The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-09-26
The Newspapers and Business
Men as Viewed From the
Razoo's Standpoint.
A Granger Who Discarded the
Plow to Take up the Edi-
torial Pen,
And Proposed to Revolutionize
Journalism in the Sucker
State.
How the Town is Prospecting and
What the Future Has in
Store for It.
We have been to Barry.

store Tor 1t.
We have been to Barry.
We have been to Griggsvilie.
They are both very nice towns in Pike
county, Illinois.
Pike county is noted for ito productive
sell. elegant school houses, number OF
churches. eloquent preachers, enterprising
and courageous newspapers, excellent no.
tells, hospitable and clever people. bright
eyed, CHEEKY and pretty girls, and by once
being the abode of the notorious G. ID
Ellis, of wanting 10 marry fame.
One morning last week representative
of this paper disembarked from Wabash
train-W. w. Flack, conductor-at
Griggsville, in time to partake of a most
excellent breakfast at the Cree house, pre-
sided over by J. w. Cree, a very capable
landlord
After breakfast we went to the
Press Office and found Hughes, the
proprietor, wasting his time talking to a
candidate for county Judge, who expects TO
be elected
After the Judge is elected he will not
have time to CALI any more until he is a
candidate again.
This is the place where Miss Lizzie
Warton.a young ~ ladywhom Ellis wanted
10 marry. resides.
We told Hughes that an interview wss
desired with Miss w. After some solicit
ing ON our part, he reluctantly consented
10 introduce the interviewer.
The paper man was pilOted to the resi-
dence Of Mrs. Warton, . very unassnmiDg
one story dwelling, near the "round house"
Hughes pounded on the door until the
dry paint ratified of, and
between pounds, chirped to the
singing canary which hung outside.
Finally Miss Lizzie opened the door and
invited Us to seats in . substantially but
plainly furnished room.
She was dressed in dark calico neatly,
made, With q plain tie about her neck,
fastened at the throat with an out-Of-
date pin. Her hair was black and the
front done up in little twists evidently for
banging purposes. On her feet were neat
lev cut slippers, over bright red hose. She
apologized for her appearance saying,
"Mother and ale having . can-can per-
Torrance i'm the kitchen, putting up fruit,
Hughes said he saw q can-can perform
ance once in Chicago, but there was no
fruit in it. but some beer was passed
around the room by girls whose dresses
were abbreviated.
The conversation at once turned upon
Ellis, to whom Miss w. was at one time
engaged to marry
Miss Wsrson said, "Geo. d. Ellis is
viper"
The BAzOo man Said he was two vipers
Hughes said, "Yes," and addressing Miss
Lissie asked "Where is your mother?
~In the kitchen can-csning," she urbanely
replied.
She disappeared into an adjoining room
and returned with IN old lady wiping her
hand on checked apron.
The BAzOO representative was introduced
when Mrs. w., remarked:
1--WE owe your paper debt of gratitude
for warning us of Ellis. 1t saved Lizzie
from marrying the miserable scamp"
That is . fact" said Hughes, talking
solemn.
Miss Warrior then went ahead and told
her experience with Ellis, detailing how
she made his acquaintance and wound up
By going to the "other room" and bringing
cut dray load of letters, more or less.
"Here they are" she said, rs she tum-
bled them into an arm chair standing near
By.
And she commenced BY saying:
Il have them all numbered"
She read No of Ellis missives, which
broke the ice Of his courtship. And it was
full of the softest sort of love twaddle.
Miss W read to US from No. to No.
"A, all filled with bad spelling, worse
grammar and still worse hypocrisy.
She still had thirty-two to read to us,
and as train time approached We babe the
folks all good morning, fully confident in
our own mind that If Ellis had worked it
q little finer he could have married both
the old lady and daughter.
AT FAIRY.
We arrived At Barry at about noon
found the town in q blaze of excitement.
Gibier Brothers Humpty Dumpty troupe
was in town, and was going to give the
people an entertainment i'm the opera
house, which is an old Universalist church.
After registering ut the hotel Sci Harvey
came along, and welcomed the BAzoo man
70 town. He hunted up Charlie Ware,
Who had sold the BAzoo to q news-hungry
people. and was arrested by Ellis for the
act.
Charlie 10 . single man, marriageable,
lively, happy and has heart in him big
ger than an OK. He welcomed ~ to the
place in sitting terms. mo saloons in
that town..