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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1911
Page
5
New quarters at Pith and Main Carthage Missouri. West location in the beet city on Large street second floor. Full course in Bookkeeping and Stenography only five dollars a month in advance. Sarah Frank leads the school with a strong scholarship record in Jem City Business College history.
Corn planting is in full blast this week with early plantings to missing hills. Webb brothers of Jasper were seen on Lebanon streets last Thursday discussing land deals. Coates paid for Stansbury stock killed by lightning last week. Attendance was solid at Lebanon services Sunday. Nona Redmond visits Blue neighborhood kin. J Ross Dono notes the local shop slogan the Sir Knight.
Bethel news reports a strong Sabbath school turnout and preaching service. Miss Hope Shank visits Mrs. May Brown. Bethel Giants beat Diamond Cubs 17 to 2 on home ground. Verla and Rennie Cotton host a lawn party. Blue school closes with about 100 guests and ice cream. Local ball practice leads to a minor injury. A wagons’ mishap causes a tumble into a cog-filled box. E Garset and Myrtle visit from Jasper, heading to Colorado unexpectedly. Letters misdelivered prompt a light note on mail.
Lynnland Mr and Mrs F Gulick and Frances spent the weekend in Carthage. Mr and Mrs G F Wagner were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs J J Brown in Jasper. Mrs Wesley Spaid and daughter and Mrs Chas Lilly and daughter spent Sunday with Mrs John Hartley. Miss Mary Curtis, previously Dixie school teacher, is re elected for the coming year. At a dinner party Sunday Mr and Mrs Fred Powers hosted relatives and friends including George Patterson Andy Hendricks Wm McClintock and Chas Ward and their families. Mrs Isaac Teter and daughter Myrtle of Alba visited Mrs Clyde Wagner Tuesday. Wm McCune hauled hogs to Jasper Tuesday.
Community items recount Mrs Estey hosting W C T U visitors from Mt Moriah and Centerpoint, Mr Roy Brock marrying Grace Hamilton in Carthage, and the Brock family’s home plans. Reports cover farm moves near Carytown, shopping in Joplin, dinners at Greshams, and local visitors including Mr and Mrs Alexander. Also notes on a W C T U institute in Jasper, a dinner for Miss Flossie Underwood and Will Richie, and upcoming Salem church services with preaching and a basket supper.
Last Friday afternoon the Blue school closed with almost a hundred attendees. Ed Wardlow visited Carthage Friday. Jack Budd and family returned to Kansas after two weeks with his mother Mrs. W. M. Budd. Several locals visited, and home improvements continued as John Keltner adds a new room.
A historical note claims Buckles Arnica Salve has for forty years proven the wonders advertised. The ad promotes its use for sprains swelling and sores and mentions a Waxton-Girl at St James hotel for dining room work, with vague references to local figures.
Mr Waney Sweezy and Miss Gertrude Etter wed at the bride’s parents home on the Base Line with Rev Rider officiating. They will live temporarily with the bride’s parents before moving to a own home. both are well known in Liberty and Jasper. Other items include visits, church events, a Sunday school convention, hunting wolves, and plans for the WCTU Fourth of July celebration at Liberty Grove.
A newspaper blurb from J D Harbur advertises a weekly promotion offering a white dress pattern free to the customer who purchases the most goods at one time. The note invites readers to come in and view the goods.
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