The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-05-23

are requested to purchase for Bunce
Stephens and Bunce Quarles, grand
children, gold watch, each, neither
to exceed $50. The estate is esti-
mated at $50, 900.
Joseph Walls, who resides in the
extreme western part of Pettis county,
and who is a most highly esteemed
citizen, recently related to a BAzOo
representative war experience he
once had.
He was what was known in the days
of the sixties as southern sympath-
izer, and for this reason he was greatly
annoyed by passing Federal troops, es-
peclally those from Warrensburg.
On one occasion Mr.. Walls ran out
of salt and wanted barrel for family
use and also for the use of his stock,
so he came to Sedalia, then military
post, to secure the much needed ar
ticle.
Upon reaching this place, he was
informed by Capt. Crissy, command
ant, that he would not be allowed to
take that much home with him. BE-
cause he was a southern man and if he
did not give it away to Confederates,
who were in the neighborhOOd, they
would take it anyhow, and the cause
of the Union must not he jeopardized
even to this extent.
Entreaty was in vain.
Then Uncle Joe sought out Maj.
William Gentry. who had great in
tiuence, and the naughty commandant
was seen a second time, but still he
was Obdurate in his refusal
Mr.. Walls thought he discovered a
weak spot in Crissy's character, and
he determined to try a little strategy.
He invited the young warrior to a
peighbOring saloon to "have some.
thin The captain happened to be
thirsty just then, and be promptly &C.
cepted the invitation. Uncle Joe, see.
ing that his scheme was likely to
work we'll, was exceedingly generous,
and set 'em up without regard to ex'
penses.
He wanted that barrel of salt and
wanted it bad.
He had shaken hands with Crissy
and was about to leave the room, dis.
appointed in his mission, when the
''mellow" commandant called him
back and said. effusively:
81 think you are first-rate fellow,
even if you are southern sympathizel
and l will give you an order to get a:
much salt as you want"
With that, the captain hastily wrote
the necessary permission and Mr..
Walls drove home that night with
what he had come many miles after
The whiskey had done its work
with neatness and dispatch.
Parson Emerson will speak at the
Congregational church tonight. HI
had been invited to do so by tn.
pastor.
THE BAzoo cOmmends Brother
Stevens judgment, for Mr.. Emerson
is scholarly man.
christianity and Nature" is the
subject he is to speak about.
That is wide field.
| More'n three acres in that lot anG
no fence around it, no string to tn,
Parsons thoughts and with brotherly
love bubbling up in our breast like
unto the fizz from Otis soda fountain
we commend the good mans words t,
the people.
Go and hear him and take you
mOther-in-law along. for there is /,
heap of mature" and some ''christi
anity" about the old girl and it i
barely possible that he might So,
something that would melt her temper
Parson Emerson is the most gentee
and companionable of all the minister
editors Sedalia has ever had and
withal has a conscience.
A few years ago Palson Caphas A.
Leach was the editor of the Sedali,
Times.
He preached occasionally. H,
preached at the Congregations
church.
His subject once was The Woman
at the Well"
Well, that sermon was aired il
THE BAzOo.
The oldest inhabitants remember it
Rev. A. Y. Hull, editor of the ole
Sedalia Democrat was a fine single
footed exhorter. He never preached
in Sedalia, but he played draw poke
and lost Jackpot and his standing il