Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

CHARLES COUNSIL DEAD

The body of Charles Counsil arrived from Kansas City Wednesday afternoon and the funeral was to be held from the residence this, Thursday, afternoon, Rev. E. J. Cromwell officiating. Mr. Counsil has been ailing for a year or more with an ailment of the liver and for months his condition has been regarded as hopeless by local physicians. Of late Dr. Brewington had been treating him, but promised and afforded him but little relief and as a last resort started with him the first of the week for Kirksville, Mo., but he grew worse rapidly and died in Kansas City, Tuesday.
Charley Counsil had as many friends as any man in town and was one of those types not uncommon in the west; big hearted, generous and impulsive, he thought more of others than of self and his charity was of the broader kind that expects and asks no recompense. Until the past year he was a man of unusual strength and his decline was all the more pitiable on that account; the past month he has kept on foot by sheer will power and although friends could see from day to day that he was slowly dying, he insisted to the last that he was getting better. Mr. Counsil was active in municipal affairs and had a host of friends in both parties.