. History of southeast Missouri : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests. from Marble Hill. It was laid out as a townin 1860 by Eli Lutes, in whose honor thetown was named. In order to secure a stationon the Belmont branch of the St. Louis, IronMountain & Southern Railroad, JMr. Lutesgave to the railroad company ten acres ofground for station purposes, the right-of-waythrough the town, and one-third of the first merchant in town was C. E. Rowe,who began business in a small box house andcontinued until the time of his death. EliLutes was
. History of southeast Missouri : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests. from Marble Hill. It was laid out as a townin 1860 by Eli Lutes, in whose honor thetown was named. In order to secure a stationon the Belmont branch of the St. Louis, IronMountain & Southern Railroad, JMr. Lutesgave to the railroad company ten acres ofground for station purposes, the right-of-waythrough the town, and one-third of the first merchant in town was C. E. Rowe,who began business in a small box house andcontinued until the time of his death. EliLutes was also one of the early first mayor of the town was F. S. Traut-wein. There are now five general stores andthe usual number of smaller business estab-lishments. There is one stave factory, whichhas been in operation for a number of years,and also a mill. The Bollinger County bank,with a capital of $25,000, was incorporated in1891, and the Peoples Bank of Lutesville,with a capital of $12,000 was iucoqioratedin 1903. Among the principal buildings are HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 281 r M r c O orr K rr. 282 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI the Odd Fellows hall and the business blocksof W. W. Sample and Robert Drum. The pop-ulation of Lutesville is 551. The LutesvilleBaniur is a weekly paper and is Republicanin politics. Gayoso This town received its name in honor of theSpanish governor of Louisiana, Don ManuelGayoso. When the site was selected for thecounty seat of Pemiscot county in April, 1851,there was not a house standing on the fiftyacres of land purchased by the land was bought from James A. McFar-land and the town was surveyed by WilliamBigham. No house was erected until 1854,when Sanford Jackson built a small next house was built by Charles A. Kim-ball. W^arriugton & Pennell of New Madridwere the first merchants. They began busi-ness in 1854 and were succeeded by BenjaminSellers. John H. Kelly was another earlymerchant. The first
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