The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors were W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 3 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 43, Pg. 1 Col 1--LIVA SLY TAKES OWN LIFE--Shoots Himself in the Head With Shotgun--Body Found by His Wife Interment in Higbee Cemetery.--The town and vicinity were greatly shocked when it became known shortly after noon Saturday that Liva Sly, living near Oak Grove school house southeast of town was dead by his own hand. Coroner McLellan was notified and was shortly on the scene, and so clear was it that Mr. Sly had made an end of himself that no inquest was deemed necessary and he ordered the body removed to the home. So far as is known, Mr. Sly left no note explaining his act, but the presumption is that ill health and worry caused a temporary aberration and that in a fit of melancholy he decided to end it all. He had been working a half mile or more from his home for several days clearing a piece of land, and seemed his usual self when he went to work that morning about 9 o'clock. He took a single-barrel shotgun with him, telling his wife as he picked it up, that there were some rabbits where he was working and that he believed he would kill a few. As he seemed himself, perfectly, and as he had never made any threat of doing such a deed, Mrs. Sly never dreamed that she had seen him alive for the last time. When he did not return for dinner at the usual hour, Mrs. Sly went to where he was working to see if anything was wrong, and her feelings can be better imagined than expressed when she found him stark and cold in death. The coroner was called as soon as possible, as was Joe W. Burton, undertaker. The latter informs us that from the position of the body he is sure Mr. Sly was sitting on a stump with the gun barrel resting between his eyes at the base of the forehead when he fired the fatal shot, releasing the trigger with a forked stick, evidently cut for the purpose, and lying close by. The body was lying by the side of the stump with the left hand still tightly gripping the gun barrel. Despite the fact that the shell was loaded with three drams of powder and an ounce and an eighth of No. 6 shot, the charge did not tear the top of the head off as might have been expected, but plowed through the brain and lifted the skull at the crown, but not breaking through. Liva Sly was the son of David and Elizabeth Sly, and was born on December 22, 1869, at Flora, Ill., and died February 27, 1927. In 1903 he was married to Miss Maude Moore, who, with three children--Opal, Noble and Kenneth--survives. He is also survived by his mother, now Mrs. Elizabeth Eutsey, of Des Moines, Ia., and three sisters--Mrs. Rena Britton, also of Des Moines, Mrs. James Jobson and Mrs. I. N. Summers of this place, and one brother, Walter Sly, of Madison. Funeral services were conducted at the home Monday by the Rev. Notley Magruder, of the Baptist church, with which deceased united in 1915 at Ash, Mo., in the presence of a large concourse of sorrowing neighbors and friends. Interment was made in Higbee cemetery. We had known deceased for many, many years, and never had any reason to consider him anything other than an upright christian gentleman, hard working to an extreme, honest as the day was long and quiet and unassuming, and we never heard him say a word of harm of anyone. The hearts of all who knew him go out to his wife and children, but above all to his aged mother, who was all but crushed by the sad news and who on account of the infirmities of age was unable to attend the funeral. Thursday, 3 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 43, Pg. 1 Col 1--IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of Henry Dale Orton, born December 4, 1925 and died February 13, 1927, and his brother, Harry Cecil Orton, born November 19, 1923, and died February 15, 1927, sons of Mr. and Mrs. George Orton, Jr. "As the sweet flower that scents the morn, But withers in the rising day, Thus lovely seemed the infants dawn, Thus swiftly fled his life away. Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death timely came with friendly care, The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it bloom forever there." "Another hand is beckoning us; Another call is given, And glows once more with angel steps, The path that leads to heaven." Thursday, 3 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 43, Pg. 1 Col 1--Mrs. David Kelso, who was called to Taylorville, Ill., by the death of her father, Sam Smith, left for her home in Colorado Friday after a short visit with Higbee relatives. Thursday, 3 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 43, Pg. 1 Col 2--WALTER DAVIES DOING NICELY--Walter Davies, who was taken to a Boonville hospital two weeks ago, and where he was operated on, is doing nicely, his many friends will be glad to learn. His trouble was diagnosed as appendicitis, and the operation disclosed, we learn, that the appendix had lapped around and adhered to the intestine, making any cure or improvement impossible without an operation. He was advised, we learn, that had he delayed his trip a week longer, his case would have been hopeless. He has had more than his share of poor health during the past few years, and along with his other friends The NEWS hopes he can soon return as sound as a new dollar. Thursday, 3 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 43, Pg. 1 Col 3--THOS. WARFORD UNDER KNIFE. Tumor as Large as Duck Egg Removed From His Brain Monday.