Elevated bacteria levels are frequently associated with heavy rains; however, there are a number of other sources that may contribute to elevated bacteria levels, which may pose a health risk. Water sample results can help visitors decide whether a particular beach is suitable for swimming, based on the bacteria levels. Coli colonies per mL of water during the recreational season April 1 to October Coli concentrations. Clay County will post signs notifying visitors that swimming is not recommended if the geometric mean of the weekly water quality sample results exceeds the equivalent of E.
E-mail the Parks Department. Sailboat Cove Paradise Rd. Smithville, MO Water Quality Information Clay County samples water quality at all designated swimming beaches at Smithville Lake on a weekly basis during the recreational season. It was washed away by a flood in He declaimed against what he considered the sin of human slavery at all times and under all circumstances. For his principles he was mobbed in Howard county and driven away.
His family fled to what is now Carroll, and he joined them as soon as it was safe to do so. But no sort of persecution, blows, mobbings, threats, denunciation, or raillery moved him or deterred him from speaking his mind.
It has always been supposed that he caught the disease from an infected Abolition paper, called the Herald of Freedom, published at Lawrence, Kas. The postmaster, James Brasfield, who handed Smith the paper, took varioloid, and Smith himself had small-pox in a violent and fatal form.
At first his disease was not known, and persons who called to see him were infected, and spread the contagion through the neighborhood. Many died therefrom, and the incident was one long and sadly remembered. Humphrey Smith had a store at his mill before , and soon after a little village sprang up.
Calvin Smith, a son Humphrey, managed the store at first. Next to him were Henry Owens and John Lerty, both of whom were small merchants here before James Walker was another early merchant. Alex M. Robinson, afterward a prominent Democratic politician of Platte, Dr.
Snaile and Dr. Ligon were the first physicians in the community. Old settlers assert that as early as Smithville was a place of as much importance as at present, with nearly the same number of houses, and a great deal more whisky! The failure of the Parkville Railroad prevented the full development of the place, and entailed considerable loss on many of the citizens who were subscribers to the stock.
Although always without railroad facilities the town has ever had a good trade. At present-April, there is good prospect for securing to the town the St. Joseph and Southeastern Railroad within a year. Smithville has been several times incorporated. The first incorporation was by the county court, August7, ; this was amended April 8, , but the trustees appointed never qualified, and July 6, following, the county court appointed Erastus Smith, Jacob Kraus, Otis Guernsey, Theodoric Fitzgerald and Matthew MaGregory in their stead.
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