The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-12-02
THE DIFFERENCE.
Between st. Lawrence County New
York and Pettis County
Missouri.

st. Lawrance county is located
along side the st. Lawrence river. in
hhe nothern part of New York.
The courty is great prod ucer.
Col. Jno. Scullin, the street cal
magnate of St. Louis, formerly q
resident of Sedalia, the late Col.
Judson, banker and railroad man OF
ST. Joseph, Hon. s. S. Brown, of St.
Joseph, Horace Pratt of Kansas City,
Judge White of Kansas City, Capt.
4. L. Bridges and a host Of others
that the writer cannot call to mind.
The BAzoo is in receipt of some
newspapers from the county which is
extracted the f,llowing items, which
will sound quite strange in the far
west.
"Gouverneur had a sensation last
week when the police raided the gamb-
bling rooms in the Herald Times
block. Seven men were in the rooms
at the time and were promptly ar
rested while the whole outfit, consist
ing of some six quarts of poker chips
fifty packs of cards, tables, ETC., were
confscated. Five were End S. each
and the two proprietors we're fined $50
each. Most of the frequenters of the
rooms of whom the police have the
names of about twenty-five, are among
the better class of Gouverneur citi.
sens."
"Six quarts Of poker chips" is a
new way of Stacking 'em up"-at
least 1t is new in the west, and the
Fbetter class of citizens" are the fire.
}guenters too, in same building with
the village newspaper. No newspaper
Office IN the west, outside of the Ari-
IONA Kicker would tolerate such an
outrage. Gouverneur, thirty-five
years ago was very moral village.
Evidently the place is retrograding.
The supervisors of a county In New
York perform the same office to the
people that the county court does in
Mis- ouri. Here are some items from
he proc eedlngs
"The county treasurer's report
shows balance of $22, 572.04 on de-
post in the several banks in the coun-
y. The printing accounts for the
3ear amount to So, S02.16."
Pettis county b IS deposited with the
several banks of the county SOS, $751;
IL. The printing accounts of Pettis
lcounty amount to less than 81, 500.
That's good county for newspapers.
The supervisors proceedings con-
! niue as follows:
"Dr. Shea was appointed Jail ply
sician for the coming yesa, and his
compensation fixed at seventy five
cents per visit, including medicine.
Ii DR.. Shea was in Pettis county,
sod the patient needed two prescrip-
lions, he would be out twenty-five
cents each visit. Poor county for
doctors and the people live to very
bid age. Strange.
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Now for the church social in that
anty:
<'The ladies of the Presbyterian
church at Brasher Falls, held a pie
social in the lecture room of the
church. Thursday evening. Nov. 90.
Supper was served from 6 till 8. Pro-
eeeds, $17. The bill of fare consisted
of seventeen kinds of pie"
That's nothing. The ladies of the
Christian church, this city, gave a
txo-bit supper recently,-most excel.
lent evening meal, and the receipts
we're s47.
They are great "pie biters' in St. |
Lawrence county. The writer once
knew a Methodist preacher at Cover
neur who solicited a donation visit"
every thanksgiving, and requested his
congregation to bring nothing but pie. |
He would have been alive yet had he
not moved to Halifax. in Jefferson |
county, where Hon. John Cosgrove,
of Boonville, first saw the Lii ht of |
day, and he there died of govt.
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The great American bird thrives in |
that county, and table is not com.
plete on thanksgiving day without a
turkey, and as good husbandmen they
ship a few to their neighbors
'The turkey train from St. Law
renee county to Boston, last week,
numbered SO cars and was augmented |
Do rs before reaching its destination. |
It is estimated that the amount paid |
out in this county for its share of the |
load was nearly $4,000. The aver
age price paid for turkeys was Is
cents per pound"