Sedalia Weekly Conservator

Sedalia Weekly Conservator. DRIFTING V AS APPLIED TO CIVILIZ Success, Eloquence, G RECIPR DRIFTING VS: ROWING. DRIFTING VS: ROWING. AS APPLIED TO CIVILIZATION, ART, COURAGE Success, Eloquence, Great Men, Progress. THE BASIC ELEMENT IN LIFE THESES BY LINGOLN SCHOOL GRAD THESES BY LINGOLN SCHOOL GRADUATES Drifting vs: Rowing. Sometime ago, standing on the bank of a swollen stream, I behold much timber and rubbish drifting and meandering with the rapid current. I saw how the eddies tossed and whirled the debris, how at times it was lodged against a bank, or caught by some protruding obstacle, only again to make its escape and to be borne down swiftly by the ever sweeping, restless current. I observed that all the drifting was in one direction, and that downward toward the mouth of the stream. I noticed that the downward drift was without effort, and that the debris was powerless to pursue any other course; having no objective point in view, no prescribed destiny, it proceeded along the line of least resistance which invariably is downward. How different this scene to that of the fisher whom I saw on the same occasion, who went hither and thither always bending to his oars and making the turbulent waters his medium of transportation; ever rowing with, or against the current, transverse or diagonal to it, in whatever direction he was rowing, going somewhere, achieving, making (if need be) a desperate effort to accomplish certain results, to attain a desired end, to reach the goal by following an outlined course. In this picture I beheld the stream of "life." ladened with its human cargo—some drifting, some rowing; the one aimless, the other determined. It is easy for any one to drift downward with the current, but if you ever hope to be some-body in the world and achieve success you must row, pull hard, and steady against the currents of opposition and indolence. "Drifting" may be applied to that class of people who idle away their precious time and never attempt to take advantage of the "golden" opportunities which are presented to them, but are lazy and careless, not trying to secrere an education or succeed in accomplishing something worthy and noble in life, but are simply drifting downward with the current of "idleness." On the other hand "Rowing" may be applied to the industrious class of people, who have achieved greatness and success and have risen to be guiding lights in the march of "Civilization" and "Industry," by struggling and rowing against the current, in order to attain the heights which they sought. Rowing may also be applied to the advancement (or march) of "Civilization," to Art, Eloquence, Great Men, Courage and Success. Commenting briefly on the subjects just mentioned, I shall first discuss "Civilization," which has made great and rapid progress. A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found is called "Civilization." It is a vague, complex names of many degrees. No one has attempted a through definition. It implies the evolution of a highly organized man, brought to supreme delicacy of sentiment, as in practical power, religion, liberty, sense of honor, and taste. In the hesitation to define what it is, we usually suggest it by negations. A nation that has no clothing, no iron, no alphabet, no marriage, no arts of peace, or no abstract thought, we call "barbarous;" but after many arts are invented, or imported, as among the Turks and Moorish nations, it is often a little complaisant to call them "Civilized." "Civilization" is the result of a highly complex organization, and depends chiefly upon "morality." The higher the "morals" of a people (or a nation) the more rapid will be the progress of "Civilization." The next subject for our consideration is "Ari." The conscious utterance of --- VOL. 1. thought by speech or action, to any end, is "Art." We find that the question, "What is Art?" leads us directly to another—"Who is the Artist,"? and the solution of this is the key to the history of "Art." "Art" divides itself into two great classes, the "Useful" and "Fine" Arts. The useful arts comprehend not only those that lie next to instinct, such as agriculture, weaving, building etc., but also navigation, practical chemistry, and the construction of all the grand and delicate tools and instruments by which man serves him-self; as language, the