Items of genealogical interest in the Springfield, Greene County, Missouri newspapers, the Springfield leader and the Springfield daily news for 1928, Part 1, Part 50

Author: Hall, William K. (William Kearney), 1918-
Publication date: 1928 v. 1
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SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1928 -- LEADER


Page 1: An explosion demolished a building in West Plains in which there was a dance hall. At least 37 bodies had been recovered. This issue contains many stories about the disaster and about some of the dead.


Bob Murphy's wife died at West Plains.


There is a list of the dead .*


Page 3: A. B. Bodenhamer died .** W. G. Blanton died .**


Page 8: Lilly May Parks sues to divorce John W. Parks. They were married January 3, 1920. They have a child.


Anna L. Evans sues to divorce Fred B. Evans. They were married September 25, 1905, and have six children.


Page 14: Mary T. Dyke was appointed to administer the estate of James H. Dyke. Thomas Schreiber sues to divorce Flora E. Schreiber. They were married January 20, 1910. Clara Samuel was appointed administratrix of the estate of Martha S. Samuel.


DEATHS


A D. BODENHAMER.


A. If Bodenhamer, 88. Civil War ; veteran. died at the home of hia daughter. Mr: J. E. Dennis, of near Rogersitile. on Thursday evening. Ap:it 12 Funeral services will be held at !. 30 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Onkland church. six miles east of Springfield on the Division street rond. with Rev. Henley, pastor, ofti- cinting. Burial will be In Danforth cemetery under direction of the Rog- erstille Undertaking company. He is Mitvived by three daughters. Mra. Deunis, and Mrs. G. F. Dennis and Mrs. James Lanler. both of Spring- -


feld, and by three aona, William and Ire both of Springfield, and Ira, of 'California.


W. G. BLANTON.


W .. G. Blanton. 89. Civil war veter- all, died this morning at the home of hla daughter, Mrs. T. M. Robert- son. 1033 West Walnut street, fol- lowIng . lingering Illness. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. to- morrow at the Alma Lohmeyer Fu- ncral home. Burial will be In Maple Park cemetery. He la survived by the daughter and a son. Mr. Blanton had been a resident of Greene county many years. .


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West Plains Disaster Toll Continues to! Mount --- Cause of Tragedy Is Being Sought --- Fearfully Mangled Bodies Are Recovered in Ruins of Dance Hall, Demolished by Mystery Explosión.


RY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.


WEST PLAINS, Mo .. April 14 .- While grief- stricken relatives crowded the morgues of the Me- Farland and the Ross-Davis Undertaking companies, frantically seeking to identify their loved ones among the long rows of charred and fearfully mangled bodies all West Plains and southwest Missouri stood at dazed . attention as the death list of this region's most horri- ble tragedy continued to mount.


The terrific explosion which demolished the Weiser garage building on the second floor of which a dance was being held and resulted in flames which destroy- ed two adjoining buildings, served as a magnet which today drew throngs of persons seeking to render all possible aid to the stricken community.


Among those who hurried to the town were news". paper photographers and reporters, seeking details of the tragedy which they might broadcast to the anx- iously waiting thousands over the state and middle' west.


LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED


Thirty-seven bodies had been mo- covered at 2 p. m. today. 13 of which have been Identified. .


A coroner's Jury, hastily summoned; by Prosecution Attorney Dick + Gen;


BOB MURPHY IS MISSING: WIFE DIES IN BLAST


Springfield, paving organised 'the Murphy Tire company here several Teurs ago, which he operated for three pean. when he sold the company to the present owners of the General Tire-company .---


Joined Wife There. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy had been married for five years. West Plains . 1+ Mra. Murphy's home. Bince selling the tire company. Mr. Murphy had been a traveling salesman.


Disaster at West Plains .Takes Life of a Former Springfield Woman; Rela- tives of Murphy Gb to Scene of Tragedy.


Rece:'Iv. he lind been Hll and had been with his parents here. Partially recovering from the attack, he lind soL' only treently to West Plains fo


A teleg:ata n.formlı.z Mrs. Louts 5. Meyer. distant relative. of the death of Nim Murphy. was received early *!.: \ trorn !::::


M: Maphy's paren's left carly this


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LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED


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em experiment stathe at Urove.


- Mrs. R. G. Martin, prominent West ! Plains society woman. .


