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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1914
Page
7
City officials listed by ward include James Cody for First Ward A reeniin, Second Ward Wo 2B Pillington, Second Ward De.p Alison. Council meets the second Monday evening of every month.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church schedules preaching on the fourth Saturday evening and Sunday. Rev. Joseph Davis serves as pastor. Sunday school convenes every Sunday at 9 o clock. GW Freeman is superintendent.
Baptist Church posts preaching every second Saturday evening and Sunday led by Rev RT Chrnett. Sunday school held each Sunday at 645 acm with W J Fullington as superintendent. Baptist Young Peoples Union meets each Sunday evening with C A Stephens as president.
Methodist church holds preaching services every first and third Sunday at 7 a.m and 7 p.m. Rev. D.T. Wolfe is pastor and the superintendent residence is 645 Wom Atylon.
Over Mrs Coday s millinery church invites worshippers to preaching every first Sunday morning and evening plus a Saturday evening Bible study at 10 am. Sunday Bible study and prayer meet on Friday evening. Ladies Aid Society Wednesday afternoon. Minister W H Anderson welcomes all.
The notice lists prospective petit jurors by township including Mountain Grove Pleasant Valley Gasconade Van Buren Brush Creek Boone Montgomery Elk Creek Union and others with names such as Anderson Youns Rowland Roney Gaslill Rippee Atkinson Bickford Stacey Wakefield Coday Moody Boyer Allen Mosely Mayberry Guinn Smittle Curtis Hamilton Hughes Freels and more. A humorous aside advises property owners to fence their hogs from neighbors to avoid costly lawsuits, signed by dentist PH Riley Mansfield and Dr FP Riley with the Mansfield office over Fuson's Drug Store.
An old family recipe details curing beef for Scotch ham. It instructs trimming a Gat beef leg, salting with 4 pounds salt and 1 pound sugar per 100 pounds, adding 6 ounces saltpeter, soaking 10 days, brining, then a pepper spice mix, rolling, tying, and curing in a cool dry place for a month. The result is described as delicious and long lasting.
Advice on housing, feeding, and management for laying hens and fowls. Emphasizes clean, sanitary houses, green foods like rye and wheat, vigilance against insects, and selling older hens to replace with younger stock. Warns that neglect leads to disease, high costs, and poor profits.
The Ozark region offers mild winters and long outdoor work options. Livestock feeding prospers through winter due to climate. Summers are cooler than latitudinal peers, hot winds absent, and nights remain pleasant. Government data show 46 inches annual rainfall, about 28 inches in the growing season, with under 5 inches of snow on average.
The Ozarks are described as the rapidly developing dairy belt of Missouri, with lush pastures, pure spring water, and adaptable hill lands. The text urges families to move to the Ozarks, build dairy operations, and raise cows on abundant forage like clover, grasses, and cowpeas to sustain high yields.
Thousands of farmers across the United States and Canada have relocated to Frisea Lines territory. A newly organized Department of Development offers guidance on new conditions and opportunities, aiding settlers with agricultural, horticultural, and livestock expertise. Contact St Louis and San Francisco, with R. R. Frank Anderson directing development and A. Hughes as immigration agent. Mrs Bradshaw of Aya visited Mrs Tarbutton Monday while enroute home from Sermour.
A fragmented passage advises making home dried beef by dividing meat into two pieces and curing with two pounds fine salt one ounce saltpeter and one and a half pounds brown sugar. Rub into the meat daily, smoke after two weeks and keep in a dry place away from flies.
Roast fresh peanuts until brown and grind finely. Mix with butter and salt, then pack in small jars. A homemade peanut butter is comparable to store bought and cheaper than buying prepared brands.
Take 30 pounds of pork 32 ommees salt two ounces of pepper and two ounces of sage. Dry sieve in the oven then sift. Add two ounces ground mustard if you like two pounds sugar. Mix all together and mix with the meat before it is chopped. Chew tine ot eenpse as preferred.
