Jasper School Notes Reflect Enrollment Rise and Local Happenings
Jasper reports enrollment at 250 this year up from 193 last year. No compulsory-law reports. two students were out last week but returned Monday. Virgie Thomas and Berman Winans joined the High School Monday. Eighth-grade count corrected to 19. Everett Deardorff, former Jasper principal, visited Monday. High School held a wienie roast with about fifty students and staff. Primary Department gains with 20 students. Miss Duncan praised. Septic tanks near completion. Jasper joins Missouri towns installing them. A widow lost a hog. humorous note on the hog reading the Pleasant Hill Times and returning home after the paper's delivery.
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Jasper
Virgie Thomas
Berman Winans
Everett Deardorff
Deardorff
Duncan
Missouri
Board of Education
Sheridan News Social Roundup Sees Local Visits and Travel
Mra Joy Kenney, Orie W Richwine and wife, and Elmer Faskin and family spent Sunday at Oscar Faskin's. Joy Kenney and family visited in the afternoon. Various locals aided in threshing activities while others traveled to Pittsburg and Joplin. Sheridan school opened with Fern Patrick as teacher and several residents were noted visiting, hosting, or traveling in the week.
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Orie W. Richwine
Elmer Faskin
Oscar Faskin
Joy Kenney
Mra
Tena Patterson
Haile
Roy Carter
Charley McClintock
Pittsburg
Aden Kerney
California
Fern Patrick
Winans
Mr Winans
Illinoia
Basil McClintock
Pearl Alexander
Carterville
John Gresham
Carl Deninger
Alexander
Woods
Carytown
Harvey
Joy Kerney's
Cecil
Diamond Area Briefs Highlight Local Happenings
Mrs Charles Eltina Diamond notes threshers remain in the community at John Buzzard's site and report engine trouble. Chas Nett and family drove to Carthage on Saturday. Students will start school in Carthage next week. J F Gulick has hay-making duties this week. Arthur Wardlow was ill for several days. Miss Vera Hobson returns as Diamond's winter teacher, with strong prior recommendations. Bertha Montgomery returns home from near Carthage after a visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Buzzard
Chas. Nett
Carthage
J. F. Gulick
Arthur Wardlow
Vera Hobson
Diamond
Bertha Montgomery
Near Carthage
Jasper bank report 1918 shows assets and liabilities
Farmers & Merchants Bank No 1641 Jasper Missouri files a 1918 financial statement listing assets including loans and discounts 135615.44 real estate 1600.00 bonds and stocks 22100.00 cash items 795.84 due from other banks 340.46 total assets 236960.35 liabilities include capital stock 0 surplus 0 undivided profits 0 deposits 21060.35 time certificates 21482.0 demand certificates 0 other liabilities 0 with affidavits by officers C Patterson vice president and N H Patterson cashier sworn and notarized September 4 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cusreany Jaenes Meena Epeones
Nggeanees
Public Sale by Rex and Radford Auctioneers near Jasper High
C W Bedell announces a public auction at his residence east of Jasper High School starting 10 am. Read list includes cattle horses hogs household goods farm equipment and hay with 8 to 12 month terms at 8 percent interest. Clerks Patterson.
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Jasper High School
Co. F. Rex
A. W. Radford
N. H. Patterson
Community Moves and Road Work Delays Near Pittsburg
Locals report five weeks with relatives and busy schedules delaying road work as new culverts are badly needed near Diamond. Mrs Plander and Mrs Pfander helped cook for threshers while Chas Elting, Frank Hines, and Claude Hamilton families spent Sunday in Pittsburg. Nett was a Lamar visitor last week. Notes on Waste Lands claim about 102,900,000 acres of swamp and wetlands nationwide could be drained to boost productive farms through public or private cooperation.
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Chas
Elting
Diamond
John Plander
Warren Pfander
E. Pander
Frank
Uniton
Iowa
Nancle
Indiana
France
United States Department of Agriculture
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Louis Lear
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Webb Bros
J. R. Wheat
Clara
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Cash Grocery
Jasper School Notes
Pleasant Hill
Sheridan News
Charles Eltina
Farmers & Merchants Bank
State of Missouri
Jasper News
State of
K. Patterson
N. H.patterson
Sai Bank
Exch
C. BR. Patterson
Bert Webb
C. W. Bedell
Draft Olly
Rhode Island
J. L. Shields
E. M. Harvey
E. M. Harry
Ramsay's
Room
West Side Square
Royse
J.D. Harbur
McDaniel’s
Robert Horton
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