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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1915
Page
7
A fragmented verse criticizes state politics and student indiscipline while an adjacent notice promotes eye care. The piece by Old Fogg opens Vox Populi with rhymed satire about schooling and fate. An accompanying excerpt discusses optometry laws and a prize essay for Jasper residents near the county.
A reflective line notes that good food honest wine and a grateful conscience are worth more than luxury, suggesting that simple pleasures and inner peace accompany retirement. The quotation emphasizes modest virtue over material indulgence.
A quotation attributed to Sir Richard Steele notes that aversion to labor breeds constant weariness and makes exertion burdensome. It argues the sudolent man diminishes reason to a vegetative state removing dignity from human nature.
The piece asserts the true self evolves through the exercise of higher faculties. Escaping narrow self consciousness comes only via growth into broader freedom and nobler ambition, as reflected in The Christian Register.
Community updates include Henry Foutins and Ed Tall of Carthage in Jasper on business, Monta Conrad joining Philips Bros as head clerk, and Mre AWFEL Moultan visiting from Ath. Jeff Watkins returns as Lamar’s barber, praised for skill and wit, while local townsfolk discuss farms health travels and upcoming papers.
Cards of Thanks express gratitude to neighbors and citizens who helped save the Dunning home last Wednesday night. They note aid from locals, a donation of about $30, and clothes and bedding donations, and offer to help others in need in the future. Mr and Mrs Grover Robbins also sign.
A dialogue discusses the proverb about people living in glass houses and stones. The exchange notes the saying has mostly kept people from building glass houses rather than restraining stone throwing.
Peter Radford argues the European war harms cotton, calling for bold relief and storage expansion. He cites warehouses, credit systems, and cooperative methods to stabilize marketing, urging bankers, merchants, and government aid to avert widespread farmer distress and mortgage losses.
A bank directors meeting in Missouri in mid 1901 swore to the accuracy of a financial statement listing cash on hand and currency, with items for furniture and fixtures, loans from other banks, and various balances. The minutes note signatures of president Witte and cashier Gishier and are sworn before a notary on the date.
Henry admits he is interned at Casey's saloon until the war ends, as a Buffalo Express reader notes a tense moment. The fragment captures a strained exchange with Henry waiting for the other person after a late-night warning. The excerpt reflects wartime social setting and informal speech from the era.
A humorous Kansas City Star quip follows Sadders angry over a marriage license he believes wasted as he laments his bride eloping with a washing machine agent. Grant P. Smith comments that war taxes apply equally to marriage licenses and shooting licenses, jokingly urging self harm.
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