The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-07-25
wARRENSBURG WAITS.
A Budget OF News from the Quarry
City.

Olty.
Dean Redford is rusticating at Edo
RADIO Springs.
Basket picnic at Colbern's Springs
next Saturday.
III. Martin Williams attenned the bar
becue at Eldorado Springs.
Hon. F. &. Farr was shaking hands
with old Quarry City friends Saturday and
Sunday.
VIM. Lowe, who has been visiting
friends in this city, returned to Philadel-
phia, Wednesday.
Why was it that so manv OF our young
men were so devotedly attached to the
usually tame sport Of fishing last week?
The prominent democrats Il our city
are talking of holding three or four DAYS
camp meeting barbecue during September.
The steam traveller which was blown
from the trestle work at the quarries dur
ing the late storm is again in position
and ready for work.
A base ball club was organized We'd
nesday. The boys would be pleased To re-
ceive a challenge from some backwOOds
country school club.
Fitzpatrick, the man who outraged a
Mrs. Littlejohn, residing north Of this city,
was sent to the Kansas City Jail in order
to be protected from the mob.
A petition was circulated, last Tues
day, inviting Gov. Criltenden to address
the pc Ople Of johnson county on July "a.
He has accepted and will be with us to-
morrow.
This is funny world. Last Sunday
one Of our citizens paid FIVE cents for the
BAzOo for the express purpose of reading
our guilds and was satisfied; while tailor
sponged the paper, then mauled us because
he did read them.
More new buildings are being erected
here this summer than for the past FIVE
years, We will mention q few Of the
lrrger residences now under course of erec-
ton: Major Hedges mansion, corner of
Gay street and Washington avenue, will
be three stories high, surmounted BY q large
observatory, and will be one OF the most
imposing residences in western Missouri
MrStewart's palatial residence is receiving
the finishing touches. 1t is claimed by
many to be the most elegant building in
the city. Work on DR.. Robinson's mag
niicent business block is rapidly
progressing. When completed it will be
occupied by our dry goods prince, Chris
topher. Jacob Heberling is erecting two
two-story brick business buildings on the
south side of the square.
In our town we have a painter and
carpenter, young bloods, who resemble
each other so much that it is with difficulty
their friends recognize them apart.
The painter has been eudeavoriug to make
a mash ever since he has been in town, but
has had poor success, while the carpenter
has made SO many that be is known a.
"Sweet." Tuesday evening young lady met
the painter and thinking him the carpen-
ter, she sweetly smiled and bowed,
over which the painter went into
ecstacies. Rushing off to his hotel,
he informed all of his fellow
boarders that he had at last made a
mash. Wednesday evening he again
sailed forth, met the same young lady.
blushingly twitched at his moustache, and
made ready to tip his hat, but on passing
him she gazed intently at some object
across the street. He has now learned her
mistake and is ineonsolable. Poor boy
We did all for him one heart broken wretch
could do for another.
The tailors, on reading last Sundays
BAzOo, laughed, then got mad, cussed and
held council of war. The minority OF
them unanimously agreed that as the
BAzOo was a great and much read paper,
the article in Sundays issue had done
them a great social harm, and that they
would forthwith annihilate the reporter.
Immediately one of their members was
equipped with pair of shears, sad iron
and a lnickels worth of cheek, bidding
the tourist farewell, gazing long and Low
ingly at the charcoal portraits Of the alb
sent traveller and bum, then frantically
and fondly embracing the beloved goose,
he slid of on his braying ear looking for
us. Yes, dear reader, il pains us to say
that he found us. Yes, he met us on the
railroad crossing, shot out that strong
right arm al our right optic with mule
kicking lick, missing us and striking a
telegraph pole with such force that il was
completely demolished, while the shock
was SO great on the instruments that il
Frustrated the night operator so he re-
mained unconscious for more than an hour.
But the next lick was aimed SO true thst
We imagined an old fashioned Missouri
cyclone had struck us With the careful
nursing of OIL Miller's "cub" il is thought
We may recover.