wrist, the ship, the decimal cipher, and also the sciences so far as they are made serviceable to political economy. Music, eloquence, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture is a rough enumeration of the "Fine Arts." I omit rhetoric which only respects the form of eloquence and poetry. Architecture and eloquence are mixed arts, whose end is sometimes beauty, and sometimes utility. In the history of a nation (or nations) you will find that all the great men upon which that nation depends and builted had to row and struggle against the current in order to attain the greatness which they achieved. In other words "rowing" means perseverance, stick-to-itiveness, nerve and back-bone. It means that when you start to do a thing, no matter how difficult it may be, stick to it until you accomplish your purpose which you have in view. Noah Webster is a fine example of stick-to-it-iveness, for he undertook to present to the people of the world, a dictionary containing every word in the "English Language," which he succeeded in doing. But he did not accomplish his task in a year, nor in five years, but he stuck to it both day and night for twenty years and he was finally crowned with success, and the result of his twenty years toiling and laboring so diligently was the renowned "Webster's Unabridged Dictionary." We shall aim high even though we never reachour aim, and strive to hit the mark. If we try for just a short whiland we shall never accomplish anything; but if we fail at first and try again we may quit, at last achieve success. The man who drifts with the current of "idleness" and says "I can't" has already failed ingloriously; but the man that has nerve enough to say, "I can" and "I will," is the man that achieves something and will continue to prosper. In the garden of "Eden." Adam and Eve were blessed with happiness, and had everything that heart could wish, and all the beast of the forest, creatures of the sea and the fowls of the air, were at their command and honored them as long as they kept and obey the commandments of "God," but just as soon as they departed from the laws of "God." "Man" was driven from the garden of eternal happiness and joy. All this was because he grew weary in well doing, could not stand temptation, and would not persevere in doing the right. Thus it is with man to-day, if he under-takes to do a thing and sticks to it, he will finally reach his aim and be crowned with success. When Gen. Grant was encamped at Spottsylvania, he sent the following telegram to Headquarters. "I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." It took all summer, all fall, and all winter, but he stuck to it until he became victorious. By severe application and concentration, by fearless persistence and intrepid rowing. Morse worked out the electric telegraph, Bell, the telephone, Watt, the steam-engine, Whitney, the cotton gin, Fulton, the steam-boat and Howe, the sewing-machine. Howe, the sewing-machine. J. Fannie Wright has accepted These universal benefits were not ac complished by "drifting" but by position as house-keeper for C. struggle and sacrifice of indefat hillips. She is an estimable lady "rowing." Tousant L'overture and will be an excellent mother to erick Douglass, Booker T. W. Mr. Phillips' children. SEDALIA, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, June 20, 1903. THE MEMBERS OF THE METHODIST CHURCH OF BROOKLYN Pettis Co., Teachers, Institute Closed June 11th. Prof. Shelton F. French, Con, and Paul Lawrence Dunbar, are representative Negroes who rowed from obscurity and poverty to wealth and fame. Their names will ever be honored and revered. To every black boy they stand out in bold relief as beacon lights, showing how and where we may safely "row." What man has done, man can do. We too are "rowing," and are proud of our ability and desire to continue "rowing." We have "rowed" to and through "Lincoln School," With the same pluck and energy we shall row through life, blessing man-kind as we go, and shall succeed in accomplishing every noble deed we undertake to do. Trullie W. Lenox. Reciprocity the Basic Element in Life. Reciprocity is a mutual action and reaction, a reciprocal advantage, obligation or reciprocation, a mutual giving and returning If we wish to have it in a more simple language, let us refer to a very old and trite statement that