The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-02-21
6lRDS-EYE VIEW.

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The citizens Of Jacksonville are
to vote ON electric lights tomorrow.
-Harrisonville wants electric light.
In the light of other days they assas-
sinxted their county court.
johnson county has q ''Gristle
Ridge: Saline county. "Stingy Ridge
and Cas- county "Spunky Ridge.
H. G. Simmons, who is said to
have erected the first house in Mar
shall, died at his home in that city last
week.
Mexico il to have 81. 600 Rap
fist church. The contract has been
let. The late Gov. Hardin subscribed
81. 900 Of the money.
Five candidates for the Cas-
county postoffice are already All
nounsed, and the hack precincts have
not all been heard from.
Information Is wanted in regard
to Davis Moore. who left Platte
county on or about November ,. and
has not been hearl of since.
William Ward, the wealthiest
negro in Charlton county. is dead,
aged - years. He owned SO acres of
land, vsIued at $50 per acre.
The Catholics vi Pilot Grove,
Cooper county, have subscribed
enough money to build them church
and work will soon be begun.
Elder ]. W. FerrilI, ofLamonte.
is lecturing on "Love. Courtship and
Marriage" This is rather danger
Gus occupation for Brother Ferrill.
Editor Trigg, Of the Richmond
Conseyrnior. clamorously calls on Chas.
Burns to keep Ibis goat out of the
editors stairway" The William Goat
must go.
A freight train consisting of thir-
teen cars, rolled into Columbia last
TUESDAY,. 1t was the longest ever
seen there and was used for stock
shipments.
The kickapOo Medicine Co.. in
GLIDING Eagle Eye" Eagle Horse"
and "White Chief" ia electriiying the
people Of Appleton City, and raking
in bushels Of coin.
The young ladies Of the Prcsby-
terian church in Richmond have Or
gained q society for mutual amuse-
ment and improvement. No young
men are allowed membership.
! C. H. ]. Taylor, the colored
Kansas City editor, orator and ex-
minister to Liberia. under Cleveland,
was presented with $40 cane by al
miring friends Thursday night.
Hon. Jerome ID. Eubanks. Of
Slater, lost a shrine pin at Upton. 1t
was found and returned To him. The
finder WAS rewarded for his honesty
by Mr.. Eubanks, who sent him s..
"A double wedding took place in
Upton Wednesday, at the home Of
Henry Thomas father of both
brides. Happy the parents who can
dispose Of two daughters at one fell
ewOop!
II. A. Harris. Of Pisgah, Cooper
county. has a relic Of the Civil war in
the shape Of u sabre. plowed up near
Pleas.nton. Kan, On the field where
General Marmaduke wac cap
tured.
-"Uncle" Billie West, the oldest man
in Mexico. and probably in Aulrain
county, celebrated his ninetieth birth
day February Is. He was born in
1903. married in 1897, and settled in
Missouri in 1884.
The annual meeting of the Mis-
souri, state Bar association will be held
ut Pertle Springs, johnson county, ON
June 9th, 18th and 29th. Judge John
F. Philips will deliver the annual
address and it is sure to he . good
one.
George Wheeler, young bust
ness man Of Columbia, when he gets
ready to retire at night, places a
bucket of water near his bed, 50 that
any burglar entering his room may
turn 1t over and alarm him. Mr..
Wheeler has q great head.
Frank Cochrane, who resided
near Versailles, Morgan county. fell
dead from his seat while watching q
game of checkers last Monday. Had
he been watching game Of high five,
the preachers would have had a text
to-day.
"A young man from Mexico, who
visited Centralia for the purpose Of
opening a billiard hall there. was in
formed that he WAS not wanted. ~
such an institution would tend Ia cor