Jasper County Faces Bond Issue for Hard Roads
In Jasper County the taxable property totals about thirty million with most value in Carthage Webb City Carterville Joplin and the mining district. A county bond issue would place the burden on large city interests while northern and eastern farming areas would bear the cost. advocates call it the best cheapest fairest solution and urge action now.
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Jasper County
Carthage
Webb City
Carterville
Joplin
Georgia credited with leading women's highway beautification push
The article notes Georgia is credited as the first state with a women’s auxiliary to the highway association tasked with beautifying the Dixie Highway. It urges other groups to join, urging ladies to pressure roads to reach a beauty standard, mentioning women along the Jefferson Highway near Jasper as having organized in the prior two months.
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Georgia
Highway Association
Dixie Highway
Jasper
Jefferson Highway
Jasper Commercial Club Publicizes Hard Cards
The Jasper Commercial Club promotes hard cards to boost Jasper’s profile across Southwest Missouri. The group cites strong advertising value and predicts material community benefits within a year.
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Jasper Commercial Club
Jasper
Missouri
Liberty district seeks special road district designation
A fragmented note from the Liberty district southeast of Jasper hints at plans for creating a special road district in a rich farming area. The message suggests local residents are progressive and believe such an district could bring value in a period of market uncertainty.
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Liberty District
Jasper
Wants
Liberty
Reunion at Spring Hill School House
Carthage Missouri invites former students and families to a May 2 1916 notice and a June 5 1916 basket dinner at the Spring Hill Schoolhouse for all who attended, especially those twenty years ago or earlier. Mr J B Rush will teach. attendees may bring baskets and letters. address correspondence to C H Ziler in Carthage.
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Carthage
Spring Hill
J. B. Rush
George Paisley Letter From New Boston Texas May Dear Mr Drake
George Paisley of New Boston Texas writes Dear Mr Drake enclosing currency to renew a note. He reports returning last Friday from a Texarkana sanitarum where his right leg was amputated two weeks earlier due to blood poisoning from a broken Jub after climbing a fence six weeks prior. He hopes to obtain an artificial limb soon to resume managing his pecan orchard.
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New
Boston
Texas
Mr. Drake
Sanitarum
Texarkana
Missionary Society Meets at Suburban Home
The Missionary Society of the Baptist Church met at Mrs. ID Triplett's pleasant suburban home last Wednesday afternoon. The scripture lesson was Myatt 25:140, topic Home Missions, led by Mrs. C. O. Wine. A lunch was served by the hostess. The next meeting will be with Mrs. H. F. Ballard. Reporter.
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Missionary Society of the Baptist Church
Mra
H. ‘Triplett
Myatt
Mre.c
H. EF. Ballard
Jasper Teachers Head to Springfield Meeting
Jasper teachers including George Mastera Alma Selidner Ethel Masters Grace Cather Worth Masters Geneva Hubbard ala Lawson Helen Heckman Elsie Gresham and F C Wilkins will travel this week to Springfield to attend the normal.
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Jasper
Springfield
George Mastera
Alma Selidner
Ethel Masters
Grace Cather Worth Masters
Geneva Hubbard
Ala Lawson
Helen Heckman
Elsie Gresham
F. C. Wilkins
Man Married: Albert B. Edson Weds Amy Q Boggs
Albert B. Edson formerly with the News here and now publishing a paper at Mennington Bank married Monday May 29 to Miss Amy Q Gleanor Boggs at Mwatree Nebraska. Many Jasper friends join in congratulations.
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Albert B. Edson
Mennington
Bank
Amy Q Gleanor Boggs
Mwatree
Nebr
Jasper
Clear Skin From Within And Road District Talk
Iria promotes New Life Pills as a cure aiding a clear complexion and liver health at Pitta Drug Store. Locals discuss forming a special road district to improve Missouri roads and ease a perceived burden from a "mud tax" and bond issues.
