Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1871, APRIL. 505 ELECTIONS April 1 - C. B. Hawley's store is now on the southwest corner of Main and Third Streets, Platte City, and "Hawley on the corner" becomes his motto. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS Platte City Board - Cartwright, Clemings, Evans, Flannery, Herndon, Jenkins, Swain Parkville Board - Bemis, mayor; Kahm, Mitchell, Moore, Rhodes, Ringo, and Spencer, council. April 3 - R. P. C. Wilson spoke at Platte City. His speech was published in the Reveille. Citizens are setting out shade trees in the public square. J. R. Swain, county commissioner, reports that he had erected hitching posts and chains on three sides of the public square, at a cost of $246. W. V. Sloan is cleaning off, grading, and sowing in grass the public square. Workmen are laying the foundation of the Catholic church at Platte City. H. N. Jenks died recently in Massachusetts. He was county surveyor of Platte County for several terms, and was a man of some scientific attainments. He married August 26, 1855, Martha Miller. ADAM RENNER died near Parkville. John Klam administered, Bond, $2,000. He was a highly esteemed German. His wife's name was Elizabeth, and his children: I. MARY RENNER II. JOHN RENNER, married Lena Eckart, dr. of Geo. Eckart. April 8 - Weather - A severe wind storm blew away part of the porch of Daughters' College. April 10 - Jo Simpson's mill burned. Loss, $600. Grand jury at April term: T. W. Davis (foreman), T. W. R. Brasfield, K. B. Cecil, F. G. Cockrill, H. Coleman, Sr., Jos. Irving, W. K. Faulconer, John Kinnaman, Pembert McComas, James B. Moore, D. D. Newman, C. C. Redman, J. W. Steele, Wm. Stephens, Jos. Todd, D. J. Thorp, N. E. Wilkinson. MAY COUNTY FINANCES