The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-07-05
WHERE THEY ARE.
Pencil Pushers of the Past
Those who have Published
Papers. Written EditO-
rails and Hustled
for News In Sc.
dalia.

greatest shifters in the world. They
are here to-day and gone yesterday.
They are birds Of passage and Journal
istic gypsies. But few of them have
permanent abiding places. They, as
a class, are as restless rs the tiles of the
ocean. They seek the CITIES and towns
and the remote nooks and corners Of The
earth. Wherever their hat is of and
pencil can be procured, they are at
home. They are the reportorial
Arabs Of the century. They lift to
power commonplace people and de-
throne party leaders and princes and
pctentates. They write a fearful
obituary or touch with artistic hues
a happy hymsneal event. They re-
cord the details Of a country debating
club or produce column after column
concerning a national convention.
They deal with murder snd merfimsht
with festivities and funerals. with
dudes and demagogues. with polar
expeditions and tropical Transactions
with Things sanity and sinful,
and with ali the multitudinous affairs
of the new and old from the time of
Noes to that Of the Apostle OF
the Flying Roll" Their topics are as
manitoli as those which engaged the
myriad-minded Shakespeare.
Sedali, has had her share of these
people since the first printing press
was set up here. Some Of the old
timers are dead others are married /;
some have achieved place and ho aor,
others are in dishonOr. But all are
scattered far aud near.
L. G. Glesner, who published
beautiful literary and society sheet
called The Earth, is now working at
the case in Finley. Ohio.
Walt Monroe has a house full OF
babies. and edits the Upton Times.
John d. Russell is setting type in
Denver, Colorado.
Arthur Villmore is one of the pub
fishers and proprit tors Of the Versail.
les Gazette.
John A. HsDnav is holding a soft
government position at Washington
City.
Dr.. A. Y. Hull has been residing
in Pueblo, Colorado, for many years.
j. NJ. Byler. who thinks he would
have made Horace Greeley ashamed
Of himself as journalist, is still in the
real estate and loan business here.
Milo Blair. who was in the harness
for thirty-6ve years. and who was
once the best editorial paragrapher in
Missouri, is q Sedslia justice of the
peace.
James G. Mccain, who used to in.
fiict bis "Opinion" upon a tortured
public. resides in Sacramento, Cali.
fOrnia.
John N. Edwards sleeps sweetly
and peacefully under The green grass
in little country graveyard ut Dover.
Lafayette county.
General Bacon Montgomery, brave,
bright and generous, met with an &C.
cidental and untimely death in Old
Mexico.
Poor. brilliant. gifted, genial, way.
ward "Mug" After life's fitful fever,
he sleeps we'll. beneath the shallow OF
handsome monument in the city
cemetery.
The venerable DeB,rnsrdi is pub
fishing the Union at Warrensburg.
Emory Fraker is edito. OF the News
at Bird e ty. Kansas.
Bob wormack i. now mani, ulating
the Faber for the Hannibal Journal.
Tom Cannon. poet AMI SENTIMENTAL
ist. has taken the Kelley cure, and
now. as Geographic editor of the Kan ,
sas City Times. sports a silk hat and |
gold.beaded cane.
&. W. Walker is in Indianap Ills.
Harry Lewis is on the Star, Kansss
City. Frank Wyatt and Sandy Nc.