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Newspaper
Sedalia Weekly Democrat
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1938
Page
3
La Monte notes list numerous visits and dinners over Thanksgiving weekend. Families from Woodward Oklahoma, Kansas City, Sedalia, Blackwater, and Stover share meals with local residents including the Martins, Rhoads, Browning, Riley, Moore, and Wheeler households.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Lamm of Topeka Kansas spent days with J. J. Lamm's family. Ramseyer relatives from Kansas City Rich Hill and Ottawa joined gatherings in Smithton for Thanksgiving. Several locals hosted guests from Sedalia Boonville and Fort Worth while others traveled to Warsaw Malta Bend and Kirksville. A Mercy hospital patient, Ivan Montgomery, returned home as the marmot whistle echoed nearby.
Mrs. H A Jaeger hosted a Sunday 12 o’clock dinner in honor of her daughter Mrs. Oscar R Martin. Guests included Mr. and Mrs Rankin Martin who received gifts such as a shorthorn heifer and silverware at a recent shower. Thanksgiving visits featured families from Illinois Kansas City and Cairo Missouri. A Baptist church play A Light Unto Her Path featured local youths under Edwin Williams. A community choir formed at the Methodist church with Miss Leola Reese directing. The Literary Drama and Music club planned a candle light Christmas program at the Methodist church.
Mrs. Hilton Douglas and James Douglas visited in Kansas City. A Thanksgiving dinner at the Birdsong home drew relatives from Barnett Eldon and Kansas City. Other weekend mentions include Holt Sodeman, Ruth Gover, Irene Wingate, and Willard Vaughan and Louise May Douglas wedding.
Mr and Mrs Raymond Barbour welcomed a son who lived three hours. Funeral services were at Sappington cemetery with Rev H A Wood officiating. Mrs Elizabeth Heinen and John W Williamson are seriously ill. Nettie Unglaub and Claud Howe wed at the courthouse. they plan to farm. Numerous local visits and illnesses fill the week as decorations go up and Santa Claus is set for December 10.
Funeral services were held at Hopewell with a large crowd for Hubert Steimel aged 69 who died in Jefferson City. The piece also covers Thanksgiving gatherings, visits from relatives in Wisconsin Kansas and California, and church and club events across Tipton and nearby towns.
Mesdames Betty Hill and Laura Peters of Pittsburg Kansas arrived to aid Judge R M Hudson whose condition is critical. Miss Ida Finn and Mary Read returned from St Louis. Mrs N G Robertson learns of her brother’s death. Luther Price 58 of Watonge Okla died after residing there 35 years. Father H J Breith appointed to Tipton Catholic church in residence. D C Bixler learns of his father D D Bixler’s sudden death near Versailles.
Mrs Roscoe Denton of Stotsburg and daughter Mrs John Coon of Hume Mo visited relatives here Monday and Tuesday. Mrs Mollie Nutt Claude and Bennie Martin were dinner guests at Sedalia. Other guests from Kansas City Odessa near Odessa and Sedalia joined the Nutt family. Mrs James A Newsom returned from Kansas City. Rev Sullens conducted a funeral in Marshall. Mrs Ida Westbrook of Sweet Springs visited relatives here. Jimmie and Lloyd Newsom hosted Sunday school services.
Misses Pauline and Marguerite Hutchison of Boonville and their parents visited Syracuse with relatives. Fulton residents Mr. and Mrs. Charles Myers and children spent Sunday here. Florence residents Dallisrose and Otto Carver stayed with Alice Richey and Fred Klein families. Russell Burns returned to Muskogee after visiting Ray Burns and Leonard Roesler. Marlin Schroeder trip to Warsaw. Tony Kammerich of St. Louis visited with Andrew Kammerich's family. Mrs. Lee Maloney birthday gathering hosted by neighbors and friends.
Sedalia Lodge 236 A F and A M held its annual Past Masters Night at the Masonic lodge on Seventh Street and Osage Avenue. Most Worshipful Grand Master Henry C. Chiles spoke and presented 50 year buttons to George W. Arnold and George F. Boothe. Officers for the coming year were elected. Memorial services honored departed brothers.
