Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1871, JULY. 510 NEWSPAPERS. JULY. July .Sn1ithille had a. large pienie. addressed by T. P. Hale). 0. D. Allen, and Heiiry Smith. Parkville had an im promptu meeting. and New Market a railroad meeting. July 8A second number of the lentlator issued by L. Shepard, and discontent intensied. S01-eliead" meeting at Prairie Point. J. Merryman spoke. resolutions passed, favoring economy in county expendi- tures. The Ring papers published them with ridicule. The "Soreheads have no paper, but the hostile feeling is growing. NEWSPAPERS. The L(uz(lnz,a.rl.: is removed to Platte City, and the Reveille ceases. The Border Times sto-ps. For two weeks there is no paper in Weston. The rst nu111ber of the Platform announces the death of the Border Times, and publishes its obituary. Then Comes the Jlissourl C072m2erc/ial. Geo. Reed pleads guilty of murder in the second degree. for killing Thomas Brown at Ridgely January 27. 1871. and is sentenced to the penitetntiiary for ten years. July 1JA severe storm; corn is damaged. Jul;/17Levi Hurst cut a bee-tire-e with three distinct swarms of beesand a. ve-foot blacksnuake. Hear) Baisye takes the Green House at Platte City. The people of . ehison. Kansas. vote to- take $50,000 stock in the . eh~ison branch of the C. & S. W. Railway. Dr. E. )IcDonalds residence in Platte City is complete. The Missouri River is casting a bar in the port of Weston. Jul}; 2-.2Tourna1nent at the fair grounds. \i1liam Blakley, the victor, chose Jennie Reinington as Queen of Love, and Lizzie lielt as Queen of Beauty. Prairie Point cliureh and schoolhovuse burned by an in- eendiar. A subscription was raised, and another building Was suoll up. Apples are good. almiidant. and (-heap. C. (". Redman is lniying and shipping at .lra(-V. July .2.7{ . Jaeo-bs Day observetl at \eston. . a1-aV at Platte Cit betweeli James Pope a11d Thomas .lallen~lmtli l:1dl hurt. PLATTE CITY MILLS. .. L1. Freeze. for $451) paid by (?linlon (ioekrill. agrees to re- nmve the steain mill frame. aml ereet it on the founda:tion of the water mill. whieh had been burned. The work was satisfatrtorily done.