R. (. Martin, Ford dealer. West Maine.


Mr. Carl Mullins. West Plains. Major Boh Mullins, World War vet- eran of 351h Divlelon, West Pleine.


Mrs. Kitty Mcfarland, head of the Mcfarland I'ndertaking company W'est Plains.


J. W. Welser. owner of the Weiser garage. Weat Mains.


it'hatlen Murk, Jr., high school stu- i dent, West Plains


It'hacies Fisher. high school youth, Ava.


Jullan C. Jeffrey. Mammoth Spring. Ark.


;llugh Mains, high school student, West Plalas.


Jahn Bates, West Plains. Karl Jackson. Mountain Groit.


· MISHING!


Ben Jolly, G&, West Plaine


theater lloistein. Aru.


Mra. Mary Adatr. Weat Plalpa


Mles Frances Drago. manager Hest-


ern Uinlon office. West Plains


MI>< Beatrice Marker. Mountain tirove ..


Mrs. Wallare Rogers of Pleusanton. Kan., alster of Mise Grupo. Miss Juanlia Laws, l'ahool. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Murphy. ; Springfield. Ruby Hortkinson, Kannan t'ily. Les Reed. son of John It. Heed of the Bees-Harlin Grocer company, West Pinins.


Hazet Stusser, Willow Springs. MIAs Dimple Martin. daughter of . Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Martin. West Plain -.


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LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED


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Newt Riley, West Plains.


Clinton Clemmons, West Mains.


Miss Rath Fisher, West Plains high school student.


James Loving. Mammoth Spring. Ark.


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Marvin Hill, high school aludent, Best Plaina.


Emlyn Conkin, Kansas City.


Mr. and Mre. F.sco Riley. West


Pialna. Miss ley Riener. Thayer.


Rora Garnee. Mammoth Springs, Ark. Charles" Mark. 12. West Plains.


Carson McClelland, West Plains.


INJURED.


M. C. Allen, West Plains grocer. Dale Allen. high school student and a member of the orchestra. Miles Ernestine Cunningham, Wil- low Springs. Lawis Achuff, West Plains.


West Phương'.


Quy Wilson, 19, West Plains. Charles Ungat. Cabool.


Charles Stock dell. Mountain Grora


Fred Archer, Mountain Grove.


Mr. and Mrs. Garrett McBride, West


E. D. Whita and David B. White, qua operatora between West Plains and Poplar Bluff, who reside at Doni- phan. Glen Moore. West Plaina.


Mose Ashley. 23. West Plains.


. Royd tiras, Moody ..


C'art Mullins, hrother of Major Mul- Hne and husband of Mrs. Carl Mut- Uus, who are among The known dead. Ralph Langston. Jr., grandeon of T. J. Langeion, hrad of the langston- Prase Hercanilla company, West Plain .. John Riley. West Plains.


SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 15, 1928 -- DAILY NEWS


Page 1: Son born April 13 to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Headlee of Route one.


There are several long articles about the dance hall explosion at West Plains. There is a list of the dead in the West Plains explosion .**


Page 6A: Mrs. Kitty McFarlane and Bob Mullins were killed at West Plains .**


Page 7A: Robert Murphy and his wife Nellie Jane were killed at West Plains.' There is a history of West Plains .**


Miss Icie Risner died at West Plains .**


R. G. Martin, his wife and daughter were killed at West Plains .**


Page 12A: William Grayson Blanton died .** D. S. Scroggs died .* Orville Bird died .* Deckard infant died .** George P. Hayden died .**


Page 1B: Marriage licenses issued .**


Page 8B: Mrs. J. W. Mayfield died at Lebanon. Peter Pennington died .**


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Miss Anna Moody of Monett and Thomas J. Ryan are engaged to marry. A son Chesley Hall Looney was born Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Chesley Looney of


Newburg.


Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sherer of Newburg went to Springfield where his mother died. Mrs. Rhile Compton and Jno. Horton were married .**


Miss Doris Hopkins and William Bartlet Adams of St. Louis were married .* Son born April 12 to Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Crocker of Seymour.


Son born to Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Shields .**


Page 10B: Card of thanks .**


Page 12B: Annie L. Evans sues to divorce Fred B. Evans."


