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1869
The railroad depot at Camden, Ray County, was fired by an incendiary and destroyed on the 4th inst. Before
burning the building, he entered the ticket office, and after plundering the mail bags, left there by the up train,
set fire to the depot and concealed the mail bags in rear of kirkpatrick's store, where they were found the next
morning.
The Quincy Whig
Saturday, June 26, 1869
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1890
The Noborne Leader says that the creamery at that place has secured the contract
of furnishing 1,200 pounds of butter per month to the asylum at Fulton during the year 1890, at twenty-four cents
per pound for the winter months, and nineteen cents per pound for the summer months.
Richmond Conservator, January 30, 1890
1892
RICHMOND CONSERVATOR
GEO. W. TRIGG, Publisher "IN GOD WE TRUST -- ALL ELSE CASH!" $1.50 PER ANNUM
Vol. XXXIX RICHMOND MO., THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1892
After the Merchants
Captain Shutts, of the Lawson Courier, has the following to say with reference to the encouragement he is receiving
in the way of advertising at the hands of the merchants of that town.
"When the people of Lawson will support a newspaper as the people of other towns their home paper, some one
will publish a paper in Lawson. There are 4 dry good stores in Lawson, and not one of them has an advertisement
in the Courier, 5 grocery stores in Lawson, and not one of them mentioned in the Courier; 3 millinery stores in
Lawson, and neither of them asks for trade through the Courier; 2 furniture stores in Lawson, and neither of them
advertise in the Courier. Geo. Young, J.M. Morrow, and R.M. Miller have always kept an advertisement in the Courier,
and we bespeak for them a continuance of the liberal patronage they deserve and are receiving. More than half the
trade belonging to Lawson goes to other towns. J.C. Brown & Co., and the Brown Clothing Co., of Richmond, have
been liberal advertisers in the Courier, and they are proud of the trade they get from Lawson."
Captain, you should make your paper so hot that they cannot do without it. There are a few merchants in Richmond,
and very few, who do not advertise in the CONSERVATOR, and those who do not are gradually losing their trade. They
are either sleepy heads or haven't business sense enough to know that advertising pays. We don't know that Lawson
has any such people but we have a few in Richmond. The man who advertises always has trade, while men, who do not
generally come to grief in the long run. Some men in Richmond do not advertise in the CONSERVATOR because they
do not like its editor, and we frankly confess that we do not like some of them.
1897
STORY OF A CHRISTMAS PARDON
Guthrie, Ok., Dec. 24 - The story of A.W. Foote, one of the Guthrie, Ok., prisoners granted a Christmas pardon
this evening by Gov. Barnes, is a very remarkable one, showing how a continual train of misfortune seemed to follow
the man and drag him down. Foote is a graduate of the Nebraska state university, and his petition for pardon is
signed by the governor of Nebraska, all of the faculty of the Nebraska state university, professors in Leland Stanford
university, senators and congressmen and many other prominent men.
He left home at the age of 20, worked his way through the university and graduated with honors. Soon after graduating
he married a college girl. He prospered for a time and three children came to gladden their home and swell the
expense of living. Then came adversity, and in the fall of 1892 he determined to better his fortunes in Oklahoma,
and came to Guthrie, landing here with his family and $4 in cash. He was unable to get money to ship his household
goods from Lincoln or to purchase others, and for weeks they lived in a small house without furniture of any kind,
sleeping on straw on the floor.
Later he bought a little furniture and was getting the family comfortable, when his parents and sister and husband
arrived from Nebraska. The mother at once took sick and died in a month, and the funeral expenses took all of Foote's
money. A month later he fell from a scaffold and was unable to work for months. He then secured a country school
and provided the necessities of life for his family again, but in a short time his father was paralyzed and lay
at their home for many months absolutely helpless.
While the father was laying there a sister came in on them and soon died, and they had her funeral expenses to
pay. Other brothers and sisters who had secured all of the parents' property refused to care for the paralyzed
father or to help pay the expenses and his sickness soon exhausted the Foote purse as well as the strength of Foote
and his wife. A few months later Mrs. Foote, from over-exertion in caring for the father, was afflicted with spinal
trouble, and became bedridden.
With a helpless father and wife, with three little children, and suffering from his own injuries, Foote struggled
along for a year, existing on what he could earn at off jobs, but desperation finally drove him to crime, and he
stole to keep his loved ones from starvation.. A series of small burglaries puzzled the police for months until
one night Foote was caught leaving a house with stolen articles. He was arrested and confessed and part of the
stolen goods were recovered. It was shown he stole only as a last resort to keep his family from starving but the
courts knew no mercy, and he was sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. His wife and children were sent
to her parents' home in Ray county, Mo., but they were too poor to care for her, and sent her on to a sister at
Valparaiso, Ind. She made this trip on a cot in the baggage car, but when they learned that her husband was a convict
they shut their door in her face and sent her back to Ray county on the same cot. Here she was put in the poorhouse,
where she died last May, and was buried in a pauper's grave.. The youngest child is with its grand parents, but
the two little girls are thrown upon the world with nobody to care for them and Foote asked to be pardoned or paroled
on any condition or terms simply to give him a chance to work and care for them.
The pardon was granted by Gov. Barnes as soon as the facts were presented to him and was to-night telegraphed to
Foote at the penitentiary as a Christmas present.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas Texas, December 25, 1897
1905
WHAT CAUSES THE NOISE?
House on Clevenger Farm Near Vibbard Said to be Haunted
- Excelsior Springs Journal
There are strange tales that reach the ears of the people of this part of the country about a house on Sam Clevenger's
place, about two miles from Vibbard, that is occupied by Aaron Clevenger.
It is said that the family of Mr. Clevenger see strange sights and hear loud noises, but nothing real can be discovered.
Several have seen what appeared to be a headless man and one or two a woman dressed in white, without a head. The
noise at times seems to be the wood box being emptied on the floor, but on examination, it hasn't been disturbed,
while at other times a loud scratching is heard under the house.
The place is becoming so unbearable that no one will live in the house and Mr. Clevenger intends to have the
building torn down.
The "spook" can be seen in the day time as well as at night and comes oftener from the 20th to the
first of each month.
There is talk of a party going from here one night this week and taking one of the clairvoyants along to talk
to the "hant." (sic)
The place is a part of the old Brown farm and the building is an old structure built many years ago.
Richmond Conservator, August 3, 1905
1927
The Missourian
A crowd estimated at between 1000 and 1500 attended the Fort Peck Rodeo Company's exhibition in the Fred Lee
pasture south of Richmond, Sunday.
The rodeo was reported by those in attendance to be a very creditable performance. The Missourian, month
and day unknown, 1927
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