came from the lips of a humble carpenter of Nazareth, who said, "Do unto others as you would have them do to you." This is a similar statement to that made by Confucius, who said, "Do not do to others that you would not have them do to you." There is no reciprocity in this if reciprocity is exchange of giving and taking or doing by each of two to the other. While we have read of reciprocity as related to one country by another it has the same meaning in relation of individual lives, and manifested when one boy or girl, who has an article of value which another has not, lends or gives, and he in appreciation of this gift (by act or article) returns something the other one needs. Parents give clothing, food, shelter, time and opportunity to the child, by which to be educated; the child reciprocates by giving back love, a well trained hand and brain and a beautiful character. The states supply schools, the youths reciprocate by returning to the state a loyal citizenship. This is the basic element of or the foundation upon which all life, true and noble is builted. Not to reciprocate for the good we receive is base ingratitude. It is an attempt to attain and obtain without remunerating for it, like one getting meat groceries, or fuel, without the return of money. If we would remember this it would place us in a position to try to do something in return for every smile, kind word, gentle deed, that ever cameto bless our way. it is forgetting that a smile is to go back for a smile, a 'thank you' at least for every gift in life, a doing something for all that we have received that leaves so many sad hearts at the fireside which never seem to glow, and so many idle and impoverish. M. Harris remember the unself prociety for you, for your noble actions and kindly deeds—no time for falsehood for slander, to injure another, to neglect to hate. We will have to keep busy to pay back for all the good that has come to us. We may begin it in school. Even now; yes even good for evil and so fulfill the law of that life which was the truest and fullest of all lives—Jesus Christ. Reciprocity puts life, thought, energy and action into the multitudes and makes the world leap rejoicing along the path of ages. Reciprocity clears the way; its thoughts become tangible, moving, demolishing forces, that break down and crush all opposing barriers, open a path way to progress into which even the slugish and timid portion of humanity may travel in safety. It thinks, moves, acts and makes itself felt in the world. Should a thought come to one its possession is one of breadth and compass; it does not center on self and its narrow world. It reaches away and embraces others. It has a wide range and does not stop till it touches and effects for the good and interest of all. The thoughts of such men are not immobile; they become acting, living realities in the wide and busy world; they make out of these thoughts actualities and give them a local habitation and name. There is not a more honorable or more useful member of society than the man who has reciprocity as his guide. Reciprocity is not like law, medicine, or divinity; it flourishes by multitudes and gives employment to all professions. Its evident then how much we owe to the reciprocity of our land and how greatly we depend upon its possessors for our means, both in social progress and even religious effort. Reciprocity is not only a motive power responsible agent in its whole economy. The goddess of wisdom has riches in her right hand and honor and long life in her left, but she must be wooed and won if her dowry be obtained. She smiles upon the beggar boy as well as the monarch; gives a place to each; fill thier coffers with shining gold; spreads out before them broadfields and whispers "These are thine." Reciprocity does the same. It is conducted upon a broad scale it demands the exercise of that wide comprehensive vision requisite for the operation of a chief minister or a general whose plans of campaign cover half a continent. The human life may well be compared to a race course, in which a countless number of persons are contending for a prise. The aged have nearly finished, the young have just commenced. The prises before them is 'success.' Begin in a reciprocal way and you will obtain success. Young folks tell us what they do, old folks what they have done, idlers what they