--Doing Nicely.--Thos. L. Warford of Madison, formerly of this place, was operated on in Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Monday morning for tumor of the brain, and when last heard from was doing as well as could be expected, but what his chances for recovery are we are not advised, but understand that recovery in such cases is about one in forty, from which it will be seen that Mr. Warford is in a very precarious condition, although the early symptoms may be favorable. Mr. Warford had not been in the best of health for three or four years, and some two years ago was operated on by the Mayos for some stomach disorder. For a year or more his sight has been failing, and for several months one of his arms and legs would take spells of twitching and jerking, when he went to the Mayos for a further examination. He was advised, we understand, that he was likely suffering from prostatic trouble, but he returned home without taking any treatment, and a short time later, when he came to Higbee to attend the funeral of Dr. C. F. Burkhalter's little granddaughter, Lucille Warren, he was examined by the Doctor, who diagnosed the trouble as perhaps tumor of the brain. On going back home, Mr. Warford studied over the matter, and as he had every confidence in Dr. Burkhalter's ability, he having made his home with the Doctor for several years, decided that he would go to St. Louis for an examination by a brain specialist. The latter's diagnosis agreed with that of Dr. Burkhalter, and was proven correct by the x-ray. The operation was to have been performed last Thursday, but as Mr. Warford caught cold and developed a sore throat the day before, it was thought best to postpone the operation until Monday. Dr. Burkhalter went to the city Sunday night and was present during the operation. He advised us that Mr. Warford, who was given only a local anesthetic, was on the table just four hours, two hours being required to reach and remove the tumor, which was under and grown to the right side of the brain, and was of a size between a duck egg and a goose egg. The only evidence of pain exhibited by Mr. Warford, Dr. Burkhalter states, was when the last cut was made which freed the tumor, when he remarked, "Ouch! that hurt." The operation was performed by Dr. Saaks, the city's greatest brain specialist, and one of the best in the country. Because of this fact, and that he will be under that surgeon's care, as well as of special nurses, and the further fact that no adverse news as to his condition has come, Mr. Warford's friends are encouraged to hope for the best. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors were W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 1 Col 4--DOUGLAS EDWARDS NO BETTER--S. D. Edwards, who received a fractured skull in a collision between a hand car and railroad speeder near Pearl, Ill., on the night of the 10th, while returning from a wreck, and who was taken to a hospital at Springfield where he was operated on, is not doing so well, his many Higbee friends will regret to learn. A letter received Tuesday by his granddaughter, Miss Ruby Edwards, stated that he was rational only part of the time, despite the operation, and that it was feared he would lose the sight of one eye, if not both. This will be sad news to Mr. Edwards' numerous friends and acquaintances, all of whom hope to soon hear more favorable reports from him. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 1 Col 4--WALTER DAVIES OPERATED ON--Walter Davies, who has been in very poor health for two or three years, and who has done about everything on the map to get well, even to having all of his teeth extracted, was taken to a Boonville hospital Monday by Dr. G. M. Nichols for a thorough examination, when it was found that he was suffering from appendicitis, and had been for years, it being a chronic case, and an immediate operation was advised, which was performed Tuesday, since which time he has been doing nicely and should be able to be at home in a short time, and that he will be able to return fully restored and his old self once more, is the hope of his wide circle of friends. Dr. Nichols, who had also been in poor health for months also underwent an operation for stone in the bladder, one as large as a walnut, we learn, being removed. When last heard from yesterday he and Walter were both doing fine. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 1 Col 4--THOS. WARFORD UNDERGOES VERY DANGEROUS OPERATION--The many Higbee friends of T. L. Warford, who moved to Madison from here and where he has been in the drug business for several years, and who has been in poor health for some time, will regret to learn that he is in Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, where he was taken Tuesday and where he was operated on yesterday for tumor of the brain. The first that was known of his being in St. Louis was when Dr. C. F. Burkhalter received a telephone call Tuesday night from his daughter, Miss Evelyn, who is a nurse in the Barnes Hospital, telling him of Mr. Warford's condition and stated that the latter wanted the Doctor to come and be with him, but owing to the great amount of sickness he was unable to go. Up to the hour of going to press nothing had been heard as to the result of the operation, which is considered as favorable to Mr. Warford, and whose many friends join the NEWS in the hope for his early recovery and return to perfect health. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 1 Col 5--MRS. JAKE OWENS DEAD--Mrs. Jake Owens, whose illness was noted in our last issue, died at her home in Moberly Friday, the 18th, from pneumonia, from which she had been suffering for a week, and which she contracted while waiting on her husband who had been suffering from the same malady for three weeks. She was 44 years old and besides her husband, is survived by one brother and one niece. Funeral services were held from the residence Sunday by the Rev. G. C. Schurman of the christian church, of which deceased had long been a member, and interment made in Oakland cemetery. Jake's legion of Higbee friends join the NEWS in sympathy. All will be pleased to learn that the shock caused him no serious back-set and that he is now on the road to recovery, and it was thought Monday that he would be well enough to be brought to the home of his sister, Mrs. Joe Hackward, the latter part of this week or the first of next. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 1 Col 5--FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT AT MOBERLY--Mrs. Bessie Lee, aged 65 years, and who had had charge of the public library at Moberly for the past twenty-eight years, was instantly killed Saturday by a car being driven by Miss Lola Wayland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Wayland, the accident occurring at the corner of Fifth and Rollins. Mrs. Lee was crossing the first named street and had stopped for a truck and as she started on Miss Wayland's car swung into the street. The latter stopped on seeing Mrs. Lee, who had also halted, and both started again, each becoming confused and the accident resulting. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 1 Col 5--MRS. DOUGHERTY BETTER--The many Higbee friends of Mrs. Claib Dougherty, who has been in a Moberly hospital for two weeks suffering from blood poisoning in her hand, and who was reported the first of the week as not being so well, will be glad to learn that she was considerably better yesterday, a letter to Dr. J. W. Winn, her physician, from the hospital stating that she was doing nicely. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 1 Col 5--HAD FOOT AMPUTATED--Mrs. Pleas Gentry was taken to a Boonville hospital Sunday where her left foot was taken off a few inches above the ankle, amputation being necessary on account of diseased bone. Mrs. Gentry scalded the foot some four or five years ago, and which would never heal, and which had become infected several times. Getting in that condition again last week, Dr. C. F. Burkhalter was called and succeeded in arresting the infection, but not to the extent that all danger was past, and as he was kept almost constantly at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hayden, whose youngest son died early Thursday morning, and the other child being critically ill, he could not attend Mrs. Gentry and advised that she be taken to Boonville, as he knew that amputation must come soon if her life was to be saved. She stood the operation nicely, and when heard from yesterday, was doing as well as could be expected. The Gentry's are comparative strangers here, having moved to Higbee about a month ago from near Hilldale, Boone county, Mr. Gentry being employed by the Winston-Dear Co. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 5 Col 1--Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Williams were called to Taylorville, Ill., Friday by the death of their son-in-law, Sam Smith. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 5 Col 3--Will Thompson and family left Saturday for Kansas for a visit with relatives before going to Brownsville, Texas, where Mr. Thompson goes for his health. He shipped his truck to Boonville on account of the muddy roads, leaving the latter place in the truck. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 5 Col 3--Mrs. Chas. Turner of Edgerton, Mo., was here last week to visit her aunt, Mrs. John Smith, whose mind has been failing for some time, and took her home with her that she might be properly cared for. A letter from Mrs. Turner to some of the neighbors Tuesday advised that Mrs. Smith was greatly improved, and that she would likely soon be more like her old self, as she seemed perfectly contented and was eating and sleeping regularly. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 8 Col 1--MT PLEASANT ITEMS(Too late for last week.)