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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1902
Page
5
A string of brief notices lists individuals traveling for business or visiting relatives in towns such as Appleton City Kansas City Marshall and Jefferson City. It notes transfers at Missouri Pacific Conductor Lowmiller and multiple residents visiting family events or staying with kin in towns including Sedalia and Chanute Kas.
In Judge Rogers's court this afternoon John W. Flippen was dismissed from the charge of stealing James Cronin's horse.
Roy Lange, the Seenfritz building elevator boy, has resigned. Hallie Reeves will succeed him as elevator operator at the office tower.
Queen City Implement at 214 East Second street advertises standard mowers rakes hay loaders and presses for sale. The listing highlights durable yard and farming tools aimed at farmers and homeowners seeking reliable equipment.
Mr Grant of Duroc Arkansas will replace S P P Weller as master mechanic at the Missouri Pacific shops on September 1. Weller will move to DeSoto.
Directors of the convention hall association met this morning and approved The Carnival of the Centuries for September 8 to 13 on the vacant lot at Fourth and Lamine streets. A ladies committee tied to the enterprise will meet at 4 p.m. tomorrow.
Sedalia dyeing shop announces a new delivery wagon and offers free estimates to inspect goods. They provide prompt dyeing cleaning and repairing with free home delivery. Office located at 219 South Lamine Street and Queen City telephone 316.
A special meeting of Prairie Queen Lodge No 25 1 O F will be held next Tuesday evening to decide upon matters of importance.
Mrs William Courtney and her children left Monday for Holden Missouri for a several week visit. Miss Estelle Walters and Miss Jennie Walters of St Louis who had spent a week with Miss Lillian Klink returned home Tuesday. Major General George H Scott of Toledo Ohio is in the city on a tour of inspection of the uniform rank Knights of the Maccabees.
George Goetz father of Al Goetz is praised as one of the finest mechanics in the city. He was mentioned for his professional skill rather than being a driver of a ten cent delivery wagon as claimed in yesterday's Sentinel.
The Century theatre in St. Louis hosts Jane Kennark's tour of Under Two Flags on September 7 with Kansas City Omaha and Denver to follow. The production, identical to a ten month New York run, features three car loads of scenery and original effects cited as top tier stagecraft. Miss Kennark and company arrive September 4 as manager Wood proclaims the show the greatest scenic production to visit the West.
A telegram to Miss Elvina Schenck from Mrs. John Wilhite informed of the death of her father H. A. Schencek in Evansville Indiana. Schenck was visiting Bunceton Missouri and was telegraphed for this afternoon. She will arrive tonight from Bunceton and depart for Evansville. Schenck had been staying with Mrs. Wilhite for two months.
Principea and Miraposia hear voices from an elevator shaft and fear scandal as they investigate the flat below. Harold McSwat greets them in a building where Miss Flatdweller has won a ping pong game, leaving the spinster sisters to retreat in embarrassment and reflection.
George B Goodrich advertises thorough well and cistern cleaning at affordable prices. Located at Eighteenth and Marvin with Bell Telephone 176 for contact.
The W E Bard Drug company announces the celebrated Hud nut line of perfumes described as the finest quality yet offered in Sedalia.
Harry Berry, a colored man, fined $1 and costs for assaulting a young colored child named Calvin Burton. The lad paid the fine.
The case of Dan Jennings for throwing a rock through a car window was continued in the same court until Tuesday, September.
A severe electrical storm last night struck the water works in Sedalia and burned out a transformer. All areas served by the company were left in darkness as a result of the outage.
The Young Peoples Society of the German Evangelical church will host an ice cream social Thursday night at George Fisher's residence at Fifth and Grand Avenue. An excellent program has been arranged and all are welcome.
Surveyors on the Colorado line have sat idle at Cole Camp for weeks. If the road aims to be ready by next April, little time remains. Rumors suggest a potentially interesting new deal may be in the works.
During the Elks grand lodge meeting in Salt Lake City the auditing committee reported a shortage of 16000 dollars hidden by years of gradual loss. Omaha reports Cronk asserts all Elks funds are intact and deposited in Meadville and New York drafts after personally checking the accounts.
Elmer Rhine once famed for selling corpses to a Kirksville medical college is described as in a sad condition at his parents home ten miles north of Sedalia. He has worked in the undertaking trade in El Paso and other southern points. Reports note rambling talk and serious mental strain with rumors of a recent marriage to a Frenchwoman, though details are unclear. Relatives say he does not expect to return to Texas.
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