University Day at Missouri State Fair Aug 21
University of Missouri Day at the Missouri State Fair will host a noon luncheon by the Alumni Association for over 200 attendees. Speakers include Governor Caulfield, Walter Williams, F B Mumford, Roy Williams, and J W Palmer. Special music by Eddie Connor’s orchestra. program ends by 1 30 p m to allow exhibits viewing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Missouri
Alumni Association of the University
G. A. Sturges, Jr
Jack Crawford
Helen Harris
Henry C. Caulfield
Walter Williams
Missouri University
F. B. Mumford
Agricultural Department
Roy Williams
Boonville
J. W. Palmer
Sedalia
Florence Kelly
O Sing
Rachel Way
Webster Groves
Katherine Urban
Eddie Connor
Eddie
Early Trails in Pictures at Missouri State Fair Exhibit
The Missouri State Highway Department presents a Covered Wagon Centennial exhibit at the 30th annual State Fair August 16 23 tracing early trails from 1830 with a 90 foot painting and wagon display. It contrasts historic Boons Lick Road and Santa Fe rail lines with modern U S Highway 40 and 5 hour auto trips. F W Sayers oversees the exhibit assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Picture 'N& Word
Missouri’ State Highway Department
Highway Department
State Historical Society
The
Missouri Historical Society
Daughters of the American Revolution
Kansas City Library
Smith Jackson-Sublette
St. Louis
Louis
Independence
Steen
Kanas City
F. W. Sayers
State Highly Department
Sheriff Purchases Tear Gas Gear for Local Officers
Sheriff Thomas Herrick obtained tear gas shells and a tear gas pistol resembling a fountain pen, to be kept at the sheriff’s office. Sedalia city also bought a gas pistol similar to Herrick’s for potential use by local authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Herrick
Gliff Herrick
Sheriff's of
Sedalia
Seriff Herrick
City Officials and Employes Enjoy Fish Fry at Liberty Park
Sedalia officials and employes numbering over 220 gathered for a Friday fish fry at the tourist camp west of Liberty park. Carp, cat, buffalo, drum and white perch were fried in grease over wood fire, with meals served from 4:30 to 7:30. Al dermen Bailey and officials planned the event. Leland Coontz supervised frying. city leaders and families attended as guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sedalia
Liberty Park
Bailey
Coontz
Middleton
Switzer
S. B. Kennon
Missouri
Grover Thomas
Roxie Weikal
Leland Coontz
J. O. Bailey
Kennon
Riloyd
Duncan
Clarence Manker
Sedalia official speedster fined after camp fish fry stop
Speeding through a tourist camp where a city fish fry for Sedalia officials and employees was underway led to G. F. Smith being charged with speeding and reckless driving. He was fined fifteen dollars in police court after being escorted by Officer Frank Moerschel and Chief Switzer. Children played nearby as the incident occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sedalia
G. F. Smith
Ben J. Dawson
Drums Stolen From Car At Liberty Park Friday Night
W. B. Hert Jr of 700 West Third street reported a theft at Liberty Park Friday around 9 pm. A drum set and traps were taken from his car while he briefly left the instruments in the dance hall. Hert was with the Met calf orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Hert, Jr
West Third Street
Liberty Park
William
Metcalf
Auto Collision Wounds Clerk and Chamber Official
A car driven by C. E. Marshall a Katy hospital drug clerk collided with a Ford coupe driven by Mrs. Paul Ingram secretary of the Chamber of Commerce at the intersection southwest of Sedalia where highway No 65 meets the gravel road. Marshall suffered a sprained wrist and ankle while Ingram was unhurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Marshall
Katy Hospital
Paul Ingram
Chamber of Commerce
Sedalia
Mr. Marshall
Ingram
Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line expands with multi-state build
