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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1901
Page
8
Granite Lodge No. 272 A F and A M will meet tomorrow Monday at 7 30 PM in special communication for work in the second degree All master Masons are fraternally invited J H Johnson W M S M Hodges Secretary
All members of the Woodmen of the World are asked to gather at the hall at 1 30 p m today for the funeral of Sovereign Ver ney Wine. Con. Com T J Robb and Clerk Eb Shields oversee arrangements.
Company D of the Second regiment N G M plans a large masquerade at Liberty Park on January 23. Forty company members in masque will attend with many outsiders. A Tuesday night meeting will appoint an arrangements committee and Gregg's orchestra will provide music.
Miss Nora Smith works as stenographer for an oil company in Kansas City at 2.00 dollars daily. Miss Lelia Rowe at Phoenix in Muskogee. J. T. Ricks, Vinita college commercial head, visited. Ehrett Hughes, International Correspondence Schools manager in Milwaukee, on leave at home. Mrs Guemple at Simmons Hardware in St. Louis. Harry Rider home from Hillsboro Texas with a 75 dollar monthly job. Milo Blair, governor Porter’s assistant secretary at Muskogee, earns 85 dollars monthly. Mr and Mrs Hill attend a St. Louis convention seeking better instruction for students. Telephone 52 or Hill's Practical Business College, Corner Sixth and Ohio Streets.
A playful, non factual verse features a dog asking what the hen is doing in the coal bin. The hen replies that it is a chance to lay in koal and a moral distracts with a phone number and catchy lines.
George J. Taylor, veteran editor of the Knob Noster Gem, has been elected worshipful master by his Masonic brethren. He is highly deserving of the honor. Fancy bon bons and chocolates from 25c up at Walch's.
Friday evening Miss Beatrice Beas entertained a company of friends at her East Broadway home in honor of Misses Lottie and Willella Palmer of Warsaw. Guests included Annie Owens Hallie Berthoux Ruth Spicer Leta Anderson Sadie Woods Valley Teeling and Messrs John Hill Garnet Shrike Ed Craven William Reichel Charles Selby Hershel Ford and Kirk Anderson.
Harmony Baptist Association met in Green Ridge for a quarterly convention and board meeting. The schedule included sermons by Rev. C A Buchanan and a string of devotional exercises, Sunday school talks, and discussions on church organization and youth involvement through December 28.
Stanley and Miss Jessie Kennedy are noted alongside Cornelius Stanley in a regional gathering. The convention ends tonight with a sermon by Rev. Zeb Thomas.
Esquire William Lovelace of Beaman township visits Beaman as eleven justices of the peace cope with a halted case. A jury sat ready but officers struggled to prepare amid a storm. The defendant sought a later continuance and the case was removed. Lovelace notes that even judges face delays.
Friday afternoon a surprise birthday party was held for Edith Hesler at her home on South Massachusetts Street to mark her tenth birthday. Guests included Corinne Lewis, Helen Rapple, Maude Walker, Leda and Maude Leffler, Latonie Leece, Ethel Anderson, Gertrude Oman, Hazel Hesler and Master Gerald Hesler.
Friday afternoon Miss Nina Harris hosted the Adagio club on West Sixth street. Miss Lovie Lee won first prize a atomizer in high five. Miss Blanche Imhoff received guest prize and Miss Kathryn Cassidy won the second club prize. Kathryn Cassidy was reelected president and Mary Curran secretary.
Mrs James Dunning of Deepwater Henry County died in the Nevada asylum after a revival meeting near her home left her in emotional distress over her children’s spiritual welfare. She suffered hysterics for some time before death.
H. W. Servant proprietor of the Arlington is reported improving after several days at home with pneumonia.
D. Appleton & Co. publish The Teller the sole other work by Edward Noyes Westcott author of David Harum. The volume offers a bank life informed romance with a brief biography and authentic portrait of Westcott making it a seller appeal. Available for $1.00 from booksellers or publishers in New York.
The La dies' Home Journal plans full page illustrations by Maxfield Parrish of Eugene Field poems for children. The project celebrates a Missouri childhood day honoring Field and features works like Little Boy Blue Wynken and Nod Seein Things at Night and A Little Peach in an Orchard Grew. The Sentinel notes the popular Kids of Many Colors from Jamieson-Higgins drawing strong praise from several papers.
The Diamond Necklace from J. B. Lippincott is hailed as an absorbing year’s read. Newly discovered Paris documents reveal details on a romance set in French court life, blending history and fiction valued by readers and writers.
A vivid English translation by H. Sutherland Edwards presents the long concealed relationship between Marie Antoinette and the Cardinal de Rohan. The cloth-bound volume with gilt top retails for $1.50 and promises a page turning narrative that can’t be put down.
Caroline Atwater Mason presents the tale set in Holland and France during the mid sixteenth century. Charlotte de Bourbon, a French princess, weds William of Orange, the Nether lands’ deliverer, with dramatic historic detail drawn from original documents. Published by Griffith & Rowland Philadelphia at 1.25 dollars.
Sedala Printing Company secured the contract to print Archias Seed store’s annual catalog, edging out other Sedalia firms and Kansas City rivals. The 50 plus page catalog will be more refined and richly illustrated than previous editions.
The Jolly Twenty club members met at Mrs. J. P. Valentine's home on Friday evening to discuss plans for an open session to be scheduled in the near future.
Pettis county court has caused to be sent to each township officer concerned in the Barnett law. The notice urges immediate action and references legal requirements for compliance.
A fragment notes a notice in the criminal costs collection urging recipients to call and settle, with the date reference stating the first Monday in January as the designation. The text is incomplete but suggests a debt collection or court-related settlement outreach.
Dr. W. M. Carter and his wife entertained members of the U P S C E of the First Christian church and the doctor’s Sunday school class Friday evening at their West Seventh street home.
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