intend to do, but we the class all you that Reciprocity is the life. Life is a game of Call and use the players may win and un- society, with books or in business, in proportion to what we bring to it, with an ever increasing ratio. Ten yeas ago the class of 1903 entered Lincoln School 80 strong, bright, chubby little urchins as radiant with hope and childish glee as ever wended their way to halls of learning. The 10 per cent represented in the graduating class to night brought enough of energy, pluck, determination and intelligence to Lincoln School that bright September morning, 1893, to climb up thru the grades and plant our banner on the summit of our high school curriculum. We represent the average of all who begin life full up hope and bright prospects, only about 10 per cent succeed. A look, a word, sign, a trifling accident has changed the course of many a life; a boulder frownning on the mountain's brow since the world was born suddenly awakens from its sleep of centuries, goes madly thundering down the mountain into the river at its base. The waters rise and change their channel. A few drops of rain won the battle of Waterloo, when time on that bloody night flew off the mighty field of slain veterans in their eternal sleep, Napoleon turned his glass and toot his flight. We have been changed by a word. Buoyant of heart and blithe of step, we march from conquest to victory, from effort to success under a banner bearing this inscription: 'Reciprocity.' Stung with desire for knowledge, we shall often be found poring over books and perchance burning the midnight oil. Reciprocity is that part of a fireside education which should be made familiar by practice and ever regarded as being a sound mind in a sound body. Teach it as a point of duty, a principle of true pleasure, the basis of real happiness and the correct way to success. Katharine Betora Guy. Whitelaw Reid on the Higher Education of Women. Whitelaw Reid discusses the influence of an educated womanhood before the Phi Beta Kappa society, of Vassar College, an institution devoted to the higher education of women, thus:— Outside the immediate and inestimable effect on the family, the conservative power of educated women naturally will show its influence on social life. They surely will help to check its degradation. They certainly will correct the prevalent vicious conception of its real scope. From this degrading conception comes the constant craze for newspaper publicity and every other form of publicity. If the conduct of the so-called inner circles of society has seemed to justify this brazen uproar at their gates, so much greater the demand for the conservative influence and the real refinement that comes from the high training of superior women. When higher ideals do return, the powerful influence of educa- PERSONAL MENTION. Geo. Williams writes us encouraging news from Glasgow. Thanks J F M Counce and son, Willie went angling on the Lamine last week. Rev G. W. Ball was call to Beaman Saturday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Minnie Campbell. Miss Rosa Roberson, of Booneville, spent several days with Miss Mattie Arnold last week. Miss Nellie Wilkerson, teacher at New Franklin, is stopping with Mrs Ellen Wesley on east Cooper street If you wish to beautify, straighten, and promote the growth of the hair try Mrs. Jackson's MAGIC HAIR ELIXIR. It will do it. Address. Mrs J. W. Jackson, MINNIOLA COTTAGE Sedalia, Mo. WHEELER and CHAMBERS shaves, hair-cuts and general Tonsorial work done. Call and see us. 113,East Main street Paper Hanging. PLASTERING, PATCHING, and CALCEMINING. All work guaranteed. Call and see me. Wm. Grey, 106E. Pettis. Mrs. Davis keeps on hand a full line of hair goods, such as braids, bangs pompadours. Also, facebleach and hairpomade. We solicit your patronage WRITE For Prices. D. Y, STEEL, Popular Tonsorial Artist Courteous Treatment Your Trade Solicited. 120 E.Main. J. M. Harris. M. D. Physician and Surgeon. 116 W. Main St., Sedalia, Mo. Office hours 10 to 12 a. m., 4 30 to 6 30 p. m. Residence, 236, W. Morgan St. GENERAL TRANSFER Piano & Furniture Mover All work done with care at reason able rates. WARREN CRAIGHEAD 'Phone 406 Residence 617 N. Lamine St. Wm. M. RICHARDSON. GENERAL BLACKSMITHING. HORSE-SHOEING A SPECIALTY. 