Postoffice Entry Noted in Jasper Missouri
A fragment from the Jasper Missouri post office records notes a second clams matter dated September 21, 1898, with unreadable entries following.
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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1917
Page
5
A fragment from the Jasper Missouri post office records notes a second clams matter dated September 21, 1898, with unreadable entries following.
Advertising rates describe space pricing for last page and inside pages at 10 cents per inch per issue, with all front page space contracted. Local notices priced per line, with copy due by Tuesday evening. Resolutions of respect, cards of thanks, and obituary poetry billed by the line.
In Jasper, the school board schedules a bond election for a new steam heating plant and updated desks as the current system fails to heat and oft emits smoke. The move aims to modernize facilities, with boards planning to repaper and improve the building after addressing heating woes.
Notice to Jasper voters announces a special election at Hendricks Building near the post office to authorize two thousand dollars in bonds for a modern steam heating system and desks. Polls open 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. June 22, 1917. Jay Good, secretary. Also mentions Presbyterian ministers visiting Jasper for church work.
Mrs. Horace Shapley died at Carthage Hospital June 20. Funeral held at her sister Mrs. Robert Horton’s home. Dr Clinton preached at First M. E. Church of Carthage. Choirs and relatives attended. Interment at Mitchell Cemetery east of Jasper. Survived by husband two children and 11 years old by former husband Grover Jose. She also leaves mother Mrs A K Bowers of Jasper a brother John Bowers Oregon and four sisters Mrs A A Moon Mrs Robert Horton Mrs Fred Norton and Miss Alice Howers Jasper area.
Birth notices list a boy born to G. W. Baker and wife, southeast of Jasper, on Thursday June 21. A girl born to Yo Nid Butler and wife, southeast of Jasper, on Monday June 25. A girl born to Jay Leeper and wife, four miles south of Jasper, on Tuesday June 26.
Blue and Bethel residents are listed visiting and social calls. Numerous neighbors including Yates, Wagner, Arner, Pugh, and Mitchell families exchanged visits, noted funerals, a Bradford party, and wheat-cutting activity across the area.
St Joseph Missouri June 27 1917 a Elwood Kansas woman Nancy Bennett says Tanlac relieved her rheumatism back pains and kidney trouble after trying many medicines March 12 she reports better sleep renewed energy and no rheumatism since using Tanlac Springtime Tanlac Time Tanlac highlighted as a tonic for stomach liver and kidney issues Tanlac being introduced in Jasper at H F Pitts
A reflective note on beauty of the country during wartime, sympathy for Mrs. Shapley’s death, and social updates from Diamond. Mrs. Link Milton hosted several ladies including Alpha Innis, Randall sisters, and Olive Lee Spaid then afternoon fishing on Northfork. Community reports: illness, visits, and a large Sunday crowd for a children’s program kudos to Mrs. Cones. Chas Kiting and Will Berryhill work notices. Choy Chapman’s 11 pound boy. local sickness and family news.
An advertisement claims Sanol provides relief within 24 hours for backache and bladder issues. It markets Sanol as a guaranteed remedy with a price of 35 cents or 1 dollar per bottle at the drug store.
An old promotional notice offers one hundred dollars for an incurable catarrh cure by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It includes endorsements from F J Cheney & Co and the National Bank of Commerce of Toledo asserting Cheney's honor and firm's ability to fulfill obligations. It promotes internal consumption, price of 75 cents per bottle, and also features Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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