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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1912
Page
4
Local notes report Maud Muller’s memory and a village rustics scene with craftsfolk, schools, reunions, and new stores. Carytown and Jasper ties appear as students and families send children to school while Mrs McCarthy and Mrs Flowers host gatherings. Major events include a country home fire, community picnics, and the Dewey School term starting next Monday with Keeler teaching. Local families, travels, and visits fill the week’s social roster.
Mr. Wright threshed Saturday. Miss Clara Hubbard and Miss Gladys Bailard spent Sunday with Lillian Mapers the day’s feature horseback riding. John Sheets and wife welcomed a newborn on September 2. Lillian Mapers returned home after a summer in Girard Rams. Orville Andrews bought no new buggy last week. Mrs. Allen Milley opened Pleasant Valley school with 46 pupils and growing. Jessie and Inu Magers of Carthage visited Mr. Bell and Mr. Magers. Neighborhood youth attended the Golden City reunion Thursday. Velma Mackey Florence Stratton and Jamie Stratton join Jasper High freshman class. Myrtle and Cecla Mackey plan Springfield to attend normal school. Orville Andrews works for GM Mayers.
Farmers Union activities mixed with a wave of social calls across the area. Orpha and Mae Woultrow visit sister Mrs. Gerald Selsur, Laura and Alta Armstr ong visit Arthur Armstrong and wife, Mrs. Robert Horton of Jasper calls on Mrs. Ray, Eugenia Rex visits Jasper kin, John Care and wife from Jasper spend Sunday with Mr. Redmond, Frank Thacker and wife visit Mercy with George Swift, John Sheldon of Lawrence County and Joe Carnes of Ear Car Thage share a dinner at J. R. Hatcher home, Myron Miller visits Joplin last week.
Pleasant Hill School opened Monday with Miss Aric Gurley in charge. Local residents as well as families attended gatherings and visits around town. Several residents threshing and socializing noted, with relatives traveling between Lansar and Golden City areas.
Blue school begins today while farmers cut cowpeas and threshing runs at Tom Wardlow farm Saturday. John Frakes traveled to Lamar on Monday. Oma Webb Mary Drake of Jasper visited Myrtle Garrett Sunday. Most farmers finished plowing for wheat. King family visited Ben King home near Boston Sunday. Clarence Hiner lost a horse last week. Mrs Jim Bradford and Blanche called on Mrs Ervin Brown Wednesday. Mrs Jake Resh of Blue Star bought peaches from Mrs John Keltner last week. Mrs Keltner says they love peaches.
Drillers are at work at the Dixie school house drilling a new well to ease the long water-fetching burden on students. The item notes mail delays reaching the office and mentions visitors including Mrs. WA Milton, her niece Leila Cather, and relatives in Alba and Lauderbaugh.
Wm Sheldon of Carthage visited Clyde Wagner and family Sunday. Eva Stokes and Miss Cora Huxton were Jasper shoppers Saturday. Nellie Lowderbowe returned from Carterville Thursday. friend Mrs Leonant Goins accompanied her for a few days. Reports say a profitable Jasper union review day. Mrs Thee Lawson went to Port Colling Colorado for several weeks. Dorothy Hike Jins visited her teacher Miss Mary Curtis east of Jasper. Mrs Roberts of Neothu staying with granddaughter Miss Mary Lieuwson. Mr Dixon near Neck City will move to the Lukens farm as soon as Mr Wood leaves.
An excerpt from early medical discussion questions hunger as a stomach signal. It cites a Journal of the American Medical Association article arguing emptiness is not due to gastric secretions or congestion. It attributes hunger to contractions of the stomach wall and notes physicians debated the sensation.
A Jasper City hardware ad lists wagon beds, churns, separators, washers, fencing, and lighting. It notes multiple customers purchasing washing machines, separators, pumps, and dynamite, with names such as Orville Aidrees, A Kyle, L Pittipr, and Leo Schiebel, inviting visitors to make the store their headquarters during fair week.
Ancestral habits from early home life are linked to enduring remedies. Forty years of cures claim unrivaled relief for piles, corns, and boils. Promotion for a product marked as HF. Pitta claims strong results with two tablets.
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