If an adult is choking, you may observe the following behaviors: 1  Coughing or gagging. 2  Hand signals and panic (sometimes pointing to the throat). 3  Sudden inability to talk.
Smithton Township, Pettis County, Missouri. Smithton Township is an inactive township in Pettis County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. Smithton Township was erected in 1873, taking its name from the community of Smithton, Missouri. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Smithton Township, Pettis County, Missouri.
Polk County, Missouri was originally the territory of the Osage Native American tribe until the late 1820s. James Smithson and James Mooney became the first non-Native American settlers before the Osage had officially ceded the land. Smithson and Mooney settled along Keeling Spring.