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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1914
Page
1
Local Mansfield items advertise groceries at P W Newton and Shinpaugh's, hats at Mansfield Millinery, meals at Mansfield Hotel, and various visitors from Hartville, Pomona, Norwood, Ava, and Springfield. Notices cover real estate, sales, church events, and community services with multiple ad briefs and small-town commerce updates.
Mrs J Robertson and daughter Ethel plus Mrs John Garner called at Boss Findley on Wednesday afternoon. S H Robertson was in Mansfield Wednesday. W H Brake visited Mansfield. Sheridan Findley improving. Boss Findley visited Norwood Saturday. Wim Roy's of Olathe were in town Saturday. Miss Emma Dewey spent Sunday with her mother Mrs Clara Dewey. Robt Freeman and family of Prairie Hollow stayed Saturday night and Sunday with W H Brioke. Emer Findley returned home Saturday night. Mr and Mrs J D Reynolds and Maude of Mansfield, and Mrs Henry S Wilson of Ava, were guests at W H Brake's Sunday. Chris Tyson visited Norwood Saturday. S H Robertson and family and J C Robertson attended church at Fairview Sunday. Mr and Mrs Henry Dennis of Mansfield spent Sunday with their daughter Mrs John Garner. Herbert Shelton and Miss Matie Short called on Aunt Mrs Nath Graves Sunday evening. Chris Tyson and wife attended church at Fairview Sunday. Miss Emma Findley spending week with sister Mrs Charles Nevels. Miss Anna Findley was a Mansfield visitor last week.
For the convenience of Pleasant Valley township residents a copy of the tax list is with W. B. Hitchcock. Taxpayers are advised to call on him to pay their taxes and avoid a trip to Hartville.
Community notes report preaching by C N Findley at Pleasant Hill each first Saturday and weekend services led by Elihu Coday. Visits include Misses Scott Hensley and Foullington calling on relatives, Elbert Coday staying with Elihu, and a Sunday singing at 2 pm with Selph Jones and wife from Odin. A good rain blessed the neighborhood Monday.
Attendance is strong with three new pupils and no tardies this week. The school exhibit will be in Reynolds hall at the Stock Show, showcasing progress across all grades while students prep for Greek next week and basketball interest grows. Music students perform as the high school orchestra debuts and teachers welcome several staff and new supplies.
A Norwood poet placed verses in the Mansfield Mirror beside reading matter. The poem begins Now dear reader go along with me away back to eternity and runs longer than a column. The Mansfield Mirror ran the verse as advertisement, a rural poet paying for print.
Promote next week’s big agricultural and stock show by sending extra copies to friends. Submit orders by Monday to gauge print quantities. Some towns observe newspaper day with citizens sending thousands of papers nationwide. Let your friends read the Mirror.
Freeman advertises farm loans at the lowest prevailing rates with no delay, highlighting quick processing and favorable terms. It presents an abbreviated notice style common to historical classifieds.
W H Royal and wife of Macomb brought a pillow filled with goose feathers to the office claiming feathers formed into crowns hearts and roses appeared in their son Charles age 20 after measles. Crowns hearts and roses showed in two pillows with many damaged shapes. Visitors and offers followed, but the family refuses to sell and seeks explanation for the strange phenomenon.
The Wright County convention opens October 19 with devotional services led by Mrs Bradford and Rev E W Yocum. Dr C C Drummond presents a stereopticon address, followed by devotions, committee appointments, reports, and sessions on efficiency in local churches. Dr Drummond addresses Haida India, with further Bible study, C W B M period, and a business adjournment slated for 4:30 PM.
Mrs W J Smith aged 44 died Friday morning at her Anthony Kansas home. She was daughter of Samuel Tripp, wife of Mansfield, and spent several years here. Many friends mourn with husband, children, parents and relatives. Mrs Samuel Tripp Mrs G W Tripp and Mrs L B Johnson and daughter Maxine were at the home when death occurred.
The Mansfield event begins its third year with banners and signs marking venues and concessions in full view. Ralph E McMillen headlines with aeroplane flights as crowds come from near and far to the Gei City of the Ozarks for a week of varied attractions.
The Ozarks town promotes its Third Annual Mansfield Agricultural and Stock Show with strong school exhibits, poultry demonstrations by Mrs. Joe A. Riley, and fruit and stock displays. N.S. Miller of Missoula sends large apples, Edwin F. Stanton leads the poultry display, and Swift & Co. via Mansfield Produce Co. donates $5. Farms, grains, and domestic exhibits fill tents and halls around Mansfield Hotel and local businesses.
Man’s conquest of the air in its most important sense will be displayed for the first time at Mansfield on October 16 and 17 as aviator Ralph E. McMillen appears in his Curtiss Biplane. Great interest is shown across the region for the high class event with daring aerial stunts scheduled and crowds expected to be the largest ever seen in the city. Special crowd control preparations have been made by local authorities and interested parties.
Through local representatives Mansfield Produce Co and Springfield Creamers Co donate 10 to Mansfield's Third Annual Agricultural and Stock Show for dairy industry betterment. Springfield Creamery, a major state industry, has spent thousands in regional cream business. Their generosity is appreciated by Stock Show management.
Stock Show Special runs Oct. 15 to 17 with aviation flights on Oct. 16 and 17. The Third Annual Agricultural and Stock Show at Mansfield features poultry displays including capons and Mrs. Riley demonstrating capronizing. Visitors are urged to see babies in the Better Baby Content and tour farm products from Wright County Ozarks.
Rev Joseph Davis is re-appointed pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian church for the coming year. He helped Rev Clannahan at a protracted meeting at the Mansfield O P church with 10 professing and 7 additions. Davis aided in an arbitration in Phillipsburg between a man and his fourth wife, chairing the panel per a pre-nuptial contract. The meeting at Mansfield begins Oct 25 and Davis may help in Howell county afterward.
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