City installs two new street lights near depot crossings
This week the city is installing two street lights one at the railroad crossing a block north of the depot and the other at the crossing a block south of the depot.
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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1922
Page
1
This week the city is installing two street lights one at the railroad crossing a block north of the depot and the other at the crossing a block south of the depot.
The News features a weekly American Legion department note detailing that graves of American soldiers in foreign cemeteries will be decorated on Memorial Day as if buried at home. RR 1 Schooler moves Rea Patterson elevator to north site. J E Hall to operate elevator starting June 1.
Mrs W T Peterson and her children left 307 West Sixth for Colome South Dakota this morning. Faye and Cecil graduated from high school. Miss Jean was in the eighth grade. The family came for school advantages while Mr Peterson stayed to manage business interests in Colome.
The office records two new daughters. Arthur Probert and wife welcomed a daughter born Friday May 26, nine miles east. Elmer Owen and wife welcomed a daughter born Saturday May 28, forty four miles southeast of Jasper named Irene Frances.
Miss Ethel Masters of Carthage has been chosen as principal for next year in Joplin after prior work in Carthage and Picher. Mrs Bedell of Carthage visited her mother Mrs Busby this week.
The MG Button sale features live stock and personal goods for spring, with 12 to 15 head of livestock listed and more pens to fill. Buyers are urged to add head to strengthen bidding, with horses, mules, cattle, sheep, and hogs expected, plus used furniture including a china cabinet and dresser among other items.
Two hundred editors and citizens gathered in Columbia to discuss public welfare and civic improvement. The Missouri editor notes a shift away from politics toward health, education, parks, and hospital needs, with no agendas for office or patronage. W A McClintock returns from Lees Summit to care for his aged mother after a hip fracture.
Reports from counties around the state show chinch bugs swarming in wheat despite a widespread winter burn. A C Burrill of the Missouri College of Agriculture says control is possible most months. for now, trap crops between infested grain and new corn or sorghum fields, and plow under or spray after wheat harvest. Consider planting soybeans or cowpeas on margins to deter migration toward corn.
The office holds numerous small 25 and 50 cent charge accounts against individuals and leaders of cemetery associations farm clubs churches Sunday schools and literary societies. People call or mail in notices saying they will settle but many amounts remain unpaid.
Local grain elevator operator Dave Theophilus has run a single line ad reading Dave Theophilus sells salt in the Howard papers for 24 years. He has receipts showing about 60 dollars spent and estimates the campaign sold 13 000 barrels of salt, plus aiding numerous other sales.
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