2015 Spring Newsletter

Sale of the Court House *O BDDPSEBODF XJUI UIF BEWFSUJTFNFOU UIF PME DPVSU IPVTF CVJMEJOH XBT TPME BU QVCMJD BVDUJPO BU UIF Pď DF PG UIF $PVOUZ $MFSL MBTU .POEBZ "QSJM BU P DMPDL Q N ć F $PVOUZ $PNNJTTJPOFST XFSF BMM BUUFOEBODF BOE UIF DMFSL T Pď DF XBT DSPXEFE XJUI TQFDUBUPST UP XJUOFTT UIF VOVTBCMZ TQFDUBDMF PG B DPVSU IPVTF CFJOH TPME to the highest or any other bidder. Buckeye Bill made the sale, and was more eloquent and persuasive than usu BM *O IJT MPOH DBSFFS BT BO BVDUJPOFFS IF IBT TPME FWFSZUIJOH CVU DPVSU IPVTFT BOE UIJT XBT UIF ĕ STU POF PO IJT MJTU ć F CJEEJOH TUBSUFE BU BOE XBT TPPO SVO VQ UP JO CJET *U CFHBO UP ESBH BMPOH JO CJET VOUJM XBT SFBDIFE XIFO BU UIF DVTUPNBSZ iUIJSE BOE MBTU XBSOJOHw UIF CVJMEJOH XBT TPME UP (JMCFSU .PPSF ć F QSJODJQBM CJEEFST XFSF .S .PPSF BOE 5 . )PCTPO ć JT CFJOH UIF ĕ STU DPVSU IPVTF .S .PPSF FWFS PXOFE IF has not yet fully determined what disposition he will make of it, but it is probable that he will use the material in erecting several small houses in town. Under the terms of the sale, the county reserved the furniture and the doors and casing of the vaults – all the SFTU JT UIF QSPQFSUZ PG .S .PPSF ć F DPVOUZ IBT UXFOUZ EBZT JO XIJDI UP WBDBUF UIF CVJMEJOH BOE .S .PPSF has three months in which to tear down the building and remove the material. ć F PME DPVSU IPVTF JT B MBOE NBSL JO 1BPMB BOE UP UIF PMEFS DJUJ[FOT NBOZ GPOE SFDPMMFDUJPOT DMVTUFSFE BCPVU it, and old and dilapidated as it is, many will see it torn down with genuine regret, akin to that felt in attending the funeral of an old friend. It is a part of the early days of Paola, when the town was new – those happy, heart some. Joyful, careless, frolicksome days, when the very people themselves were new, made up of everybody from everywhere, and all hopeful, enthusiastic, generous and venturesome. Everything “went” and everybody went BMPOH ć F iPDUPQVTw BOE UIF ANPOFZ QPXFSw IBEO U HPU IFSF ZFU BOE JG UIFZ IBE UIFZ XPVME IBWF CFFO NBEF UP “set ‘em up” as long as their money lasted and then been locked up in the calaboose or rode out of town on a rail. A few – a very few – of the actors are here yet who were on the scene in those days – most of them have gone. A majority of them have crossed the river which is so wide that none can ever return, while others have gone everywhere else, from the Klondyke to the golden sands of South Africa, from the wilds of South America to the islands of the seas. ć F CVJMEJOH XBT TUBSUFE JO UIF TQSJOH PG BOE DPNQMFUFE JO UIF GBMM PG UIBU ZFBS *U XBT FSFDUFE CZ TDIPPM district No.21 for a school building, at a cost of $15,000. S. M. Larkin burned the brick and laid them in the wall; the carpenter worked was done by Brockman & Co. It was a large pretentious structure and was really a creditable building for those days, being one of the best school houses in the State. It was occupied as a school 'SPN UIF %VOHFPO ć BU T UIF NVTFVN T CBTFNFOU XIFSF B NPOTUFS TUBDL PG PME $PVOUZ OFXT QBQFST BSF TUPSFE

house until about 1874, when the handsome new building on the hill was competed. November 21st, 1876, it was purchased by Miami –co. for B DPVSU IPVTF UIF QSJDF QBJE CFJOH ć F County Commissioners then were P. F. Latimer, S. P. Boon and Wm. McConnor. It has been occu pied since as a court house, but within two weeks UIF DPVOUZ Pď DJBMT XJMM NPWF JOUP UIF TUBUFMZ OFX structure which proudly overshadows the old, and the cracked and broken walls will be torn down and will mingle with the things of the past. Western Spirit, April 5, 1899

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