Niday, Melvin Marshal "Cotton"

Picher Oklahoma, June 30 Melvin Marshall "Cotton" Niday, 38 years old died at 6:15 o'clock tonight from injuries received in an accident at the Lucky Jew Mine at Westville Kansas, four miles northwest of Picher, at 2:20 o'clock this afternoon. Niday was standing on a ladder about 10 feet high. He was prying boulders loose from the roof. One of them dropped and hit the end of an eight-foot steel which he was using. The steel flew up and hit his head, splitting the skull. Niday lived at Zincville Oklahoma, two miles east of Picher, with his wife, Mrs. Seleta Niday, four daughters, Georgia Niday, 10; Ruby Niday, 8; Dorothy Niday, 6, and Blanche Niday, 3; his mother, Mrs. Sarah Niday, and a brother, Harley Niday, and another brother, Harry Niday, lives at Purcell Missouri, and two cousins, Clinton Niday and Eph Niday, are popular miners in this district. Harley Niday was working at the same mine and witnessed the accident. Todd's ambulance from Picher took Niday to the American hospital in Picher, where he died and the body was taken to the Todd mortuary. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

Zincville Oklahoma, July 2 Funeral services for Melvin"Cotton" Niday, who died Saturday afternoon as the result of an accident at the Lucky Jew Mine, were conducted from his residence in Zincville at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The Rev. Wesley Post, pastor of the Union church, at Picher Oklahoma delivered the funeral address. Burial was in the Purcell Missouri cem-etery.