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Newspaper
Sedalia Weekly Conservator
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1906
Page
2
The slate lists RN LOW for Representative THOMAS PAYNE for Sheriff HARVEY D DOW for Prosecuting Attorney ¢ W DAUGHERTY for Circuit Clerk WALTER P MOREY for Recorder W 8 SCOTT for Collector JOHN PREGGE for Public Administrator CAY TITTSWORTH for Coroner T T VIETS for Treasurer P G STAFFORD as Presiding Judge slate names.
Essay emphasizes Home, School, Pulpit, and the Press as key forces molding public thought. It warns misused freedom risks license and highlights home training and schooling as critical to future citizens, noting proper instruction prevents anarchists and violence. (To be continued.)
President Roosevelt spoke extemporaneously to Negro students at Hampton Institute Virginia stressing education alone fails without proper family life at home. He said the right character is essential for citizenship for both Negro and white communities and conveyed sincere personal eagerness to visit the institute.
A Hampton Institute advocate argues that improving the colored population benefits both races. He cites six thousand Hampton graduates with few criminals, praising education to foster self-respect, thrift, and law abiding citizenship, and emphasizes manual labor guided by intelligent planning.
Miss Arsania M Williams Grand Worthy Councillor arrived from St Louis to establish Uttar Court No 19 named Utopia Court No 19 of Sedalia. Elected officers include Mrs J Aler as Worthy Councillor and Mrs J W Stemmons as Vice Councillor with several other posts filled by local ladies and trustees.
Hortense Cook died Monday morning June 4 after a fever contracted in St Louis. She returned home to be cared for by her mother on North Lamine Street. The Morgan Street Baptist church hosted the funeral led by Rev Richard Adkins, with burial in the city cemetery. Born March 14, 1880, she was educated at Lincoln School and famed as a vocalist and pianist. Surviving are her mother, a brother Emmett Cook of this city, and a sister Mrs J P Williams of Argentine Kansas.
The Southwest offers growing opportunities for men of average means with cheap land and rising communities. Investors can profit from land along MK & T Ry in Indian Territory Oklahoma and Texas, where vast unimproved tracts await cultivation. The region promises expanding towns and openings in various lines of business as the country settles up.
WSSIGEORGE Gen Pass Agent MK and Ry establish a new office at Wainright Building in St Louis. The venture aims to streamline travel passes and agent services under the South West banner. Local officials welcome the move and anticipate increased traffic to the area.
Notice from Jefferson City Missouri invites orders for a book titled What the Graduates of Lincoln Ineylute Are Doing and mentions its June 1 release. It asks readers to mail addresses and payment by registered letter. Also, the Literary Congress of the Fifth Episcopal District AME church plans a Kansas City congress July 5 to 8 with 500 delegates expected, special rates and 75 cents per day lodging, and seeks delegate names to Rev F J Peck.
The Institute for colored teachers will meet in Lincoln High School auditorium starting Monday June 11 for ten days with Shelton French as conductor.
The Epworth League and Sunday School convention of the St Joseph district Central Missouri Conference meets at Clarks Chapel Kansas City starting June 20 with Prof E B Thomson as president and Rev AH Biggs as presiding elder. Kansas City subscribers will be visited June 20 to 25 to settle subscriptions. editor W K Husrox appeals for timely payments.
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