The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-05-26
for Infants and Children.
nd fully 1000 visiting Odd Eel


'The meetings held outside of St.
Louis have proved more pleasant,
profitable and entertaining than any
others. For instance, we go to st.
Louis year after year, and the De ople
there hardly know that we are in town.
1t does not seem TO interest the
LEGAL lodges very much and the
lLcal papers cut US off with only
brief notice; whereas, the ST. Joseph
journals devoted a great deal of space
and attention to our work and the
lodges from the surrounding country.
for many miles, attended in a body"
''In Sedalia We shall have at least
two hundred members OF the grand
lodge present, and can count on fully
2 600 visiting brethren, this point be-
ing such central point"
I'VE shall have a grand parade and
celebration and try to make the next
meeting the grande:t and most suc-
cessiul in the history of Missouri Odd
Fellowship"
"When | published the Eagle in
Boonville something over a dozen
years ago." said Justice Milo Blair to
the Gossiper. II bad as a To- al con-
temporary for awhile Major j. G.
Pangborn, who was kind of carpet.
Dagger there and who had control of
the Advertiser"
"Pangborn was a pompous individ-
ual and opened out mis- style Of jour-
nalism with a great flourish of trum-
pets. Colonel Joseph L. Stephens,
who owned the paper and who had
induced Pangborn to come
to Boonville, was backing the enter
prise and no regard was paid for
time to expenses"
FINALLY the Advertiser and Eagle
began to clash. Pangborn knew but
little about newspaper matters, was
entirely out of his element and was
extremely vulnerable"
"From testing to more serious
charges and counterchsrges was but
short step and soon the battle between
the papers was wsging 6ereely. AT
length / made it SO hot for
j. Gssbag Pangborn,' that he
became my deadly enemy and chal-
lenged me TO a duel. / treated the
challenge with deri.ion and this made
the major all the more furious"
FINALLY, Col. Stephens tired of
PangbOrn's high pressure policy in
conducting the paper, and this new
knight of the code and the quill dis
appeared from Boonville, hating me
cordially and refusing to speak to
me-"
Several years afterward / happen.
ed to he attending a national conven-
ton in Cincinnati. The city was
densely crowded with visitors and it
was difficult for hundreds of persons
to get lodging. By some good for
tune | happened to have bed to
myself, in hotel, and was sleeping
away nicely one night when | was
aroused by some one, who was lying
on the floor in my room. Upon
making inquiry, I was astOnisLed to
find it was my old time contemporary
and enemy, Major Pangborn, who
could find no other place to shield his
head from the weather"
This is Milo Blair, once Of Boon
vile, get in and share my bed with
me" said 1, and the invitation was
gladly accepted.
''We soon made up and talked over
of our former journalistic experiences.
Pangborn, whom / had not met since
he left the Advertiser, had become a
prominent railroad man. That we
should meet again as We did in that
great city, crowded with thousands of
people, was quite remarkable, for |
neither of us knew of each other be-
inp in the citv."