--Howard Naylor spent from Friday until Monday with his cousin, Velva Dougherty. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 8 Col 1--MT PLEASANT ITEMS(Too late for last week.)--Friday, February 11, being Mrs. Hamp Thornhill's birthday, a number of her friends gathered at her home in the evening and spent the time playing cards and dancing. They also enjoyed a nice lot of cake and candies. All departed at a late hour wishing Mrs. Thornhill many more happy birthdays. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 8 Col 2--EAST OF TOWN ITEMS--Mr. and Mrs. Walter White and sons, Elmer and Fount, attended the dance at Herman White's near Clark, Friday night. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 8 Col 2--EAST OF TOWN ITEMS--Mr. and Mrs. Luke Haggard and little sons, James and Cecil, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Goldie Stevenson and family. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 8 Col 2--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Elijah Foley of Fayette was the guest of his brother, Sam, and family, Friday. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 8 Col 2--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Laura McGarvey returned to Higbee Saturday after a two weeks' visit with her brother, Milt Wheeler, and family. She will be the guest of her sister, Mrs. Jenkins Williams, for a few days before returning to her home in Texas. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 8 Col 2--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Ernest Foley of Fayette was the guest last week of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Dougherty, while her husband was in St. Louis on business. Ernest hails from this section of the county and is as fine a boy in character, habits and business ability as the vicinity ever sent out, and we are wishing him a million dollar business this year in his new position as manager of the Chevrolet Motor Co. of Fayette. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 8 Col 2--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Claibe Dougherty still remains in a Moberly hospital in a serious condition after a two weeks' illness form blood poisoning. We are very sorry for Mrs. Dougherty, and with her other friends are hoping for a decided improvement very soon. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 8 Col 2--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--The neighbors and friends of Miss Ruby Pemberton were given a big surprise to hear of her marriage to J. C. Dougherty Tuesday the 15th. We extend congratulations to both of them and wish them every happiness. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors were W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 1 Col 1--THEIR YOUNGEST SON DEAD--Elbert, Little Son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hayden, Passes Away--Interment at Mt. Salem-- "The little toy dog is covered with dust, But steady and staunch he stands; The little toy soldier is red with rust, And his musket rusts in his hands. Tim was when the little toy dog was new, And the soldier was passing fair; And that was the time our Little Boy Blue Kissed them and put them there. "Now don't you go till I come," he said, "And don't make any noise!" So toddling off to his trundle-bed He dreamt of the pretty toys. And as he was dreaming, an angel song Awakened our Little Boy Blue. Oh! the years are many, and the years are long, But the little toy friends are true. Aye, faithful to Little Boy Blue they stand, Each in the same old place-- Awaiting the touch of a little hand, The smile of a little face. And they wonder, as, waiting the long years through. In the dust of the old arm chair, What has become of our Little Boy Blue Since he kissed and put them there?" -------- Elbert Lee, the 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hayden, whose illness was noted in our last issue, and who was thought to be much better Wednesday night, took suddenly worse early Thursday morning, passing away about 9 o'clock. His malady was one that seemed to be strange to physicians, and from which many children have suffered and which has caused four deaths. About two weeks ago the child was taken with mumps and a sore throat, but through prompt and constant medical care and nursing he was soon rid of these troubles, but developed a stomach disorder which later extended to his intestines, his abdomen being very much swollen, and about the time he seemed to be recovering his heart became effected, and he passed away suddenly though not unexpectedly. The Rev. L. M. White of Fayette who held short funeral services at the home at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, read the following obituary: "Elbert Lee came to this home March 3, 1921, and left it on February 17, 1927. For nearly six years he helped to make bright and happy the home he filled. He was the youngest son of Roy Lee and Myrtle Hayden. Besides his father and mother, Elbert leaves to mourn his early death one brother, Hubert, two grandfathers, and many other