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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1914
Page
3
The Ladies Aid of the Christian Church plans a bazaar in the church room over the Coday Millinery Parlors on Saturday December 5 1914. No dinner will be served but a delicatessen counter will offer various good items for Sunday dinners. Mrs P T Riley is secretary.
In a frayed town column the writer laments gloomy weather blamed on forest tires, hopes for rain relief, and laments global war while praising peace and American plenty. The piece weaves prayer and charity appeals with local updates about J M Kirk on the playlist, neighbors’ moves, town gossip, and weekend social notes from Elmer Coday to Tra Young.
A column of cheerful but scattered rural news from Cheeful Valley includes losses of livestock, social visits, Thanksgiving gatherings, church events, and local meetings. Notable items mention J. M. Moutray losing a horse on November 20, Orie Walton finding the horse, and various visits to Oberholser, Findley, Young, and Hight households. The Ashley meeting with Rev. C N Findley leads the week's highlights along with multiple family visits and holiday meals.
Day one of winter in Lead Hill with Christmas approaching. Notices of visits among Webster county families including Charles Hunt to Mrs Mathey and Miss Clara Goss returning home with Miss Sadie Goss from church. Latter Day Saint Rev H Sparling preaching since Thursday with aid from Rev McFadden. Thanksgiving crowd at Jef Rippee's. many Rippee and Hensley families mentioned as visiting and returning home from Kansas.
A rural social round includes sermons by Rev. C N Findley at Pleasant Hill on the first Saturday night and Sunday. Neighbors and families such as Jim Hickman, Hose Young, Bertha Young, Mamie Hall, Verbie Scott, Jess Hake, Fred Hake, L W Hensley, Stella Young, Reuben Young and others share visits, calls, and rides around Mansfield Norwood Odin High Point and Hartville.
The Liver and stomach affect mood and health, with dull physical state showing first as mental unhappiness. Dr King’s New Life Pills promise to empty bowels and purify blood, while Bucklen’s Arnica Salve aids piles. 25c at druggist.
Several from this vicinity attended the pie supper at High Point Friday night. Protracted meeting began at Flint Hollow Thursday night. A large crowd attended church at Flint Hollow Sunday night. Mrs Ethel Howard spent Thursday at Floyd Howard's. George Wella and wife visited Loren Land and wife Sunday. Marion Branstetter called on George Blankenship Saturday. G W Deckard hauled fodder for J I Bender Monday. Mike Branstetter spent Sunday at Joe Kelley’s. P J Wells preparing to build a new house. R M Kelley and wife Arthur Kelley and wife Thomas Kelley and sister Mrs Amaranth Watkins of Kansas dined at J D Kelley's Monday.
Mrs. B. F. Hays displayed Raff Orpingtons and Rhode Island Reds from Ava Poultry Yards at the Mansfield Fair, taking first and second in Raff Orpingtons, first in Single Comb Reds, and second in Rose Comb Reds. A Grand lot of cockerels from eggs priced at 10 to 20 dollars per setting from Owen Farms invites buyers, as Ava Poultry Yards, Ady, Ava, Mo, seeks space for younger stock.
The chart shows daily high and low temperatures, precipitation in inches, and sky conditions from Monday to Sunday. A. Mingus, Danaan, Mo. Cooperative Weather Observer, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Climate Service of the Weather Bureau.
Lines From London recount Sunday visits among Miss Macie Hensley Miss Opal Buffalo and Miss Ethel Matlock while Forrest Rice returns from Taney county to see his sister. Other notes mention Alice Tambleson visiting her brother Guy Tambleson Friday night and D A Tarbutton's accompanying G W Tarbutton's from Thursday to Isaac Strong's. A well attended High Point pie supper raised over $10.00 with music by the string band. Dorothy Gilley and Sarah Rippes begin school at High Point.
Saturday and Sunday rain relief noted at Lower Wolf Creek. Social visits include Mrs Sikes with Mrs Harvey Coday and others. Harve Young plans move to Olathe, Douglas County with mill relocation. Ed Fagan home hosted visitors. pie supper at Fagan school home praised. Writer bids Wright County goodbye due to changing circumstances.
Mrs John Bishop of Roseville Ohio reports indigestion and sick headache lasting days. A friend recommended Chamberlains tablets during a spell and they quickly relieved the symptoms. For sale by all dealers. adv.
Postmaster H. H. Bain is very sick. H. H. Perrigo and wife hosted a Thanksgiving dinner for friends. J. B. Lesler has returned from Indiana after his little daughter Hazel’s sickness and death. C. A. Williams visited relatives in North Missouri and returned home. Holiness meeting at Mt. Zion. Fay Williams visited home folks during Thanksgiving. Flora McCrue joined Fay home Saturday. Oak Grove seeks a spelling contest with Flint Point. Flint Point requires Oak Grove to dismiss three eighth graders. Local farmers anticipate a canning factory at Ava with 40 to 50 acres of tomatoes in spring and have arranged with the KC to cover transport costs.
One hundred dollars reward offered for an untreatable catarrh cure. F J Cheney & Co of Toledo endorse the remedy as a blood and mucous system tonic. Endorsements by local banks, internal use claim and 75 cent price per bottle. Also advertises Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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