BARNEY, COLE, DALE, FUNK, HAMILTON, HOLTZ, JACKSON, McGOWAN, MILLIKEN, WALLER, WILLIAMS, WOODS "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Friday, April 1, 1904 SEVERAL REALTY SALES. A. P. HAMILTON sold yesterday to G. A. McGOWAN, six and one-half acres near Fifty-third and Holmes streets for $6,500. Mr. McGOWAN will build a country home on this tract. The Provident Life and Trust company sold to D. S. BARNEY the property at 1512 Baltimore avenue for $3,250. G. MILLIKEN bought of J. B. YOUNG fifty feet near Sixteenth street and Baltimore avenue for $2,250. Mr. MILLIKEN intends to build there. S. M. JACKSON sold to Perry MARTIN the ten-room brick at 3724 Central street for $8,500. Rosa Ann WILLIAMS sold to George S. COLE the property at 1510 Baltimore avenue for $2,250. William S. FUNK sold to Josiah DALE the two-story flat at the northwest corner of Thirty-first and Walnut streets for $6,000. The sales were negotiated by the WOODS, WALLER & HOLTZ Realty company. ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these families but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: peggywoolfork Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kansas.counties.wyandotte/1463.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks Kate, Peggy Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: K_Clabough Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kansas.counties.wyandotte/1463.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Peggy, It looks as though Glenn was a clerk at a wallpaper house. ~kate Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: peggywoolfork Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kansas.counties.wyandotte/1463/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Would like a 1930 census look up for Laura B Calhoun born in Minn and her son Glenn born about 1907. They were living in Wyadotte Kansas in 1930. Would like the occupation of Glenn if stated. Thanks, Peggy Woolfork Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: JohnWOBrien Surnames: McCULLOCH, SMITH Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kansas.counties.wyandotte/1462/mb.ashx Message Board Post: "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Tuesday, October 8, 1907 A REMINDER OF FRONTIER DAYS. H. N. SMITH was arrested in Argentine yesterday afternoon on a charge of disturbing the peace. SMITH entered Frank McCULLOCH's lunchroom with a shotgun, and after forcing McCULLOCH to leave, he wrecked the furniture and threw the dishes into the street. Then with his gun within reach he sat on a stool in front of the place until the police arrived. SMITH and McCULLOCH had quarreled over a bill. ====================================================== (I have no connection with these families but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ====================================================== neirbo7 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Tuesday, October 8, 1907 FROM A BRIDGE INTO THE KAW. Car No. 586 of the West Side line was crossing the Kansas avenue bridge over the Kaw river about 9 o'clock last night. E. H. BURNETT, the motorman, saw a man walking on the ties ahead. The bridge has two roadways, one for street cars and one for wagons. BURNETT stopped his car and struck the gong. The man looked back. Then he stepped to the right and fell into the river. BURNETT said the man was about five feet ten inches tall and slightly lame. The police have been unable to find the body. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Wednesday, September 20, 1899 SUIT OVER A YELLOW DOG. A "yaller dog" valued at $25 will figure in a state case shortly to be prosecuted in the justice's court in Harlem, Clay county. J. H. HANKS of the village is the owner of the canine and he alleges that George WILTS, also of Harlem, endeavored to deprive him of it in a manner the reverse of honest. WILTS was arrested in this city yesterday morning and the canine was found in his possession. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Tuesday, October 8, 1907 A REMINDER OF FRONTIER DAYS. H. N. SMITH was arrested in Argentine yesterday afternoon on a charge of disturbing the peace. SMITH entered Frank McCULLOCH's lunchroom with a shotgun, and after forcing McCULLOCH to leave, he wrecked the furniture and threw the dishes into the street. Then with his gun within reach he sat on a stool in front of the place until the police arrived. SMITH and McCULLOCH had quarreled over a bill. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

Researching WINTER family who settled in Prairie Twp, Wyandotte Co. Is the "Douglas/Pleasant Ridge/Winters cemetery on Leavenworth Rd between 99th & Hutton Rd On north side" in Prairie Twp? and has it been transcribed? Carole Williams