relatives and friends. Elbert was a care-free, happy little fellow and was the pet and playmate of everyone that knew him. His going has darkened a home that will never be so sunny without him. A mother and father will listen in vain for a little voice that never calls, and a brother will wonder why his playmate does not come. "For several months Elbert had talked hopefully of going to school. He could scarcely wait until March 3, when he could start with Hubert. But God had destined that the little boy should return to Him, so early Thursday morning the little life fluttered away. Yes,-- "A precious little one from us has gone, A little voice we loved is stilled, A place is vacant in our hearts That never can be filled." "And yet, mother dear, he has only gone to play With angels far away, And God will keep him and bless him, Your little boy, who is divine, For Oh little boy, we loved you-- Dear little playmate of mine." Following the service, which was attended by a crowd of neighbors and friends that more than filled the home, the funeral party started for Mt. Salem, near Huntsville, where interment was made, and which was made all the more depressing by the awful condition of the roads, and the return trip not being completed until 6 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Hayden have the deepest sympathy of all who know them in their great sorrow, and all join the NEWS in the prayer that the son remaining, and who has been critically ill, apparently from the same malady, will be spared to them. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 1 Col 1--WARREN WINN AGAIN ON HONOR ROLL--Warren Winn, of Higbee, is on the honor roll at Central College, Fayette for the first semester, according to a report made by the college following a survey of first semester grades. To be placed on the honor roll students must have an average grade of "S" in at least eleven hours of college work. If this standing is maintained through the school year they are cited for honors at the commencement exercises. Winn is a sophomore. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 1 Col 2--W. T. DAMERON OPERATED ON--W. T. Dameron, of Huntsville, who has been in poor health for some time, was operated on at a Moberly hospital Friday of last week, a stone 1 5/8 X 1 1/4 inches and 5/8 inches through being removed from his bladder. He came through the operation in fine shape, his many friends throughout the county will be glad to learn, and all join the NEWS in the prayer for his permanent and speedy recovery, for he is too good a man, from any standard of measurement, to have to give up. Our readers, who look forward to his weekly letter in the NEWS as they do to their meals, and with as great a pleasure, will be disappointed at its absence this week. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 1 Col 2--SHELTON LESSLY HURT--Shelton Lessly, an engineer on the Alton, while doing some switching at Steinmetz Sunday, had his right foot quite severely mashed, getting it caught by the reverse lever. He was able to bring his train on to Higbee and was taken to the office of Dr. C. F. Burkhalter, local surgeon for the company, and returned to his home in Kansas City on the Red Train. So far as we know Shelt has never had a serious accident since going to work for the company some twenty years or more ago. His legion of Higbee friends will regret to learn of his accident and all trust he will be back on the job in a short time. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 1 Col 3--HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES IN DOUBLE WEDDING--Used Double Ring Ceremony at Methodist Parsonage Tuesday Afternoon.--Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock four young people from the group of nurses at the state hospital participated in a double wedding ceremony at the Methodist parsonage. In this sacred ceremony Miss Gladys Holloway and L. E. Walton became man and wife, and Rose Jones and Harold Gonzalis were united in marriage. All of these young people came to the hospital as employees. Here they met each other and here their courtship has advanced to marriage. The ceremony was a very impressive one in which a double ring service was used by the officiating clergyman, Dr. J. J. Bushnell, of the Methodist church. The young people were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Leo. Hillings, who are also members of the hospital staff. The brides were charmingly gowned, Miss Holloway wearing a green crepe dress with a tan hat, and Miss Jones was attired in a tan dress with a green hat. Grey was the color of the suits worn by the grooms. Besides being a nurse at the hospital Mr. Walton is an accomplished musician, being a member of the hospital orchestra as the drummer. He has also taken part in several home talent shows as a vocal soloist.--Cherokee (Ia.) Chief. The above will be of interest to our readers, one of the grooms, Mr. Walton, being the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Walton of this place. He is as fine a young man as Higbee ever turned out, and has a host of friends here who join the NEWS in hearty congratulations and best wishes. