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Newspaper
Sedalia Sunday Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1903
Page
7
Wide flood toll includes Thomas Newman formerly of Sedalia now in Armourdale and others like Frank Gent Joe Goodfellow and Joe Paradis. Letters describe home losses, evictions, drownings feared, and delayed returns as towns along the Kansas River battle floodwaters.
A. O. U. W. Amity Lodge No 69 met Friday night and elected officers. Names include Past Master Workman C Montgomery Master Workman Louis Rast Foreman P C Burford Overseer A P Johnson Recorder Captain T C Holland Financier Sam Specter Receiver D C Patton Guide J W Taylor Watchman P Mueller Medical Examiner Dr S G Crawford and Trustees W M Slagle A M Mit echam and C Montgomery
Cossessor C. D. Brown called in deputies from the country Saturday for a gathering described as a deputation meeting. Details of agenda or location are sparse in the src text.
Rev Fannon delivers farewell sermons at First Christian Church Sedalia after resigning. A review of his work in Sedalia will be held at morning service and his last office sermon in the evening before he departs for Pettis county duty in Illinois and later Kentucky and Iowa. He and his wife plan evangelistic work. Brown has prepared lands for deputies in Pettis to aid their countywide effort.
Mrs. L. EB. Killian, organizer of the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, will travel to Kansas City this Wednesday to collect donations of clothing for flood sufferers. Donors may leave items at her home, 307 East Fifth Street.
Sunday school hour begins a children focused feature then services continue with the usual evening program. Sermon at 8 o clock by Rev J J Pritchett.
Rev. C. A. Buchanan formerly led East Sedalia Baptist now pastors Fayette Baptist and will occupy the pulpit at both morning and evening services today.
Sunday school starts at 9 a.m. prompt. Children should arrive on time. Divine service at 10 a.m. The Lord's supper available to all desiring receipt of Christ's spirit. Evening service at 8 p.m. All are warmly invited.
Morning service at 11. Evening service at 8. Sunday school at 9 30 a m. B Y P U at 7 p m. Monday 3 o'clock Woman's Foreign Mission society led by Mrs H W Harris. Wednesday 8 p m mid week prayer service.
Mr Clifton Wright became a clerk in the M K & T railway store room at Sedalia. Lena Jordan passes Remington test in St Louis and lands with Ely Walker Dry Goods Co. R V Shirley works as stenographer for M K T treasurer in St Louis. Murray Boies at J D Hall Dry Goods in Sedalia. Carrie Cousins stenographs for J D Donohue in Sedalia. W W Hall of Columbia, a former student, won 5 dollars for best shorthand questions. The school reports many placements and a full summer term with no vacations.
Uncertainty about trains may hinder arrival, yet the celebration will proceed with a select choir performing special music and a large attendance is anticipated.
Central Church events include Trinity Sunday sermon on The Holy Trinity and the debt to the Jew at 11 a m and 8 p m sermons. Young people urged to attend a 4 p m business meeting. Sunday school at 9 30 a m. Rev W T Allan rector. Central Presbyterian announces no service today due to pastor’s absence with Sabbath school and Endeavor as usual. Central College items list staff changes and student news with notes on admissions, jobs, and a penmanship class created by Prof. Rogers.
East Broadway Christian Church marks its fifth anniversary in East Sedalia with department reports and short talks by members. Rev F L Cook, guest preacher, is finishing a revival at Compton Heights Christian Church, St Louis, amid high water conditions.
J. T. Montgomery reported returning from Boonville describing a boat trip from Boonville to Franklin Junction. He observed cornfields pastures and other farmland submerged by several feet of floodwater with debris drifting downstream and numerous homes wrecked by the disaster.
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled the Kansas City election contest valid and removed Mayor Craddock from office while naming T. B. Gilbert, Republican, to assume duties. The flood relief effort continues as Craddock remains in charge until the formal order is issued.
Kodol Digestive Aid claims to boost digestion by helping organs assimilate food into nourishing blood and tissues. The product is presented as a cure for indigestion dyspepsia and stomach catarrh and is sold by W. F. Nard Drug Co.
An old ad touts Red Cross Ball Blue as the best choice for laundry whitening. It promotes a large 2 oz package offered at 5 cents.
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