319 E, Main St. Sedalia, Mo. Quick Service And SQUARE DEALING Get Billup's Carraige JOHN HURDLE IS POLITE AND WILL TREAT YOU RIGHT. Ring him up, 'Phone 146 or 164 Funeral and all Cells promptly Looked after. Sedalia Weekly Consevator. THE CHURCH The African Methodist Episcopal Church (Quinn Chapel) was organized in this city in July, 1881 by the Rev. R. C. Ruyanover Lopheimer's hide store on Main St. with a dozen members. In September of the same year, conference assigned the Rev. A. J. Burton as the first regular pastor of the recently organized work. The present church site which was a small brick coal-oil warehouse with a dirt floor was purchased of S. H. Beiler and John L. Hall, April 14, 1884 under the pastorate of the Rev. A. C. Terrill whose church trustees were Andrew Vaughn, Alexander Paxton and Alfred Allen, all of whom still live in the city. At the time of the purchase the membership had grown from 12 to Mrs. C W Holiday visited her mother, Mrs. Bohon, in Smithton last week. Blanche accompanied her The Sedalia Egg Company employs more than seven men of our race. Good for the management We are pleased to announce that Prof. Edward Gravett is much better and will soon be about again. Rev. William Divers was down from Sweet Springs last monday. This famous Resort is liked by him The Cooper county Teacher's Institute will convene at Boonville on Aug. 10th. Prof. C G Williams will be the Conductor Miss Flora E. Wright, of Lincoln School took her departure, Sunday, for Denver, Colo. We wish her a pleasant vacation. The Conservator's manager, C M English Sundayed in Windsor. He, accidently, looked after our interests while there Our old reliable friend J B Simp son was in from his farm the latter part of the week and gave us a pleas ant call. Welcome, come again. Miss Goergia Rider of Vinita I. T., recen-ly of Lincoln Institute, passed thru the city Sat. She was the guest of Mrs. Iaac Resnolds and wife. Mrs. Alice Joues, we are pleased to announce, is convalescent, after a long seige of iliness; her recovery may be attributed to the Profession al skill of Dr. J M Harris Mr. Walker Hogan and wife, of Otterville visited Prof. Chas. White and wife last week. Their daughter Emma will handle the Otterville correspondence for the CONSERVATOR Clarence Butler, delivery clerk for J. F. Scaly was seriously injured by a runaway team last Friday morning. His face was considerably The Rev. J. Frank McDonald in 1885 built the present church edifice, and Rev. J. P. Watson built the parsonage. Rev. R.L. Binkly did the first repairing on the church, and the Rev. W.C. Williams put the church and parsonage in their present beautiful condition. The first annual conference was held in the church in September, 1886 by Bishop John M.Brown, and the second in September, 1902, by Bishop C. T. Shaffer. The present membership is 125, with an indebtedness of $370. We are now making an effort to put a new roof on the church and pay off the debt. We have just closed a rally netting $150.65. scarred. At this writing he is improving rapidly. Mrs. Lizzie Cowden, of Rocheport, who has been visiting in the city of Old Mexico, returned home Tuesday morning. She spent a few hours with Mrs. Richard Sanders, on Lamine street, while passing thu Misses Alta Williams, Kelso I. T. and Bessie McDaniels of Clinton, were the guests of Isaac Reynolds & wife last Saturday and Sunday They were en route home from Jefferson City, where they have been attending Lincoln Institute Bro. Chas. Hopkins one of Sedalia's most highly respected citizens may be seen busily engaged doing something at all times. Age doesn't phase his industrious inclinations Young men may well learn a lesson of Industry and Patience from such noble characters as bro. Hopkins Misses Emma and Sedalia Drake Ella Williams and julia Hayden went to Nelson, via Boonville, to attend the Central District Convention of the Missionary Babbist Sunday schools. On their return, homeward, they will stop at Boonville for several days. While on their outing they will look after the News Interests of the CONSERVATOR Furnishes All Grocers with DELICIOUS, FRESH, HOME-MADE BREAD. Dont forget to ask for Walch's Bread. We also lead in the production of ICE CREAM. Mrs. Princes E. Hubbard, of Paris, Mo., is visiting Dr. J. M. Harris and family. Mrs. Fannie Wright has accepted the position as house-keeper for C. Phillips. She is an estimable lady and will be an excellent mother