RINEHART

 METZ TOWNSHIP

VERNON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

From the 1911 History of Vernon County, page 614:  Rinehart post office, located five miles southeast (sic) of Metz, is a trading and shipping point.  J. H. Miller is the postmaster and merchant, and he also looks after the railroad business.  Considerable grain and hay is shipped from Rinehart.

[Rinehart was located southwest of Metz, on what was the Missouri-Pacific Railroad line, in the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 30, Metz Township.]

 

The Rinehart Post Office was in operation from 1882 - 1936.

 

This delightful old photo is of the "Rinehart Drum Corps 1894" (as written on the drum). Click for a larger view. Photo courtesy of Georgia Charles. Can you help us identify these gentlemen or provide additional information about this drum and fife corps?

 

 

---From Mr. J. H. Rinehart, who was in the city Monday, the NOTICER learns that the grading on the Colorado and St. Louis railroad had been completed to the Kansas and Missouri line. This line of road runs through Rinehart, and as the country round about there is as fine as a crow ever flew over. Rinehart will become a very flourishing town at no distant day.

Nevada Noticer, Nevada, Missouri; Thursday 22 April 1886 page 3.

 

Nevada Noticer, Nevada, Missouri; Thursday 3 November 1887 page 2.

 

---The profile of the St. Louis. Kansas City & Colorado road was filed with County Clerk Gordon last Monday. It enters Vernon county at the northeast corner of section 25 of Osage township near Carbon Center; thence runs through the northwest corner of the county, passing one half mile west of Arthur, where it crosses the Lexington & Southern road; thence on to Reed's Creek, which it crosses three quarters of a mile southeast of Metz. It then crosses the Osage in section 15 of Metz township, and passes three-quarters of a mile northwest of Rinehart. On striking Walton's branch runs parallel with it and passes Enoch, after which it crosses Charlow Creek in section 29 of Richland township passing over the state line into Kansas through the land of E. S. Weyand. The route, according to this survey, will run within about eleven miles of Nevada.

Nevada Noticer, Nevada, Missouri; Thursday 24 November 1887 page 2.

 

Enoch Rhea has been employed to teach the summer term of school at Rinehart.

"From Prarie View," Nevada Noticer, Nevada, Missouri; Thursday 15 March 1888 page 3.

 

Hoover & Moore, our worthy merchants at Rinehart, report as having a large trade at present.

Nevada Noticer, Nevada, Missouri; Thursday 26 April 1888 page 3.

 

Rinehart is on the boom. V. P. Tharp and Squire Rinehart have their store completed, and will soon be handing goods over the counters. We wish them success in their new business.

"From Prarie View," Nevada Noticer, Nevada, Missouri; Thursday 8 December 1887 page 3.

 

V. P. Thorp was in Kansas City last week, purchasing goods for his new store at Rinehart.

"From Prarie View," Nevada Noticer, Nevada, Missouri; Thursday 15 December 1887 page 3.

 

 

---The residence of Frank Potter, of Rinehart, was burned Wednesday night of last week.

Nevada Noticer, Nevada, Missouri; Thursday 4 April 1889 page 3.

 

---Reub. Walton of the Rinehart vicinity, sold to Samuel Evans of Marshall, Mo., on Tuesday last, twenty head of mules averaging 1,200 pounds, for $3,000.

Nevada Noticer, Nevada, Missouri; Thursday 21 November 1889 page 3.

 

--Elder J. J. Stark will preach at the Rinehart church the third Sunday in December.

Nevada Noticer, Nevada, Missouri; Thursday 5 December 1889 page 3.

 

We have heard that Hoover's store at Rinehart, will be moved to the new town of Richards, on the Fort Scott and Eastern railroad.

"Metz Musings," Nevada Noticer, Nevada, Missouri; Thursday 24 April 1890 page 3.

 

--- J. N. Coil will teach the Rinehart school this winter. The school opens in October and continues five months.

Nevada Noticer, Nevada, Missouri; Thursday 21 August 1890 page 3.

 

 

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