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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1918
Page
1
The notice outlines sugar sale limits per household including two pounds to a family in town and five pounds to rural consumers, with monthly per-member caps and a twenty five pound canning limit on surrender of a home canning certificate. It urges equal distribution, details country storekeepers, and requires licenses with forms from the U S Food Administration.
Advertised letters include J. F. Lowe, Miss Celia Dorden, Ira Barton, Mrs. G. W. Lewis, H. L. Hamilton, J. J. Cadogan. Tanner Bros.
Pvt Arthur Afevius writes from England explaining landings and path to camp, noting German prisoners and relief at reaching safety. A separate piece details a Jasper, Kansas writer’s humorous Seattle spruce camp letter praising life, meals, officers, and everyday fatigue duty with playful anecdotes.
F B Mumford state food administrator has notified county and district administrators and dealers in food stuffs of the maximum profit margins allowed on wheat flour substitutes. Margins range from 20 to 25 percent depending on product, with any excess subject to investigation and penalties including fines or closure of stores. Corn meal corn flour corn meal corn grits hominy barley flour rice blue rose grade rice flour and edible corn starch all capped at specified percentages.
The issue lists forthcoming auctions around Jasper with farmers selling mares, cattle, hogs, farm implements, and household goods. Zwerr, Patterson, and Waugh announce sale dates in July, with Radford as auctioneer and notes on farm placements and upcoming sales.
Eli W. Scott completed three years of study and passed the final exam in Jefferson City on June 28 to obtain a license to practice law in Missouri courts. He will work with Judge Halliburton in Carthage for the next year, after fifteen years in Railway Mail Service noted for faithfulness and efficiency.
John Campbell, a Jasper County soldier back from France, writes of meeting six Jasper community youths in an English camp. The reunion included Frank Steiner, Frank Baker, Tom Wright, Oren Hart, Chas Hawkins, and Jess Headlee, described as a great gathering. Subscribe for your daily paper at the News office.
Clyde Tiller, son of Will Tiller and wife, southeast of Jasper, came back to Boston last week after a six month spell at the naval school in Boston. He serves in the Navy radio service and reports being in good shape and eager about his work.
Five percent draft lists for Carthage include Lester Earl Clyde Boyd Virgil Carter Virgil Stearns and Wussell Hough. Glenn Holmes named as alternate.
The Jasper Junior Red Cross Society will present a patriotic program at the Airdome on Thursday July 25 at 8 80 p m Admission is 10 and 20 cents A fall program will be printed in next week's paper Send the paper to the boys in trench and camp.
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