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Newspaper
Sedalia Weekly Conservator
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1905
Page
3
Sedalia church notices announce First and Third Sunday services at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. led by Rev E D Burns with Miss Leja Jones as clerk. Burn’s Chapel Free Baptist Church hosts Sunday School and prayer meetings Tuesday and Wednesday nights. pews are free, all welcome.
Great shooting of fire crackers and a smooth time at Mrs Clines July Fourth. Dr C S Walken is making his visits tow in an up to date rather tired rig. Mrs Annia Hubbard of Kansas City visits sister in this city. Orris D Jackson from Kansas City last Sunday with associate enjoyed a pleasant time.
Miss Missia Williams, after a successful Muskogee school, returns home for the Simmer vacation. Mrs Mary MelPerron of Holiden visits Presiding elder W H Smith on West Johnson Street. Rev William Alexander, Quinn Chapel pastor, bought property on West Morgan Street. Key C A Holt to lead a rally at Morgan St Baptist next Sunday. Everyone welcome. Ross, recently ill, has recovered and resumes his blacksmith shop. Ben Johnson near Dresden paid last Saturday for an annual subscription. his daughter Miss Hattie is ill.
W Hipline plans Katy Fourth trips and visits several North Missouri cities. Miss Emogen Hogan of Otterville arrives for a brief visit with sister Mrs C W White. Prof A H Gravette of Smithton visits our city. Amos Adem of Warrensburg visits early in the week. Louis Grother, a Sweet Springs friend, seen on the streets. Charles Quarles returns from Kansas City to help with building near the State Fair grounds.
Mrs Mary Pyle arrives in St Louis Monday after spending two weeks in town and at Humboldt with her mother Sister Mary Lee. Her companion Jimmy looks a bit lonely as they wrap up the trip.
W M Chasault and Anna Wright return home for summer from Columbia while Chasault resumes work at the College building. A Taylor's Chapel drill may be scheduled soon as Miss M Minnida Jackson considers a music school. George Bowman receives a new northside route. Presiding elder W Ho Smith reports strong services at Taylors Chapel.
Miss Lether Drake Estelle and Lilian Martin spent a pleasant outing at Alma Missouri last week reporting they slew and devoured several spring chickens while touring the country but kept silent on the number of beats captivated.
Prof Will Cooper returned from Lexington where he organized a Knights of Pythian Lodge with 35 members. Since arriving he has been active in Py hian affairs. Miss Fannie Counce, who aided Conservator success, visits Mrs Mary Sanders of Coffeyville Kansas after closing a profitable home restaurant. Prof 8B F Thompson of Warrensburg school passed through en route to Jeff City for Summer Normal. His bird Martin flew from its cage. Return visit hoped.
John Hare, an employee of the Katy shops for many years, took a day off last week and visited Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He found his curiosity met by the military post’s activities and surroundings during the visit.
The letter notes the son William doing well as a soldier at the barracks and promises many observations about his people and experiences abroad. It mentions local improvements by Black residents, including Julia Woods adding a room and bath, Mary Brown adding a two story extension with four rooms on West Morgan Street, and Black contractors Morgan and Murray handling work. Additional builders Tiam Burris and Prof BR L Billups have added porches, T A Smith and A J Adam are constructing new houses for tenants, with other residents painting and improving homes.
Correspondents and subscribers are warned to send material for publication on only one side of a sheet. Any matter written on both sides will be discarded.
The advertisement urges men with modest means to rethink western lands in Indian Territory, Oklahoma, and Texas. It touts undeveloped prairie areas, promises farm and town openings, and invites readers to request more information or a free copy of The Coming Country paper by writing with investment details.
Clover Leaf Cu meets on the first and third Wednesdays each month in regular session. Jessie Lucas serves as president and Sanford Fields as secretary in Sweet Springs Missouri.
Want ads note pay and steady work for competent men at Mt Vernon Car Manufacturing Company in Mt Vernon Illinois. Rebuilders of freight cars seek experienced craftsmen with reliable service records and good welders and fitters preferred. Apply in person.
Multiple travel rates advertise one way and return trips with liberal stopovers to cities including San Francisco Los Angeles and San Diego during May to September with low round trip fares. Regional church notes report quarterly meetings with Rev BOB Abbott and Rev D J Kinody’s parish progress and revivals. ten members joined the Oscena church as gains follow the annual conference.
The La Fayette County Colored Fair association kicks off on schedule at Higginsville Missouri fair grounds for its annual meeting. Premiums in all departments will exceed previous years, with faster speed entries anticipated. Negro farmers across the west are urged to take part and seek information from Moses Green in Lexington Maine or J W Perry in Higginsville Missouri.
An advertisement for a mail order education in shorthand and business methods by C. A. Biggers instructor, Muskogee, I. T. P. O. Box 121. The school claims wide reach across the Union and Central Southwest with prompt card writing and immediate attention to mail orders.
The readable fragments hint at a note or list with unclear words and missing context. The visible portions show stray letters and partial phrases suggesting a typed memo or archival note possibly with names or dates, but essential details are too garbled to confirm.
A fragmented OCR note from Lexington reports a 3:10 PM start time for an event at HWRanch. Details are unclear but reference to a local track meet and schedule indicates a postponement or late start.
Sedalia and Warsaw show rail progress with the Southwestern line extending toward Warnin Lauven. Local reports note wire deliveries and expected afternoon service windows as the new arrangement arrives.
Local item fragment mentions lawn care and a name that appears garbled. No clear events, people, or organizations are readable to form a concise news card.
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