Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1843, JAN. 51 BUSINESS MEN JANUARY Jan. 2 - The Democrats of the county met at the court-house and organized the party. Jan. 4 - A slight earthquake. Mails come tri-weekly, by hack, from Liberty, arriving at 2pm at Platte City. Alex E. Cannon, the first lawyer to locate at Martinsville, is now teaching school. His legal erudition knew no book but the statutes. Arch'd Woods buys lands in Preston Township. The State Road from Weston to Plattsburg established. Jan. 9 - E. S. Wilkinson still in search of printing paper. Jan. 15 - Subscribers to the Platte River bridge refused to pay. Suit is instituted - hung jury; but they finally triumph. Jas. H. Baldwin and Allen McLane discuss, privately, county finances, and decided they are badly managed. The Legislature establishes a State Road from Liberty to Weston. Damages are allowed preemptioners. Jan. 20 - The county court secretly applies to the Legislature to make the Platte River bridge a toll bridge, which caused much indignation, when discovered. Weston is rapidly improving. The Eagle is now known as the Platte Eagle and Weston Commercial Gazette, and is issued occasionally. The State Land Office is located at Savannah, and in due time A. Jasper is appointed reciever and Nat Burrows register.