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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1913
Page
6
The Young Men's Business Club announces a fundraising effort for Wright, Douglas, Webster, and Texas Counties. Citizens are urged to contribute to support local needs and welfare projects organized under the Mansfield initiative.
A long list of bests and prizes in crops, fruits, vegetables, and domestic exhibits. Awards cover corn, wheat, potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, onions, cabbage, pumpkins, beets, melons, beets, broom corn, bundles, oats, and more. Rules detail entry eligibility, deadlines, ribbons, and ground rights overseen by Wright County fair officials.
The report lists divisions and superintendents for cattle sheep swine and goats with numerous prize categories across animal classes. It details first and second prizes for breeds including Shorthorn Durham Hereford Jersey Guernsey and Berkshire, plus poultry and goat classes with sponsors and monetary awards.
Division I entries include test maps for Missouri Wright Douglas Webster counties with first prizes of 1 dollar and 50 cents and noting age considered. Rural school work awards include sets and dictionaries with varying values. Best drawing and writing prizes are listed with amounts. essays limited to 1000 words. The Mansfeld Concert Band performed in the park Saturday evening.
An afflicted Pueblo woman recounts years of nervous prostration and failure with doctors. After trying various remedies a neighbor provided Dr Miles Nervine, and she reports marked improvement after two bottles, praising the remedy and noting a money back guarantee. The advertisement urges sufferers of loss of appetite poor digestion weakness and insomnia to seek Nervine promising renewed nerves with thirty years of use claims.
Special correspondence reports a busy week in Hartville and surrounding areas. Notables include James Prophet and James Johnston joining a Mountain Grove trip, George Summers preparing to take charge at the post office, and Win Johnston upgrading Hartville’s telephone posts. The Hartville band rehearses under Driscoll, while Dr Van Noy and Hl E Van Noy visit from Kansas. Hartville to host a cigar factory with Charles Driscoll as owner.
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