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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1920
Page
1
Notice for Pleasant Valley Township taxes with payable before January 1st. Office located in rear of Reynolds and Coday store. Adv by W. B. Hitchcock urging residents to call and pay taxes at their convenience.
Terse town items include Reynolds Campbell ads for stoves and harness, W L Fullington and wife in Seymour, Karl Cauble visiting Memphis, and city council meeting. Local tradesmen Guldin meat market, Equitable Life insurance, hardware, fertilizer, and batteries are promoted. A double header girls basketball results Mansfield 36 Macomb 18, and other notices cover lost bearings, rentals, and a charity tea.
Classified notices include two rooms for rent with options for furnishing, plus various ads for guava jelly and cheese from Florida suppliers, a Bon Marche millinery shop for sale in Mansfield Missouri, sewing machine exchange and sale plan, hosiery sales job offers from Eagle Hosiery Company, and several local notices mentioning property and embalmers with names and places.
Our thanks go to Newt Stanifer Hartville G M Hensley Mansfield H B Nichols Kanaas City E A Lund Mansfield E E Short Mansfield Mrs Lola Brazeal Mansfield H J Ricex and Son Mansfield A J Robinson Mansfield W W Fry Mansfield C B Harrison Mansfield Dr F B Fuson Springfield for renewed subscriptions since our last report.
In Van Buren Brush Creek Boone Montgomery Elk Creek and Union townships the wet constitutional amendment No 13 failed by large margins while Hart and all south townships supported dry by sizable majorities and the county favored dry by 842 votes, per Hartville Democrat.
1919 delinquent taxes must be paid to City Collector C. L. Turner on or before December 1 or suit will be brought to collect. By order of the Board of Aldermen. Mayor J. B. Freeman and Clerk J. W. Brazeal.
The annual payment of 100 dues to the Red Cross is requested. See Dr. R. M. Rogers, chairman, to pay your dues. This roll call closes November 25. Please see him.
Arthur Gann of Mansfield and Bessie Williams of Hartville wed. John Owens of Norwood and May Ramsey of Norwood also joined in marriage along with Roy Gann of Mansfield and Opa Bennett of Hartville.
Pleasant Valley township taxes can be paid at the Roy and Stephens real estate office. The notice directs residents to settlement hours and payment options at the office location.
George Elmer Findley, born October 3 1890 in Wright County Missouri, enlisted July 5 1918 in Company B 162 Infantry. He died October 5 1918 in a hospital in France of broncho pneumonia at age 28. Buried in France, later returned to Macomb with funeral held November 7 1920 at Mackomb Baptist Church. Survivors include his parents a brother four sisters and his fiancee Maude Nelson. The American Legion led the service with a large American flag. first military funeral in Macomb drawn by many locals.
Myrtle Williams leads a Christian Endeavor program with a service featuring song and prayer. The program includes scripture reading Psalm 103:122 and a series of questions by Linn Cantrell Ned Gaines Emma Palmer Richard Jarboe Mamie Beach Josephine Ludlow Fay Yates Marie Norcross Herman Williams Ulis Cantrell Jessie Hoover Edna Paulmer about grounds, motives, and expressions of thanksgiving and how to cultivate the habit through biblical examples and future focus.
Advertisement notes a sale of dishes and tinware at Reynolds and Campbell's. Items include glassware and kitchen goods offered at promotional prices with emphasis on practical household use. Sale details are presented in a typical late 19th or early 20th century newspaper style.
The Greatest Mother concept from the World War II era is adapted for postwar Red Cross works and will headline the Fourth Roll Call November 11 to 25. The adaptation bears the title Still the Greatest Mother In the World, reinforcing the symbol that has become a household term and a core trademark of the American Red Cross alongside the red cross itself.
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