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Newspaper
Sedalia Weekly Conservator
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1908
Page
2
As we go to press the city council has voted a special election for June 11 to decide whether to continue saloon business in our city. The piece urges civility, broad rights, and common sense in the local option debate while stressing the impact on the community and the need to avoid personal attacks.
Let Us Have A General Clean Up planned for Friday last in the southern city section was postponed due to bad weather. Citizens on the North Side are urged to use rake and shovel to improve appearance and drive away trash. Local clubs are urged to organize and gain cooperation of homeowners to curb cans, trash, and filth that harbor disease. Public health relies on removing pig pens and kennels with disease germs and improving sanitation citywide.
The Sedalia District Woman's Foreign Missionary Society will hold a district session at Centerview Missouri on May 15. Auxiliaries and charges are urged to send delegates to make the meeting a success. Mrs. Vina Morgan president Mrs. Minnie Jones secretary Mrs. M Gibson central Mo conference secretary.
Mrs Anna Epps and daughter dva are home on a visit. Hear Hon Jas H Gay on the 21st discuss Negus Journalism. T M Smith improves his home at 206 W Morgan St. A H Hickman and Mrs Kittie Gray visit California to see a sick relative. Miss Bessie Heonler of Springfield enjoys a pleasant stay with Rev Mrs Davis. Abbot home on West Morgan gains a granitoid walk. Mrs P C Givens returns home after a prosperous school year at Bathl. Stella Kreeman of Columbia visits friends during Mercermen. Rev and Mrs G B Alden of Columbia attend their daughter's wear devotion. On the 27th, on the 15 by the Tipton Sellont will close and on the dock. Gre Vee Wales School will conclude in Trans work. Both have done excellent work and official examinations are pleased with a more of the teacher.
Rev J I Abbot of St Louis visited home folk during the past week and spoke encouragingly of his work at Union Memoir. Rev Monroe Denny of Blackburn attended commencements and was gratified by his daughter Lilian Denny’s graduation. McHarry men prepare to meet State Boards this month. several Sedalians attended exercises and praised Miss Mytia Ava’s high standard.
Lodge Directory notes regular meetings on the first and third Thursdays each month at eight oclock in the Conservator Annex located at 121 Mast Main Street. Reports from Prof C Hubbard and keeper of records and seal SKB Moore are listed with associated contact details.
Potar Star Lope No 6 Versitles Mo meets on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 6 o'clock in Castle Hall Fisher street with Clay Thruster chancellor commander and E W Fowler keeper of records. St Louis Lodge No 41 meets on the first and third Tuesdays at 8 pm at 3137 Pine Street with William Carson P14 Morgan Street chancellor commander and Charles So Whee 1239 Morgan Street keeper of records.
Warkesspvantowa So 46 Warreevsturg holds regiar meetings on the first and third Fridays each month in their castle hall at eight o clock promptly. EB W Hendricks chancellor commander. Will Croper here of recorde and sea Lamonte Mo.
Fragmentary notice from Cape Girardeau Missouri referencing Anchor Loper No 31 and names such as George Walls and Albert M Manner Oliver Box 86. Mentions a schedule of events or meetings on Thursdays at eight o clock but details are garbled and unclear.
A fragmentary notice extols Toussaint L'Ouverture as a soldier statesman and martyr, lauding his defense with a small force against sixty ships and thirty thousand trained soldiers. It cites Wendell Phillips calling him the greatest general the world produced and promotes sold images by the Colored American Novelty Co in Washington D.C.
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