The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-13

ton at Joplin recently. J. Herbert
Stafford Of st. Louis was reelected
secretary. Both were elected by ac-
clamation. The convention selected
Sedalia as the meeting place in 1917.
Plans are now on foot for a Ray
county stock fair, the first of its kind
since 1873, to be held in Richmond
during the first week in September.
The state secretary of agriculture,
Jewel Mayes, whose home is in Rich
mond, is back of the enterprise.
Homer Ford, % year old, was in
stantly killed at the Oronogo Circle
mine when he slipped and fell head
long down the shaft. His home was
in Ozark, Ark. He came to this dis
trict to work only a few days ago.
Twenty-Five thousand pickers will
be needed to harvest the record
strawberry crop of Missouri and Ar
kansas this year, according to esti-
mates furnished by the Ozark Straw
berry Growers Association.
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w. j. c. Kenyon, a rate expert Of
Ottawa, ILL.,, of wide railroad expert
ence, has been appointed traffic COM
missioner of the st. Joseph CONNER
cial Club. Hhe assumed his duties
May 10.
John Edwards, 80 years old, was
killed by a Missouri Pacific passenger
train at Panama recently. 1t is said
that Edwards attempted to flag the
train.
The resignation of Jacob Brett as
steward of state hospital No. 2 was
accepted at a meeting of the board of
managers recently and H. A. Chap
man, a St. Joseph banker, was ap.
pointed to the place.
The Columbia special bond issue
election resulted in IN affirmative vote
by 4 to l to issue 500, 900 in bonds for
new school buildings.
]. H. Henderson, 6S years old, drug
gist of Glasgow, died the other morn
ing of pulmonary apoplexy.
The unusual spectacle of a man at.
tending the funeral of his wife in COM
pany with his bride was presented in
st. Joseph recently. The wife of Louis
Ryse, a Japanese porter, died at 8
| o'clock in the morning and before noon
he had obtained a license and was
married to his sister-in-law, who was
a sister of the dead m In the
afternoon the bride and bridegroom at
| tended the funeral of the former Mrs.
Ryse as chief mourners and they are
now occupying the home in which the
first Mrs. Ryse had reigned.
Mrs. Almira Atkinson, mother of
Frank NJ. Atkinson, ex-postmaster in
st. Joseph, is dead at her sons home
there. Mrs. Atkinson was 80 years
old, and her husband, DR.. Jesse A.
Atkinson, who died in Lexigton, Mo-,
t~hirty-four years ago, was prominent
there.
Henry G. Rohwer, II of the pio'
neer engineers of the West, is dead
in st. Louis. He was 6S years old,
Rohwer was building a 100000 rail
road in Georgia at the time of his
death. AS chief engineer of the Mis-
souri, Pacific-Iron Mountain system he
had charge of 5000 miles of roadbed
Charles NJ. Grow, Sr., "a years old
who taught fifty years in the North
Carolina and Maryland school for the
deaf until his retirement, fifteen years
ago, is dead at Fulton.
Mary Ethel Prov, a sixth grade pu'
pill, won the gold medal in the annual
spelling contest of the upper grades Of
the Sikeston public schools. More
than 5000 words were pronounced in
the contest.
Oaker Smith, ~15-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. c.. T. Smith of Joplin, was
hllltu dI Sdl tuna lCSCAlIJ w pSNAs
run over by a Frisco freight train. II
was said he was cumming a ride Oh
top of the train and fell between the
cars.
James A. Mcdowell, 40 years old,
widower with three children, com
mitted suicide at his home in Lexing
ton with a shotgun. He was a can
didate for city collector at the recent
city election and was defeated.
The Rev. Samuel C. Pierce, rs years
old, a pioneer, is dead at the home Of
his daughter in Brookfield. The body
was taken to Bevier for burial.
DIR. T. B. Potter, Sc years old, a lead
ing st. Joseph physician, died the
other day.
Charles w. Wall, until recently
treasurer of the Meyer Brothers
Drug Company, has filed a voluntary
petition in bankruptcy in the United
States district court at st. Louis, He
gave his liabilities as 1929 SOL .65 AM