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: JohnWOBrien Surnames: CATHERMAN, MARDER, MITCHELL Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kansas.counties.wyandotte/1461/mb.ashx Message Board Post: "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Thursday, November 25, 1909 BURGLARS FELL GIRL WITH BLOWS ON HEAD. Struck down by burglars, who had entered her home, 1409 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kas., last night, Miss Laura CATHERMAN was unconscious for more than an hour. She was alone in the house. Hearing a noise downstairs, she started to investigate. As she reached the bottom of the stairs, she heard a man say "Hit her," She was struck and fell. Dr. Mortimer MARDER examined her wounds. He found that she had been struck three times over the head, probably with a black jack. The intruders upset the telephone in the front hall. An umbrella was found lying near the unconscious girl. She recovered consciousness after an hour and a half. She was struck from behind, she said, and had no chance to see who attacked her. Miss CATHERMAN was found by her sister, Miss Clara CATHERMAN, an operator for the Home Telephone Company, who left work at 10 o'clock. Lewis MITCHELL escorted her home. When they reached the house ten minutes later a light was burning in it. The unconscious girl was groaning. MITCHELL entered the home by a back door, which was standing open. Wearing apparel and household articles were scattered over the floor. They had been taken from bureau drawers which had been carefully searched. So far as is known, nothing is missing from the house. The burglars gained entrance by piling bricks against the house and climbing in a pantry window. Miss CATHERMAN's condition is not serious. The father, Frank CATHERMAN, is a machinist employed at night in the Santa Fe shops. A brother, Herbert S. CATHERMAN, and another sister, Miss Georgia CATHERMAN, were absent from home. The children are motherless. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ====================================================== neirbo7 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: JohnWOBrien Surnames: RICHARDSON, STEMEN Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kansas.counties.wyandotte/1460/mb.ashx Message Board Post: "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Thursday, March 3, 1904 SKIN GRAFTING WAS SUCCESSFUL. The skin grafting operation performed at Bethany hospital Monday morning on the leg of Lee RICHARDSON, the Kansas City, Kas., fireman who was burned in the Dunning opera house fire, was successful. Dr. C. M. STEMEN, the hospital physician, said last night that twenty-two of the thirty-three grafted pieces of skin were growing. A second operation will take place Friday morning. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ====================================================== neirbo7 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: JohnWOBrien Surnames: HAINS Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kansas.counties.wyandotte/1459/mb.ashx Message Board Post: "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Tuesday, November 3, 1914 DOCTOR IN MOTOR WRECK. Dr. John W. HAINS, 47 years old, 947 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas side, suffered a compound fracture of the right leg and internal injuries when his motor car overturned near Vance late yesterday afternoon. Doctor HAINS is a candidate for coroner in Wyandotte County and was campaigning in the county at the time of the accident. He is making the race independently. The doctor was pinned under the car for some time in a semi-conscious condition until a motorist found him and took him to a nearby farmhouse. He was later taken to his home. Doctor HAINS was reared on the Kansas side. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ====================================================== neirbo7 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Tuesday, October 8, 1907 FOR EMPLOYING CHILDREN. On complaint of C. H. GAMM, deputy factory inspector, the prosecuting attorney issued an information yesterday against the Pague Manufacturing company at Twenty-ninth street and Southwest boulevard. They are charged with violating the child labor law by employing: Murrill BELL, 12 years old Frank FEENEY, 13 years old Chester ROBERTS, 13 years old. The law prohibits a child under 14 years of age from working in factories. The penalty is a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $100 for each offense. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Saturday, January 28, 1922 JUST A SLIGHT MISTAKE. Bebe is a girl, 3 years old. Recently Bebe and her 5-year-old sister have been induced to try sleeping in a room to themselves. It has called for coaxing, bribing and long continued efforts to bolster up the courage of the two. Bebe's especial fear has been of dogs. "Bebe, you know a big girl like you should not be afraid of dogs. They couldn't get into your room at night, for all the doors are closed and the windows are high up, too high for the dogs to jump." This reassurance from Bebe's mother. It was not until the other afternoon, when two women called at Bebe's home that the mother had any evidence that her attempts at reassurance had succeeded. Bebe burst into the room where the visitors were seated, in the midst of a very "successful" call. "Why, hello, Bebe," exclaimed one of the two women who had been a rather frequent visitor to the home some months ago. "You are not afraid of me any longer, are you?" Bebe hesitated a moment; she looked from one visitor to the other. Then said, with the utmost deliberation: "I'm not afraid of big dogs, and I'm not afraid of little dogs. My mamma said I wasn't." ======================================================

Very interesting. I think a lot of people don't think about what a danger city streets were before the turn of the century or sewers. An elderly cousin noted that people lived with the common knowledge that the city was unhealthy and tried to send their children away to farm relatives during summers. This eventually led to the custom of summer camps. On 4/14/07, John O'Brien <JohnOBrien@kc.rr.com> wrote: > > "The Kansas City Evening Star" (Missouri) Monday, May 9, 1881 > > SAVE US. > > "Just cast your eye along that gutter," said a prominent citizen to > an Evening Star man, as they gently ambled along Sixth street > yesterday afternoon; "Isn't that a disgrace to any city?" > > The gutters were filled with a thick, black, slimy mud to the depth > of several inches, which extended from the corner of Delaware > street nearly to Main, sending up under the generous influence > of the sun a sickly odor, sufficient to saturate the entire > neighborhood with malaria. > > This opened up a new train of thought to the reportorial mind. It > struck him forcibly that he had noticed other streets in a similar, > if not worse condition. As a rule the streets are in a terrible state. > Mud and garbage defile them, and obstruct the sewer openings. > The rains come and this mass is water-soaked and stirred up into > a pulpy mortar bed of malaria-breeding filth. > > When the sun comes to the front, this steams and foments, giving > forth the noxious gases that make life a burden to the citizen. > This condition of affairs is apparent in every prominent street in > the city. > > Another distressing feature is the building material with which > contractors delight in blockading the thoroughfares. Give a builder > a permit, and immediately he proceeds to take possession of the > street for an entire block either way from where he is laboring. > > It would be useless to attempt to mention the streets on which this > sort of thing is to be seen. It would necessitate the publication of > a map of the entire city. > > There is a remedy for all this. The city engineer is required to see > that the streets are kept clean and he should be spurred up to his > duty with a very sharp pole. It is needless to point out to that > officer the resources on which he can draw to effect this end. He > understands thoroughly just what can be done, and he is well aware > that it is an easy matter to have all the city streets thoroughly > cleaned and purified and should proceed to accomplish that end > at once, before the hot season sets in and evil results from the > slime and garbage are felt. > > ====================================================== > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KSWYANDO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

