Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1871, AUG. 511 SOREHEADS AUGUST. Aug. 1 - The distillers announce in the papers that they will give one gallon of brandy for 8 bushels of apples or peaches. Emancipation Day observed by the negroes of Weston. Aug. 5 - Three picnics near Platte City today. Aug. 8 - Tournament in Cain's pasture. Jas. D. Adkins was the successful knight; Lula Pitt was chosen Queen of Beauty, and Delia Chestnut Queen of Love. The Platte City & Weston Turnpike sold by the sheriff, under execution. and bought by the plaintiff, William Jewell College. The county bought it of the college, and made a public road of it. It is still the worst road in Platte Cournty. Aug. 11 - Sorehead meeting at the fair grounds; A. Tribble chairman. James Adkins secretary. Addresses by Adkins, Burge, Merryman, Morin and Shepard. Herndon spoke for the "Ring". Resolutions were passed favoring one judge for county court, the treasurer to the ex-officio collector, the reduction of the number of county officers, the abolishment of the office of road commissioner and county attorney, and the grand jury system only two terms of circuit court, reduction of county printing to $200, etc. The county papers were charged with encouraging extravagance, and a new paper to advocate reform was suggested. The proceedings were ordered to be printed in the Leavenworth papers. A shooting affray on Main Street, in Platte City, between J. H. Jones and Gar. Chestnut. No one hurt. Sam Fulton advertises his Weston property for sale, with a purpose of leaving. He went south and west. became an enthusiastic evangelist, did a vast amount of missionary work and though broken down by arduous labors, is still zealously preaching the gospel in California. The fair-ground booths rented for $996. H. T. Hamm has the contract to re-build Prairie Point church. Aug. 17 - Picnic at the fair grounds, for the Catholic Church at Platte City. Aug. 20 - Tournament at Mrs. Taylor's; William Anderson victor, and Nannie Foley Queen of Love. Aug. 22 - Dalman, Robinson & Co., tkae contract to build the Atchison Branch of the C. & S. W. Railway at a little over $9,000 per mile. Aug. 23 - Tournament at St. Joseph; W. L. Blakley and other Platte County boys take the honors. The Leavenworth Commercial espouses the cause of the "Soreheads".