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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1914
Page
1
Mansfield Mirror snippets list ads, birthdays, new subscribers, visits, and upcoming events. Mentions P. W. Newton groceries, Creem De Menthe, strawberry season, spring fashions, Boys of Woodcraft, and a June 7 Cedar Gap singing. Parties visit Hartville, Springfield, and Tulsa, plus street work and school news.
Coming summer sale featuring Ox Ford shoes for ladies and men plus a full range of lawn fabrics, silks, crepes and hats. New men and boys bats, straw hats, and dry goods specials for Saturday. Readily available groceries and coal oil, with delivery to all town areas via phone number 40.
Thirteen graduates this year with total enrollment of 201. May enumeration shows 1 ave 230 with errors. Fifteen pupils finished the Ninth grade while twelve completed the Eighth. Old students and teachers held a reunion at the school building, poultry project a success though cost of building, fence, labor and feed exceeded egg income by 820.75. A Plymouth Rock hen weighed 14 pounds and sold for 08 cents. Nine of thirteen seniors may return for eleventh grade. Average daily attendance 18, total days 35 006. Tardiness 39 in an enrollment of 261. Seniors dined with Prof. and Mrs. Hylton.
An appeal notes the Decoration Day ball game between southeast and northwest park teams this Saturday. It to funds park debt, urging attendance and advertising among businessmen with special rates for large space and time contracts. The era tone pushes subscription growth and advertising habit.
Kerr and Gorman plan to supply Hartville with ice from a Mansfield plant soon. A water analysis service will accompany the ice. Chester Young returns to Kansas City after visiting Lamp and Mrs Young. County leaders discuss an electric light plant to illuminate the courthouse and jail. Local fishing thrives with strings of bass shown on Hartville streets. John Dennis takes twenty kids on a fishing outing in his auto to the second ford. Hartville grows into an auto town with eight cars and a Mansfield Hartville truck stake. Olive Prothero owns a new tunnabout harness drawn by Tim the burro, who ferries friends around town, with hay prompting swift journeys.
The article notes Ed ward Westbrook now works with a large international law firm in Chienzo, focusing on international law. A Wright county native born in Nebraska, raised near Manafield, he recently visited home folks. Also mentions upcoming town construction and a Friday special meeting for W.O.W. with important business.
A Wright county Missouri mass meeting on May 16 1914 elected Arthur Curtis chairman and J H Dennis secretary. A resolutions committee was named with C A Stephens Geo Hunter and Elmer Fuson. Delegates to the May 27 1914 St Louis state convention named Thurman Chadwell D S Cantrell C A Stephens F A Brett N L Richardson Jno A Dennis and Wm Hudson with alternates J W Key B E Latimer W A Rosevear Wim Trout D E Temple James Blackwell and S R Hudson. Resolutions condemned Democratic tariff action and income tax law as unfair, praising the Republican record from Lincoln to the present.
Mansfield merchants are urged to close part of Saturday May 30 from 2 to 4 p.m. for Decoration Day observances. A ball game between local business clubs benefits park debt. Farmers and townspeople are asked to trade during the two hour closure and then return to business at 4 p.m. to support a bigger Mansfield.
Mr Edward Westbrook visiting his parents in Chicago returns home with his parents. They will later travel to New York to spend the summer with Mrs Westbrooks relatives. The area awaits the ice plant completion and a warm spell.
As a candidate for re election to Congress from the Sixteenth Congressional District of Missouri subject to the will of the Democratic voter at the Primary August HH IW.
A formal notice stating an official declaration or election candidacy underway. The message indicates authorization for the county clerk to publicize the forthcoming action and related procedural steps.
A Palm Valley area slate shows RK L Alford DON W Schofield and A S Pope as candidates for Collector of Revenue in Wright County. John N Pryor Jr seeks Circuit Clerk, while Robt F Adams contests Recorder of Deeds. Primary set for August 4, 1914 with party designations noted.
A screaming comedy lineup at the opera house features Who Wins the Widow Wanted a Baby and Dare Devil Dick Wins a Wife with Only in the Way a dramatic highlight and 3000 feet of pictures plus music. Admission is 10 cents. Sheriff Creer travels through Mansfield en route from Mountain Grove as crowds read of recent local doings and a wreck near Colser damages five Frisco cars with no injuries.
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