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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1900
Page
2
The speaker accuses a city financial report ending November 30 1900 of garbled data and raises concerns about $15000 revenue bonds, unpaid warrants over 25000, and misallocated funds with calls for an expert audit by Harry Carpenter and full detail on nine city treasury accounts.
An advertisement invites customers to browse a fine line of jewelry with a guarantee on every article. The retailer listed is J. L. Kautzman located at 104 West Main.
Sedalia churches plan festive Christmas programs with broad services. Broadway Presbyterian Church presents a 4 PM Christmas concert featuring Dudley Buck works, Combs pieces, Bach postlude, and a mixed choir with named soloists and organist. Regular services follow on Sunday. First Christian church holds a morning service with organ music, hymn, invocation, anthem, and scripture.
The Sentinel lists contestants in a school contest with vote counts and a Christmas program list featuring hymns solos duets and anthems by various performers and a church organ with musical pieces and readings. It names Mrs H MacGugin Amanda Hart Linnie Gold Mrs C A Chapel and Mrs W D Steele among performers and includes postludes and offertories.
An advertisement lists Thomas as a dealer and repairer of engines and machinery with tools and plows, plus choir members and organists. It also covers Calvary Church Advent and Christmas services, First Congregational Church musical program details, German Evangelical Christmas mass, and East Broadway Christian Church Christmas service times with expected sermons.
The bar and Bible school schedule includes a 9 30 a m start for Bible school and a 2 p m Christmas rehearsal. Evening worship at 6 30 with youth meetings and leaders listed. Preaching at 11 a m and 7 30 p m with special music featuring multiple singers. Sunday school at 9 30 and junior union at 3. The Birds Christmas Carol tableaux will be performed Monday at First Congregational with carols and an anticipated surprise.
T O Stanley of Sedalia Mo leaves for Muskogee to join the Dawes commission surveying lands in the Indian Territory and allotments to Indians. The eight year Pettis County surveyor was defeated for re election last November but gains a prestigious role. Stanley, a leader in Missouri road and bridge work and president of the Missouri Good Roads association, aided by Senator Cockrell, departs December 27 for duties at Muskogee.
Public notice encourages readers to prepare for an upcoming year by purchasing new stationery. Fisher Printing Co. located at 119 East Second Street promotes stationery, blotters, envelopes, and letter heads with telephone contact 149 for orders.
A local stand offers fine smoking tobacco and cigars including pipes and lamps at Spreeher’s stand in the Sicher Hotel. Items range from fancy to plain, with emphasis on quality tobacco and smoking accessories.
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