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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1918
Page
8
Spare rate on last page and inside ads ten cents per inch per issue. Front page space contracted for. Local notices charged per line five cents per issue. Copy must be in by Tuesday evening. Thank you messages, acknowledgments and obituary poetry billed by the line.
The annual election of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the M. I. Church was held at an all day meeting at Mrs. Fr. FP. Follmer home. About 20 members attended and a splendid dinner was served at 1 o'clock. Elected for the ensuing year were President Mrs. A. F. Drake, vice president Mrs. Clint Rand, secretary Mrs. J. T. McCune, treasurer Mrs. I. Ff. Follmer.
The M. E. Church, South announces preaching at Jasper at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. on the first and fifth Sundays each month. Salem holds services on the second Sunday, Boston on the third, and Lebanon on the fourth.
Missouri Food Administrator F B Mumford urges residents to swap potatoes for wheat to aid Allies and fund wartime drives. He notes a 90 million bushel potato surplus and that substituting potatoes can reduce white bread needs while preserving nutrition.
Federal Food Administrator I B Mumford urges Missouri farmers to immediately market all surplus wheat not needed for seed or family use. He says government needs wheat for soldiers in France and allies. those unable to comply should report to the Columbia office for investigation. He warns against withholding wheat to avoid requisition.
The term Veldt is a variant of the Dutch veld meaning open ground or prairie. It equates to our field with examples like Westervelt meaning west field and Roosevelt meaning rose field. Other Dutch names and many German names end in velt or similar forms.
Local families in Kansas City Carthage Humansville Joplin and nearby towns hosted or visited kin and friends over the past two weeks. Travelers included E L Ulmer heading to Indiana and Miss Lottie Duncan bound for Lamar for summer, with numerous dinner gatherings and assemblies noted.
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