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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1902
Page
4
Dunksburg Doings reviews social visits and travels of residents. Visitors include A. T. Hughes from Warrensburg, Miss Fannie Vaughn returning home, Miss Stella Taylor to Lee's Summit, and Ethel Emerson from Thanksgiving in Kansas City. The report notes local gatherings, church events, and a Thanksgiving oyster supper with a charity auction of corn donated by William Files.
Geo Winston of Sweet Springs spent Sunday with his ill father. M F and B T Prigmore, notable Sweet Springs residents, visited here Sunday. W E Van Bibber and family shared Thanksgiving with relatives near Warrensburg. Endeavor held a pumpkin pie social at Mrs Rhodes home Thanksgiving evening. The M W A hosted an oyster supper with music by Ed Highley. about twenty five dollars was taken in. Grace Collins returned Sunday from Knob Noster after Thanksgiving.
W. F. Hansberger seeks a map and passage to the West offering 1500 dollars cash and a 4800 dollar annual salary to undertake two mail contracts. Quiet, steady applicant.
Drs. Dunkin osteopathic physicians advertise services at 22919 Hoffman Building. P A Cessna lists a new phone 272 for contact. Wood and coal are also promoted.
Ed A. Graf, superintendent of buildings and grounds at the Normal, wed Miss Minna B. Jerome in a 2 PM ceremony Wednesday at Graf’s home on the Normal campus. Graf, an expert landscape artist, has transformed the campus and earned the affection of Quarry City residents.
Washington reports physicians say ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed is steadily improving. Temperature 94, pulse steady, respiration 38. Arcemic symptoms abating, mind clear, nourishment retained. Doctors warn he remains within the danger line due to long standing kidney trouble.
Captain Stevens to conduct a horse sale at the old Hinsdale mule barn north of the Pacific tracks on Saturday. Fifty head of Western stock will be sold, consisting of working driving and riding horses with a few brood mares.
Mrs O M Barnett hosted a Wednesday afternoon euchre party for ladies on West Seventh Street in compliment to Mrs Jesse of Mexico. Six handed play determined the winner as Mrs Sylvan Kahn with dainty refreshments served.
Three calves were taken up along with two red heifers and one red and white male calf at the City Pound. The entry records indicate livestock impounded and awaiting disposition or surrender.
The Barbers' Local Union No. 259 held a Sedalia gathering at Pioneer hall to celebrate two years since founding. A program of addresses recitations and music entertained members with Williams' quartet and Ben McFadden's mandolin orchestra providing tunes.
Eugene Cowles led a trio at Wood's opera house with vocal, instrumental, and dramatic music. Encore after encore delighted a fair crowd, with Cowles’s deep controlled voice and his solo “Crossing the Bar” and “Forgotten” earning praise, and a grand opera duet from Les Huguenots by Mme Ciaparelli and Cowles called superb.
Taylor's Grocery markets a range of low price items including 60 bars Snap Soap, 11 bars for 25 cents, 66 inch gallons of light color sodium, 35 cents a gallon, 11 pounds sugar at 5 cents, 50 cent coffee sale, 25 cent coffee, Taylor's Cream Baking Powder in 10 cents and 25 cent cans. Located at 612 Ohio St, phones 144.
Arlington Pharmacy suggests Noxacold as a recommended relief for head colds. The note highlights a fast acting formula and availability at the store.
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