Louie L. Hay and Ethel King were married .**


Page 2C: Miss Betty Rosback and Mr. W. L. Michener are engaged to marry .** Miss Katherine Cochran nd Mr. Ben A. Dunlop are engaged to marry .**


Page 3C: Miss Trillis Kathleen Carroll and Mr. Jack Elroy Butler are engaged to narry .**


Girl Gave Up Pleasure Trip To Play Piano and to Perish


R. G. MARTIN was Ford automo- bile dealer In West Plains. Business was dull when the Ford company temporarily discontinued manufacturing cars. He and ble wife decided to put on dences and their daughter. Dimpler. played the Miuno. They catered to the better class of people and those killed and Injured last night were among the bist citizena.


Dimples Intended to go to Mem- phla with an elder slater yesterday but wanted to attend the dance so she remained over. She and her teren's were killed.


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AS IF SOAKED IN OIL.


+ M !.. Frances Drago. manager of the Western I'nion telegraph office


Just next door to the dance hall, injury.


was at the dance and was killed. Hler body was badly charred.


A. E. Sieberling, night' marshal. was standing just across the street from the dance hall when the ex- plosion occurred.


"There was a flash, a roar and I was sent sprawling on the alde- walk." he gold. "I thought at first somebody had blown a safe. Then I heard the ecreams of the dla- tressed and tan for the fire wagon. Almost as quickly as the debris settled in a pile it was enveloped in flames as though it had been saturated with oil."


Illshop W. F. MoMurry of Fay- ette, Mn, was in a hotel room just tack of the dance hall. Windows of his room were shattered and the room disarranged, but he escaped


LOVERS DIE IN BLAST: WERE SOON TO BE WED


How the lives of two lovers wi:o wire engneed to be married within a short time were snuffed out in : the West l'inine dance hall blast rae related by friends yesterday.


The two who are sold to have Sone to the dance together and who wire probably dancing with each Hier as the catastrophe ocurren were Mra Kilty McFarisne. pro irletor of an undertaking estatillon hierit there and Major Rnb Mullins. n world war veteran of the 351h d !! sion.


but Mra. Mirt'ariane's husband and Mr. Mutting' wife ste both dead.


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Mrs Mirharlane Is survived by a


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PRETTY THAYER TEACHER IS AMONG THE VICTIMS


Miss Icle Risner, of Thayer, who lost her life to the Weet Plains disaster. had many friends in Springfield. She was a girl of un- usual beauty and popularity.


Miss Riener was a teacher of the , third grade In the Thayer school and former student of Teachers college.


BAKERSFIELD," MO. -


"Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Horton who were recently married vielted here Thursday. Mra. Horton was form- eily Mrs.' Rhile Compton of this city. Mr. Horton is a merchant of Bloody, where they will make their home as soon ne it Is completed. -


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Stunned and Stricken, West Plains Prepared! to Bury Its Dead; Explosion Brings Hunt dreds Who Stand Helpless to Aid Screami ing Victims in Gas-Fed Inferno


(Other remarkable pictures on Pages 6-A and 7-A) By Nowa Staff Correspondent WEST PLAINS, Mo., April 14 .~ Thirty-aine charred and. mangled bodies, side by side in two undertakers' morgues . here are mute witnesses to this little city's most staggering tragedy.


As the counting and identifying of the dead continued tonight officials sought to determine the cause of the mighty's blast which wrecked the Weiser dance hall just before ankdr. night Friday and sent more than half a hundred boys and girls and men and women hurtling to horrible death or injury.


A coroner's jury today. said the explosion was due to gasoline vapors in a garage below and then, unsatisfied with their verdict, recessed unti! Wednesday. Late tonight County, Prosecutor Richard Greene emphatically declared that gator line fumes were not the cause and said that he was convinced the explosion was the result of the igniting of a giant chat" of nitro-glycerine.


The death toll stood tonight at 38 .. But in, the maryses are 39 bodies, 16 in one and 23 4 thegry, typical of the herrer'if. the trackly


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Born to Mr. and Mrs. Chesley Looney Saturday a boy, who has been named Chesley Hall."


Mr. and Mra. J. A. Shields, 468 Loren street, Springfield, Mo., an- nounce the birth of a son, April 3. at the Springfield hospital. Mrs. Shields was formerly Miss Minnie Anderson of Seymour. -


A nine pound boy was born to Mra. H. T. Crocker April 12.