"The Kansas City Evening Star" (Missouri) Monday, May 9, 1881 SAVE US. "Just cast your eye along that gutter," said a prominent citizen to an Evening Star man, as they gently ambled along Sixth street yesterday afternoon; "Isn't that a disgrace to any city?" The gutters were filled with a thick, black, slimy mud to the depth of several inches, which extended from the corner of Delaware street nearly to Main, sending up under the generous influence of the sun a sickly odor, sufficient to saturate the entire neighborhood with malaria. This opened up a new train of thought to the reportorial mind. It struck him forcibly that he had noticed other streets in a similar, if not worse condition. As a rule the streets are in a terrible state. Mud and garbage defile them, and obstruct the sewer openings. The rains come and this mass is water-soaked and stirred up into a pulpy mortar bed of malaria-breeding filth. When the sun comes to the front, this steams and foments, giving forth the noxious gases that make life a burden to the citizen. This condition of affairs is apparent in every prominent street in the city. Another distressing feature is the building material with which contractors delight in blockading the thoroughfares. Give a builder a permit, and immediately he proceeds to take possession of the street for an entire block either way from where he is laboring. It would be useless to attempt to mention the streets on which this sort of thing is to be seen. It would necessitate the publication of a map of the entire city. There is a remedy for all this. The city engineer is required to see that the streets are kept clean and he should be spurred up to his duty with a very sharp pole. It is needless to point out to that officer the resources on which he can draw to effect this end. He understands thoroughly just what can be done, and he is well aware that it is an easy matter to have all the city streets thoroughly cleaned and purified and should proceed to accomplish that end at once, before the hot season sets in and evil results from the slime and garbage are felt. ======================================================

"The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Thursday, September 18, 1913 FUNERAL NOTICE. John Christopher SCHMITT, 45 years of age, born in Kansas City, 1868, died Tuesday, 12 noon, at his residence, 1318 E. 9th st. He was a son of Christopher SCHMITT, an old settler. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Katherine SCHMITT, and a daughter, Victoria, 16 years of age; three sisters and a brother, Dr. George L. SCHMITT. He was a member of the Railroad Club, the Sheet and Metal Workers' Union, the Tinners' Union and the Loyal Order of Moose. The latter will have charge of the remains. Funeral services will be held at Stine's chapel, 924 Oak st., at 2 p.m. Friday. Burial will be in the family lot, Forest Hill Cemetery. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Friday, April 15, 1921 WON'T ORDER JITNEYS OFF. Judge Frank P. SEBREE, president of the park board, will draft a resolution limiting the use of the boulevards by bus lines. Mr. SEBREE indicated yesterday that the purpose of the resolution is to put the board on record as unfavorable to the use of the boulevards to future motor bus lines. "While we are not prohibiting the use of the boulevards to the jitneys," Judge SEBREE said, "we do not want the bus owners coming before us later with the plea that they thought the board favorable to the jitneys. They are using the boulevards now without permission from the board, and until we feel the boulevards are being damaged by this traffic, they will probably continue to use them. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Thursday, October 27, 1904 UNIQUE DIVORCE SUIT POINT. A unique law point came up yesterday in a divorce suit tried before Judge DOUGLASS. It seemed to perplex the judge somewhat and he did not decide the question, but took it under advisement so as to look up the law. In Missouri it is against the law for first cousins to marry, but in California there is no law against it. George A. BARBER and Lavina A. BARBER, first cousins, were married there. Mrs. BARBER left her husband there and came to Kansas City to live and brought suit here asking for divorce because she and her husband are first cousins and alleging that therefore the marriage is illegal in Missouri. Judge DOUGLASS, from the remarks he made, seemed to think that as the marriage was performed in California it was a legal marriage. A peculiar feature of the case was that Mrs. BARBER testified yesterday that she never lived at all with her husband. She was over persuaded into the marriage, she said, and she regretted it the moment the ceremony was performed and she left him at the church door and refused to live with him. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

Thank you so much for sharing your research with the list, John. Your energy and effort are much appreciated. Some very interesting finds. On 4/12/07, John O'Brien <JohnOBrien@kc.rr.com> wrote: > > "The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Wednesday, March 9, 1904 > > MENTIER FALLS AGAIN. > > The police were again called upon last night to care for > James MENTIER, a morphine victim. He was sent to the > city hospital this morning. MENTIER is well known to the > medical profession and the druggists of Kansas City. A > few years ago he was an expert chemist. The police > surgeons say that MENTIER cannot be cured. > > ====================================================== > (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate > knowing if you found this posting helpful.) > johnobrien@kc.rr.com > ====================================================== > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KSWYANDO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >