Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-02-14
From Mountain Grove Journal

Jas. Newton, who recently sold his
Mansfield business, has bought the
Davis restaurant on Union Avenue
in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Stanton of
Bryant, No., are visiting here, hav-
ing been called on account OF the
illness of MIR. Stanton's mother.
Mrs. G. A. Stanton who had been
ack for the past week or more with
pneumonia, died at the family resi-
dence this, Thursday, morning short.
" before nine o'clock.
j. A. Chase made a trip to St.
Louis to attend u conference on Lib
erty Bond matters. He is chairman
of u block of south Missouri counties
in that branch OF war activity.
Earl Floyd, formerly of this city
but now with the 10th Engineers at
Camp Doniphan, Okla, was married
at Lawton, Okla, Jan. II, to Miss
Emily Kappelman OF Kansas City.
j. II. Robinett received a letter
Monday which stated that his son,
Frank, nov at Columbia, has been
accepted in the observation section of
the army aviation corps and placed
o the reserve list.
Joel Martin and son, from Nor
wood have leased H. J. Douglass
small farm on the western border of
the city and will engage in stock
here. They have been buying
in Norwood for a number of years.
Miss Bruffey visited Forest Hill
northeast of Norwood, on
Tuesday of this week in continuing
State Survey of rural schools for
county. She was much i'm
pressed with the good work being
done by the pupils and their teacher,
Mr.. Jesse Tate.
Eli Townsend, the Journal family's
BOY, though not yet 81, obtained pa
rental consent to enlist and last Sat
arday did so at Springfield, being
sent from there to Jefferson Bar
'acks. We understand that he is in
The coast artillery and likely to be
sent to some city in Virginia. Thus
he "a gets closer to all of us day
~ day.
A recent Red Cross shipment was
made which consists of % helmets
sweaters, % pairs of socks, a pair
If wristlets and "a suits of paiamas.
workers are busy making more
dressings and expect to
make a shipment in this line soon.
hey also have a consignment of cut
.arments which they are working ON
t present.
Lawrence Cassil, Will Quinn and
'alph Frisk, who recently enlisted
the U. S. Marine Corps, have been
o them and they were ordered to
eport at Kansas City. They left
or that place Sunday evening.
Cassil failed to pass the ex-
mination for the marines but was
pnt . to Jefferson Barracks Sun
ay night.
This mornings papers stated that
he big Cunard liner, Tuscania, car
wing 2,179 American soldiers, was :,
Drpedoed and sunk off the Irish
cast. Of those ON board 1912 are
saved and the officers are
onfident that all except those in .
lred by the explosion are safe.
van Chase of this city was on board, ]
ut his parents have not yet heard
him. +.
Mr.. c. A. Stephens of Mansfield
the high school on Tuesday of
lis week. His daughter, Vida, is
ere taking the commercial course in
lc high school. Mr.. Stephens was
superintendent Of the Mans
ED school, and though now engaged
business pursuits, still maintains a
interest in school work, espcc-
lily in the more practical phases like
numerical and industrial subjects.
The Wright County Medical Advi-
Try Board was in session in Noun F.,
in Grove last Thursday and passed ]
} five appeals from the Wright +.
ounty Board of Exemptions. The j
tier board has but II physician {
ID sent these drafted Young men ,
re for final examination, as they !
aimed exemption on various minor ,
The board here refused to s
ant it. The young men were: :
Roy Calvin, y
George Henderson Frye, .
Raymond L. Milton, d
Thomas Jefferson Strong, n
Houston Bolt. I
The executive committee of the Red n
'oss chapter here held a meeting d
morning and elected Clifford =
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