The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-14
LITTLE BIOGRAPHIES.
Personalities and Peculiarities
Concerning Certain Missou ri
Pencil-Pushers.

j. X. Edwards, for quite mum
Der of years editor of the Slater R,'a-
Ter, halls from the southeastern par
of Cooper county. He is Il handsome
young fellow and is a general tavoriie
with Saline county people. lie has
been through the fiery furnace of his
fortune once or twice, in a rather
literal sense He has seen his oiiicc
and all it contained. except the
"devil' and himself, licked up by red
and furious flames, but, phoenix-likc.
he has been equal to the disaster and
come 10 the front again. Edwards
! has also had other diificultIe, to CON
tend with, and has prevailed. We
| do not know that he ever ran fer OF
desired to exercise a public trust oil
any kind. He has, instead of Thu.
devoted his energies and time to the
Rustter, and Is doubtless held in higher
! regard than if. like an erstwhile Mis-
souriscribe, Alexander Romulus Webb.
] he bad gone forth a Christian to q
foreign country and returned, satu-
rated with lslamism.
! Thos. H. Frame, who recently be-
came editor and business manager of
the Cooper County Demoera, publish
ed at BOOnville, WAS one of the first
if not the first city editor of the Kan
sas City 7fmes-back in the latter part
of the SOS when Major John G.
Moore-that gallant knight of Bohe-
mia and other choice spirits, were ia
vorites in the land. 1t is not record
ed that Frame ever wrote any poetry,
but, when descanting ON jesse james,
and Joe Shelby, and John S. Marina
duke, and Pap Price," and Elijah
Gates, and Francis Marion Cockrell,
he has often approached very near the
sacred mount of Parnassus.
He has done much excellent work
for the democratic party, in fact, both
living and dead-for Jesse james was
accused of being democrat-and the
chances are that in that dome of
thought. almost barren without, but
all right within, there still turks many
shining editorial shafts ready for flu
ture use. Frames chief weaknesses
are an ardent love of Missouri femini-
nifty, a Missouri Meerschaum, the
stronger the better-and an occasional
mug ofbeer-in the summer time.
Buck" Kelly, editor of the Mo
berly Daily Monitor, though only in
the prime of mature manhood, is one
of the several surviving members oil
the grand old days of the Missouri
press association, when General Lu-
Glen Easton, of Glasgow, Colonel W
+. Switzler. of Columbia, Colonel
Geo. W. Gibson, of St. Louis, Nilo
Blair, Esq, ct Sedalia, and Others of
that class annually assembled at some
certain point in the state and enjoyed
a day OF two in jolly fellowship. II
may appear to the writer, because he
was then a youth, that those were the
golden days of the association. Per
ihaps the genial Kelley thinks so, too.
He and Eugene Field, and Rose Field
and Tom Park and Charlie HasbrooS
and Walter Bacon and H. Martin
Williams and Colonel ellison and
Muhammed Webb were veritabl.
J heroes of comedy and song in tho-,
ancient days. Time has dealt gen
erously with Buck Kelley and he IT
tains all his pristine beauty and efief
vescent cheerfulness. BY hard worI
and trained ability he has made til,
Monitor the leading daily on his sid,
: the river and bids fair to succeed VII
liam +. Switzler in the NestOr OF tn,
Missouri press business-though h
will have to live far into the twentietl
! century to do it.
II Among the genial, popular an'
e successful newspaper men Of Contra
v Missouri is Col. T. J. Lingle, edito
e of the Daily Democrat, in the flourish
ing "Artesian City" OF Clinton. From
. a small beginning he, together with hi
d brother, George, has built up busi
ness second to none among newsps
r pers in the central part of the state
ri The author of these brief and perhap
impertinent biographies, had tn
pleasure Of rooming with the edito
}, one winter at the capital. That WI