Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1897, MAY 1096 BANK STATEMENT The county court is making liberal appropriations for roads and for implements for constructing and repairing roads. Foxes are still among us. James Pitts and H. T. Farmer lately killed two each. May 27 - Ascension Day observed by Weston Commandery, No. 2, and Belt (Platte City) Commandery, No. 9. The Knights met at Woodruff, and went to Weston, saluting residents knights by the way. At Weston, after a banquet at the opera house, the commanderies had an oration by Sir Knight C. B. Powers. W. C. Wells has erected upon his cemetery lot at Platte City a family monument of marble weighing 30,000 pounds. May 29 - Observed as Decoration Day at Platte City. Five hundred people visited the cemetery, and found nearly all the graves beautifully adorned with flowers. The financial power of Park College is a Wonder. In the last Week $790 have been generously contributed to its various funds, in small sums, the donors numtbering 422. and hailing from twenty States. And an additional sum of $5,000 was offered on easy con- ditions. That little two-column, 7 by 10 paper, the Park College Record, enters weekly into many tuhousand families, and elicits their sympathies and their contributions. ABSTRACT OF STATEMENTS OF PLATTE COUNTY BANKS AS PUBLISHED FOR A SERIES OF YEARS. May 14, 1887