Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1894, MAY. 1011 MRS. E. HARRIS. May 10 - Sale by administrator of Jas. H. Jones of personal property. The attendance is 1,200. A second sale is made in October, 1895. May 12 - Founders' Day at Park College. R. P. C. Wilson is orator of the day. May 14 - MRS. ELIZABETH HARRIS, nee Roberts, died at New Market. She married May 23, 1842, Warren Harris, born March 8, 1808; died February 5, 1896. They lived at New Market. They came from Madison County, Ky. His grandfather was a companion of Daniel Boone, and his mother is said to have been the first white female born in Kentucky. Mr. Harris was Platte County's veteran of the race-track and the cock-pit. May 15 - Judge E. H. Norton again appears on the streets of Platte City, after eight months confinement. Six weeks ago he was operated on for a stone in the bladder, and his life was suspended by a hair for a month. Democratic State Convention at Kansas City. The Saunders Coxeyites are prisoners at Leavenworth. May 17 - Mrs. Arthur's and Dr. Redman's houses are burned in Tracy. Byron Woodson is removing to his farm the old water mill at the Falls of Platte, to make a barn of it. That property, once so valuable, is now worthless. That historic building had become a shelter for cows and swine, and a refuge for snakes and bats. DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY RETURNS JUNE GRADUATES At Park College: Crhistina Best, John Creighton, Mary Egan, Alice H. Frence, E. O. Hart, Malden C. Hayne, Kate Herndon, Anetta A. Hunter, Alex D. Irwin, Stella McArthur, Ellen V. McArthur