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Newspaper
Sedalia Weekly Conservator
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1905
Page
2
A brief public notice appears to announce weekly publication details and postal handling in Sedalia. The fragment mentions Saturday morning issues and an annual or semiannual subscription arrangement with rates, referencing the post office and periodical order.
An editorial urges Negro readers to shop at merchants who advertise in their papers to strengthen their influence. It condemns a petition to bar Negroes from balcony seats at a new theater, arguing that a few misbehaving individuals should not punish all. The piece defends equal access and American culture.
W A Smith in Sweet Springs notes quarterly meetings across Sedalia district from Sept 16 17 to Sept 26 27 led by ministers Divers Inglish Rhodes Higgs and others. Reports praise faithful work with several baptisms and offerings, debt reduction, and progress on Odessa Malta Bend Pleasant Grove and other churches despite high water and varying attendance.
Prof BH Bull of Philander Smith College in Little Rock has been named chair of Mathematics. Mrs Mattie L Teeters dined with Mrs J H New bills. Miss Mayme Brown will lead the Tipton Colored School primary department this month. Prof I W Adams, long at Marshall School, now directs the Blackwater School in Missouri.
Prospects in Oklahoma Indian Territory and Texas are bright for colonists and investors. Crops are good and land offers rich potential, with undeveloped areas near towns inviting settlers. Business lines are shown to be available, and openings exist for the right men. Are you one?
Tickets permit stop overs going and returning and are valid twenty one days from date of sale. Contact today for particulars and request our paper The Coming Country.
Miss Willian May Brown teaches at Peonytown this session while Miss M M Jackson from Lincoln School visited Dres den with Miss Effie V West. Prof J B Simpson at Holden reports 135 pupils enrolled. aims to open a high school with full grades. Prof A H Harris leads an excellent Versailles school with Miss Stella Christian. Prof A H Gravette of Tip ton will soon reach his peak, Ernest Hawking begins teaching at New Frankford after Sedalia studies. D H Murray now in charge at Malta Bend School. Garfield Crokett sold mules well. Mrs Matilda Sanford is seriously ill. Robert Collins builds a large barn. Aaron Duncan visits from Sedalia.
Sunday school organized here on the 1st by Rev Davis with Miss Hattie Shackleford and teachers Amy Russell Nellie Watson. Visitors West and Webb joined. Local movements include James Green in St Louis on business George Brown buying Elm Ridge property and plans to move. Other notes mention L Rollins Clayton trips Callie Davis of St Louis visiting Mrs Anderson and neighbors Hubbard Browns Galley.
Rey W H Howard and Miss Rosa Lee married last Saturday and left on a bridal tour to Wellington. The Lexington Union Band filed a successful engagement in Marshall in the past 10 days. Other items note Lizzie Lightley’s travel to Jefferson City, visits by Lindsay and Parker, and Albert Gates of Kansas City visiting his sister. Subscriptions urged to W H Hustoo in Sedalia.
Mary C the six year old daughter of a Presbyterian clergyman quarreled with her playmate Jimmy and declared she would stop praying for him. Moments later she knelt again and prayed for Jimmy only if God wished to bless him, not on her account, a note from Harper's Magazine.
Notice states Mrs Newbill is an authorized agent to collect on back accounts and arrange new subscriptions for the paper. Readers are asked to cooperate and be prepared to provide satisfaction when she calls. Signed Septalia Wreety Consertaor W H Iluston Ed and Pub.
Reverend H. L. Boiden delivered his last sermon for the Mt. Olive conference marking the close of his tenure. Congregation gathered as he reflected on years of ministry and thanked supporters before departure.
The National Baptist Convention Executive Board votes to postpone the Chicago meetings from September 13-19, 1905 to October 25, 1905 due to yellow fever quarantines in New Orleans and southern states, preventing many southern and southwestern members from attending. K. C. Morris, chairman, and W. L. Cansler, secretary, announce the action.
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