The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-06-20
QUARRY CITY QUIDS
Picked Up by the BazOo's Argus
Eyed Reporter.

M. T. Moody has removed to St
Louis.
Willie. son of Gov. Crittenden, is il
town.
| -Bycicles take possession of the streets
evenings. racing on the sidewalks.
Col John F. Philips attended, and
briefly addressed, the democratic conven.
ton Monday.
Sheriff Shaw contributed $50 and gold
watch to an unknown burglar Wednesday
night.
Z Mrs. James Ward. nee Patterson. is
visiting friends and relatives at her former
! home, Sedalia.
/ The raspberry festival at Empire hall.
/ tuesday night, given by the ladies of the
Vi. + church, south, was largely attended.
/ A young man residing north OF town
elOped with a young lady oil this city
Wednesday night. They were married by
her pastor. The old folks threaten to leave
the church.
A drunken marble cutter lies down on
the railroad track to sleep, and Is pulled
| of just i'm time to save his liie
Capt. H. {. Fike LETT for ST. Louis.
/ Tuesday. to assume the duties Of a situa-
ton in the general auditors office OF the
Missouri Pacific railroad.
Will ID Carr, of the Gem, attended
the Normal exercises. and slept in the
Blackwater jungle> To escape McQuirty.
the woman fighter, hide
Hon VI v. Mcclellan. Of LAFAYETTE
county, was i'm attendance at the democratic
convention, and announced himself as a
candidate for congress from the Fifth
district
Why is it that some of our Young men.
Immediately after meals, retire To- the Eads
hotel, occupy The chairs. and sponge the
papers and tOothpicks to the annoyance Of
the boaders.
The opea air festival for the benefit
oi the cemetery, promises to be a grand
affair. A chorus OF two hundred voices
will sing, composed of the entire church
chOirs and singers oi the city 4 May-pole
will br erected and the broom brigade Of
young ladies will participate.
About one hundred ysung ladies'
Normal students-leave town this week for
their homes throughout the state. We will
sadly miss their dear faces during the long
summer months. ami will eagerly await
their return when the swallows southwark
fly.
One evening. not long ago. two Culton
street bellies were promenading the princi-
pal business streets of the city. minus their
head gear, accompanied by foreign mask,
on passing the BAZOo reporter, the brunette
exclaimed, "Oh Charley. tell them We are
your cousins Such slick way To have
people know that he was no relation.
commencement exercises Of the Normal
was largely attended. Many old students,
some OF them now attorneys, physicians,
aud professors OF other schools, once more
tramped the old familiar walks through
the campus. The depot, Thursday and
Friday, was the scene of many sad and,
perhaps, long fareweliS Many Quarry
City boys gazed long and wistfully after
the departing trains with their precious
freight as they thundered through the
Blackwater valley.
Fred Wertz. a man representing him.
self a. an engineer from Kansas CITY.
came to our town and procurei work at
one OF the Touring mills. Soon afterwards
he hired a livery rig at Stone Il Cheat
hams stable for the purpose, as he stated,
of going 10 the country to buy a pair Of
mules. Several days elapsed meanwhile
the livery men were earnestly awaiting
his return. One night handsome Young
woman, living with. and representing her
self as Weriz' wife, wended her way to
the depot. closely followed by Mr. Stone,
who followed her To 81. Louis and shad.
owed her To bagnio. He then placed
the case in the hands of the detectives who
soon collared Wertz, and he now anguish
es i'm the city cooler Wednesday morn
ing the woman claiming TO be his wife, re-
turned from 81. Louis. accompanied by an
attorney. She did not state il to your TO-
porter. but he has it from good authority,
that she will make it lively for some OF
oar citizens who were mashed ON Ier
beauty OF face and FORM