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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1909
Page
2
The Jasper News edited by R. B. Griffith in Jasper Missouri. The item includes old postal information and subscription rate references though the text is fragmentary and faded. It notes the newspaper's second class matter status and date line from 1838 with garbled pricing details.
Two important conventions called by Governor Hadley will meet in Sedalia during State Fair week. On Wednesday October 6 delegates from every Missouri county attend a good roads convention. On Thursday October 7 a waterway convention will be held at the same location.
J. 8. Rose has sold his 80 acre farm six miles east of town to Jerry Cronin of Kansas who will rent the property. The Roses moved to Jasper and occupy the Jas. Themgon residence on North Main. Public sale at the farm planned for Monday October 11 to dispose of stock and machinery. Cronin paid 83200 for the 680 acres.
Mrs Rigs the author Kate Douglas Wiggin sends Nora Fox a postal containing a portrait of Quillcote Hollis Maine. The letter includes clippings from a Portland paper and a description of a September reading at Buxton, plus a church fair program and pictures of Wiggin and local spots. Wiggin, author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and Timothy's Quest, contributes to Ladies Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion.
The ad touts Dr. King's New Life Pills as a universal remedy for sour stomach constipation indigestion biliousness jaundice sick headache chills and malaria. The pills cost 25 cents. Mrs. C. E. Campbell returned from Miami Monday.
Jasper Redaox failed to top Carterville in a doubleheader at Wardgrounds Inet Sunday losing 6 to 0 in the first game. The second affair ended in a scoreless draw after nine innings, called at darkness, with Carterville pitcher Farrell outdueling Jasper’s Hawk in a tense pitchers duel culminating in a stalemate.
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