Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1891, SEPT. 950 SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. A splendid year for all kinds of fruit. Everybody is canning or preserving. Platte City is out of sugar. Scpl. 30The rst frost. OCTOBER. SU1DAYSCHOOLS OF PLATTE COUNTY. Baptist. 4 schools, 248 scholars; Catholic, 1 school, 22 schol- ars; Uhristzian, 14 schools, 926 schoslars; Colored. 3 schools, 116 scholars; Episcopalian, 1 school, 25 scholars; Lutheran. 1 sciho-ol. 30 scholars; )[etho-dist, 10 schoo-ls. 912 scholars; Presibyterian, 3 schools, 530 scholars; Cvuinbeirland Presbyterian, 1 schgool, 45 scholars. Total schools, 26; total scholars, 3.242. The count) clerks report sh-oiws the puiblic sc.h~onol interest collected on coiiiitv fund. ll70+5.17; on to-winship fund. $1,122.55. The county expended for teachers wages, $25,558. or $300 to each. WILLIAH C. BAKER. Oct. 2Willian1 G. Baker died at Plattsnburg, Whither he had gzone to receive the attention of relatives i11 his protracfted illness. He was a. son of John Baker and Mary Bradord, and was born in Fayette Countv. KY, in 1oven1ber, 1829. Villia.m C. graduated at ("enter College, Ke11t11:ckv, in 1849. He chos-e the law as his pro- fession. a11d cto~1nin;; to Platte Cit). he was admitted to the bar March I}. 1652. He was at one time p-urblic d111l11lSl121fOI, and for years wrote in the c-ount,v ofiices. His mind was trained to tl1ougl1tl1is reading embraced every department of literature. and his conversation was interest~ing and instructive. He had lit- tle to sav. but his practice received prorfo~un~d attention. It is said he never lost a case. But in the midst of a successrful career he was atta.cked by acute 1llt?11111{1TlSi11l. and his remaining years Were full of sut1eri11;,:. First he moved on crutches. then he Wheeled himself in an invalid chair. and nallv he lay for 1nanv months on his bed. onlv leaving: it as lifted from it. Several months prior to his death he was eoiivevetl to friends i11 Il.attsbur;:. who smoothed his cmirse to the grave. He never married. a11d never joined any church. Two aunts of Y. C. Baker. Marga1et and Oatl1eri11e linker. married brothers of Senator t-hison. Or-f. ()Tl1e hric-kwork of t-he Platte C/itv (.hristia11 church is finished. ()r-f. II)1l. T. lETlll.T.(i), a l2l\)("1 of \aldron. is declarved insane by :1 jurv. He is sent to the St. Joseph .svlum. and there lies in .l:nmarv. 1..).:. His wife survived u11tilJa11uarv 30. 1995. (In 1. IN-rd l-Itilln, md \. l). ])1111a;:;111. (See) 2. Cliarles H. .,l. [14 I illu. Um. .3/llne l{in}~s l):1H;;hteIs give a literarv entertainment :11 I1tt)[Hl{l hnllsi-, ll;lIIt- (i1..