Jasper News Brief From Missouri Page Fragment
Fragmentary note from The Jasper News in Missouri, with unclear readable text. No distinct events or names are identifiable from the garbled transcription.
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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1918
Page
8
Fragmentary note from The Jasper News in Missouri, with unclear readable text. No distinct events or names are identifiable from the garbled transcription.
Advertising rates listed include net page and inside pages at 10 cents per inch. Front page space booked fully. Local notices priced at five cents per line per issue. Insertion copy due by Tuesday evening. Obituary poetry and cards of thanks charged by the line.
Notices state J C Ross announces a run for Presiding Judge of Jasper County Court subject to voters will. A C announces candidacy for Judge of the County Court in the Eastern District, Jasper County, under the people’s will.
Letters from Jasper boys serving in the Army and Navy are invited for printing by this office. Readers may request the return of their letters. The piece includes a dispatch from Mendel Drake’s visit with an Irish family and Orin Hart’s son’s wartime notes from France describing life, humor, and morale.
A writer recalls visiting an English estate with relatives and friends, detailing a bare interior, a lone old accordion, rough Irish dance, and a rustic kitchen scene. The note reflects on local speech, shared hospitality, and musings on whether the war will end soon. The writer hopes to return home in months, if possible.
A collection of wartime correspondence from Orin McKinley Hart in France and L. A. Corde in Jasper Missouri. The letters describe daily life, drills, mess hall duties, gas mask drills, and the shock of gas attacks. They contrast home comforts with army routines and express longing to return home and write more.
Three Jasper boys Floyd McClintock Fred erick L Keener and James J Bowman depart Carthage Institute Thursday bound for Camp McArthur Texas. Bowman leaves a young wife Miss Imma Yates whom he married three or four months ago. All are industrious young farmers and will make good soldiers.
I Hayzlett president of the school board received from G F Newburger chairman Jasper County W5 committee a certificate of award to honor the Jasper School district leadership and contributions.
A school district notes loyal wartime support with a certificate to be framed for the post office. Rev. Mr. Cline of Jasper to preach at Zion Sunday and Blue Schoolhouse meetings begin Sunday evening. Cline to speak at Jasper Baptist Church on the fourth Sunday. Everett Looney, pastor.
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