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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1920
Page
6
The writer William Johnston is celebrated for History Up to Date and Solomon Sloan's Advice on How to Run the Universe. Limpy is praised as a charming story of a boy, while his mystery fiction shines in The House of Whispers, which will be serialized in this paper with the first installment available to readers.
The Missouri pastor Rev SoM Crank at Greenfield leads a busy life balancing church duties with household tasks. His wife Mrs Crank, a capable partner, shares the ministry, supporting community work while raising a large family. Over 30 years she has built and revived churches, baptized thousands, and organized vast meetings while managing home duties.
The Arkansas Democrat condemns wasteful churches after Rev Dr Peach's speech in Philadelphia estimating 100000 superfluous churches costing 6000000. It urges rural communities to merge denominational lines and consolidate to fund a single minister and strengthen local service to families and children.
The Interchurch World Movement program for Colombia includes 45 chapels, 46 schools, 9 hospitile, 19 dis pensaries, 4 social centers and 1 bil Beas neoney, with a sufficient number of missionary and native workers ade quately tolan this needy field.
A report from Interchurch World Movement headquarters in New York outlines county seat conferences in about two dozen U.S. counties from April 9 to May 2, drawing Protestant delegates to discuss church cooperation, local issues, and a worldwide religious survey. Leaders will host discussions on minister salaries, unchurched areas, and youth vocation guidance, with a nationwide outreach aimed at fifty million Protestants.
The survey by Americas Education Department of the Lyter Church World Movement shows farmers' homes send the most clergy to the Christian ministry. It notes many ministers come from farming backgrounds, with aims to broaden the field to include sons of bankers merchants lawyers physicians and others, enriching the church with varied life perspectives.
The author argues that a good mystery story is the best medicine for minds dis eased, suggesting a day when mystery and detective fiction could provide mental relief and clarity for readers of all ages.
The House of Whispers offers all that the most exacting reader may require. It grips, thrills and entertains, and never oppresses.
A stylish author threads an ancient castle mood through a sleek New York apartment, turning a fashionable residence into a puzzle that tests detectives, lawyers, and papers. The tale promises a gripping unraveling from the opening installment to the final chapter.
A veteran editor cites dissatisfaction with the Liberty bond sale remarks and criticizes the addressing of national debt amid World War II era fears. The author references wartime policy and local reactions while noting errors in government reporting.
A fragmented account mentions opponents and a figure linked to forestry service and Leonard Woolf. The text alludes to a public figure and an event described as a clash between supporters and opposition, with scattered names and phrases implying a political or historical confrontation. The piece reads like a scrambled historical snippet with unclear chronology and many garbled terms.
Text appears as garbled OCR. It mentions the U S oilmen cheering wool and a speaker named Chien Maret addressing a National Petroleum congress. The fragment references a foreign liberty topic and a tense Central American incident with a railway site tied to a fire and possible territorial claims.
A crowded gathering heard Wood talk at a regional regatta like event. State senior PNant Marler spoke, while attendees praised leadership and the program. The crowd filled the venue as plans for future community projects were outlined.
Ford touring car in good shape. Two three-year-old red polled heifers, one giving milk, the other to fresh soon. A few dozen syrup buckets at cheap prices. See J Henson at once.
March brought wind and social rounds as D. R. Snyder and wife visited A J Wilder and wife. O B Turner and family spent Sunday in Hartville. Will Greenwood and Jobo Schafer baled bay Monday. Mr. Schafer visited Mr. Gil on Sunday. A sobering note urges living in the present with hope for the future.
Ernie Williams born September 4 1403 in Wright County lived here until about years ago. He joined the Macomb Baptist Church about seven years ago and leaves a wife three children his father mother four brothers six sisters and many friends. He died March 28 1920 age 26 years 6 months 24 days in triumph of faith. Funeral services conducted by G Chadwell at Macomb church with many relatives and friends present.
The note lists recent subscribers showing appreciation: J. R. Gilleland of Mansfield, J. A. Newton of Springfield, W. A. Rosevear of Mansfield, Homer West of Fellows California, Geo Maxwell of Mansfield, J. U. C. Williams of Sarcoxie, Mrs. Belle Evans of Springfield, T. J. Strong of Roy, N.M., J. J. Brasher of Mansfield.
Deputy Sheriff Joe H. Dennis and Q City Marshal Roe Strong arrested Fred Bender Sunday at Grove Spring on charges of stealing a team and wagon and nine cases of eggs at Bakersfield and selling the eggs at Olden. He was brought to Mansfield and turned over to Howell county officer Bob Mullens. The team was left at the Hoover barn to recuperate after a hard drive. Bender had $121 and a Winchester. he admitted the theft.
An old advertisement touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a spring remedy that purports to purify the stomach and blood and cleanse the body. Signed by F. M. Huffman of Norwood, Missouri, the ad markets tea or tablets as a cleansing product for the season.
City Marshal Roe Strong with Farmers and Merchants Bank staff arrested Pred Edwards on a charge of obtaining $55 from the Wright County Bank with a worthless check drawn on a Claremore Oklahoma bank where he resides. The money was recovered and Edwards was turned over to Hartville authorities by Deputy Sheriff Joe H. Dennis and later released.
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