2- CARDS OF THANKS.


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CARD OF THANK8


We wish to express our thanks and gratitude to the kind friends for their sympathy and beautiful flowers during the illness and death of our busband and luther, John O'Nelll. MRS. - NETTIE O'NEIL TOM O'NEIL.1 .. JIM O'NEIL.L. ETHEL O'NEILL. FAYE O'NEIL.I .. MRS. J. N. NEWTON


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Peter Pennington, a well known farmer of the Phelps community. died Tuesday, the 10th, at his home at the age of 76 years. after a short Einem. Funeral services were h ld Wednesday at the Falem church by the Rev. Crank of Greenfield. Burial Lo Balem cemetery.


ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Carroll of :hl_ city wish to announce the en- gagement of their daughter. Trilils Kathleen, to Mr. Jack Elroy Butler, at Minneapolla, Minn.


Mias Florence. Adams attended the wedding of Mlns Dorls Hop- kina and William Hurtlet Adame of St. Louis, Saturday, April 7. MIR Florence was accompanied home from St. Louis by John Robert Herr, who was a guest in the Adams { i home here unui Tuesday.


WEST PLAINS DEAD


List of tanjured'on base


MAJOR ROBERT MULLINS, world war veteran, 35th division, owner af commission and cold eter- are business at West Plains, major 140th infantry, Missouri National Guard.


LEV REED. 27. son of John R. Reed, head of Reed-Harlin Whola. sal. Grocery company, West Plains.


R. G. MARTIN. 50. Ford agent, Weat Plains.


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MRS. R. G. MARTIN, Wast Plains.


- DIMPLES MARTIN, 22, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Martin.


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MRS. KITTIE M'FARLAND, head of Mcfarland Undertaking com - pany, West Plains.


CLINTON CLEMMONS, 22, West Plains.


MISS FRANCES DRAGO. 26, manager of the Western Union. West Plains.


ROBERT MURPHY, · traveling salesman, Springfield.


MRS. ROBERT MURPHY. Springfield.


BEN JOLLY. 50, West Plains painter.


PAUL EVANS, JR. 24, Missouri university graduate, son of Dr. Paul Evans, former manager of the stato experimental station at Moun- tain Grove and now manager of a cendensary at West Plains.


MRS. CARL MULLINS, daugh. tor of Ed Reeves, West Plains trav. eling man.


J. W. WEISER, proprietor Weiser Motor company, West Plaina.


CARSON M'CLELLAN. high school student, West Plaino.


JOHN BATES, 20, son of the Reverend J. F. E. Bates, pastor Methodist church, West Plains.


MARVIN HILL, 1& msnior high school student, athletic star, West Plains


MISS RUTH FISHER, 17. high school student, daughter of Fred Fisher, Weet Plaine contractor.


EVELYN CONKIN. 22, Kansas City, who was visiting relatives at West Plains. -


MR. AND MRS. ESCO RILEY. I West Plains.


NEWTON RILEY. brother Esco Rilay. Both are sons of E. L Rdey, prominent farmer of the West Pleins neighborhood, and were ert . ployed at Weat Plains


HUGH SAMS, high school stu- dent, West Plaina.


MISS BEATRICE DARKER, 16 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Barker, Mountain Grova Mr. Barker is president of the First National bank at Mountain Grove.


CARL JACKSON, 19. son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Jackson, Mountain Grove.


CHARLES FISHER, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Fisher, Ava. atar athlete at the Kirksville State Teachers college, formerly lived in Mountain Grove.


ALVIN GARNER. Mammotlı Springa, Ark.


MISS ICIE RISNER, Ateacher at Thayer who attended the dance with, Garner.


MI88 HAZEL SLUSSER, school teacher, daughter of Bert Slusser, former, editor at Willow Springe.


CHARLES MERK, son of Arnold Merk, West Plaine carpenter.


CHESTER HOLSTINE, Ava. ( Reported missing.)


MISS JUANITA LAWS. 24, of Cabool, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Laws. -1.


JAMES LOVING. Mammeth Springs, Ark. (Reported missing.)


MISS MARY ADAIR. 18, West Plains, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Adair.


MISS RUBY HODKINSON. Kan- sa, City, who had been visiting her cousin, Misa Juanita Laws.


