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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1917
Page
1
Local notes report numerous visitors from Springfield Hartville Norwood Mountain Grove and Ava. Mentions of people returning from trips to Kansas Sedalia and Missouri State Fair. Local ads promote aluminum ware penny pencils and various goods. Road meeting urged with community support and a push for state aid.
Edgewood reports pleasant weather with some neighbors missing the steak show due to sickness. TJ Young visited from Manes for the steel show. Fruit canning is nearing completion with some drying fruit and a few ripe strawberries noted.
The sixth annual agricultural and stock show in Mansfield ran four days from Wednesday to Saturday with Patriotic day on Friday September 28. Prof W W Martin of Cape Girardeau spoke in the afternoon, the event organized by Missouri Council of Defense. Highlights included an auto parade with a $10 prize to Bula Newton and Bertha Miller and a lodge parade with Hartville earning the 35 prize for most members. Exhibits spanned textiles, canned vegetables, infant clothing, school displays, and a giant pumpkin won by A G Legere after a real pumpkin exhibited by George H Ayers’ Oetting school. Music by the Mansfield Concert Band and Dorothy Reeves Co. enriched the fair, with school dismissed for the week. Officials lauded the event amid strong crowd turnout and orderly conduct.
With flags and bunting everywhere Mansfield welcomed its hundreds of soldier boys as they prepared to depart for Fort Riley Kansas as part of a large draft Army mobilization. The list names many local youths including Ellison Keeling Chadwell Ellis Crews and dozens more. Ten Douglas county boys under Ivy Kester in charge also join the contingent.
The Mansfield community bid farewell to 200 Wright and Douglas county volunteers heading to Camp Riley and Fort Riley. Crowds cheered as the Red Cross and locals supplied food, with the Mansfield Concert Band, a J Lon Dennis address, and prayers. Local officials, including County Clerk G Purtle and Sheriff G Sanders, accompanied the group on a special train.
The Springfield presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian church met in Mansfield with about 23 attendees from out of town. Rev. J. B. Eshman presided and Rev. J. A. Russell served as clerk. Committees on education, publication, ministerial relief, temperance and missions will report. tonight the Woman's Missionary Society offers a program followed by an ordination service to which the public is invited.
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