was lost about a mile northeast of Golden City after a wolf in December 1913. The dog has a damaged ear, missing tail portion, and is described as friendly. A liberal reward is offered for recovery. Notify LD Hodgson in care of at the Bank of Locxwoop, Missouri.
Local ad touts De King's New Discovery as a universal cough and cold remedy. Customer D P Lawson of Edgewood Tennessee hails it as the most wonderful cure, claiming it banishes obstinate coughs and throat troubles quickly. The ad urges keeping a bottle in the home for all family members, priced at 50 cents and 1.00, sold by H. P. Pitts.
The store lists customers and purchases including Majestic ranges, De Laval separators, One Minute washers, nails, barb wire, poultry and hog wire, and a 60 cc incubator for six dollars. Several named buyers and weekday visits are noted along with heating stoves bargains from twenty five to twenty dollars.
An old pharmacy advertisement promotes Bucklen’s Arnica Balm as a universal remedy for chapped skin, burns, sores, and various skin conditions. It claims quick healing and broad usefulness, urging households to keep a jar on hand. The ad places product promotion alongside periodical prices for subscriptions to The News and Youth’s Companion.
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