to Mr. Phillips' children. Call 'Phone 287. --- READ The Conser vator. F. M. Ja Lun M. James. & C Lunch Room F. M. James. & CO. Meals Served at all Hours. Hot Coffee, Fish, Cakes and Pie Coffee, Fish, Cakes and Pi Hot Coffee, Fish, Cakes and Pies. Accommodations for all. Call and see us. 113 E. Main and see us. 113 E. Main Call and see us. 113 E. Main St. in that vast audience was bathed in tears. We had never before seen the like. So convincing was his speech that when he concluded there was not a dissenting voice against continuing him another Quadrennium. Bishop Beebe was a man of means and it was reported years ago that he was worth $50,000 But he is no more. He was a faithful husband, a kind father and an untiring worker for Christ. He has yielded to the relentless hands of death and paid the debt that all human beings must pay. He is the 3rd, that has been called from the Episcopal Bench of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church from labor to reward. God has graciously blessed our church, for thirty three years only three of those elevated to the bench have crossed the chilly stream of death and gone home to enjoy that eternal felicity with the seraphims of glory. But our loss is heaven's gain. What a happy meeting there was on that blissful shore when Joseph A. Beebe, William H. Miles, and R. H. Vanderhorst met! Doubt less they conversed over the working of the church for which they had given their lives. There are also scores of others who made up the rank and file of Colored Methodism bade him welcome to that celestial city of endless joy and eternal happiness. The Christian Index Just arrived. Kuhn's free line of 4th of July fire- works, fire crackers, Roman candles, torpedoes etc. Boom! boom!! Let her go for "Old Glory". Obituary. Mrs Minnie Campbell departed this life last Friday after a brief illness. She had been patient in her affliction and was ready to answer the summon when it came. She had, however, one regret, to leave her little children motherless but she found solace in this assurance, that He, who careth for all would shield her little ones. The funeral service was conducted by the Rev. G. W. Ball of Sedalia, and the interment was in the Beaman church Cemetary. Mrs Jane Brown,(Col.)formerly owned by Dowan Sappington, de- parted this life Friday, May 22, at 11.30 o'clock. She was one of the oldest colored citizens in this part of the country. She was born in the state of Kentucky in the year 1818, being 85 years and some months old at the time of her death. She was a devoted Christian and a member of the free Babist church for sixty years. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. R. Bruner of Nelson, at the Free Babist church in Arrow Rock. Deceased leaves two children, Frank Brown, of Marshall, and Bettie Brown, of near Arrow Robk, and a number of grand children to mourn her departure. The remains were interred in the old Sappington graveyard. Arrow RoCk Slatesman. Children's Day Services. The Edudational or more familiarly, called Children's Day Service was appropriately observed in several of the city churches, June 14th. Rev. Warfield of the C M E church reports a splendid exercise and $7. raised for Education. Bro. Ball had an excellent program that gave due honor to the Educational cause. Taylor's chapel will hold her services Sunday, afternoon & night From the Sedalia Times. The Negro Farmers Improvement Society of Texas which recently held its 7th. annual session is composed of 3,000 Negro farmers who own 50,000 acres of land, 8000 head of cattle and 7000 horses and mules. The principal object of the convention is to devise ways and means of cancelling mortgages. Minister's Alliance Organized. The Sedalia Ministers met at Quinn Chapel A, M. E. Church Tuesday morning, June 16, to organize an alliance. Rev. G. W. Ball, of Simpson's Chapel, presided temporarily, during the prayer service, after which, on motion of Rev. Davis of Taylor's Chapel. The Rev. Wm. Alexander of Quinn Chapel was chosen president for the next ensuing three months. Rev. Bohanon was elected sec'y, with the Rev. J. P. Bishop as his assistant. Rev. G. W. Ball was chosen treasurer and the Revs. Davis, Mack and Warfield were selected as the Executive Committee. The Ministers of the city and adjacent towns wish to do aggressive moral and religious work hence they are taking the proper and common sense steps to do effective work. Arrow Rock Staiesman, June, 12th The river at this point has fallen about seven feet up to Yesterday, June, 11th. The water is not yet low enough to make anything like a correct estimate of losses and condition of the bottoms. Bray's house and Kruger's house, where McCarty lived and one or two others on the Island with many barns and outhouses have been washed away. 3,000 or more barrels of old corn has been ruined and several cribs washed away. The heaviest losers being Woodruff, Craig, Ritter and Diggs brothers Where to Worship. Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday Morning 6 00, a. m. Sunday-school 10 45 " " Song service by Choir 11 00 " " Preaching Afternoon 2 30, p. m Class-meeting 6 30 " " Epworth League 7 45 " " Song service by Choir 8 00 " " Preaching. African Methodist E. Church. Sunday Morning Preaching 11 00 Afternoon Sunday-school 2 00. Class meeting 3 00. Endeavor 7 00. Preaching 8 00. Morgan St. Baptist Church. Sunday Preching 11 00 a. m. and 7 30 p. m. Sunday school 2 00 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday. Simpson's Chapel. Methodist Episcopal Church. Sunday School 9 00, a. m. Preaching 11 00 a. m. Class meeting 3 00 p. m. Preaching 7 30 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wed., even ing. G. W. Ball, Pastor. C. M. E. Church Preaching at 11 00 a. m. and 7 30 p. m. Sundayschool 2 00 Class meeting 3 00 Prayer meeting every Fri. evening T. H. Warfield Pastor Free-will Baptist Church. Preaching and Rally every 3rd Sunday at 11 00 a.m. and 7 30 p.m Sunday school 2 00 p. m Covenant meeting 3 00 p. m Prayer meeting every Tues. night Covenant meeting Fri. nights Rev. E. D. Burns pastor. BLUE FRONT GROCERY. Full Line of Staple Groceries & Cigars. Fresh Bread, Cakes and Cookies. Soda- Pop and other Refreshing Drinks Right off the Ice. CALL AND SEE US. We will treat you right. J, F. Kuhn & Co. COR. LAMINE & PETTIS SEDALIA, MO. NEW ICE CREAM PARLOR, And Lunch Room J, F. Kuhn & Co. COR. LAMINE & PETTIS SEDALIA, MO. NEW ICE CREAM PARLOR, And Lunch Room Corner Lamine & Pettis St. Having open a first class ICE CREAM PARLOR and LUNCH ROOM, we are prepared to serve you with the best cream in the city at all hours at a reasonable price. CALL and SEE US. Open Day and Night. St. Clair McClain, Proprietor. READ THE CONSERVATOR 15 cents per month. $1.25 PER YEAR. Having open a first class ICE CREAM PARLOR and LUNCH ROOM, we are prepared to serve you with the best cream in the city at all hours at a reasonable price. CALL and SEE US. Open Day and Night. St. Clair McClain, Proprietor. CONSERVATOR 15 cents per month. $1.25 PER YEAR. Lodge Directory Sedalians in St. Louis and What They are Doing Q. C. Commandery K. T. Meets 1st. & 3rd., Fridays in each month. Wright have very responsible positions at the National Bank of Commerce. Our old friend, Frank "Dutch" Stewart, manager Jefferson Buffet, will visit Sedalia soon. He has a glad hand and pleas- smite for all. Sedalians in St. Louis are doing well. SPECIAL. Sedalia Chapter, No. 5. Kuhn's for 4th. July fire-works R. A, M. 2nd. & 4th. Wed., each month. J. T. Ferril, H. P. C. H. Lewis, Sec. Echoes from Home Arrow Rock, Mo. Mrs. J W Payne wife of our pas tor, we are sorry to say, is quite ill. Centennial Lodge, No. 59. A. F. A. M. 2nd, & 4th. mondays in each month Ye writer has had the pleasure of partaking of new potatoes twice this season already Mrs. Frank Switzler who has been in Marshall for sometime returned home last week Arrow Rock is said to have had a bout ten-thousand visitors to see the river while out of her banks. Prof. J T Trigg, Zack Bush and others boarded the Steamer, G W Lyons, and took an Excursion ride to Boonville The children of this community are practicing for their Children's Day Services which will be held on the 21st. Inst. Prof. I W Adams of the Marshall shool, who has been visiting relative here has returned home. Mrs. Matilda Adams his mother accompanied him. She anticipates an early visit with Kansas relatives Sons & Daughters of Charity Lodge No. 1. Meets 1st. and 3d. Tuesdays each month. D. L. White Pres W: W: Henderson Sec. Prof. I W Adams of the Marshall shool, who has been visiting relative here has returned home. Mrs. Matil da Adams his mother accompanied him. She anticipates an early visit with Kansas relatives