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Newspaper
Sedalia Weekly Conservator
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1906
Page
2
Sedalia Weekly Conservator notes its editor and publisher W. H. Huston and states publication every Monday morning with second class mail status at the Sedalia Post Office.
The notice outlines pricing for subscriptions: one year with two consecutive copies costs 1.00, and six months with 26 consecutive copies costs 0.65. It presents a simple rate table likely from a local newspaper insertion or public notice.
The speaker laments the passing of flowers and a young friend, comparing their brief beauty to autumn flora. In somber verses the leaves fall, the woods turn brown, and the beloved soul is laid in cold earth amidst November rain. The poem mourns beauty lost yet finds solace in shared mortality.
President B F Alien and Etisia faculty urge youth to stay on farms. They warn against leaving agriculture for city jobs and praise Lincoln Institute for teaching scientific farming to foster self reliance and virtuous, independent citizens.
The fifth Farmers Convention at Lincoln Institute in Jefferson City Missouri met November 9 1906 with President S F Allen and Prof J W Daniel among speakers urging Negroes to pursue agriculture as a base for progress. Exhibits from Boone County and Calloway County farmers highlighted practical farming, seed corn talks, and county progress reports. Resolutions urged doubled efforts to boost rural homes sanitation education land ownership and continued farm education under Allen’s leadership.
Chicago voters elected Frederick L. Barnett as municipal judge for a one year term amid protests over his race. Chief Justice Olden questioned if Barnett would be assigned to cases involving his own race, while the judge stated he would be assigned where he could do the most good. Barnett won despite trailing by 30,000 votes.
Letters of Administration with the will annexed granted to the undersigned for the estate of Charles Porter deceased in Pettis county Missouri on October 24 1906 Claimants must file within one year or be barred within two years from publication to receive any benefit This 6th day Breer 1906 Camp Administrative Agent Annexed
The report notes Thomas Lantry Democrat fell 499 votes short of defeating Barnett yet joined the Republican landslide due to split Democratic ballots. It warns Republicans must win the Negro vote by endorsing a Black candidate, as Black voters cast ballots for them. From the St. Louis Palladium.
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