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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1921
Page
1
Commissioners call a June 28 bond election to issue 40 thousand dollars for road work with annual installments and interest not exceeding six percent. Taxes may rise to 50 or 60 cents per hundred. a $2,000 property owner could pay about $12 more annually. Jasper trades day sale and local events noted amid harvest and repairs as farmers prepare for peak season.
The weekly births list shows Rec Kno a d Nathan Rice and wife welcoming Ruby e on a Friday. George Case and wife welcomed a baby boy near Juniper, eight miles southwest of Janper, on Monday, June 6.
The Sun day School of the M E Church presents a Sunday Night Children's Day Program on June 12 at 8 o'clock. It features songs, scripture readings, prayers by Rev Sapp, piano duets, child performances by Nellie Crow's class and Wiseman nieces, and a flower girls group. Salem Sunday School at 10 a m and church services June 12 at 11 a m and 8 p m led by Pastor D S Dowless.
In a 40 years ago item from Carthage Press, Jasper City was laid off on the Missouri Pacific near Midway. Midway stood at the Jefferson Highway corner east of the school. Several historic houses remain, including the Guffey, Bennett, Hammond, Lawson, and Merrill homes once part of the village. A Magers bungalow site housed a store. John Waller and Frank Hendricks owned it, with Pitt Richards and Elijah Thompson owning the Robt. Horton lot store.
Prices in cement sacks have been reduced. July 1 is the deadline to return them for 25 cents each. The note invites readers to use the opportunity and mentions available up to date building plans to choose from.
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