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located by Dov Gutterman, 24 December 2002
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A red-white-blue tricolor, white stripe wider and containing the county seal - an illustration of a the county court house, with a blue and red star to the sides, and a blue ring around with 15 white stars. JASPER COUNTY in black above the seal, and 1841 below.
From http://www.joplinglobe.com/archives/2001/010115/regional/story3.html (no
longer available):
Jasper County flag to be unveiled, unfurled: Ceremony to mark county’s 160th
birthday
By Susan Redden, Globe Staff Writer
CARTHAGE, Mo. — Jasper County has a county flag that will be unveiled, and
unfurled, at the county’s 160th birthday celebration later this month. Plans for
a county flag started years ago, and the County Commission in December spent
$1,400 to order 12 flags. The red, white and blue flag has the county courthouse
as a centerpiece, surrounded by 15 stars representing the county’s 15 townships;
below it is the year 1841, when the county was founded.
The commission started work on the new flag more than two years ago at the
suggestion of Marjorie Bull, then county clerk. “She had said for years that the
county should have a flag to commemorate its history,” said Anna Ruth Crampton,
Western District commissioner. The work started with a request that students in
Jasper County schools, during the 1998-99 school year, submit suggested designs
for the flag. Responses came from only one group, sixth- and seventh-grade
students of Pamela Paige at the Joplin Junior High School gifted center. Designs
from those students were passed on to Carthage artist Andy Thomas. “The design
is a combination of input from a number of people,” said Danny Hensley,
presiding commissioner. “Steve Weldon (county archivist) also helped. We ended
up with several designs, and county officials voted on them.”
Flags will be flown at six county buildings. Four are in Carthage: the
courthouse; the jail and sheriff’s office; the annex building that contains the
health department and records center; and the annex building shared with Bank of
America. The others are in Joplin: the county courts building and the juvenile
detention center. Twelve flags were purchased as the minimum order, Crampton
said. Additional flags, if needed, will cost about $80 each. Jasper County joins
Joplin, which adopted its own city flag several years ago.
Dov Gutterman, 24 December 2002