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Newspaper
Sedalia Weekly Conservator
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1906
Page
3
A fragmented OCR item notes a gathering at the Vendome Academy located at 1734 Grand, with unclear details but indicating an event or meeting. Names, dates, and precise purpose are unreadable, but venue and street address are readable.
A wide mix of brief items recalls local residents visits, illnesses, and travel. Mentions include Margarette Smith, Mrs Daptine Rector, Mrs C W Holliday in Chicago, Ema Steele in Kansas City, and Wilson Brent in Buncetop. Addresses in St Louis and Lexington appear along with church notices and a proposal for a Negro fair circuit in Missouri.
The article lauds United States District Attorney D P Dyer for prosecuting peonage cases in southeast Missouri. It lists sentences: Charles M Smith 42 months and $5000 fine, Charles M Smith Jr 24 months, Lloyd Woods 30 months and $1000 fine, William Woods 24 months and $100 fine, W Lee Rodgers 24 months, Benjamin Stone 18 months and $100, Benjamin Fields 18 months and $100.
Ye Editor Will Speaks plans an address on the Omnipotence of the Independent Voter at listed towns and dates. Houstonia October 6, Smithton October 31 8pm, Beaman November 1 8pm, Heargtowg November 2 8pm. All citizens welcome as auditors regardless of race or gender.
The Glover Leaf Club, a local native benevolent society, hosted an elaborate banquet with a noble deed theme. Guests included Lucy McA near Willette and Maple Lt of Wa Kerrenaburgy, reflecting the club’s social and charitable aims in the community.
A committee thanks Mayor B Hickman for liberal donations on the 28th and 29th to the colored sufferers. Two loads of wood, pounds of meat, a ton of coal, ten sacks of meal, five sacks of flour, ten pounds of butter, all distributed to the poor and needy who were grateful for the aid.
The musical Abyssinia arrives November 3 at the Sedalia Theatre with Williams and Walker. The production, led by Melville B. Raymond, boasts all colored principal cast, music by Will Marion Cook, and script by Jesse Shipp and Alex Rogers, praised as the season’s best musical comedy on the New York stage.
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