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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1903
Page
8
Rain and wet grounds halted Missouri Valley league games yesterday. Tomorrow Springfield travels here for three games followed by a three game set with Joplin.
Southern railway passenger train jumped the track at White Pine Tennessee. Engineer Robert B Holloman of Knoxville was crushed to death. Injured included W S Staley of Lodge Staley and Bastion Knoxville fireman Edward Brazleton express messenger, Ben Whiteside baggagemaster, postal clerks F B Abernathy Salisbury NC R E L Mouncey Salisbury and Sylva Smith Knoxville. Rails torn up 200 feet and travel delayed over six hours.
The upcoming lecture course lists speakers and performers including Senator J. P. Dolliver Dr. Frank Bristol Westminster Abbey Glee and Concert company the Mendelssohn Quartette company Carnival of Entertainers and Mr P M Pearson for varied programs.
The Missouri Association of Opticians held its third annual meeting in the criminal court room this morning with about thirty delegates present at the opening session. Nicholas Rodiger, section 1 aborer, addressed attendees at a banquet tonight.
May 12 entries note Jamestown beginnings in 1707 and births of Manasseh Cutler in 1742. The text lists several names tied to railroads and labor, plus a meeting of opticians in Missouri with addresses to membership, lectures, and growth from four to sixty members. It also records historical milestones from Benedict Arnold to the Battle of Drury's Bluff in 1864.
The man calling himself Jim Parker, who says he tried to save President McKinley during the assassination in Buffalo, will visit Sedalia the following day.
A sequence of land and property transfers in Sedalia area towns including Green Ridge Blackwater Lamonte Smithton and Dresden. Transactions show buyer seller and prices from 800 to 10 000 with parcels on Sixth Seventh Fifteenth and Kentucky Streets among others.
Police announce Philip Germond son of a local Episcopal minister was arrested in Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania charged with forging checks. He reportedly operated in twenty five U S cities and cashed an eight hundred dollar check at Fulton Kansas in January using the forged signature of Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn.
With unexcelled facilities for handling all classes of laundry work the Monarch Laundry offers the public a service that is modern and perfect in every detail. CHAS. VAN ANTWERP, Prop. Phones 183.
The ladies of the First Christian church will serve supper in the church parlors tomorrow afternoon and evening from 5 to 10 o clock.
Ward Kellerman of Beaman filed the enumeration list of school district No. 13 with the county clerk. The notice mentions the Katy Flyer tourist sleeper leaving St Louis every Tuesday for California points aiding homeseekers and colonists.
The Burlington extends until June 15 the greatly reduced one way colonist rates to the Northwest and California. Savings of fifteen to twenty dollars available on tourist sleeper trips via Denver Colorado Salt Lake City Iona Idaho Washington Oregon and Puget Sound. Round trip rates to California from St Louis Kansas City and Chicago May 3 and May 12 to 18 with sixty day limit at 47.50 45 and 50 respectively.
Members of the Degree of Honor will be entertained Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Leslie Eisman on East Fifteenth Street.
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