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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1913
Page
2
Dr F H Riney of Manefield Missouri seeks twelve gourds suitable for drinking cups. Either this year or last year’s gourds acceptable and will pay a reasonable price. Mountain Grove now reports a glove and overall factory.
Very warm and dry conditions greet farmers cutting corn though yields are below ideal. Typhoid fever weakens Lewia Rayborn but shows partial recovery. Sunday school at Green Mountain grows. visits from Misses Lucy and Bertha Shaw. Chas Pruitt teaches at Dewey School. meetings at Dutchtown aim to save souls. Funeral for a young child at Will Worsham’s, rest with family and church. Written by a sister of Green Mountain Church.
Special correspondence notes preaching on the fourth Sunday at Ashley church and singing every second fourth and fifth Sunday evenings. Mentions Mrs Will Crippen visiting John Frye's, services at the Baptist church, apple cutting at Lee Pope's, social visits at Lon Smith's and Anderson's, and ongoing rain hopes. Dena Shreves and Pearl Shreves Kelley of Kansas City visiting Shreves. Byron Shanes and wife to Texas. Everett Spence cutting corn for his father Samuel. Rain was enjoyed and hoped for more.
Rev Joseph Davis of the Cumberland Presbyterian church ends another year of service this month and will attend the presbytery next month at Mountain Dale. He has completed years at Seymour Mount Comfort Pleasant Grove and Mansfield, preaching about 43 years. The Mansfield Second Annual Agricultural and Stock Show catalogues are ready. 3,000 copies printed free for distribution. Also request 25 cents to send Mirror to a friend for 3 months.
Save those good products of the soil and of the hand for exhibition at Mansfield's second annual agricultural and stock show to be held September 24 to 27, 1918.
Special correspondence notes farmers nearly finished with corn harvest after a good rain on Monday. Local residents and visitors are mentioned, with a death of a 15 month old child of Will Worsham and wife after a convulsion. The article includes church notices for Friendship Baptist church with service times and pastor Rev. W S Griffith.
H B Weed rents bank block for a new telephone office and moves the exchange. Robert Davis buys W H Hart barber shop equipment and plans a local opening. Mr Hart conducts a private sale and will relocate to Missoula Montana. Rev W I Anderson speaks at G A R Hall and plans Christian church meetings. Farm product entries urged for the fair with proper tagging. Mountain Grove leaders discuss reunion details for September 22 to 27. Frisco day will feature speakers at the Manatfield show. Paul Evans of Mountain Grove State Fruit Experiment Station forecasts a strong fall exhibit following last year’s success.
W Horace Fullington leaves today for Bolivar to attend college. The Mirror pledges to keep Wright county informed about its activities and progress.
Rain Sunday and Monday leaves site dry. Mrs J R Pool improves. Miller family at Ann Rippee. Foss Newton and wife back from Kansas. Berry Brasher and wife visit BH. J Pool’s family hosts singing at No 5. Gaskill couple at J R Pool’s. Fannie Cunningham returns from Kansas. Gibbs.
Wolf Creek notes Sunday school at the old log church every Sunday morning. Freewill Baptist church holds service every third Saturday and Sunday led by Rev Findley. Holiness church also hosts Sunday school each Sunday with James Iva as superintendent.
Special correspondence reports preaching at the Baptist church each first Saturday at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. and Sunday at 11 a.m. by Rev. G. Chadwell, pastor. Everyone invited. Macomb Methodist Episcopal also holds services on the second and fourth Sundays each month with Sunday school every Sunday.
The Ozarks offer ideal grazing land and climate for all livestock. The region supports year round maintenance without heavy shelter, boosts cattle fattening in southern Missouri, and drives rural development. Cattle hogs sheep and goats are bred here, with sheep farming expanding.
The Ozarks center earns fame as the land of big red apples with Elberta peaches, strawberries, grapes, plums, and pears. Southeast Missouri ships melons and tomatoes for shipping and canning. Horticulture and dairying are leading Ozark industries with vast potential yet unexplored.
A lumber car left the Frisco house track on Tuesday afternoon but was moved back onto the rails after considerable persuasion and puffing by an engine.
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