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 1 Col 4--SAM SMITH DEAD--As word had been received several weeks ago by friends to be prepared for a message any day advising of the death of Sam Smith, no surprise was occasioned when the word came Friday, Mr. Smith dying at his home in Taylorville, Ill., at noon that day. Following the death of his son, Charles, who was killed by a train three years ago, Mr. Smith moved from here to Taylorville, and hadn't been there long until Mrs. Smith died, which went a long way toward breaking his health and aggravating a trouble of long standing. Mr. Smith was about 58 years old and is survived by three daughters and five sons, and three brothers and three sisters. We had hoped to be able to give an extended obituary this week, but will have to defer it until we can get dates, names, etc. We had known Mr. Smith for a long number of years and always found him an honorable and upright man, honest as the day was long, and as industrious a man as we ever knew, liberal in his views and charitable toward all. His many friends back in the old home town join the NEWS in sympathy to the children and other relatives. Thursday, 24 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 42, Pg. 1 Col 4--J. T. ROBB DEAD--Joel Thomas Robb, who left here last spring for Springfield, Mo., where he made his home with his sister, Mrs. S. W. Cook, and later went to Colorado for his health, died at a hospital in Colorado Springs on February 17, from tuberculosis, from which he had long suffered. Mr. Robb was 60 years of age and is survived by one brother, J. A. Robb of Armstrong, and two sisters, Mrs. Jas. Creson of this place and Mrs. Cook of Springfield, besides many more distant relatives and a legion of friends. He was born and reared in Howard county and had spent most of his life in this vicinity and was generally recognized as one of its most substantial citizens. He was honest, industrious and upright in all his dealings and never spoke aught of harm of any one. The body was shipped to Higbee, and interment made in Higbee cemetery, a short funeral service being conducted at the grave by the Rev. Notley Magruder. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

Hello Everyone, I received a very kind email from Helen Bichel, bringing to my attention the colossal error I made in the postings that I sent on 23 Aug 2003, of the Higbee News. I apparently posted the 27th of January 1927 under the heading of 27 Feb 1927, and I posted the 3rd of February 1927, under the heading of the 3rd of March. In doing this, I repeated information that had been posted earlier, and DIDN'T post the information that I put in the header. With that said, I will try to correct my error, and post the items that I thought I was posting on the 23rd of August. There was no 27 Feb 1927 issue. It should have been the 24th of February 1927. And there was a 3 March 1927 issue. So I will post in the next couple of emails, the 24th of February 1927, and the 3rd of March 1927. I hope I didn't mess anyone up too badly. And I want to say a very heartfelt thank you to Helen, for keeping me straight. Kathy Bowlin

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors were W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 1 Col. 6--CARD OF THANKS--We wish to thank each and every one for their help and kindness shown toward us during the recent death of our husband, father, son and brother.--Mrs. Maude Sly and Children; Mrs. Elizabeth Eutsey; Mrs. Myrtle Jobson, Mrs. Annie Summers, Walter Sly, Mrs. Irene Britton. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 1 Col. 6--We received a letter last week from A. E. Cline, who moved to Mulberry, Kan., a year or so ago, advising us that the check he had sent for his renewal a week before would likely be returned, as the bank there was one of the seven to fail, and in which he had his savings. Higbee friends will be glad to know that Mr. Cline will lose nothing, a bonding company making good the shortage of one of the bank employees, and which was the cause of its closing. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 1 Col. 6--H. E. Leach writes us from Fayette: "As I have brought Opal back to her native county, she wants me to drop you a line as to where to send the NEWS. We are located on the Hackman farm, known as the Model Farm of Howard County, on No. 5 highway between Fayette and Estill. We purchased this place three weeks ago and have been head over heels in work moving from Salisbury, but have about got straightened up." Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 5 Col. 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Born on the 7th, to Mr. and Mrs. Lester Kirby, a son. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 5 Col. 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--John Howell returned Saturday from a visit with his children, Lowell and Miss Gladys and Mrs. Augustus Dorman, of St. Louis. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 5 Col. 