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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1920
Page
1
Terse column highlights a demonstration promising the Overland 4 as the greatest light car yet built with complete equipment. Various local ads note groceries, meats, produce, and services, plus sales and buy offers from Mansfield to Springfield and Moorhead, with drug and hardware items, lost pins, and a baby birth announcement.
Allen Canaday died January 7 1920 aged 74 born October 26 1845. He married three times with two wives and 11 children preceding him. Survived by third wife two children Clara Swain Rovana Neb Ed Canaday Paxton Neb. Death from a complication of diseases. He had lived here about five years. Interment in Hensley Cemetery.
Card of Thanks thanks all for kindness shown during Mrs Allen Cann’s bereavement.
Mrs Bowen recalls two months of cellar fear after a rat chewed matches and almost caused a house fire. She smelled smoke at night and acted quickly to prevent disaster, later finding the dead rat. The ad promotes RAT SNAP in three sizes, sold by Fuson Drug Co and R A Alcorn Hardware Co Mansfield and Hardware Store Norwood.
A subscription acknowledgment thanks numerous readers for cash on subscription since the last report. Names include T. B. Bell Mansfield E. Spence Mansfield E R Roy Norwood C B McIntire Birmingham Als Perry Dake Fellows California Ralph Dake Fellows California Schiro Bros New Orleans Co Beach Mansfield Dr J A Fuson Mansfield J A Fuson Hartville W H Brasher Springfield John Tripp Waldron Kas Wm Huggans Mansfield S H Robertson Macomb A J B Todd Seymour C B Mackey Mansfield Mrs S S Musick Covington La Orel Dennis Mansfield.
An advertisement urges readers to buy RAT-SNAP a cake form rat and mice destroyer sold by Fuson Drug Co. R. A. Alcorn Hardware Co Mansfield and Hardware Store Norwood. The ad claims the product mummifies rats after use leaves no odor and warns cats or dogs won t touch it. Three sizes 25c 50c and 1.00.
The regular meeting of the stockholders of the Citizens Bank of Norwood Missouri will be held in their banking rooms on Saturday January 24th 1920 between the hours of 7 p m and 10 p m for the election of directors and such other business as may come before the stockholders meeting J M Ellis President W V Carter Secretary By request of the Douglas county authorities this week City Marshal Roe Strong arrested Olds Turner and wife who were here en route to Oklahoma on a charge of abandoning their two children He also placed another party under arrest by their request
A damaged notice states a wound cleansing liquid named Liquid Hivozone lt heals quickly. Price due $120. Sold by Fusion Drug Co.
The 16th district Republican convention will meet in Mountain Grove on Tuesday April 20 at 1 p m Delegates and alternates will be elected by Wright county voters by April 17 The Wright county committee and state committee members pushed the convention while endorsing equal suffrage proposing one man and one woman as delegates and alternates.
James Baxter of New Jersey touts RAT SNAP as the farmer's best friend and worst enemy, claiming it saves about $300 yearly in chicks and eggs. The product is sold in three sizes 25c, 50c, and $1.00 by Fuson Drug Co. and Alcorn Hardware Co. of Mansfield.
At the Mansfield National Farm Loan Association annual meeting directors elected were John W Brentlinger A L Miller J BR Greenwood Laura KE Wilder and Awilda J Snyder Officers elected were President John W Brentlinger Vice President A L Miller Secretary Treasurer Laura E Wilder The board received a 6 percent dividend on stock issued before June 15 1919 from the Federal Land Bank of St Louis and ordered payment to entitled members after year end closing
The following officers were elected: President D H Kay, Vice President Lulu Carter, Secretary Treasurer Susan Box, Organist Ruby Lee Yates, Assistant Organist Alis Cantrell. Also mentions a drug ad for Herbine and a local visit by Burton's in Sey on Monday evening.
The Successful Farmer Raises Bigger Crops and cuts down costs by investment in labor saving machinery. Good prices for the farmers crops encourage new investment more production and greater prosperity. But the success of agriculture depends on the growth of railroads the modern beasts of burden that haul the crops to the worlds markets. The railroads like the farms increase their output and cut down unit costs by the constant investment of new capital. With fair prices for the work they do the railroads are able to attract new capital for expanding their facilities.
A public auction will be held at my place seven miles northwest of Mansfield and two miles north of No 5 schoolhouse. Items include four head of cattle and horses one gray mare twelve years old one bay horse four years old two young mules and more. Farm implements and feed cover hay oats and tools plus household furnishings and poultry. Terms cash on sums up to ten dollars and nine months on bankable notes bearing eight percent interest. Auctioneer Col Roy Dennis. Clerk Veo Freeman.
An auction announced for January 20 1920 at 10 a.m. includes livestock cattle goats and a Jersey bull plus farming gear, tools, and home goods from a farm near Olathe nine miles southeast of Mansfield. Terms require cash on all sums under 16 dollars and credit on larger balances. no goods sold until terms complied. Auctioneers listed are Roy Dennis and clerks GEO. B Freeman with O. B. Rosenberger as consignor.
Notice posted by T. H Iouraoa W. O. Williams and Wa. Teed warning no hunting or trespassing on their farms. The brief legal notice cites case memory and Wilcox as part of housing or property context. Unauthorized entry risks legal action and potential penalties as stated by the property owners.
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