J.W.BLANKENSHIP DIES. Webb City,Mo.,Dec.25--Joseph W.Blankenship of Carthage,65 years old,died at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the Jasper County Tuberculosis hospital.Blankenship,a miner,had been sick three years and at the hospital a month and a half.He is survived by his wife,Mrs.Anna Blankenship of Carthage.Funeral arrangements are incomplete.The body was taken to the Knell mortuary at Carthage. ( Joplin Globe 25 Dec.1926)