The Se dalia Savings and Loan Association held its annual meeting at 112 West Fourth Street and elected W. M. Johns L. H. Archias Sr A L Pringle Henry R Harris John McGrath Leo Bloess and A W Kiang as officers for the coming year. In a regular board meeting on November 28 W M Johns was named president L H Archias Sr vice president and Ray W Hunt secretary and treasurer.
It was announced that a dividend at 4 percent per annum would be paid on January 1, 1939, for the preceding six months to shareholders holding both fully paid and installments shares.
Friday afternoon about 3:15 p m Mr and Mrs J Mont Kendrick of Sedalia were in an auto wreck on highway 50 near Muddy bridge three miles west of Sedalia Their car struck another parked partly on the slab Mrs Kendrick suffered a fracture to her right arm and several bruises Mr Kendrick sustained a slight chest injury They were treated at Knob Noster by Dr G W Groves occupants of the other car were uninjured Mrs Kendrick sister of Dr M P Shy of Sedalia.
In Boston Em manuel church 2000 guests attended the marriage of Sally Poor Clark sister of Mrs. John A. Roosevelt and George X. McClanahan of New York. The 18 year old bride wore white velvet and the ceremony lasted twenty minutes. Afterward the couple left for a reception at Sallys aunt Mrs. George Clymers home and planned trains to New York then California and Hawaii for a honeymoon. Sally relinquished her singing career.
Mr and Mrs Fred Mueller and family hosted a Thursday evening gathering at their Lincoln area home with many relatives and friends. Guests included Louie Eckhoff Elmer Swartzel Louie Kreissler and families Edward Goosen and children Marie and Charles Emil Kreissler and Neéoma Lawrence Eckhoff and Doris Jean Carrie Goosen Willie Jaekel and Marietta Kreissler Pauline Kreissler Martin Kreissler and August Jaekel among others.
Miss Sadie Bottoms a county home inmate died at Bothwell hospital following severe burns sustained October 26 when her clothing caught fire while she was burning out wasps. She was 53, daughter of the late Martin Green Bottoms, admitted at age 20 in 1905, and survived by brother Lee Bottoms and sister Mrs Ollie Todd.
Mr. and Mrs. Emil Kreis sler and daughter Neema of Lincoln hosted a supper Sunday evening. Attending were Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kreissler and son Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Swartzel, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mueller and daughters Mildred and Helen, Mr. and Mrs. Louie Eckhoff, Franken Jaekel, August Jaeke, Martin Kreis sler, Miss Pauline Kreis sler, Bertha McCartney, and Pear Cole.
Donnahue Loan and Investment Company files a partition suit against Lulu Bryant Edith Wilks Amy Cockrill Frank Bell James Bell Charles FE Bell David Bell with W W Blain attorney for the plaintiff.
Jefferson City Missouri December 3 The state social security commission restored Houston C Price 73 to the old age assistance rolls after a Springfield court ruling allowing relatives assistance while still eligible for state grants Administrator George S Haworth called it a Santa Claus moment The action comes despite federal resistance Price will receive the maximum 30 monthly pension plus 270 back pay from March 11 this year The commission relied on a court decision upholding eligibility Waldo Price and his wife have modest income with Mrs Price earning six dollars a month as a seamstress and Price estimated living costs at 42 75 monthly The federal social security board has threatened to withdraw Missouri from the program if the Springfield decision stands
The county court selected jurors and alternates for the January term criminal court. Listings include Sedalia wards and nearby towns such as Bowling Green Cedar Dresden Elk Fork Flat Creek Green Ridge Heaths Creek Houstonia Hughesville Prairie Lake Creek La Monte Longwood Smithton Washington and more with named jurors and alternates like Elmer T. Dillard Oscar Watson Charles Thompson C. E. Ramseyer and J. B. Ellison among others.
G P Morris arrested in Cleveland on a check forgery charge and extradited to Sedalia Missouri by Constable Forrest Poindexter and Prosecuting Attorney Job Harned. He allegedly forged a $25 check at Jim Kochoff filling station and faces multiple warrants in Missouri towns. Hearing set Monday before Justice Bell Hutchinson.
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