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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1899
Page
4
Showers are forecast this afternoon and tonight with clearing later. Saturday looks fair in most areas and warmer conditions will occur in the eastern portion.
An editor letter explains tomorrow’s election on funding original $20 000 school bonds issued in 1859. The proposal would refund $17 000 at 4 percent, pay $3 000 on July 1, and retire the debt by 1906 through a sinking fund, reducing interest from about $7 500 to roughly $2.2.
The column lists several residents and visitors including Mrs Bettie Gentry who is improving after illness. Visitors include Miss Gussie Beha from Boonville and Mrs A H Barnes visiting the Shultz family. Rev C C Schmidt from St Louis will preach at the German Lutheran church and Mrs Levens contemplates Seda lia as a home. Travelers include Jacques Weill heading east and plans to reopen the Model later with stock. Local sickness reports mention several workers with fevers and illnesses at Sweeny and nearby areas.
Colonel John O Day reports to the Springfield Commercial club that bondholders accept terms for extending the Bagnell branch of the Missouri Pacific railroad from Bagnell through Dallas county to Springfield and toward the Arkansas line. Dallas county's $250000 bonded debt includes $100000 to aid the extension. An election to approve terms is anticipated.
A telegram from Albuquerque dated June 13 reports Mike Moss an engineer for the Santa Fe Railroad died in a city hospital from a gunshot wound suffered near Albuquerque last Saturday. Moss intervened in a fight between his fireman R E McCutcheon and a watchman Lawrence Burns when a gun fired wounding Moss. Moss called the shooting accidental before his death and McCutcheon faces manslaughter charges.
Conductor Isaac Turner of the MKT has been reinstated and will take his old High line accommodation run tomorrow. He will relieve Conductor DeHaven, who returns to his through freight assignment.
The Saline County Telephone Company organizes with 25000 capital and buys the Slater exchange. Plans include building toll lines to Blackburn Miami Sweet Springs and other county towns. Directors: Judge James Cooney Wm A Beatty R E Holloway Ed H Mitchell Arthur E Houston A A Wallace and John F Eubank of Slater.
Windows at the rear of W. J. Letts' grocery showed missing putty last night, and authorities believe an attempted burglary occurred. No entry was reported and no items were taken.
Miss Rebecca Nickles died near Jamestown and relatives from Sedalia attended the funeral. Fred Rombach wed Elizabeth Watcher in California with Rev. Umbeck officiating. Local clubs added two Woodmen members and fielded a lively ball game between the Perfectos and Have Beens. Numerous visits, relocations, and plans for mining growth are noted across California Missouri.
The notice promotes placing ads in the Sentinels Want Column to reach 2,500 homes daily at a quarter for twenty words, three times. It highlights the low cost and wide reach for selling, renting, or exchanging items.
A lively day game saw the Perfectos triumph 12 to 10 with both sides committing errors. Nora Kitty Lindsay and her young son Philip from Sedalia visited friends here last week. J. L. Wood of Harsburg, Missouri, was in town on Monday.
Mrs. Sarah Long died suddenly at her home near Lookout on Tuesday morning aged 63. Her son found her asleep with a turkey wing fan in hand after offering water at midnight. Remains were taken to Pilot Grove on Wednesday to lie beside her husband. Deceased had many friends in Pettis county.
M. T. Slane is improving and expanding his home on West Fifth street, adding unspecified enhancements to the property.
Advertisement policy announced for the column promising three insertions of Wanted For Sale For Rent and Lost and Found items at twenty five cents per group with a word limit set.
Classified notices show a parlor heating store for sale, an exchange offer of 80 acre farm at 15 per acre or 500 acres pasture at 8 per acre with cash difference, cattle pasture wanted near town, a cheap five room house for rent or trade, and inquiries for a saddler kit, a Sedalia home, and western land with title.
Lapres Bring or send your ad dress to Miss Lulu B. Williams 139 W Cooper street for shampooing 25 cents. WANTED to buy a second hand light spring wagon Must be in good order and cheap M M Crowe t 307 E 14th St Want TEep At Kaisers restaurant No 116 East Second street two dining room girls Apply at once.
The grade of Grand avenue between Fourth and Seventh streets is being revised. A mud hole in front of Dr. Carter's residence at Seventh and Grand has been filled. Hugh C. Satterthwaite is named administrator of Susan Shaw's estate. Edward Urley laid a granite sidewalk on Grand avenue with curbing and a parked place. Thieves entered the home of Andy Krumm and two brothers at Pilot Grove, stealing five suits of clothes. The Bunceton fair will be August 30 31 and September 1. Constable Talliaferro underwent another surgical operation in Otterville. The assignee sold Geo Friedmeyer's stock to Henry Friedmeyer for 1400 to satisfy creditors.
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