Five pipeline firms work on the 1250 mile Missouri-Kansas system extending from the Texas Panhandle through Oklahoma Kansas Missouri Illinois Indiana and Kentucky. Williams Brothers Inc Tulsa awarded 58 miles of gathering lines in Texas while Missouri and Kentucky segments progress with several contractors. Local notices follow about residents and gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Company
Natural Gas System
Williams Contracting Co
Panhandie
Callahan Construction Co
St. Louis
Madisonville
Indiana
Evansville
Texas Panhandle
Kentucky
Mc Kan
Kansas City
Jacksonville
Missouri-Kansas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Illinois
Williams Brothers, Inc
Tulsa
Moore
Hutchison, Pottie
Carson Counties
Texas
Canadian River
Amarillo
Moore County
Oklahoma Contracting Company of
Dallas
Connor & Son Construction Company
Sedalia
Boonville
Southwestern Construction Company of
Center Gas
Metcalfe County
Bowling Green
Russellville
W. E. Callahan Construction Company
Ohio River
Terre Haute
Ohio County
Whitesville
Hawesville
Cloverport
Cannellon
Tell City
Troy
Grandview
Rockport
Homecoming at Sedalia Park Brings Relatives and Friends
Route 4 Items By Mrs Walter Holman and other families visited Mrs W S Payne on Sunday. Brazill Hammond returned home from five weeks with his son Charley at Redding. George Page and Lewis Glen with wives visited Olive Branch relatives. A Sedalia park homecoming gathered J L Addams family Thomas Leftwich Stockard Hiehl and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelson
Blanche Ramey
Kansas City
Bruce Rader
Lewis Hammond
George Ellis
John Newland
J. W
Golden Payne
John Hammond
Walter Holman
J. R. Hammond
B. Wallace
Holden
Palley
Dan Broyles
Betty Payne
Oliver Payne
Colorado Springs
Greer Rhine
New Franklin
Lawerence Shoemaker
Detroit
Mich
Plez. Bennett
LaMonte
W. S. Payne
Brazill Hammond
Charley
Redding
George Page
Lewis Glen
Peoria
Ill
Glen
Page
Fallen Glenn
Olive Branch
Sedalia
J. L. Addams
Thomas Leftwich
Stockard
Hiehl
Roy
Missouri Valley College Names New Dean of Women
Miss Helen Buckingham May M A of Chicago has been elected Dean of Women and Associate in History at Missouri Valley College following Miss Myrtle Moore's resignation. She will reside at the Maples. May trained at Vassar and Illinois with a Masters from Chicago and has served as Dean of Women at Durham North Carolina and Carroll College Waukesha Wisconsin prior to this appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Buckingham May
Chicago
Missouri Valley College
Myrtle Moore
the Maples
Miss May
Vassar
Univer
Sity
Illinois
University of Chicago
Durham
N. C
Carroll College
Waukesha
Wis
Missouri
Chamber Offers Ozarks Resort Literature For Tourists
Sedalia Chamber of Commerce at 309 South Ohio distributes hundreds of pamphlets describing Ozark area resorts and other national tourism literature. Materials cover Onondaga Cave Carthage The Ozarks Lebanon and more with guidance for residents and visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ozarks
Chamber of Commerce
South
Ohio
Sedalia
Onondaga Cave
Carthage
Lebanon
Ozark Beach Resort
Springfield
Missouri
Wild Wood
Wisconsin
Mammouth Cave
Minnesota
Duluth
Lake Superior Highway
Kansas City
Idaho
Broadway of America
New York
San Diego
Yellowstone Park
Canada
Old Settlers Program With Tales and Music At Ionia Meeting
Old Settlers program featured talks by Mr. O. Van Wey and Mr. H. A. Adams recalling life in youth interspersed with music and three reels of pictures. R. A. Willis presided at the business session. announcements listed lawn social, Farm Bureau picnic, 4-H Roundup, and a male quartet concert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. van Wey
H. A. Adams
Ionia
R. A. Willis
Maggie
A. W. Hampy
Ladies of the Christian Church
Farm Bureau
Sedalia
Willis
Mary Louise Knoop
A. A. Mahnken
L. W. Taylor
A. B. Stockton
Gray Bennett
