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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1906
Page
8
Wheat and oats futures drifted with July and May contracts listed beneath mixed open and close quotes. Hog trade in Chicago leaned higher with light and heavy weights quoted around 6.05 to 6.32 while cattle held steady. Regional totals show thousands traded in Kansas City and St. Louis with modest gains indicated.
Barney Hughes, a 108 year old in the district jail for habitual drunkenness, is granted special privileges for his birthday. Gifts arrive from well wishers as Hughes recalls the War of 1812 with clear detail.
The executive committee met at George Anamosa law office and chose Ernest F. Van Wagner for city collector after Dr George Major declined. J H Kruse will not run for city assessor and L K Friemel was selected to fill that vacancy on the ticket.
Miss Stella Hurley visits Fort Scott guests Miss Bess Hail. Estelle Agee of Lamonte visits. D A Essex ill at home. Hon J H Bothwell returns from St Louis. Mrs C A Raum to Columbia. F L Wright visits Smithton. Mrs E H Hasenwinkle shops here. W J Sears leaves for California. Mrs Rick Lovelady visits relatives. George Lightner a Hill's student staying with relatives at Harrisonville. W C Terry of Lamonte and cousin Guy Terry in city on business. J B Smith returns from Lamonte and Knob Noster. J E McCormick returns from Green Ridge. Beulah and Kathryn Shouse depart for Higginsville. Mrs E F Van Wagner and Dorothy return from Windsor. Rev G H Ayres to preach at Second Congregational. R W Criffith returns from Warrensburg. Hazel Rush ill with mumps. F G Thurman leaves for Mek Kittrick. Mrs Lovell Shockey from Warrensburg visits mother. Mrs Tuckley returns from Sedalia. Mrs A C Jones departs for Lexington. Mrs Auburn Farris and child head to Indianapolis. Judge W R Terry of Fulton visits Lamonte and California relatives.
The Woman's Missionary society holds its semi annual praise service Sunday evening March 18 at Central Presbyterian church. A special program will be rendered by the children and a short sermon by the pastor. Everyone is invited.
The Missouri Pacific Railway reports a decrease in earnings according to a statement released yesterday. The release notes lower revenue factors but does not list specific figures or segments impacted.
New York dispatch reports Missouri stock fell to 95 amid poor interim financials. George Gould cites traffic and earnings losses from cold weather, floods, and yellow fever. Missouri Pacific 1905 earnings show gross 42,518,000 with net 12,341,000 and deficits versus 1904.
Andrew Hamilton appeared before the insurance investigating committee and blasted the New York Life board as “curs and traitors.” He alleged all payments to him over ten years were approved by trustees and claimed the Paris account was audited and approved. He urged a bill to oust the current directors and reorganize the company.
The New York Central system closed options on 2 460 acres near Indianapolis for 650 000 dollars. 640 acres will host central repair shops to employ 1 000 men and the remainder will become a model railroad city. The project totals 3 500 000 dollars and Beech Grove will be platted as the town with yards for 40 000 cars.
William W. Townsend, foreman on the Michigan Central, discovered stock certificates valued at 35000 dollars belonging to J. C. Worthington of South Haven. Worthington hurried to Ann Arbor, offered Townsend 50 cents, Townsend refused, and Worthington rewarded him with a five cent cigar. Townsend has the cigar and tag reading Reward for finding 35000 dollars.
Jack Sullivan, a machinist at the Missouri Pacific shops, has resigned his position. B. G. Miller, the Missouri Pacific train dispatcher, left for a short visit at Boonville. Lexington branch passenger train No. 602 was about forty minutes late this morning. L. S. Eddins, railway accident insurance agent, left for Jefferson City on business. John Cashman, attorney for Missouri Pacific, left for St. Louis on company business. Harry King, a Kansas City telegraph lineman, is visiting his father Mike King, a switchman. A work train distributed ties for road improvements. Art Hawkin, Katy conductor on the north end, is off duty due to illness. Mike Boylan is on his run. M. Martensen, 2 shopmen for the ...
J. A. Folgar and Co advertise Folger brand Coffee available for two years and newly added Folger teas. They promise fine drinking quality at 25 or 50 cents a package with a money back guarantee if not the best you ever had.
Mrs John Montgomery Miss Gertrude Smith and Miss Minnie Potter will host a St Patrick's tea Saturday afternoon at Mrs Montgomerys East Broadway residence to benefit Broadway Presbyterian Church.
Tomorrow is St Patrick day and the Fflower Barnett Dry Goods Co shows an Irish themed window with turf and hedge. R A Dunlap decorates with green goods in a striking Sedalia window praised by the Man About Town. Thomas A McKee of Miss Bob White company plans Sedalia theatre appearance March 22 for the comic opera described as the opera without tights.
Philadelphia society leader Danel Hadock Carstairs will marry Miss Olivia Howard of Germantown next week after a recent divorce from his wife Mrs Dan Carstairs. Mrs Carstairs hosted Miss Howard at Red Gate, Germantown, and the marriage follows the dissolution of the first union. Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar is advertised as a cough remedy by W E Bard Drug Co.
J E Kidwell relocates his fruit, cigar and confectionery business from Houstonia to Sweet Springs, transferring the entire stock to the new location.
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