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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1913
Page
2
Local column from Zion reports visits among residents including Miss Gladys Balliam and Miss Beulah Patterson of Pleasant Hill. Notes carpentry, sickness, school dismissals, remodeling, visits with Hubbard, Ballard, Foster, Keller, and others. Community events include a Sunday school convention, a B Y P U social, and a Jasper election-week social. Several families and neighbors are listed with recent outings, travel to Carthage, and jury duty in Joplin.
Route two items note Dr Lear visiting a sick nurse at Asa Clingen feld on Tuesday. Mrs Huffman spent Monday with home folks. Mrs Boyer visited her son Louis and family Tuesday. Aretha Baird stayed with Mrs Elmer Pugh Tuesday night. Mrs George Ferguson is quite ill and had a doctor last Wednesday night. Mr and Mrs Deardorff and their daughter from Jasper visited Marsh Deardorff’s family.
Mrs Myrtia Comm and Mrs Frank Kelly visited Thursday at J F Hull s. Mrs Mollie McCormick spent a few days with Myrtle Corner. Laura Teeter and family near Jasper hosted. Emma King visited Bertie Garner. Ed Owen and George Budd households hosted visits. Dayringer moved to Dublin to live with Budd family. Sam King’s family visited Chas Tolias. Dayringer lost a fine horse Saturday night. Bell and Mikesells spent Sunday at Chas Campbell s. Pennington family visited. James and daughter Eulah visited Newport last week. Kirby siblings visited Blue Star school. George E Henney and wife from Iowa helping transfer farm to R J Wallace in Stockton Kans. Frank Hall and Green held visited J E Hull and wife.
Mrs May Matthews Dewey notes a new brother in law for Mrs Estey as Helen Plowers married Mr Frost last Friday and moved to a furnished home in Mount Moriah. Dewey offers congratulations. Also mentions Mr Hurkete’s boy injuring his face with a shotgun. Mrs Bean of Carterville visits daughter Mrs Carter. Mr and Mrs D Matthews at county Sunday school convention in Carthage. Mrs Blauth hosts visitors Mr and Mrs W Matthews. Mrs Tra Ball spends Sunday with home folks. Harve Griffin and wife with Mr and Mrs Bradshaw visit Mrs John Gaddis. Mrs Alexander hosts Sunday.
Mr Turner and family with Mrs Kimberlin and Will Cline and wives and Cordell Keller prepare an overlanch trip to Eureka Springs next week. Mrs Bedell returns from Jasper. Zion attendance despite cloudy weather. Judge Brock spoke in Salem. Wheat planting delayed by rain. wives of Mrs FL W Rumble were guests. Mary Curtie visited Nina Laudenslager. Vern Boyd spent Thursday with Mrs Joe Edwards. Mrs John Gresham hosted daughter Alma Barclay. Wm Patterton travels to Keokuk for A H T A convention, then to Harlington to visit relatives. Schott helps sow wheat. Luther Weecott noted as Carthage welder. Mrs Thomas Edwards and daughter visited Patterson family. Miss Flossie Patterson shopped in Jasper. Birthday dinner for Mrs Edwards drawn relatives and friends at J. W. Edwards home. Others in attendance listed. Mrs Wim Patterson dined with Clarence Hammond. George Patterson visited Pred Gresham. Van Pelt and Kittson to return to Defiance, Iowa. Serafini staying with Mrs Will Tallman. Shoopman and Marion Owings rode in auto. Paul Edwards stayed with Hendrick. School progress under Miss Jennie Conrad.
Diamond area brief lists social calls and church events. Grace Gulick bids farewell as Dr. King plans California. Miss Florence Milton visits Carthage while Miss Buxton spends weekend with Beatty Mitchell. Bro Sin ders of Webb City preaches. Rapier and others greet friends before leaving for Greenfield. Sunday school convention planned at Oakton with many Diamond residents attending.
Farmers will finish sowing wheat this week with good ground conditions. Mrs Thomas Bowanns of Pleasant Hill is mentioned. U S Lowenstein and wife visited Lionel Winders in Jasper. Mrs Andrew Gresham and son Joe shopped in Jasper Monday. Estey Busby of Dewey visited Joe Edwards Sunday. Bob Horton and wife of Jasper visited Will Tallman Sunday. Esther Bowman family and Clarence Hammond hosted Sunday visitors.
Obituary notice for Bath S Wright of Jasper, died at 2 years old at La Plata home of his father M Vo Wright. Funeral held at Christian Church Sunday. Community expresses sympathy to bereaved family and friends. Also brief notes on local happenings including birthday gathering for Mrs Gratin and farm activities by Mace Foreman, Ernest Rex, and others.
Miss Evcanta Rex visits her daughter Mrs Pat Mc Laughin near Forest Grove. Bert Lee and wife from Colorado visit Mr Lee’s parents Harve Lee and family. Geo Swift of Lamar visits Frank Thacker’s home. Grandma Rogers returns from Keener Arkansas to live with daughter Mrs Henry Graham. A good number from here attend the ball game.
Local supplier Hammond advertises feed options including alfalfa and molasses, alfalfa meal, soft wheat meal and shorts for livestock diets. The note emphasizes availability and product variety for farmers.
A satirical note argues that the public should be treated with care, claiming the public deserves only information it favors to thwart Gowthe. The piece frames a political communication tactic as a gendered oversight.
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