Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1875, JAN. .-393 J. ELDRIDGE. At Neu .l[(1rI.et: . mst1ong. l~rant. Ilotfman. .Ioore. Stm"l{ ton. Lodge No. 274. \. A. Singleton, \. M. if lfitlg/eII/: (ln-isman. (1-eek. lZllington. --it Slzireltrnzz \oolson. l[oole. .1 TI(I(I/I 1,liord. Metzger & Ilaunn. Ran. At Waldron: Holt. Pettillo. Ilawkins, Scott (postmaster). PRICES. Butter. 20 cents: (()l1l. 70 eents; feathers. 50 vents; eggs, 12 cents; our, .2.:3U; hams. 11% cents; hemp. .il%1.lJ(l; wheat. $1.01); wood, $3.00. J.-XNUARY. Jun. ]In the Platte 1 it .unda.-schools the .lethodists and Presbvte1ia11s agree that the .Ietho~dists (Freeze. superiiitendexitl. take tl1e morning hour. and tile I1esb}te1ia11s (Paxton. superin- tendent). tl1e afternoon. New Years entei-tainment at the c.ou1t-house. Perform- ers. Hawley. Meads. and Ruthven. Land has recovered slightl in price since the panic. D1. D. J. Fouts sells to the Sibley .1ill (}o~1111m11,v his diminu- tive stealner, that he has been running on tile Platte a11d Missouri rivers. The Phoenix Mill at Trm-y, with Metzger & Hanna in control. has been doing a. large business. Joseph Tribble tents to S. English. for $900. his one-third in- terest in the Platte Cit) water mill. The Landmarlr and the Leavenworth Ti mm are at war. Jan. .Tl1er-Inoineter 10 degrees below zero. Jan. 8-.I1s. John Eldridge died. John Eldridge was born in )Ion1nouth (;ount. New Je1se), JilI111il1V 1. 1800. and died De- (-ember 28. 1895. He worked iii the ship-)a1ds of New York; in 1817 he went to Cincinnati. Ohio. and engaged in building barges. He Inarried Ibriieilla .Ia.1geld. moved to Peoria. Ill.. and bought. a farm of 800 {l(1"(S. In 18:38 he sold out and came to Platte. settling near (,an1dens Point. He was at his death the oldest man in Platte (ountv. His daughter, Rebec-ca, inarriedl rst. J. \. Freeland. from whom she was divorced. and then niarried a Boltillgliouse. .oven1be1 0. 1879. she was sentenced. in Iron Count). .Io.. to tell years iu1p1ison1nent. for the n1u1-der of a child she had adopted. Jan-. 8The eount papers publish a long call on Judge E. H. Norton to become a. c-andidate for delegate to the Constitu- tional Convention. He il(f(t])i.. and at the eleetion set for the 26th inst. is chosen. with I). ("- Allen as his associate. Good ice. The Missouri is closed. Jan. 10Part of Doniphans Addition to \eston is {l.(il10(l by the county court. 38 -