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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1910
Page
2
Judge W R Schooler presided over a Carthage meeting where a committee reported progress. They secured a promise from the state board to study the issue and adjust it if possible with justice. Further steps await action and date.
Last Saturday a farmers meeting in Jasper County protested a 50 percent tax raise. They sought to declare the 1908 assessment as the base for the year but learned the county board of equalization cannot lower total taxes. A committee was named to confer with the state board in Jefferson City for relief, including Phelps, Menteyness, Flancingno, Hille, and Crane.
Lamar Democrat reports crow activity in Barton County with hundreds of birds in fields and a possible upcoming bounty. Emery Condiot tallies six hundred thousand crows using the Haines Grove roost as winter and summer shelter, farmers have raided the roost with little success.
In Galena Kansas Althea Weston a 10 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs William Weston of Galena Heights was crushed when a monument toppled as she clutched it to steady herself on a burial plot in Oak Hill cemetery. She died fifteen minutes later at the cemetery sexton home.
A 14 year old Monett boy, Robert Kamo, won a 10000 damages verdict in circuit court after a switch engine pushed him while climbing through freight cars at the Monett freight yard injuring his leg. The Frisco railroad plans to fight and may offer a partial compromise.
Harry Thomas survived a 15 hour ordeal after falling 80 feet into an old water filled shaft at Joplin. He dangled among water and slime for hours until sparrows attracted a boy, who alerted his mother. Geomemen rescued the almost exhausted man, who was revived with care.
Wm Youngberg of Joplin was arraigned in Carthage circuit court on a murder charge in the death of his sweetheart Mrs Dora Nelson at Joplin on March 5. He pleaded not guilty and the trial was set for Monday March 21. The court appointed J H Bailey and W F Bailey as counsel after he initially refused legal help. Youngberg had earlier expressed willingness to die and had insisted on no attorney and even asked for the scaffold to be left for him.
In Nash ville, local residents search for Civil War era treasure after an Egyptian prophetess claimed gold lay on a 20 acre Nashville area farm. Frank Harpole and Charlie Hunt, gone to Pittsburg, prompted the tale and the farm owner now guards his land with a shotgun while he digs. Holes appear on the property each morning though he does not dig them.
Eugene B Ronch last Sunday assumed the managership of the Carthage Democrat succeeding his brother Cornelius Ronch Missouri's secretary of state who has led the paper for twenty one years The new manager comes from Jerseyville IL where he was with the Jersey County Democrat It is understood that the elder Roach will continue to dictate the editorials policy
The Missouri university dairy herd failed to defend its world champion holstein Josephine as Princess Carlotta outproduced her with 18 405 pounds of milk last year. Both cows are holsteins and set new butterfat records. In Blue neighborhood, Clyde Wardlow, 12, is losing an eye after glass fragments injured him. doctors sent him to a Carthage specialist with little hope for recovery.
The spring line offers handsome oxfords and pumps in plain and patchy patterns. A riot of styles from R. L. Roberta & Son awaits, with the time to see them stated as NOW today.
An advertisement from H. L. Tallman west of Jasper depot touts Early Texas Seed Oats described as best on earth. The notice also claims ample flour and assorted feeds at prices cheaper than elsewhere.
The Jasper lighting company suspends service the first week of March after years of limited patronage. Lawrences Baker announced the shutdown citing non profitability, with ownership tracing back to J B Schott, H Horria, Wm Wood, and Campbell of Harvard Iowa. A baby girl arrived to Mr and Mrs Lee Jeoneen near Jasper. The Dry News notes a WOTU birthday fund-raiser and a plea for Jasperites to support the local paper with subscriptions Upland promotions urging Schwab clothes from R L Rohers & Bon for men’s attire.
Tully D. Kirby and Mrs. Cyrus Kirby of Dadeville Missouri are visiting Mr. and Mrs. BE Vantrees in this city. Mrs Vantrees is a daughter of Mr. Kirby. Luce has seed potatoes priced at 800 per bushel.
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