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Asa Durnil, who had his right ankle quite badly injured two weeks ago in the mine of the Citizens Coal Co., was able to be out last week for the first time. It will be several weeks yet, from his rate of improvement, before he will be able to lay aside his crutches. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 5 Col. 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Elerd Baker and Mrs. Wm. Lambier, spent Thursday of last week with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Houtz, of Oil City, and helped their mother celebrate her 65th birthday. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 5 Col. 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Andrews of Fayette were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Shafer and other relatives and friends Saturday and Sunday. They will move to Boonville, Mr. Andrews advises us. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 5 Col. 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. S. D. Proctor, who moved to McClabe, Colo., a year or so ago, orders her address changed to Las Animas, and advises that she lives ten miles east of that place on No. 50 highway. Her son-in-law, Jerry McKinzie, has also moved to near the same place. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 5 Col. 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Virgil Dougherty was at home from school at Marshall for the week-end. He advised us that their basketball team closed the season at Warrenton Friday night, being defeated four points. Baseball will be the next activity taken up, and he hopes to be able to make the team, and to hold down first base. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 5 Col. 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Tongate returned Monday from Chicago where they had been for two months or more with Mrs. Tongate's mother, Mrs. Robert Williams, who was stricken with paralysis just before the holidays. Her many Higbee friends will be glad to learn that she is gradually improving. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 5 Col. 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Francis Keiter, who is ill in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Dave Myers of Madison is reported to be about the same. She is one of the county's oldest and most highly respected citizens.--Moberly Home Press. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 5 Col. 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Sarah E. Martin widow of the late W. A. Martin one of the leading attorneys of the county in his day, died at her home in Moberly on the 5th, aged 94 years. old. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 5 Col. 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Calvin Magruder is laid up with three broken ribs, sustained while at work at the strip mine Friday, a jack with which he was helping to raise a car slipping and striking him in the side. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 5 Col. 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Claib Dougherty, who has been in a Moberly hospital for several weeks suffering from blood poisoning in her right hand, was thought to be some better yesterday when the hand was opened and a great quantity of pus removed. Here's hoping that we can announce next week that she can be discharged in a few days more. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 5 Col. 6--EAST OF TOWN--Mrs. Walter White attended the funeral of her father, H. Lewis, at Lick Fork Church, south of Clark, Friday. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 5 Col. 6--EAST OF TOWN--Several of the young people of this vicinity charivaried Mr. and Mrs. Oliver White Sunday night. Mr. White was recently married to Mrs. Cora Barnett. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 7 Col. 3--LOCUST GROVE ITEMS--Phillip Grapes, who was injured at the strip mine some four or five weeks ago, was compelled to return to the hospital Thursday for a few days, his wife returning home Sunday and reporting him as doing nicely. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 7 Col. 3--LOCUST GROVE ITEMS--The following students of Myers high school attended the teachers' examinations at Fayette Friday and Saturday: Misses Bessie Perkins, Marie Avery, Gladys Dougherty, Thelma Golden and Agnes Street; Messrs. Denver White and Aubrey Avery. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 7 Col. 3--LOCUST GROVE ITEMS--Miss Thelma Golden is the proud owner of the bronze medal given at Myers high school for the best Lincoln essay. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 7 Col. 3--LOCUST GROVE ITEMS--Mr. and Mrs. Sid Fisher and daughter Glenna, and Mrs. Phillip Grapes and daughter, Christine, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Golden Wednesday of last week. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 7 Col. 3--LOCUST GROVE ITEMS--Mrs. Susan Patterson went to Moberly Friday to attend the bedside of her brother, Calvin Green, who is seriously ill. