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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1899
Page
4
Fair in the east with possible snow flurries in the west tonight and Sunday. Continued cold conditions expected. Furnished by the Weather Bureau under the secretary of agriculture.
Chicago note recalls Nina Van Zandt once married by proxy to anarchist August Spies before his execution. She later wed Phano Malato, lived abroad, and returned to Chicago. The item also cites a 1593 locomotive production figure and foreign orders.
A London News report notes Sunday hours and crowds at the British Museum, detailing attendance of 1,785 on Whitsunday and 1,256 the prior Sunday. Visitors including children admire mummies, while some express horror at the idea of becoming a mummy, reflecting on the living experience vs eternal preservation.
At Plymouth church Dr. E K Cressey recalls a boyhood prank by Henry Ward Beecher. Beecher promised to take responsibility for a playful riot led by his friends and presented Mrs Cressey with her hairbrush as a humorous pledge. Beecher went unspanked.
The First M. E. church will hold watch night services Sunday night starting at 9 o clock and continuing past midnight to usher in the new year. Rev Bitler invites all congregations without similar observances to attend and participate.
Elected officers for the Cumberland Presbyterian Y P S C E will be installed January 6 at the regular meeting. St Gallie is president with Mary Bowers as vice president Jewel Luckett treasurer Mae Satterwhite recording secretary and Besse Bowers corresponding secretary.
The note reports a Sunday schedule with a forenoon Lord's Supper for those who missed Christmas observance and an evening song service featuring vocal solos duets mixed and male choir numbers and organ builder band pieces. It promises listeners a rare treat.
Rev. Putman will preach at the First Christian church on Sunday delivering two New Year sermons. The morning topic is Forgetting the Things Behind and the evening topic is The Old and the New.
The First Congregational preaching at 11 a.m. features the old year sermon Behold It Was Very Good. The evening subject, 1800-1900 a Century of Expansion, reflects on a century of growth.
At the First Baptist church Rev. Fuller will preach in the morning on The Two Gifts. In the evening he will speak on A Good Resolution.
Week of Prayer moves through seven services at the M E Church South beginning Sunday night January 7. Community participants invited to attend each evening through the week.
Services in K P hall at 11 a m with Sabbath school at 12 m announced by the Christian Science Society noting location at 11q4 E Fifth and schedule for the Sabbath.
In Austin Texas on December 30 a contract between American Car and Foundry of St Louis and Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad for rolling stock worth 1 million dollars was filed. The deal covers 1240 box cars 60 000 pounds capacity 100 furniture cars 45 feet long 200 furniture cars 50 feet long and two coal cars 50 000 pounds capacity. Payments are spread over sixty installments.
The Columbia Statesman notes two popular Katy conductors. Harvey Smith remains a passenger conductor between Sedalia and St. Louis and appears young and content.
Joe P. Herrington, a well known passenger agent on the M K T railroad, is laid off due to poor case. He has a son at Drury College this winter and hopes he will join the University next year. He is popular with officials and the public.
J L Russell, a popular Katy road engineer, visited Windsor then Sedalia. J Gerlach of the Missouri Kansas & Texas at Denison resumes duties Jan 1 after recovery. Five thousand head Rankin cattle moved from Texas to Atchison county, via 250 cars and eight double header trains plus two of fifteen cars, costing nearly $20,000 to Santa Fe and Burlington. A Missouri patent aims to deter daylight train robbery with an in engine dynamo and a blast of light to expose robbers.
Mrs Lelia M. Kidd is at Longwood to be with her mother Mrs 8 F Major who is reported very ill.
Forest Winston Dadly, 17, son of Wm Winston of Blackwater township, was thrown from his horse and dragged by a stirrup. He was found unconscious in the highway, with injuries not necessarily serious.
Hon Geo Mitchell of Climax Springs reports a Camden county boom in mines and minerals unmatched in the state. The southeast county district fills with miners prospectors and capitalists from across the country. Rich lead and zinc ore have been struck in township 36 range 15 and nearby townships, just seven to twenty feet from the surface. Old miners say they are the richest yet discovered. Landowners can profit through development or selling to capitalists paying large cash prices.
J M Planck visited Kansas City today and Judge W S Shirk returned from St. Louis. Miss Nettie Kennedy left for a visit in Kansas City. R H Beard of the Missouri Pacific freight is laying off. H E Morseman from the Pacific Express arrived from St. Louis. James Nall and others returned from Liberty Mo where they visited her mother. Miss Pearl Evans and Miss Flora Hoberecht of Sedalia are guests of T T Brown Clinton Democrat. Prof Phil Perry of Kansas City visits his father on Broadway and Kentucky. Holsman Hartenbach and Brandt returned from Windsor after a society dance. J H Park of St Louis visited briefly with Capt Sam W James while en route from Clinton to St Louis. Mr and Mrs Van Orden of Brazil arrived, with their daughter-in-law Mrs A E Van Orden of Appleton City, who had been visiting. Van Orden has done missionary work in southern Brazil for about twenty years. G W Major formerly man-
A Sedalia born hardware dealer now in Stillwater Okla arrives in Leeton to take over his brother S L Major in the S W Major Sons hardware firm, continuing the family business.
A health boosting grain based drink marketed as a coffee substitute for children. Grain-O costs 15c to 25c and is sold by all grocers.
Starting November 12 the Frisco line will offer Observation Sleepers on daily runs between St Louis and San Antonio adding a new feature to Southwest travel.
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