C. L. Rages
van Wey
Adams
Ruth Willis
Pederweski
Wilma Posson
Elvin Stockton
C. C. Myers
E. E. Brasfield
Trucks Collide West of the City Near Muddy Bridge
Lowell Reavis of La Monte escaped serious injury when his gravel truck collided with a Gordon Grocery Company truck from Kansas City just west of Muddy bridge on highway 50. Reavis edged into a ditch as the collision approached, saving himself though the right side was pinned against a high bank and the left side was badly damaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowell Reavis
la Monte
Gordon Grocery Company
Kansas City
Muddy Bridge
Reavis
Sedalia
Achievement Day for the 4-H Clubs
Three Flat Creek 4H garment making clubs reported they would be standard clubs and that their membership would complete their work 100 percent at an achievement day event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flat Creek
Thomas C. Andrew Dies at 82 in Sweet Springs
Thomas C. Andrew, 82, of Sweet Springs, died at home Saturday after a weeklong illness. A merchant for 52 years, he was a Missouri pioneer from Brownsville to Sweet Springs. He married Forest Tulley in 1873 and Elizabeth Reavis in 1918. ten children were born, with two died young. Survived by his second wife and several children including Waldo Andrew, postmaster of Sweet Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas C. Andrew
Sweet Springs
Mr. Andrew
North Carolina
Virginia
Missouri
Brownsville
Forest Caroline Tulley
Adrew
Andrew
Elizabeth Reavis
LaMonte
J. E. Burnett
Oklahoma City
Okla
R. W. Burkhart
William Andrew
Tulsa
T. H. Andrew
E. B. Andrew
Galena
W. B. Wood
Kansas City
A. E. Stuerke
Waldo Andrew
New Stretch of Road to the Fair
Streets north and west of Liberty Park were graded and oiled under park board direction. Second Street received treatment from Park Avenue to Limit via the loop at the tourist camp. A new road south of Third Street between Limit and State Fair Boulevard was cut and oiled to handle fair traffic. Other streets near the fair grounds in Sedalia were oiled by the twelve mile road district under C. A. Thomas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberty Park
Park Board
Second Street
Park Avenue
Park
Ball Park
Third Street
Limit
State Fair Boulevard
Sedalia
Fair Ground
Twelvemile Road
C. A. Thomas
Divorce Action Filed By Montgomery Firm For Olive Gertrude Stewart
A divorce petition was filed in circuit court on a Saturday evening by Montgomery and Montgomery for Olive Gertrude Stewart against W. A. Stewart. The plaintiff says they married July 14, 1920 and lived together until December 1929 and seeks relief on general indignities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circuit Court
Montgomery
Olive Gertrude Stewart
W. A. Stewart
Boys Confess to Entering Home and Shoe Shop
Kenneth Miller and Clinton Miller two juvenile brothers aged 13 and 11 were committed to custody on charges of entering and ransacking the home of David Summer and breaking into the shoe shop of Isaac Rosenquest. Police recovered several items from the shop. two pairs of shoes and lacings remain unrecovered. The case was continued to Monday due to absence of juvenile court judge. Kenneth Miller has a prior record of petty theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Miller
Clinton Miller
East Twelfth Street
James Connor
David Summer
Isaac Rosenquest
South Engineer Avenue
Connor
Dimmit Hoffman
Grover Thomas
Sumner
Monroe County to Exhibit at Missouri State Fair
Monroe county will display a county farm exhibit at the 30th annual Missouri State Fair from August 16 to 23, with W. H. Williamson of Lentner in charge. It is the tenth county submission for 1930, among ten counties including Andrew, Benton, Cass, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Macon, Morgan and Franklin. About $5,000 in premiums are offered, with $2,525 for best county exhibits. John F. Case, director of agriculture at the State Fair, announced C. M. Long of Blue Valley Creamery Institute in Chicago will judge the county exhibits. Long has previous Missouri county agent experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe County
