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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1912
Page
5
Saar orree is asked to mail their items to the Rewhoda office by Monday evening or Tuesday morning. Local instructions urge timely delivery for publication.
An OCR fragment from a small town paper recounts local life including a rural wife farming fifty acres of wheat and twenty of oats while her husband votes, visits by Mr and Mrs Galligan of Carthageville, and numerous family and church notices. It lists names such as Mrs Lelia Morcum, Elmer Buster, Eva Mosley, Axie Phipps, Bertha Bob, and many others, with social visits, recoveries, and upcoming revivals at local churches Salem and Brethren. Also noted are church officers, accidents in the neighborhood, and various dinners, visits, and travel between Carthage, Jasper, Payetteville, and Johnson Central.
Farmers Union member Fred Winter stacks wheat this week while Jim Ray plows for Ernest Res. Vanileventer and Otto Pereman just returned from Joplin where they worked in the lead works. Res visited Joplin and came back Sunday. Mrs. Fred Rex stayed overnight with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Weston. Claricy Stansbury cut oats for Wis leather Jack on Friday. Mrs. Mastlis Hey and Gladys visited Mrs. Ray Sunday at bermnon. Eugenia Key visited Iluna Redmond Sunday afternoon. Gerald Seleor visited his wife’s parents Chay Weuodrow and wife last week. Hisar Haynie wed wife from Joplin and is visiting her parents Jim Tunnel and wife. Jens Miller and wife from Mount Carmel visited his brother Allet Sunday.
Earl Ely and siblings left for Vinita and Joplin while Frank Hill and wife of Greene visited J E Aull’s family. Edna Harmon and sister Tene, old residents, toured Kore Spant area. Mrs Henry White of Seatimen Tang stayed with brother George Budd. Hazel Conner and Ethel Hyder went to Lamar. Exsie Hyder returned from school. H T Bunell and wife, Eldorado residents, visited friends J H Cainer and wife before heading to Golden. Farmers thrash week as wheat outlook improves. Andress family and Mr Bricker of Malta dined with J E Hall.
In Lynnland area notes, Lauderbaugh reports a fine wheat field averaging 25 bushels per acre while Clyde Wagner thrashes 109 bushels of oats from seven moorers. Mrs. A. E. Clark of Carthage and Mrs. John Clark of Kansas City visit relatives. many locals host guests and attend church plans hindered by warm weather.
Publisher of the News seeks copies of former local papers from the past 25 years for review. Mentions of several titles and editors, including Round by W. C. Simonson and Hustler by Wm. Tidball, with a note offering rewards or obligations for access to files. Also contains an ice advertisement and a dubious patent medicine pitch for HuowWa’s Arties Salve.
The notice lists numerous customers buying hardware items such as hay forks nails binders wire saws and miscellaneous tools across a series of days including Friday Saturday and Tuesday. It records names like Tom Patterson J W Brown H R Wits and George Johnson alongside items such as Diamond Edge saws wire and bark wire indicating a lively local shopping period.
Miss John Stickney Marco Smith Mary Gaith Winifred Wetherell Ragenia Stuckey and Margaret Tralle of Mexico accompanied by their men traveled to Jasper today to spend tomorrow afternoon with Miss Faye Grinm who lives near that area, according to the Carthage Press last Friday.
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