Missouri Pacific to end doubleheading on trains systemwide
News from Missouri Pacific reports an imminent order to stop the practice of two engines on long freight trains across the system. The measure follows growing use and is not favored by the railroad. Hospital arrivals list multiple workers and laborers from Denison Waco and Greenville. A separate note covers a fire at M K T machine shops in New Franklin and depot completion at Waco Texas.
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Chicago, Ill
Alton
Santa Fe
Waco
Texas
Railroad workers face layoffs and travel notes in Missouri Pacific region
Brakeman Gardener and extra brakemen Pryor and Wilch with the Katy and Missouri Pacific are laid off. A. M. Harris lays off due to daughter’s illness. Pat Cormany leaves for Moberly to help his sick father. Meade Stilwell, M P division superintendent, arrives from St. Louis. Calef and Kunkler ride east. Morseman and Stewart travel east aboard No. 6 and other trains.
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Gardener
Katy
G. W. Ott
Pryor and
Wilch
Missouri Pacific
A. M. Harris
Pat Cormany
Moberly
M. W. Cadle
B. of L. E
Atchison, Kas
East Sedalia
Meade Stilwell
Teachers depart for Detroit meeting of association
Professors G. V. Buchanan and G. L. Coleman and Misses left at noon for Detroit Michigan to attend a meeting of the Teachers association.
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Detroit, Mich
The
Teachers’ Association
G. V. Buchanan
G. L. Coleman
Burglar Steals Watch From Johns Residence
A burglar entered the home of C. E. Johns on Ohio and Jefferson while the family was away Saturday. After ransacking the house, the thief took a gentleman's gold watch and other trinkets. A lady's watch was left behind. The theft occurred early that evening near a nearby store.
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C. E. Johns
Individual Communion Adopted by Fifth Street Church Sedalia
The Fifth Street M E South in Sedalia becomes the first church here to use individual communion cups. A unanimous official board decision ordered forty cup trays and the first such communion will be on the first Sunday in August. Also noted were six additions to First Congregational and two at Broad Way Presbyterian at morning service.
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Sedalia
Fifth Street
M. E
First Congregational
Broadway Presbyterian Church
Sedalia Youth Fined After Slapping Girl in Mouth
George Gammon, a Clinton youth, slapped a Sedalia girl for cussing him and was fined five dollars in police court. He paid three and was released. Henry Tucker, a colored cook at a Sedalia hotel, drew a knife on associates Sunday morning, was fined twenty five dollars and costs and ordered to leave the city in fifteen minutes. Charles Mason was dismissed on the charge of disturbing the peace.
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George Gammon
Clinton
Sedalia
Henry Tucker
Charles Mason
Colored man sentenced for disturbing peace
Nels Byers, a Black man, received a five day county jail sentence this morning from Judge Kinsey for disturbing the peace of Lizzie Emerson, a Black woman.
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Nels Byers
Kinsey
Lizzie Emerson
Ministers Plan Sunday Union Meeting Amid Summer Heat
Several ministers arrange for a union meeting on Sunday evenings during the hot weather. The gatherings are expected to be held in a downtown church.
Death of David Weikal Prominent Pettis County Farmer
David Weikal longtime Pettis County farmer died at his Lamonte area home Sunday night at eight o clock from Brights disease. Born November 9 1843 in Pennsylvania he married Mary E Moore in 1865 and moved to Missouri in 1870 settling near Lamonte buying 126 acres. He left a wife and several children. funeral held at the Christian church at 3 this afternoon.
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Mary E. Moore
Ohio
Missouri
Lamonte
Cripple Creek
Colo
Christian Church
Windsor firefighters respond to meadow and pasture fires
Windsor residents were called out twice in recent days to tackle blazes in meadows near the town and to one near a High Line locomotive’ s spark in Dave Cooper s pasture three miles west of Windsor on Sunday.
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Windsor
Dave Cooper
Royal Tribe of Joseph member to visit headquarters
Fred Tegler returns from a long Kansas and Territory trip to meet at the headquarters offices during W B Challacomb's absence. Challacomb, his wife, and Ernest Henney with his wife of St Louis leave tomorrow for Salida Colorado for three weeks.
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Fred Tegler
Kansas
Joseph
W. B. Challacomb
Ernest Henney
St. Louis
Salida
Colo
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Bright
Mr. Weikal
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Sedalia, Mo
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Sedalie
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