Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1885, OCT. 826 HENRY ZONNE. Weather - A heavy frost. Prof. W. A, Thornburg edits the educational column of the Landmark Norton & Bros. open a bank at Missouri City, and Charles Norton takes charge of it. Oct. 5 Editors of the county papers meet at Platte City, and form a Press Association. Valliant is chosen president. Hog cholera is destructive. The magnetic pole has changed in this locality, from 10 degrees east, to 9 degrees east. The county Was originally surveyed at 1% degrees east. Oct. 8 John Zarn having purchased a storehouse in Platte City, on Lot 5, Block 29, removes into it. Mrs. A. P. Linn, widow of a Methodist Episcopal minister, is appointed postmaster at Parkville in place of Bueneman. Oct. 12 Henry Zonne settles at Platte City as a. merchant tailor. He was born in Holland October 13, 1822, came to America. in 1856, and settled at Buffalo. He married Maria De Graaf; but she was his second and present Wife. He married, first, Petronella Smallingberg, who left three children, living, respectively, in Minnesota, Illinois, and Kansas. W. T. Nelson buys out Non. Thomas, and becomes proprietor of the Argus. The prisoners open the jail in some unexplained Way. and one of them named WillianLs reaches Beverly, Where he is captured. Elders Collins and Tate make 156 converts at Smithville. Oct. 25Camden Point is revived by the preaching of Elders Jermane and Tate, and 80 join the Christian Church. NOVEMBER. Nov. 10 - New mail service between Platte City and Beverly. The mail is now carried by hack, leaving Platte City at 3 and returning at 6. The Bible Society establish a depository at Parkville, with 55 different editions of the Bible and parts of it. Nov. 13 - Baptist Sunday-school Convention at Weston. Apples almost a failure, but W. R. Keller has bought at Weston 1,400 barrles. T. C. Monson, superintendent of schools, has organized reading circles at Platte City and other places. Nov. 15 - Circuit court, G. D. Dunn Judge. Grand jury: 1. Nic Benner 2. Wash. Bradley 3. W. H. Cook 4. W. H. Hall 5. Stephen McComas 6. W. J. Miller 7. H. H. Moss 8. Abner Naylor