The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-09-18
nm sFDA11A WEEKLY BAZOO TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
ROCKVILLE.
A Newsy Letter from the Beau
tiful Capital Of
Cooper.
Home Happenings az Seen by the
Bazoo's Regular Cores
p0ndent.

Correspondence Sunday BazoO.
BOONvILLE, Sept. Is.
The week has been comparatively dull,
a large number of our towns-peOple attend
ing the district fair at Upton. This insti-
tnr,on and the fairs at Sedalia and Browns
Vile are 50 well patrOnized by our Cooper
county stock men. that il is strange that
Boonville can not support fair. II the
right men would take hold of the matter it
could be made grand success. There Is
Capt. Cbas. E. Leonard OF Be!lair, with his
magnificent herd of short horns, John A.
Fray. OF Lamine, with his Norman horses,
of unequaled breed ID. Brownheld, OF Pilot
Grove; L. J. Wallace, Of Bunceton, and
other men throughout the county whose
stock cannot be surpassed anywhere. Now.
fair under the control of such men as
be wonderful help to our county In the
eyes of the outside world.
FIRE AND WATER.
Our water works are almost ready 10 COM
meuce operations. Water has been put in
the pipes as tar as Main street, and by the
first Of October il will be all over the city.
Our city council is taking steps looking
towards the establishment Of regular fire
department, and the city attorney is draft.
| ing an ordinance for that purlOse. There
can be no doubt but that this is wise
work, and it is to be hoped fire depart
ment will soon be one Of the features OF our
| town.
| A band of these wondering creatures were
encamped near BoOnvilie for several
DAYS recently. With them was a
pretty little white girl whom some
| thought to have been stolen, but
nothing definite could be learned in regard
to her.
The Gypsies went from here to Roche
port, and 1t is said that the ROchepOrt
Commercial man, with characteristic en-
terprise, went out to the Gypsy camp to
interview the little child. One of the old
hays, however, pounded him over the head
with a stuffed club aid he stood not upon
tbs order of his going but went at once
The Gyps,es used the little child as the
means to make quite a hani from our mil
liners One of them, a swarthy, wOe-be-
gone looking old " oman, would lead the
child into a milliner store, where the little
one would. under instructions from the ole
hag, put up pitiful plea for hat or q
bonnet, saying she had none and no money
with which to purchase one. The kind
hearted miliiner took pity on the child anC
! gave her hat, which she placed on hel
head, and with the old gypsy lett the store
On the outside the hat was taken from tn,
child by confederate, and the child with
her guardian made her way to another
store, where the scheme was repeated, anC
SO ON, until every millinery establishment
| in the city was visited. Whence came the
Gvpsies? is conundrum that equal.
the question "who struck Billy Patterson
They are mysterious, romantic, yagabone
race, said to have a queen who rules witt
we'll u. Oh despOtle sway. Originally iron
an oriental country, Egypt, India or Ara
bia, they have spread all over Europe an(
America. In scattered bands they trave
everywhere, living by fishing, hunting
trading horses, fortune-telling, and many
by robbipg. Every band steadily refuset
nomadic habits from one generation t
another.
BIG BRICK.
5 The Barker & Dengolesky brick ma
chine. which was put into successful OOer
alton in this city recently, and full de
scription of which appeared in the BAzoo'
Boonville correspondence, at the time
! has attracted considerable attention. an,
been visited by many frem other places
!. Of the three kinds oil brick, pressed, fac
and common, pressed brick are by far tn
I best, and these are the kind turned out b.
our new machine. Bricks generally can
{ not be laid on racks to dry bu
i" the pressed brick, made by tn
, new machine are carted at once into th
kiln, and are ready to be burned. Whe
your correspondent visited the machin
a one afternoon this week, it was at wor
\ and moving slowly, as it was, fourtee
. brick were being turned out per minute, o
$500 per day. This is said to be onl
half what the machine can do when it
, running at its full capacity. The propri