Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1842, AUG. 48 CROPS, ETC. Aug 4 ;The bridge specications are changed, and $1,500 is added to the price allowed Mercer, the contractor. Aug. 23R-obert Todd died. (See) The plastering of the court-house is nished, and the house complete. Aug. .28The Weston Presbyterian Church reorganized, With the following members: 1, Mary Cowles; 2, R. A. Cummins; 3, Amera P. Hudson; 4, Anna Nash; 5, Eliz. Neville; 6, Sam1 Morton; 7, Eliz. Norton; 8, R. G. Stephens; 9, P. M. Underhill. OCTOBER. Oct. 1.,;Weston Lodge, No. 53, A. F. & A. M,, chartered. NOVEMBER. Nov. 8J ones & Waller, administrators of Lewis M. .Waller; and W. B. Wood, of Edwin Wood. Nov.10W. L. Brightwell, R. P. and Harrison Gaines, Joseph Coons, and their families, arrive in Platte, coming overland in wagons. They bought corn at 10 cents per bushel. Nov.18Temperature at zero. a The President locates the land office at Plattsburg. DECEMBER. Dec. 13Under this date, Book 3, page 87, of records of the county court, a statement of the sales of 16th sections is found. The Presidents message was nine hours in going from Washington to New York, considered quick time. Two vagrants sold, publicly, in Platte City. The removal of the land oice from Plattsburg to Platte City advocated. Allen )[cLane makes the following entry in his diary: The Baltimoi-e & Ohio Railroad was opened to Cumberland (171 miles). an the fld day of November. 1842. This will bring the mail in ten lmnrs to Cumberland. and in thirty-two hours to Wheeling Who ]ld have dreamed of this ten years ago? Dee. 2.7 A ball at the courthouse for warming. The upper .tn1v of the court-house has been seated by subscription, for 1:-ligrimis services. Juhn S. .lalotts (see) will probated. It is dated March 9, N12. He was :1 son of Wm. Malott. (See) CROPS, MARKETS, ETC. .l.nnl:m1 (:1npS were raised in 1842. but there was no market for Ilwni. New settlers. however. had money to spend, and in-ml.-l slimrlies. (nrn sold for 10 cents per bushel, and Wheat at .70 H-lIl.. I":-eiglils to St. Louis were from $1 to $2 per 100 pounds, and ll]- lnl):l((0 and hemp shipped brought but small returns. .H rmml lands in Platte lmrl elaimants. and emigrants pressed fvirvlier mirth. (laims upon the best land sold for $3 to $8 per