SEDALIA

city and county seat of Pettis county, Mo., 96 miles east of Kansas City and 189 miles west of St. Louis. It is served by the Mi ouri Pacific and the Mi ouri, Kansas and Texas Railroads. It is the terminal point of many divisions of these roads, and has immense shops for repairs and construction of cars and locomotives. The other chief industrial establishments are flour mills, packing houses, foundries, grain elevators, boot and shoe factories, agricultural implement plants, shirt, clothing and overall factories. The city, which is the largest in the central portion of the State carries on a large shipping, jobbing and distributing trade in manufactured and agricultural products. It has many handsome public and private buildings, 27 churches, an excellent educational system, including two busine colleges, a high school and a college for colored students under the auspices of the Methodist church. There are six newspapers and periodicals and eight banking institutions. The government is vested in a mayor and pose of eight aldermen. Population, 21,144.