W. H. Williamson
Lentner
Monroe
Missouri
Andrew Benton
Cass
Jackson
Johnson
Lafayette
Macon
Morgan
Franklin
John F. Case
Wright City
C. M. Long
Blue Valley Creamery Institute of Chicago
Long
Four Arrested at Georgetown Held on Bond
Clarence Crum charged with assault on a minor Eugene Ray and L Farris Arthur Lewis and Herman Stout charged with trespassing on B Ray property near Georgetown were arrested and brought before Judge D N Yount Friday afternoon. They were released on bonds of 50 dollars each signed by A Cohen for appearance Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Crum
Eugene Ray
L. Farris
Arthur Lewis
Herman Stout
B. Ray
Georgetown
D. N. Yount
A. Cohen
Sedalia Firm Spotlighted by Democrat Tone
The Democrat-Tone features the Sedalia firm and its region, highlighting local business activity and ties to Sedalia and nearby communities. It notes influence in the area and potential local economic impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democrat
Tone
Sedalia and Vicinity
Texas Wonder Ad Promises Kidney and Bladder Relief
Dr. E. W. Hall of St. Louis advertises Texas Wonder a remedy for kidney and bladder troubles rheumatism and gravel sold by druggists with mail order option and sworn testimonials. The text lists 3679 Olive Street St. Louis Missouri and price of 1.25 for a small bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sena
E. W. Hall
Olive Street
St. Louis
Executor's Notice of Francis M. Wise Estate
Letters testamentary were granted to Charles Edward Wise as Executor on June 30 1930 by the Pettis County Missouri Probate Court. All claims must be shown within six months for allowance or be barred. in any event claims not exhibited within one year from publication are forever barred. Elizabeth Lobaubgh Clerk of Probate Court attested June 30 1930.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis M. Wise
Pettis County
Missouri
Charles Edward Wise
Notice of Final Settlement in Pettis County
Executors J T Montgomery and John W Baker announce final settlement of J D Donnahue estate at Pettis County Probate Court in Sedalia on August 11 1930. Executor Conrad H Bothwell will also finalize John Homer Bothwell estate at the same court and date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Donnahue
Pettis County
Missouri
Sedalia
Said County
J. T. Montgomery
John W. Baker
John Homer Bothwell
Conrad H. Bothwell
Notice of Trustee's Sale in Pettis County Missouri
Silas M. Stanley as Substitute Trustee will sell the described Pettis County Missouri land at public auction for cash on August 20 1939 between 9 am and 5 pm at the front door of the County Court House Sedalia to discharge the debt secured by the deed of trust dated July 7 1924 and recorded July 10 1924 in Book 301 page 465. The property is the south half of Lots 1 and 2 of the Southwest quarter and West 144 of Southwest quarter of Southeast quarter of Section 18 Township 47 Range 23. First publication 7-25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Logan Pritchard
Caroline Pritchard
Recorder of Deeds
Pettis County
Missouri
Sedalia
E. E. McCorkle
Silas M. Stanley
County
Beardsley and Beardsley
Kansas City
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Sheriff's
Kka
Oklahoma Contracting Company
Williams Contracting
Des Moines
Connor & Son
Illinois Peoria
Iwilliams Contracting
Mississippi
Michigan
Fr Wayne
Missouri Valley Dean OF Women
Charles Wingate
Marie Wingate
R. L. Wadleigh
Isaac Snow
Maud Arnold
F. L. Mosley
G. R. Dump
Flat Creek Corn Club
Flat Creek Baby Beef Club
Texas Wonder
Elizabeth Lobaugh
McLaughlin
Eer
Sour Ono Sracet
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