The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-01-22
HURRAH FOR JoNHsi
Who - N31 TO b Postmaster.

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Jones Of Clinton, Jones Of the Adsoeas
Lease n. Jones.
I. N. Jones. Esq, which Is nov edito
and postmaster Of Clinton, or the next thin
TO il.
For the President'took his name; bored
hole through It bv punching out one Of tn
IA IN I-aac; then he put a blue ribbo'
through the hole; then he slapped a chun'
If sealing YAK On il. and sent the Who'll
thing to the Senate for their confirmation
~ po-iu- .-ter Of Clinton.
It's big thing Tor Jones.
When he - postmaster he can just Al
down BY the hig stove. behind all the liii!'
boxes. and get circulars from Washington
every day, addr~aed:
a. n. JONES. p. n.
Editor Clinton Adrooufe.
Job Work aSpecialty
@SVV
Then. again, he will be right where h
can spo, his delinquent subscribers. wheu
Smith comes Tor his mail, Jones can say
Look here. Smith, You owe me three
years subscription. There sre six Letters
for you hut you don't get nary one Of EN-
ill you come down for iL"se three years !!
Oh. ita old big, the post office Is.
And we're glad that Jones got it, for he's
meriiorious and deserving.
Did you ever see poor devil Of an editor
vho was not meriiorious and deserving?
And now, having little experience in
the pos,o6ce ourself, We will give Jones the
benefit Of il.
About seven pears ago. an old trsPPer
started little rancho on the vest bank Of
the Arkansas, among the O-ages. He made
his living BY trading with the Indians
and the occasional traPpers and whites
who psaaed through there. Although liv-
ing in the wilderness, he had lively times,
for the Osages used to take turns in driv-
ing old Chaplain across the river and steal
ing his goods. And these turns came pretty
close, and they kept him busy in wading
over the meanest dern river IN America.
In winter. half his time was put in lying IN
his bunk, covered up With red flannel and
the rheumatism.
T:u,, ..>,.~l go, "a 60 J;J sba Ouac>,
into the western Indian Territory but old
Chapman stuck right where he was and
thus established nucleus around which
rallied . village Of pioneer. BY some
means old Chaplain was appointed post
master, although he could neither read or
write. So when the mail came ACROSS the
river twice a week in q eunny sack, on =
mule and under small Boy, the whole
concern the mail, We mean-was dumped
into cracker box IN the counter.
When the den,zens Of that interesting
village came to inquire for their mail,
old Chaplain, who would be seated on
nail key smoking hrs pipe, would wave his
pipe hand toward the cracker box and say
"Thar's the mail; hunt il over. That
A. Is the live mail-the Jed letters and trix
are in a pile behind the counter, on the
door."
This innocent and handy way Of doing
however, did not please everybody,
40 old Chaplain hired the writer for clerk.
Sometimes We took our pay in buffalo robes.
but the currency of the country Was con-
lained in barrel marked Bourbon"
II old Chaplain couldn't write he could
figure, and he figured 80 veil he brought Us
put in his debt at the end Of every month.
One dav Chicago man, with big mutton
chop whiskers arrived with q document.
lie took the postmas,ership and mail away
from old e., and that left this individual
high and dry-very particularly the latter.
That's all we know about post Offices. and
from our sad experience We advise Bro.
Jones not to put his mail in cracker box,
more especially to look out for that gauni,
long legged Chicago GUS, with mutton-choP
. hiskers