The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-06-24
BOONVILLE BRIEFS.
Deaths, Weddings and Per.
sonal Gossip-City and
Suburb Notes.
Gathered by a Bazoo Bohemian in
His Rounds.


equal period of time for many day.
Among others not heretofore mentioned in
the BAZoo is the death of DIR. John Fetzer,
for a number OF years coroner Of Cooper
county and a we'll known citizen, which
occurred Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. James,
wife of the travelling man of that name
died Thursday night and was buried from
the Southern Methodist church Yesterday
mund, Of Glasgow, Mo-, and Miss Tenie
Miller, OF Boonville, look place Tuesday
night Another marriage is reported to he
inson. mother OF Col. H. A. Hutchinson Of
Brooklyn, \. ". al the age Of 81 years.
JUNE JoTTINGs.
Miss Josie McIlhaney is visiting in
Schell City.
Mrs Mittie Leonard is visiting in
! Boonvile.
w. III. Tucker, OF Prairie Home, Is Wis
iting in Marshall.
Frank Often returned yesterday from
brief trip to Hannibal,
Miss Maggie Edwards, of 81. Charles,
is visiting in Howard county.
w. NJ. Craig ami .miIy, of St. Louis,
have been visiting in bJJnville.
A piano duo and either solo are on
the I. p e. musical festival programme.
ID. L. Rye, of Pilot Grove, il in the
agricultural business in Boonville at pres
ent.
Col. &. q. Boone was looking after his
chances for the attorney-generalship in this
city this week.
The next Methodist mite will De held
at the residence OF Mr.. A. ID. Howard,
Thursday night.
Miss Vina Russell and her sister Mrs.
Sadie Bone, of Independence, are visiting
Mrs. James N. Ne son.
-Aleck Stephens is around with the
boys (ard girls in Bonneville now, having
returned from Lexington.
The school board has employed Prof.
W. NJ. Brent as the principal of the colored
school for the ensuing year.
The Cooper county Teachers Normal
Institute will be held in Boonville, three
weeks commencing July 18th.
Rev. II. T. Wharton, formerly princi
pal of our public schools, has decided to re-
turn to the ministerial work.
Mrs. Dobyns, of Memphis, Tenn, with
her daughter, is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Charles Andrews, of this city.
Wheat is looking 1nely in Cooper
and Howard counties, and farmers expect
| TO commence cutting next week.
e. B. Mayfeld, the jolly young gro
ceryman from Nevada, Mo, was talking 10
his old friends in this vicinity this week.
Spring street is to be opened westward
as far as Washington street, 10 East Boon
vile, and will be graded and otherwise i'm
proved.
Tom Tinsley, of Howard county, was
in town last night. He expects 10 COM
merce cutting wheat Monday, and reports
a good crop.
Ed. Chiffon has recently received q
Knights of Pythiss sword and uniform that
for elegance and costly finish, is excelled
by none in Boonville.
The Masons contemplate having a big
picnic on ST. Johns Day, next Tuesday
June oath, near New Franklin. large
number from Boonville will attend.
The BAzoo correspondent was shown
an interesting old paper, this week, bearing
date of August, 1858. 1t was the Chaplel
OF Thought, monthly, Published by the
young ladies of the Fielding institute. then
fourishing school for females in this city
-Messrs. t. L. Thompson and w. HI.
Cotton, two enterprising students OF Van
bits University, Nashville, Tennessee, are
selling some very valuable works In Cooper
county at present. They seem TO be meet
!. ing with success which they greatly de-
serve.
The BAZOo correspondent called this
we, :. Ch M. q. i. Musser. ;he editor of the
lew republican paper, the first number 81
which appears July lst. He is a very pleas
ant gentleman and an agreeable taiker and
will doubtless get up lively, readable
paper.
Among those from a distance attend
ing the Nelson Dibrell wedding were. Mr.
and Mrs. j. &. SappingtoD, OF Arrow Rock
Mr., and Mrs. J. III. Cha ndler, of Kansas
City: J. z. Huston and Charles NJ. Buck
ner, Of Marshall; Fletcher Cowhead, oil
Kansas City; W. g. Pace and A. P. Whit
field, of Dapyille, Va; Arthur Johnson, Of
Sedalia, and a host of Others.
The T. P. c. musical festival has beer
postponed to Thursday, July Sd, III
order 10 accommodate musicians from q
distance who are expected to take part
Reserved seats will be for sale Saturday
June 2Sth at J. c. Grass d Sons. Tbi:
promises to be the finest entertainment o.
the kind ever given in Boonville, and the
hall will be packed. persons that dom
secure seat early are liable to get left.
1t was universally remarked that {
lovelier SET of bridesmaids never attended ;
wedding than were at the Dibrell- Nelson
marriage on Tuesday last, and this time
the general opinion was correct. There
was Miss Kate Nelson, of Virginia, wor-
thy successor of the famous Matte Ould
in the Old Dominion's society circles, Miss
es Katie and Stella McMahan, from Salin,
county's conservatory of feminine ros'
buds, Miss Mabel Walker, an American
Hebe in flesh and blood, Misses Sue Evans