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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1901
Page
5
East Twelfth resident Miss Maggie Bremer plans a Tuesday evening gathering for friends on the occasion of her seventeenth birthday. Other items note cattle market activity, pension approval, local officials, a robbery arrest, hospital board meeting, and a physician's registration in Pettis county.
The State fair executive committee extended an invitation to Vice President Roosevelt for a visit on Tuesday September 10 with a favorable reply to follow. Engineer Kessler reports a track cost about 15000 and a completion goal of August 1. Horticultural and agricultural exhibits will use large tents as buildings cannot be ready this fall while the light horse and speed department leadership changes.
Local shoppers are urged to visit Carl A Guenther's for summer dress fabrics undergarments and bargains. Notable items include dresses corsets neckwear and lace curtains with prices cut below competing stores. Ott's Pharmacy and Marshall Howe Hardware promote drinks sodas and lawn equipment as part of a busy local commerce scene including visits by residents and out of town guests.
Memphis, Tennessee veterans returning from the U C V reunion discovered they had been defrauded by scalpers using forged tickets and false extensions of limits. The scheme caused serious inconvenience to many attendees over the past few days.
H Weiler Fleming won the Les Saintes bowling event at the Elite alley with a 673. Emil Ott and Lee Redmond shared first in seven up last week, splitting a 3 laundry value from Dorn and Cloney after each scoring 89. C E Baker led several other scores including 88 and 55.
Superintendent Cook, General Foreman George Gudgeon and Foreman Sherwood of the Western Union Telegraph company arrive with linemen to relocate the office from 114 East Third street to the new headquarters at 118 South Ohio street.
Mrs. J. M. Cannon will merge her two planned Thursday evening entertainments into one Friday event. This change follows a heavy schedule of social functions and the absence of several invited guests who are out of town.
M W A lodge No 2528 Hughesville formed a $40 purse at their last meeting to aid brother Thomas Bales after his wife’s sudden death.
The W. W. C. D. club enjoyed a Sunday outing on Flat creek banks near Smith. R. M. Rogers, a White man from Green Ridge, was arrested Saturday night found dead drunk in a wagon behind the Blue Grass saloon by Officers Mason and Eckhoff.
The article lists the party members as Mr. and Mrs. Don Reeves, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chatterton, Mr. Watt Williams and Miss Hazel Whistler as the attendees.
Excitement grows over gold discoveries in the Kiowa and Comanche Indian reservations near the Wichita mountains. Reported ore values reach 750 dollars in gold and 150 dollars in copper per ton as hundreds of claims are worked and a new district post office opens attracting many seekers.
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