The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-10
BOONVILLE.
Mrs. Bush, Implicated in the
Sartoris Scandal, q Former
Resident Here.
Something Of Her Early His
tory, as Related by the
Oldest Inhabitants.
Society Salad, Personal Mem
ton, Local Hits,
Etc, Etc.

Etc, Etc.
| Correspondence of the BAzoo.
BOoNvILLE, Mo-, July z.
Jim Thomson has been visiting friends
in Lamar.
p G. Walker spent a day or two in
town this week.
Join A. Hannay, of the Versailles
Gazette, was in town to-day.
Prof. and Mrs. X. P. Ridu are in Boon
vile this week visiting friends.
Miss Sue Holman is visiting her cousin,
Mrs. John Sebree, in Jefferson City.
MIR. and Mrs. Mat Hall, of this city
have been visiting in Versailles this week
Circuit court commences here next
Monday. Some interesting cases will be
tried.
ID. B. May6eld, of Vernon county, an
old Cooper county boy, was in town re-
Gently.
Miss Clara Crawford, of this county. is
visiting friends in Versailles, Morgan
county.
Rev. c. w. Cowan and family, of Pr
lot Grove, are visiting relatives in Vir-
ginia.
Mrs. HI. C. Gibson and Miss Kitty
OBryan have returned home from brief
visit to ST. Louis.
w. F. Potts and daughter and j. E
Mullen, all of Nevada, were registered al
the City hotel yesterday.
Miss Belle Henderson, of Elko, Neva-
da, who has been attending school at Vas
sar college, visited friends near BOonville
this week.
Albert Cluncrgan, butcher, working
for the Managers, was fined 81 and costs for
drunkenness and disOrderly conduct on
Wednesday.
Miss Addie and Will Hoffman left, re-
Gently, for st. Charles county, where the
former will visit relatives. Will goes on
to St. Louis.
The wheat harvest is almost over in
Cooper county. The crop is an average
one and the quality excellent. Surely our
farmers have NO reason to complain.
-Barth & Culverhouse have purchased
the building on Main street, in which the
TivOli saloon is situated, from C. w. Som
boat, for $3.50.
Prof. II. T. Morton, CT our public
schools, who has been confined to his bed
with malarial fever for week past, is able
to be out again.
MIR. w. II. Tucker has purchased the
Prairie Home Institute at Prairie Home,
this county, and will commence school
there about the first OF September.
w. Z. Hsssett. ESQ.,, now of Macon,
Mo-, but an old-time resident of Boonville,
was in town this week. Mr.. III. was on his
way to visit an old friend at Pilot Grove.
Col. John l.. O'Brysn, his daugE tier,
Miss Lizzie, and Miss Taylor Weight re-
turned from Muncie, Ind Tuesday, at
which place the two young ladies had been
visiting relatives for several weeks.
The Episcopal Sunday school
gave picnic Wednesday, and
the Baptist Sunday school
one Thursday. They were both pleasant
occasions, largely attended and immensely
enjoyed.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Plaffenberger left
this week for Ohio, where they will visit
relatives for some time, locating perma-
nently near Cincinnati, where Mr. p. will
re-en:er the ministry of the German Meth
odist church.
-Boonville's Fourth wasn't much. Sew
eral picpics, lots of small BOYS with fire.
crackers, display of fireworks at night
the part of Our business men was
all that proclaimed the day a national
holiday.
The newspaper profession lost q good
man when Jim Marcy died at Upton last
week. Poor Jim! Whatever errors he may
have committed and whatever sins may lie
laid at his door, he was good-hearted and
genial companion, and one who stood by q
friend to the last.
Mrs. Mary Hood, daughter of the late
Judge c. H. Smith. of this city, and most
estimable lady, died recently at Piermont,
New York, where she had been living With
her husband and two children for some
time past. Mrs. Hood lived in Boonville
for number of years, and had numerous
friends in this city.
MIR. Frank NJ. Pebbles, the eminent
Chicago artist, lie in Boonville to-day, the
guest of Hon. John r. Walker. Mr.. Peb-
bles has just completed portrait of Alice,
Mr.. Walkers little daughter, and is here
to paint picture of Mrs. Walker. Several
specimens of his skill and genius are on
exhibition in this city and have attracted
much attention. He is q modest, unas-
suming gentleman, and would hardly be
taken for the artist of national reputation
that he is. Mr.. Pebbles was q pupil of
the distinguished artist Healy. and his pic
lures rank with those of his preceptor.
Higher praise could not be bestowed.
The BAzoo's readers have ali heard of
Mrs Algernon Burt Bush, the lady impli-
Gated in the Sartoris scandal. Mrs. Bush
was, before marriage, Blanche Melbourne,
and with her father. Maj. w. +. Mel
bourne, of the United States army, resided
in Boonville for several years. The family
boarded for some time at the City hotel
and aftovvarda livo1 IN sho uN.~uhaltu