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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1913
Page
1
A selection of local society items, advertisements, and notices from Mansfield Missouri. Mentions Ww Wright visiting Ava, Steve Yates building a warehouse, new Mirror subscriber A E Tarburton, Ed Kirch moving to Cleveland, a birth, hotel Sunday dinners, fair attendance, and various local business moves and obituaries including Susana White and Charles S. Ross.
The Frisco stock pens now offer scales that allow direct entry to pens with shade water and feed prepared in abundance. The new scales sit on a solid concrete foundation have been thoroughly tested for accuracy and correct weights assured.
Bertram departs November 1 for Fordland to run an 18 room hotel. He has lived in Mansfield seven years and owned the Cottage hotel for six, taking over from Samuel Tripp. Furniture business linked to the hotel. Uncertain if hotel will continue in current Bertram building. Family moving with him amid well wishes for success.
The program announced for last week will be given this week. Before during and after the concert go to Hilsabeck's.
A devil muses by a warm fire on guilt across six thousand years of human casting. He catalogues sinners and sectors of society from merchants to lawyers to politicians, noting a single despised class who would spoil hell. He ends with a self-aware quip about respect for an unknown author.
The Hartville fair drew about 10,000 spectators for two airship flights yesterday. Mansfield and nearby areas attended in large numbers. A 150 foot banner from Mountain Grove was displayed at Hartville reminding readers of Mansfield, the Gem City of the Ozarks. Mansfield school led with about 60 attending students.
The October accounting lists 147 renewals and 222 new subscribers for a grand total of 369. Names include Harry Axford Cottonwood Falls W S Smith Waldron A K Tarbutton W C Williams Sarah Hanks Fayetville Tenn Erz Ruth Rich Los Angeles Cal J B Cable and more. The rest of the column covers local notices and a funeral in Thayer for E C Rose.
Special Correspondent notes Paul Williams and Drue Turner with family attending the Mountain Grove fair along with about 160 Mansfield residents. Numerous Brentlinger relatives visit, host and travel between Mansfield, Albert Brentlinger, G. W. Brentlinger, J. W. Brentlinger and others. Several families, including the Rileys and Brewers, host or join gatherings while trips to Hartville and Taney County are mentioned.
The Highland Park notes report Sunday basketball favoring the high school team. W. L. Bonnell holds a bowling alley record while Jesse Ross leads in iron pipe travel and climbing. Shep Stevens is named champion, with Cecil Brazeal noted for weight exercise. Park management will keep these records on site for patrons.
Market notes list eggs at 19 cents butter at 1 cent and fat at 28 cents per pound. Old hens bring 8 cents springs 9 cents and fat turkeys 12 cents. Ducks 7 cents and geese 40 cents. Wright county plans to spend half again as much on schools this year. Ozark schools are steadily advancing.
A mid summer closing out sale begins July 5 as the store clears all summer dress goods at big reductions. Prices are emphasized with an invitation to come and buy quickly as everything goes. Adv J. D. Red Nows.
The western district court at Springfield indicts F B Warner Marion Roge Claude Daniels and John B Thomas for obtaining money by false pretenses in a nationwide fraud involving forged bills of lading and imaginary shipments. Witnesses include Paris Hyde W Do Deep and others. Rose of the Frisco line described as popular but implicated.
A compilation of classical judgments on beauty from Diogenes Laertius citing Diogenes, Aristotle, Socrates, Theophrastus, Theocritus, and Carneades. It presents varied views with dated attributions to each thinker, reflecting enduring debates on beauty’s nature and value.
Foogler on the Links has already lost two balls in the long grass and now hunts for number three while miffed. A cad calls to the caddie asking if he came out to look after the ball and the caddie retorts about playing golf.
An 1783 Went Point document lists officer weights after the Revolution: General Washington 209 pounds, General Lincoln 224, General Knox 180, Colonel Henry Jackson 238, Colonel Swift 219, and Colonel Michael Jackson 252 pounds.
Friendship Baptist church meets the third Saturday each month at 11 a.m. and Sunday at 11 a.m. and 7:40 p.m. Rev. W. S. Griffith is pastor. Sunday school begins at 10:80 a.m. with R. Hilsabeck as superintendent. Prayer meeting occurs each Sunday at 7:30 p.m.
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