COLEY, GATES, McCURDY, MOORE, TAGGART "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Wednesday, March 9, 1904 INDEPENDENCE NEWS NOTES. Miss Laura MOORE will be the guest this week of friends in Lexington, Mo. Miss Rosalee MOORE has returned home from a stay of several weeks with relatives at Dover, Mo. The body of Benjamin GATES, who died of pneumonia at a camp near Raytown, still remains unclaimed at Ott's undertaking establishment. The application of Samuel COLEY to run a saloon near the Missouri Pacific depot will be given a hearing by the county court Friday. All the residents of the block have signed for the saloon, but it will be fought by the Law and Order League. The county court yesterday continued the application of Dan TAGGART for a saloon license for Lee's Summit until the next term of court. The case was to have been tried Friday, but a heavy remonstrance is to be launched against TAGGART's petition by some of the residents of Lee's Summit. Mayor McCURDY, of Independence, is strongly in favor of mortgaging the electric light plant as a means of getting the city out of financial difficulty. The plan is to secure a loan, have a friendly suit and the court order a levy to pay off the indebtedness. In this way the general revenue fund of the city can be reimbursed. ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these families but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) [email protected] ======================================================