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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1900
Page
1
The Sedalia Sentinel urges police accountability on West Main Street to curb taverns and vice districts. It vows to press officials with an official investigation into alleged officer complicity and to demand enforcement actions to restore Main Street’s respectability.
Qajmett Hardin posted a $500 bond this morning and was released to appear before Judge Kinsey at 10 a m October 31 for a preliminary hearing on the grand charge.
Loeffier Guenther Shoe Company reports a large order from a major jobbing center for 500 cases of shoes valuing around $10,000. Dealers acknowledge the company’s good work and growing reputation.
James H Wallick stages his scenic production The Dairy Farm for a Saturday matinee and night showing at Wood's on October 27. The play, successful in New York and Chicago, draws comparisons to The Old Homestead and Shore Acres with a long cast led by comedian John Dillon.
The production is set between 1854 and 1856 in Hurley Ulster County New York before the war. Actresses wear period costumes such as hoopskirts chignons and pagoda sleeves. The show features old songs including Rosin the Bow The Needle's Eye and Backward Turn Backward along with traditional country games.
The convention hall committee reports over two hundred prizes for a town event. Prizes range from 500 to 100 dollars and donors will be listed later. Women volunteers drive the effort and a meeting with Prof Wilson as chairman is set for the High school afternoon to organize entertainment by Prof Calef and wife in psychic phenomena.
Veteran criminal Pat Clancy was found guilty of grand larceny in a Kansas City criminal court after a brief trial. The jury set his sentence at two years in the penitentiary, a lenient penalty attributed to his deteriorating health from consumption. Clancy testified between coughing fits denying the crime.
Congressman James Cooney will address a Democratic rally at the court house this evening on campaign issues. The event features the Second Regiment band and Democratic Glee Club with a large anticipated audience from Pettis County.
The Rev. J. S. Seibert resigns as pastor of Trinity English Lutheran church and will move with his family to North Platte Nebraska where he has accepted the pastorate of the First English Lutheran church. He will preach his farewell sermon Sunday evening. Rev R B Wolf of Eureka Kansas is invited to speak at the church on the first Sunday in November.
The German Evangelical Y P Society hosts a literary and musical program this Thursday evening at 8 o clock in the Sunday School hall. Young ladies will serve a supper from 5 o'clock on at the hall in the second story. Come one and all and enjoy yourselves.
Louis and Charles Hoffman returned from Columbia where they attended the Baptist churches of Missouri convention. They report good attendance and splendid meetings. The convention is still in session.
Prosecutor Steele announced the arrest of Sam Fell on three charges related to an affair in which he was implicated Tuesday night. The trial is set for November 1. Fell was also arrested on a city warrant.
Mrs H H Simmonds and children visit friends in St Louis. Mrs George Kieffer and daughter Gertrude and Miss Grace Lowe visited Warrensburg. Dr J Mustion returns from Kansas City to help his ill mother. A carnival ball planned for December 31 with union representation. Federation of Labor holds meeting with thirty five delegates and two guest speakers. Ed Donnelly L M Barnard Henry Otten and others named as carnival committee. Ed Love finds no sign of run away Bratton boy in Kansas City.
J M Thornton Missouri Pacific night ticket agent traveled to Lexington this morning with his mother and family to accompany the body of young Fred Thornton. The funeral procession left for Lexington with family members in attendance.
The body was transported from Pueblo, Colorado, to Nelson, Missouri, where burial service occurred this afternoon.
The TH WRG IN CONVENTION is holding its fourth annual district meeting in this city. Delegates from multiple chapters attend to discuss upcoming initiatives and district plans.
The fourth annual convention of the Third district Women’s Relief Corps convened in the R. T. J. hall with about one hundred attendees led by president Mrs Anna B Hinkle. Officers and delegates were seated, devotionals led, and reports reviewed including the St James Federal Home. An afternoon ritual exemplification and talks on patriotic teaching followed, with a social evening program planned featuring songs dances and recitations for George R Smith post G A R members and Sedalia corps delegates.
Pupils at Hill's College will meet Friday night to elect officers for their newly organized football team. They expect to assemble a strong squad and form a competitive unit.
William Montgomery of Owsley Missouri and Miss Mary Lumbaths of Belleville Illinois appear in a report detailing a婚Union or notable connection between residents of Johnson county Missouri and St Clair county Illinois.
Friday night the stonemasons and plasterers will gather at the council chamber to organize a union, aiming to coordinate efforts and seek collective bargaining leverage.
Local rummage sale underway at 108 Osage Street one door north of Ethridge's barber shop. Neighborhood shoppers urged to attend.
No arrests were made by the police last night, and Judge Truxel did not hold court this morning.
The W C T U will meet at the First M E church tomorrow afternoon at 3 o clock promptly. Members are asked to bring their bibles and prayers will focus on the upcoming state convention in Kansas City next week.
United States Senator George Graham Vest announces his decision to run again to succeed himself in Missouri. The notice was shared privately with friends in St. Joseph as of October 25. In Houstonia, Lyle Dickey and Miss Edna Warren plan to marry that evening.
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