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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1914
Page
5
The column records many town notices from Lebanon Mississippi including illnesses and recoveries, visits, property moves, animal sales, and social events. It notes the sudden death of I M Carter of Union Valley and closes with a Riley poem and a subscription plea to The News.
The itemization records visits and gatherings around Carthage. Miss Trola Wood and Beatrice Mitchell join others visiting friends. a mass school meeting shows support for a new plan with 30 attendees and 14 signing the agreement. Social events include a wolf chase, a farewell party for Lesley Garrett, and a move to Pittsburg. Births, phone upgrades, farm changes, and drag debates are noted along with various visits and local routines.
Nearly 260 men joined a wolf hunt led by Thurlay with two wolves killed and several seen. many families moved to new farms east of Wie Star and nearby areas. Ernest Yates left for Washington. Mrs. John Ross returned to Jasper after visiting A Beeson family. Community notes report visits, dinners, school activities, and a belated church lunch for Wolf Hunters.
A narrator meets Sir Roger De Coverly who visits a modern high school. He criticizes coed classrooms, a basketball court, and hall activities while noting a library statue of Riley and a weather study by freshmen. The piece highlights new teaching roles, moral influence, geometry class, and a successful basketball season with both boys and girls. Upcoming school plays are teased as humorous entertainments.
Misses Maude and Nellie Hartley visited Jasper High Friday a week ago. Worth Masters was absent with a sprained ankle from basketball practice the same day. The Senior class finished their American History Text and are now taking Civil Government.
Pure bred and prize winning poultry offered for sale across Jasper area. Thompson's Imperial Ringlet Barred Rocks and S.C. R I Red eggs and cockerels advertised with prices and contact details. Incubators and hatchery equipment promoted.
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