ARTHUR RISNER, Thayer, Mo.


MRS. WALLACE ROCERS. Pleasanton, Kan, who was visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Drago.


JULIAN C. JEFFERY, Mammoth Springs, Ark.


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FRIDAY TRAGEDY RECALLS HISTORY OF WEST PLAINS


Howell County City Estab- lished Almost 100 Years Ago By Kentucky and Tennessee Pioneers


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WEST PLAINS-today a city of gloom-for nearly 100 years has been one of the most prosper- our communities in the Missouri OzarkR.


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Mletittunes have, come-during the bloody" days of bushwhacking in the Civil war -- and death: deal- ing "tornadoes bare swept the very doorstep of the town. 1, Yeti each time, no matter how. great the ad- veraity, West Plains has emerged victoriousir. proudly.


Founded about the same time the first . settlement made in Bpringtleid, Almost a century aro, West Plains now has a population of 3300.


Pioneers from Tennessee and Kentucky, "crowded out" by the Influx of settlers in the 183n'a struck the westward trail, and many early comers found in what la nuw Howell county no. only abundaner of water and game, but a plentiful supply of tlinber and the promise of fruitful land.


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ONCE A FRONTIER TOWN


At first the place was only trading post, where hunters, both white men and adans, brought their furs and purchased their meagre multiples. In those days. there ans little law and order. The dance hall, us found later In the mining campe of the next. Any U'le known, but there were places where


liquor was sold"and gambling con - tinued day and night.


Only recently, In excavating for: a sewer system, skeletons were un- earthed that were believed to be those of men killed In the gambling row's in the early days of Wert Plains. One pinull cemetery is cald to have populated as a result of these battles.


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Hut as the country became more thickly settled, law and order were | established. The hunter and grup-


per cate way to the merchant and the further.


By the time the Civil war open- ed. Went l'laina was a prosperous village, the center of a large trad- ' Ing aren.


The ville, however, took a beats toll in West Plains as !! did alon: the entire length of the bouler Most of the intinttants left. Those who were able to bear nilha en- listed on one side of the other. Those who were not-the used, the women and the children-fled to places of safety


Bo great were the destruction and the danger;that but little of the town and few of the Inheb. Itants were left-when the refugees returned at the close of the Civil war.


So It was not until the period after the war that the rest de- velopment of West Plains began.


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CITY IS BORN ANEW 1


The townsite was laid out and It is more tlinn 'a coincidence that the public square, or Court square Na It la known In. West Plains, and the entering streets, bear the name I relation to one another that is found In Springfield. Streets In West Plains. just as those of Springfield, enter the square at the middle of each side, and there are arcades there similar to those known as the Elke arcade. Kirby arcade and the Baker arcade In Springfield. .


Progresa continued steadily untu the building of the old Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis rallroad. In the '70%. gave West Plains new Impetus.


Surrounded by a large terillors without rallroad facilities, West Plains early became a distributing center. This Included not only a large part of Howell count: b !!! sections of Ozark and Oregon countles in Missour! and Fulton county, across the state line in Arkansas.


Dry-eyed, West Plains mourned ber dead. There was much grim work to do, and the city went atolc. ally and quickly about carrying out her tasks. Tons of tangled timbers, bricks and steel were alfted and re- offted In the search for bodies of tha missing, Telephone and tele- graph lines were busy with mes- magen to relatives of the dead and Injured and With press accounts of the greatest tragedy West Plaine had ever known. Arrangements Were made for funerals; relatives of the missing waited hour after hour in the city's two morgues for


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word of their kin.


i MANY SORROWING HOMES


In the beautiful old homes which dot ' West Plains, and in similar homes in many other towns nearby. it was a different story. Here a young widow wept alone, mourning the death of her dance.orchestra husband, wbo perished in the blast. And bere a young woman came bome to find her father and mother and baby eister dead. Here a father and mother received word of the death of their son, a graduate of the state university, popular and promising. And bere a father who stood by helplessly as hin son per- Ished wishes madly that he. loo. might have died.


But on the street, about the ruins of the buildings claimed by the fire. West Plains held her head high, and worked desperately.


