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Newspaper
Sedalia Weekly Conservator
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1908
Page
2
Sedalia Weekly Conservator editor publisher details and contact. Local rates and subscription options listed. Advertising rates per inch and per line provided, with office address and solicitation for correspondents and agents in Central Missouri.
A local civic poem argues for prohibition, depicting whiskey as a destroyer of families and a slave to sin. The author, Ames Porter, calls for a dry town and pledges to support funding to end alcohol's grip, urging residents to dispel fear and doubt and cast off the demon of strong drink. The verse emphasizes civic righteousness and communal improvement.
The No-Ilunt Club warns hunters to stay off lands owned or operated by Anti-Trespass Association members in Pet tis County. A Ten Dollar reward is offered for each conviction to enforce trespass laws. Landowners may grant hunting permission to careful hunters who approach properly, while careless youths are urged to stay off others property.
The piece portrays egotism as a spreading malady in humans. It highlights the “BIG I” symptom through pronoun use and boasts a dictatorial presence. It warns that egoists disrupt churches clubs boards and society if not restrained.
Sentiment in the Republican Party favors Secretary Taft as standard bearer for the national campaign. Key states have declared for him and the President is said to back his nomination at the Chicago convention. A major risk is Tafts standing with Negro voters in close states, tied to the Brownsville Affair and Roosevelt influence. Conservative Negro leaders could sway the crucial vote in states like New York Indiana Ohio Illinois Kansas Missouri Kentucky New Jersey.
Mrs Margaret Henderson aged and respected died at her Wanamaker home on Tuesday. Her husband Jordan died of pneumonia two weeks earlier. The elderly couple, once enslaved, were owned by James M Jones and were given a small farm after emancipation. They lived and raised many children there until death.
At Jacksonville Pennsylvania January 6 Henry M Endicott Jr of Boston bought at public auction for 70000 the property of the North Jacksonville Railway and Town Improvement Company known as a Negro Street railway It is reported the road will become the property of the Jacksonville Electric Company The sale aimed to make the transfer legally complete The road was built years ago by a company of colored men and was the only line of railroad in the United States owned by them
Remarkable woman lived during General Washington and Thomas Jefferson eras first of her race to write poetry. A fine engraving now issued at fifty cents by the Colored American Novelty Co. Washington DC. Agents wanted.
The group meets on the first and third Saturdays of each month at 7 30 p m in the Ball room. Officers listed include G T Blackson Worthymas T M Baylor Bec y ter C H Robinson and D W M.
Sweeney Chapel A M E Church lists Sunday School at 10:00 am preaching at 11:00 am class meeting at 1:00 pm and evening services at 7:30 pm. Wednesday prayer meeting at eight. Rev. D J Gordon pastor. J B Marney secretary Sun-Fronter Temple No 187 M T s meets first and third Saturdays at 1:30 pm. Ada Sims worthy Broin, Alice Baylor secretary. Cornelia Child vice princess.
Lodge directory for Urorra Covet No 19 of the Order of Calanthe in Sedalia Missouri notes monthly meetings on Thursdays at 3 p.m. at the D O H hall. Annie L. Stemmons is Worthy Councillor and Agnes Miller is Register of Deeds.
Annex at 121 East Main for Eight O'clock sharp with Prof C C Hubbard Box 42 Chancellor Commander S B Moore Hoffman Bldg keeper of records and seal.
St Louis Loper No 41 in St Louis Missouri meets on the first and third Tuesdays each month at 8 p m at the Pythian Hall 3137 Pine Street Chancellor Commander William Carson 1114 Morgan Street Keeper of Records and Seal Charles S White 1239 Morgan Street
Warrenssurc Loccer No 46 of Warrensburg Missouri holds regular meetings on the first and third Fridays each month at eight o clock in their castle hall. E W Hendricks is chancellor commander Will Cooper keeper of records and seal Lamonte Missouri.
Anchor Lodge No 31 in Cape Girardeau Missouri holds meetings the first and third Thursdays each month at Eight O clock in their castle hall George Walls is chancellor commander Albert M Oliver box 86 keeper of records and deal
A graphic engraving from the Colored American Novelty Company of Washington, D.C. shows portraits of twenty two Black representatives, listing their seats Florida Georgia Mississippi Louisiana Virginia North Carolina South Carolina and others, with dates of service and congresses. It highlights the political status of the Negro in U.S. history and is offered for sale.
This soldier statesman and martyr led a small force to resist sixty ships and thirty thousand trained French troops. Wendell Phillips called Toussaint the greatest general and a new feat in military history.
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