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Newspaper
Sedalia Weekly Conservator
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1906
Page
3
Genday School offers preaching on the first and third Sunday each month at 11 am and 7 pm. A prayer meeting is held Tuesday night and a covenant meeting Wednesday night. Pews are free and all are welcome.
The excerpt notes a young man known as Bows, a energetic and courteous student at Walden Advent college, returning from Nashville and visiting Sedalia. It urges religious leaders to organize to preserve gains from revival meetings and consider the next steps to protect youth from negative influences.
Presiding Elder Wm H Smith led the fourth quarterly conference on March 3-4. New officers assumed duties, eight baptisms, seven admissions, and a love feast praised as a high point. The church raised $59 in the meeting and $325 in three months. Over three years, 188 joined and more than $4,500 was raised. The pastor, R. Davis, remarks on renewed spirituality and a faithful membership awaiting the next pastor.
Mrs Kittie Violette lies bedbound with illness while Mrs William Raglao improves after sickness. Miss Leota Scott has been confined at home, and OG L Martin of Beaman visited Sedalia to plan spring farming. The Morgan Street Baptist church closed its revival with 16 additions, led by Rev Samuel Smith of Lamar and pastor Rev Richard Adkins.
In Napton, tooth pulling is popular with Mrs Melinda Talton now up after illness. Mre Henrietta Fedzier had three teeth pulled while her husband took two. Alexander Miles and Joshua Naper went to Marshall on business Saturday as mud improves and roads get better. The UBF meets on the first Saturday evening each month.
The KNIGHTS of PYTHIAS describe themselves as the strongest and most progressive Negroes in the empire. The four departments of the organization unite members by solemn pledges to care for and protect each other in good health, illness, and hardship.
In this department our young men receive a military education that makes them better citizens in peace and prepared soldiers in war. The wives mothers widows daughters and sisters of Knights join for daily life in church and home.
A notice invites lodges to organize and receive endowment payouts to widows and heirs of deceased Knights. Readers without a local lodge are urged to contact A. W. Lloyd Grand Chancellor at 3137 Pine Street St. Louis Missouri for terms and organization details.
In Oklahoma, Indiana Territory and Texas vast unsettled land offers potential for crops and town growth. Openings exist for mills factories stores banks newspapers and lumber yards. The Missouri Kansas Texas Railway prompts buyers to move on the ground.
On above dates most lines will sell both the way and round trip tickets at exceptionally low rates. If your nearest railroad agent cannot give the rates, write me specifics. If you are in any way interested in the Southwest, I would like to send you my paper The Coming Country. Address.
Mary Phippins and Sarah Johnson are noted as indisposed and ill respectively while D H Murray spends time with family. Several visitors including Maud Henderson from liam stay with Mollie Freeland. A rally at Rev AH Higgs yields over 40 dollars in collections. Rev Thomas and members hosting a recent entertainment. Death of Phillip Ht Sell shocks the community with sorrow and bereavement.
A seller advertises student discounts on inexpensive items with a 25 cent reduction on $2 and $2 50 cabinets and a 50 cent cut on higher priced work. Call and inspect penny pictures and One Dollar a full dozza photographs.
Yard start notes show freight and local depot times with arrivals and departures. Entries mention No. 106 starting from yard and various rail numbers with times around 2:14 pm to 10:41 pm and a depot at Wert Depa. The fragment references Lexington Ranch as a location tied to the schedule.
Fragmentary notice lists Sedalia and Warsaw with mentions of Jenves Medalia and Liebey Leaves, “Sibat Arrive in Warsaw” and “arrives in Sedalia” with unclear timing. Lacks coherent events or identifiable entities to form a full report.
Fragmented OCR item notes schedules and train numbers including No. 1,620 pm and No. 501 daily service. Mentions division, departures, and times with unclear legible context. No clear event or outcome.
Fragmented OCR text mentions directions and time hints with unclear references to a flyer and a daily service, suggesting a brief transit note or schedule item without readable names, places, or concrete details.
Notice to readers and correspondents requires writing on one side of a sheet only. Material sent for publication written on both sides will be discarded. The office warns that double sided submissions will be wasted and not printed.
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