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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1922
Page
1
The father and son banquet held here last year proved enjoyable and will be repeated. organizers urge those who ran it before to take action. Light service improvements continue at the Jasper plant with better and larger engines installed, and Mr. Collier's team aims to provide first class illumination.
Levi Kitterman handed out cigars and modestly admitted his marriage to Mrs. John Lowe. The exact date and place are unconfirmed, but gossip suggests he wed about a month ago, while he avoids specifics.
Mrs Minnie Brown who had been ill at her mother's home was taken to the Webb City hospital last week and operated on Monday morning. She is recovering well and hopes for a speedy return to health. The notice adds a reminder to vote next Tuesday in the regular spring election.
Jasper High School students won both gold and silver medals in the interscholastic declamatory contest here last Friday night. Lucille Scott and Inez Patterson led in the oratorical division, Ruth Good and Lena Wiseman won in the dramatic division, and Lottie Stockdale with Elmo Maize took the humorous division. Duenweg showed promising talent but trailed in all three divisions, while Alba and Sarcoxie withdrew before the event.
Births reported by Dr. Knott show Virgil Carter and wife of Jasper welcomed twin girls Virginia Jean born 12:40 a.m. and Dorothy Jean born about an hour later on March 24 with weights 6 and 7 pounds respectively.
The April sales day on Saturday April 1 offers bargains in stores and listed stock including 8 year old mares at 154 hands and 2300 pounds, a 6 year old red cow, a 2 year old heifer, a 10 year old white face cow, three red calves, a new two wheel trailer by Alf Buerge, two red gilts, a registry eligible Jersey, a 6 burner oil stove, four or five pairs of guineas, a 12x15 fiber rug, and one hundred fifty hedge oats.
Garland D. Farmer and Miss Ethel Irene Leeper of Joplin wed at the M E Church parsonage last Sunday morning at 10 30 in the presence of the groom's parents Mr and Mrs W H Farmer and of George Rutledge and Miss Thelma Whitwell.
A stark call to repaint the nation's structures notes that three out of four buildings show bare, worn surfaces and that neglect costs owners millions. It promotes Devoe Lead and Zinc Paint as a purity and economy ideal, urging immediate painting to improve economy and value.
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