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Newspaper
Sedalia Weekly Conservator
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1908
Page
2
Sedalia Weekly Conservator announces advertising rates per inch and line with special time ad quotes. Subscription rates listed: one year 1.50, six months 1.00, three months .75, single copy .05. Office at 121 East Main Street. Correspondents and agents sought in Central Missouri.
Local Option workers celebrate wins across the state as temperance efforts gain ground. The piece argues saloons drive poverty and crime, influence politics, attract loafers, and undermine their own interests, urging readers to study the causes behind the movement and its apparent victories.
A critique condemns saloons for aiding criminals and corrupting elections. It denounces ward heelers and the liquor influence in courts and politics, accusing saloonkeepers of shielding wrongdoing and attracting disreputable crowds, including harmful treatment of Negro patrons. The piece urges Black citizens to unite against this evil and fight for reform.
A reflective verse by Ella Wheeler Wilcox celebrates prayer as a source of comfort and strength beyond science or philosophy. The speaker rejects overanalysis, asserting that prayer lifts the spirit, eases despair, and educates the heart, guiding toward a hopeful, refined inner sight.
A Fraternal letter from Canon City Colorado dated February 8 1908 confirms satisfaction with Heart-Stone benefits. The writer Hey 2 Wilfiane pastor of Second MEK Church reports drawing 822.00 with no red tape and praises the plan to increase benefits citing prior successful adjustments and urging continued success for the organization.
A new graphic by the Colored American Novelty Company portrays twenty two Black representatives in Congress by state counts for Alabama Florida Georgia Mississippi Louisiana Virginia North Carolina South Carolina with portraits and service dates. The engraving, sold in Washington, depicts the political status of the race in a striking yet cautionary format.
Rostison Loper W No 154 of the U B F holds meetings on the first and third Saturdays each month at 7 30 p m in its ball G T Blackson Worthymas T M Baylor Sec y ter Co H Robinton D Ww M
Sweeney Chapel A M E Church lists Sunday School at 10:00 a m preaching at 11:00 a m class meeting at 1:00 p m evening service at 7:30 p m prayer meeting Wednesdays at eight O clock Rev D J Gordon pastor J B Marney secretary Sun Flower Temple No 187 meets first and third Saturdays at 1 30 p m Ada Sims worthy prin Alice Baylor secretary Cornelia Child vice princess.
Utopia Court No 1g of the Order of Calanthe meets Thursdays at 3 PM in Dr H hall. Mrs Annie L Stemmons serves as Worthy Councillor and Miss Agnes Miller as Register of Deeds.
The lodge holds its regular meetings on the first and third Thursdays each month at the Conservator Annex 121 East Main Street at eight o clock. Chancellor Commander Prof C C Hubbard Box 42 Keeper of Records and Seal S B Moore Hoffman Building is listed.
St Louis Loper No 41 in St Louis Missouri holds regular meetings on the first and third Tuesdays monthly at 8 p m. Location is Pythian Hall 3137 Pine Street. Officers listed include William Carson 1114 Morgan Street chancellor commander and Charles S White 1239 Morgan Street keeper of records and seal.
Warrensburg Missouri group Warrienssurs Lance No 46 meets on the first and third Fridays monthly at eight o'clock in their castle hall. E W Hendricks serves as chancellor commander and Will Cooper as keeper of records and seal. Lamonte MO.
Anchor Loper No 31 of Cape Girardeau Missouri meets monthly in the castle hall at George Walls where the chancellor commander presides Albert M Oliver Box 86 serves as keeper of records and seal.
A compact obituary like notice notes a soldier statesman and martyr who with a small force held off sixty ships and thirty thousand trained troops, hailed by Wendell Phillips as the greatest general the world has produced. It mentions a collection featuring pictures of this eminent Black figure and other notable African Americans. Renting notices offered by the Colored American Realty Co. in Washington, D. C.
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