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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1920
Page
12
A fragment from Jasper Missouri notes a postoffice matter dated September 21, 1908, with a terse reference to mail handling and a 1.60 amount. The readable text is limited and lacks context for full details.
Space rate for last page and inside front page eight cents per line per issue. Insertion copy must be in by Tuesday evening. Resolutions of respect cards of banks and obituary poetry will be charged for by the line.
Community note list describes Sunday visits by M. L. Arner family and neighbors from Indiana Bethel and near Boston. D. Knott reports flu cases in families near Jasper and three new cases in the last ten days. Visits include Mrs A Arnold and mother touring Sedalia, Cyra Hough’s recovery from a train wreck injury, and a farewell dinner for John Cather moving to Carthage. Also mentions Shunkler in California and local Jasper residents attending Madame Schumann Heink concert in Joplin with multiple named attendees.
The Jasper Telephone Company asks the State Public Service Commission for permission to raise rates due to higher material and wage costs. The proposed Rural Service rate would change from 3.00 to 4.00 per year, payable in advance, with an effective date of April 15, 1920. Objections must be written to the Public Service Commission in Jefferson City before that date. D. M. Johnson, manager.
The Uthal Society of the M.E. Church presented a March St Patrick program with Bendel Drake on saxophone performing The Wearing of the Green and When You and I Were Young Maggie. Mrs. Stella Mager spoke on The Origin of St Patrick's Day as the ladies quartet and orchestra entertained. The program featured many Irish songs and numbers, a reader on the Chinese Question, and playful enigmus among members. Renewals and new subscribers were announced, with several names listed.
Jasper County Missouri 10914 Statutes notice to qualified voters of Jasper district that annual school meeting will be held in Jasper on Tuesday April 8 1920. Election of two directors for four year terms. for a nine months term of actions. a 40 cent levy per hundred dollars valuation for school purposes. a fifteen cent levy for repairs. Jay Good district clerk dates March 16 1920.
The report notes Palestine lacks minerals such as coal iron and copper though oil wells appear in the Jordan valley. It mentions scarce forests and suggests land may have been more wooded in biblical times. A separate anecdote recalls Walford saying he and neighbors were playing war and he was a “knocker,” returning home unharmed.
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