I TOTTERING WALLS MENACE | + Menaced by tottering walla, trall- Ing wires and weakened power polca, scores of volunteers worked throughout yesterday and last night. sucking the charred, crushed bodies of the missing. Despite the danger ) of new loss of life, the work was pushed relentlessly under the di- rection of C. F. Armstrong and C. W. Imildson, city commissioners of West Plains. Mayor J. P. Harlin was In Springfield when the. ex. plosion occurred.


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A unit of the Red Cross arrived yesterday afternoon trom St. Louis to mid In the relief work, but there was little left for the Red Cross workers to du. The injured already were In a hospital, with West T'inina' physiciana joining In giving them the best of care. Several of the least seriously injured were able to leave the hospital yesterday.


SOME BURIALS TODAY


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At least two who lost their lives Friday night will be buried Sun- day. Charles Merke, popular high school Junior, will be buried at 2 willock in the afternoon. Funeral servlove will be held at the First Baptist church." Students of his


class "will attend the services " In body.


Paul Evans, Jr. another popular youth In West Plains' social Net. and son of Dr. Paul Evans, will be buried at 3:30 o'clock. Brief fu- neral services will be held at the home.


Bon Jolley. 68-year-old, mer. chant. was identified only by bis false teeth. his body being burned


beyond recognition.


MEMORIAL SERVICES


Ministers of several churches Sunday will hold memorial services for those who died in the greatest tragedy of the thriving little moun- tain city.


Dejection of the townspeople ex- tends over the entire countryside. At a late bour Saturday night farm- era who had only learned of the catastrophe, had come to the city ind were viewing the charred thin - bers of the once brick structure.


Hotel rooms are a premium, trav- elIng anlesmen are stopping In the town over the weekend. Morbid . .. ous foika from neighboring . w.x are making West Plains their weekend resort.


At the McFarland I'ndertaking company where most of the un- hientified bodies are being held. Guards have tren placed at the door to keep out the curious.


D. &. 8CROGGS


died suddenly Matarday morning ut, att. home, Mimari arrangements ate incons- pleta' but service probably · will be held Moody at the home of(ble daughter; Mra,: the Matlock, 1836' North' Ilesvarl' avo nue, with Inturment in Clear Creek come- tery. The Thurman Undertaking company is in charge of arringoutofA


ORVILLE BIRD ,


Orville Bird, 12, of. Garber, Mo., Over- was teleras of the world war. through which be served in the 3sub division, died in & Springfield bospital - yesterday. He was a member of the American Legion, in Chicago. He is survived by his mother. Mrs. William Bird, of Garber. Tentative Arrangesenta are that the funeral will be beld st Starne chapel at 1130 o'clock Monday afternoon. Burial will be is Na. lions! cemetery.


DECKARD NFANT


Funeral services for the ala-weeks-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charice Deck- ard, Route 3. Birafford, Mo., were com- Jucted by W. L. Buarne at the bume Tre- terday afternoon. Burial wes in the Shiloh cemetery. The baby 'died at her home Friday afternoon. She is survived by ber parents, two'sisters and one brother.


GEORGE P. HAYDEN


The place of the funeral of George P. Hayden has been changed from the Klingner chapel. first announced. to the family residence at 2008 Nortb Weller ave- nue. It will be at 2 o'clock this afternoon (Sunday). Burial will be in Beilview ceme- tery.


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WILLIAM BLANTON DIES AFTER FALL


Pioneer Farmer and Stock- man, Veteran of Civil War, Expires Here at 89


- WOHam Grayson Blanton, 11 years old. for many years a prominent farmer : and steckmen in Grecaa . county.'. died' carb Saturday morning at the home of his caughter, Mrs. T. W. Robertaca, 1033 West Walnut street, as the result of a fan in which he broke a hip a few days


Fratz years be bad been confined as the ouk of a broken hip suffered la caring for ble stock.


Mr. Bisatos was born in North Caro- dina. December 7. 1838. He served in the Iftb North Carolina infoatry during the Civil war. dering which be was four times wounded, first at Fredericksburg. It later Ufo, be frequently recalled his associations and experiences with Gen- oral Robert E. Lee and "Slonewell" Jack- COR. .


After the war be moved to. Tenpenses. wbene be married Mise Locindy Davis, who died in 1924.


He came to Greene county to 1880. and for many years farmed Dear Republic. Thirty years ago be relired and moved In Springfield. He was a member of the South Street Christian cherch for the past 10 THM. .




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