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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1912
Page
4
Local notes record Miss Myrtle Hummel visiting in Carterville with Grace Foster and others, and many engagements across Lamar area. Families visit, neighbors attend church events, and school teaching assignments are announced. Weather and farm work progress noted with Sundays’ conventions and community activities.
Frank and James Ray visited the Graham boys Sunday with Mrs. Harvey Lee and her son Fred present, reflecting a local farmers union engagement during the weekend.
The Lebanon area reports farmers progressing work with corn planting and wheat growing well. Winter has planted 45 acres of corn and is cultivating for the first time. Fred Miller bought the Wm. Boston farm at 50 dollars per acre. Frank Thacker aided Ernest Rex in planting. The Murphy Bros. planted 50 acres of corn. Cecia and Myrtle Mackey returned from Colorado after a year teaching there. G M Magers and wife hosted friends. Mrs. Magers and others traveled to Seymour. Clara Hubbard visited Lillian Magers.
The report notes a baby daughter arriving at the Bird home who is getting along finely. Wo Lauderbaugh is serving on the jury in Joplin. F W Wescott has been doing road work between here and Preston. Mrs Wm Huffman visited her sister Miss Ruby Wescott Monday.
Mrs Newell wife of the late Col Jason W Newell of Eldora do called on her son P T New ell last Thursday. Mrs Newell left Saturday for Joplin to visit daughters Mesdames Hurlbut and Gentry. Mrs Glen Farr went to Eureka last Monday for a visit. George Rice has his saw mill ready for business and soon will grind lumber. Blue Star ball team beat a mixed Esrom Bethel and Jasper team 6 to 4. Wa Mevins and wife were callers at Hulls last Sunday. Earl Ely will leave for Vinita Okla to seek summer work. Essie Hyder left for La Dar for summer teacher training. PF A Baston and family visited A Beeson last Sunday. Mrs Conner and Mazel visited Hyder's Sunday. Orval and Arthur Andrews visited old Blue Star friends last Sunday. J M Kelley and wife Hd Onstott and wife Mr Roby and wife and Hill Kaderly and Bert visited Hull's for dinner from Esrom. Nebraska man Jackson on Metz farm reports alfalfa looks good. Good for Missouri who knows we may yet grow alfalfa.
In Hamburg the landscape limits tall buildings, restricting high rises and leaving few structures towering over the city. The wall’s nature shapes construction rules, keeping a modest skyline with few exceptionally tall edifices.
A compact piece recounts Christopher Columbus and two notable sons Don Diego an admiral and Fernando a scholar who traveled widely. It notes Fernando’s 20 000 volume library at Seville Cathedral and his influence on Washington Irving’s Life of Columbus. An epitaph fragment for Fernando’s tomb is quoted.
A Harper's Weekly note suggests inventing a substitute for champagne corks to earn a fortune. It explains corks must be from Catalonia, with 46 years elapsed before any material return from a cork tree, and that corks are hand cut and machined for perfect size and shape to protect wine quality.
A succinct view contrasts the daily newspaper as a quick firing gun of timely local and personal interest with the magazine seated in the luxury column, crystallizing the daily paper as a necessity while the magazine remains optional. The quote by Frank A. Muneey underscores the enduring value of timely news versus glossy longer reads.
A long list of names and purchases from a hardware store recounts customers buying wire nails oil tanks screens and garden tools between Monday and Saturday. The item ends with a lengthy Harper's Weekly excerpt on silk worms including ancient references and Central American silk production.
The piece extols Bloc the Hitters as a malaria and typhoid remedy. It claims mosquitos spread deadly germs while praising the product for curing ailments, restoring appetite, and renewing strength after suffering. An unnamed Lacama, North Carolina resident, Wim Bretwell, credits bottles with driving malaria from his system and improving overall health. Priced at 00 cents at H. F. Pits.
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