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Iria
Adulia
Pitta
Missouri
Road costs and figures cited by The Road Maker
The excerpt questions annual losses attributed to poor roads in West Virginia and asks Fogineget Williams to name other states with lower figures. It notes interest in the facts behind Mr Williams’s calculations as a potentially profitable and instructive inquiry.
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Tf West
Virginia
Fogineget Willams
Jasper Missouri Promotes Growth and Agrarian Plenty
Jasper, a 100 resident town on the Jefferson Highway and Missouri Pacific line, sits 100 miles south of Kansas City in a rich farming region. It offers a four year high school, paved streets, five Protestant churches, a Commercial Club, modern stores, two banks, three grain elevators, and an annual livestock show with wheat, corn, oats, cattle, horses and mules shipped last year in multiple rail cars.
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Joplin
Missouri Pacific Railway
Kansas City
Jasper
Fulra
Aera P Hoy
Cora
First M E Church News and Schedule
Church News from First M E Church lists Pastor J J Martin and activities. Sunday School at 11:00, worship and sermon Fruit the Test of Christianity, Epworth League 7:00 led by Mendel Drake with Frank Crow speaking Opportunities of the one talent People, 8:10 p m song services and children's feature. Midweek prayer Thursday 7:50 p m. Jasper Salem Boston services on specific Sundays with Epworth League and prayer meetings. Everyone is invited.
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Gus Campbell
Epworth League
Mendel Drake
Frank Crow
M. E. Churcit
Booth
Jasper
Salem
Bos‘ton
Doridnally
C. A. Lewis
Social visit notes from Dublin households
In Dublin Mrs. Bearia Weber and Mrs. Grider hosted visitors at their home. Lizzie Dixon, Merry Allen and two daughters, Nellie Keith and daughter from Joplin, Tensile and Megan Evans with two children from Gattinge and Carterville, Jim Gurneer and wife with two sons, and Mr. Courtniey with a son from Carterville visited Karl Garner and wife last week. Bertha Webber, aunt to Clarence Eeweweller of Vernon County, was called on by Mrs. Dan Johnson Saturday. Mrs. George Brenneman plans carpet weaving this week.
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Grider
Lizzie Dixon
Merry Allen
Nellie Keith
Joplin
Tensile
Megan Evans
Gattinge
Carterville
Jim Gurneer
Mr. Courtniey
Karl Garner
Clarence Eeeweller
Vernon County
Bertha Webber
Dan Johnson
Webber Home
George Brenneman
Explaining ingratitude in vanity and misperception
The passage argues ingratitude is misattributed to most, blaming vanity instead. It suggests few are willfully ungrateful, while many believe they have done more or received less than deserved, echoing Pope on perception of merit and reward.
Endurance Valued Over Mere Cleverness
Quotations from Thomas Huxley emphasize endurance as the defining quality for labor and progress. He argues that a strong, capable body is essential to translate effort into achievement, placing physical stamina above mere intellectual cleverness.
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Thomas Huxley
Clean Up and Paint Up to Remove For Rent Signs
A speaker notes many vacant houses result from landlord neglect and that repainting repairs attract tenants. He cites trying to help two women find a six or seven room rental but finding only unkept houses. Repaired, painted homes rent faster and improve city’s appearance.
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Tobey
Sunday Worship Services Announced by Local Ministers
CroneH or Tih Brennnin hosts Sunday School each Sunday at 10:00 with preaching at 11:00 a.m. The Christian Worker's Society meets at 7:30 p.m. All are invited to worship with ministers D. A. Teeter and Jarl M. Bowman.
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Christian Worker's Society
D. A. Teeter
Jarl M. Bowman
Maxwells and Davis Drive Record Car to New Feat
More Maxwells Ed Davis and Dick Patterson each bought a new Maxwell car famed for a nonstop record run of 27 000 miles. Bert and Omer Webb will drive three new Maxwell cars from Kansas City Thursday. The driver faces big rains and rough Barton County roads but remains confident in Maxwell reliability.
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Jasper News
Webb Bros
Plymouth
Maxwell
Kansas City
Ed Davis
Dick Patterson
Bert
Omer Webb
Marais de Cygre
Barton County
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