A recipe snippet describes cooking a pork back bone in water with pepper and salt. Add two quarts of peeled turnips stuck in, one quart potatoes and one quart carrots. Turnips and carrots go with the bone, potatoes added thirty minutes before serving.
A lead dressing is prepared from stale bread crumbs soaked in cold water then pressed. Sage, salt, pepper, and a teaspoon of butter are mixed in and spread over ribs placed in a pan. Covered tightly, bake in a hot oven with a touch of hot water to keep moisture without over sogging.
A brief cooking note instructs simmering two quarts of kraut in minimal water for two hours then browning spareribs topped with the hot kraut. Bake together until done, ensuring only enough water to keep ribs and kraut from seoving.
A recipe describes making a meat substitute using macaroni and half a pound of hamburger. Cook macaroni, mix with chopped meat, salt, pepper, butter, then bake with milk for 30 minutes. The guide notes the dish feeds many and has a minty onion flavor.
Instructions for meat pudding dough and filling using chopped round steak flour lard and baking powder. Cook in cloth in boiling water with saucer, for one and a half hours. Serves with rich white sauce. Sample copies sent to a select list inviting subscription.
A Woman's Name Companion writer asks readers to imagine a world without advertising. She argues ads shape daily life with grocery signs drugstore windows church announcements and roadside and street corner displays across towns.
The article explains that palatability drives feed intake, showing ensilage as highly palatable due to its succulent moisture. It argues 100 pounds of fresh grass is worth more than 15 pounds of dry hay, as animals eat more and digest better when fed succulent food. Ensilage also serves as a convenient winter store and acts as a tonic.
The article argues population shifts from country to city are not a cause for panic. It stresses quality of citizenship and living conditions for rural workers, noting farm families could support more people if rural life and education improve. It ends with a subscription offer from Mansfield Mirror and Weekly Kansas City Star.
Local shop W T Norcross advertises dry goods groceries shoes and general merchandise with optical goods and guaranteed glasses. Phone 101 for bargains and selections.
West Plains Bank cashier and Ozark Bankers Development Committee president extols Ozark Country as ideal for livestock growth citing cheap land abundant water and climate. He urges deadening timber, sowing grass and alfalfa on hills and bottoms, with forage crops including clover timothy and Bermuda thriving. He notes easy credit to settlers and profits from cattle stock raising, while advertising a salesman position for Penn Wholesale Tobacco Company in New York with pay of 375 dollars monthly plus expenses.
Drue Turner offers a trade of a property consisting of an lease and two lots in Mansfield for 40 or 50 acres of land within three miles of Mansfield Ady.
Fannie King Slate born February 20 1887 died February 27 1914 aged 27. She leaves a husband and two children, a mother and many relatives. She joined the C P church at Mansfield at 14 and married Thomas Slate producing three children, one boy died earlier. Funeral from home with Psalms lib. d and interment in Crane cemetery beside her little boy Bill. Written by Joseph Davis.
A winter cough lingers, risking lung trouble, until Henry D. Sander of Cavendish VI praises Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and lung ailments. He says it should be in every family and notes its effectiveness for children’s coughs. Money back if not satisfied. price 10 cents.
At M. E. Church Sunday services feature "The Militant Church" in the morning and "Jesus as a fisher man" in the evening. March 15 marks the conference year's last service, urging members to help the pastor finalize reports to conference.
LC Hames of Marbury Alabama praises Chamberlains Cough Remedy as one of the best for colds whooping cough and for use with children. The ad notes it is for sale by all dealers. E B Letler arrives from Bryant with family planning to move their farm and store duties in Indiana while he makes occasional trips home.
Public notice advertises Chamberlain’s Tablets as a cure for chronic constipation and urges a trial, noting the price at a quarter and availability through dealers. A local grocery, Ady Shinpaugh Bros., has moved to a new concrete block building previously used by D. H. Lilly, and electric lights have been installed in the store.
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