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 7 Col. 3--SOUTH OF TOWN--Mrs. Robert Palmer was taken home from a Boonville hospital last week. She is convalescing, but very slowly. Her mother, Mrs. Nellie Atkins, has been with her since her arrival home. We are sorry for Mrs. Palmer and hope that she gains faster since coming home. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 7 Col. 4--MT. PLEASANT ITEMS--Opal Palmer visited her brother, Arthur Palmer, and family, Tuesday. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors were W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 1 Col. 1--NO HOPE FOR S. D. EDWARDS--Higbee friends of S. D. (Doug.) Edwards, of Pearl, Ill., who was hurt in a wreck some four or five weeks ago, will learn with the deepest regret that there is no hope for him, and he may have died before this was written, as word was sent to his absent children Tuesday afternoon that he was dying, since which time we have been unable to learn any thing further. Mr. Edwards, who was a section foreman on the Alton had his skull fractured in a collision with a railway velocipede about five weeks ago, and was taken to a hospital at Springfield, where he has since been lingering between life and death, but who, two weeks ago, seemed to have a chance of recovery. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 1 Col. 1--BABY SON DEAD--Donna Doone, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Jobson, Jr., died at the family home south of town on Saturday, March 5, from a complication of diseases, aged 3 years, 11 months and 20 days. The child had been sick for two or three weeks, and everything possible, both as to medical science and nursing, was done for it but to no avail. Funeral services were held at the home Monday afternoon by the Rev. John Lindsey, pastor of the Christian church, in the presence of a large crowd of sorrowing neighbors and friends, and interment made in New Hope cemetery. In the loss of their only child the heart-broken parents have the deepest sympathy of all. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 1 Col. 1--O. E. SNEDEKER DEAD--The many Higbee friends of A. J. Snedeker, who moved to Columbia recently from this place, will regret to learn of the death of his father, O. E. Snedeker, who passed away at his home in Laddonia on the 4th from Bright's disease. He was 68 years old and is survived by his widow and two children--A. J. Snedeker, and Mrs. Frank Scott, both of Columbia. He was quite well known here, having visited his son on numerous occasions, and will be pleasantly remembered by all who knew him. Interment was made Sunday at Laddonia. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 1 Col. 1--MEDLEY BURTON BETTER--Medley Burton, who has been very sick for the past week, suffering from erysipelas, was reported a great deal better yesterday, we are glad to say, and as the disease has about run its course he will likely be back on the job at the store in a short time. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 1 Col. 2--JUDGE THOS. W. BURTON DEAD--Higbee friends and acquaintances of Judge Thos. W. Burton were pained beyond measure when word came Friday morning that he was dead at his home in Huntsville, the news coming as quite a shock, as it was unexpected by relatives and friends here, and as it was to his family, death occurring rather unexpectedly. He was stricken with heart trouble on Wednesday, but had sufficiently recovered as to be up and around the next day. He suffered another attack early Friday morning, surviving but a few hours. Deceased was 82 years old and was the son of the late Joseph W. Burton of this place and was born on the old homestead just southwest of town in 1845, and had spent practically all of his life in this county. He served with his father in the Confederate army, as did a brother, Speed, now 79, being with Price in his raid through Indian Territory. He was for many years a resident of Higbee, being engaged in the livery business for several years, moving from here to Yates and later to Huntsville, where he had since resided. He is survived by ten children, viz: Gorham Burton, Huntsville; Mrs. A. B. Heathman, Kirksville Mrs. E. P. Newman, J. W. Burton, Lee Burton, Aubrey Burton, Moberly; Mrs. G. H. Miller, Callao; Nick W. Burton, Columbia; Tole Burton, Jacksonville, and Jesse Burton, Huntsville. He also leaves four brothers and one sister--Speed Burton, Norborne; Richard Burton, Mystic, Ky.; H. W. and Medley Burton of this place and Mrs. J. M. Crew of Muskogee, Okla. Twenty-nine grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren also survive. Funeral services were held Sunday from the Christian church in Huntsville, of which he had been a member for sixty-six years, and interment made in the Huntsville cemetery by the side of his wife, who passed away eight years ago. In the death of Judge Burton the county has lost one of the best men that ever lived in it, and whose place will be hard to fill. We had known him for many years and never in all that time did we ever hear anyone speak of him except in the very highest terms. A courtly, kindly gentleman and the very soul of honor, he will be missed, not only by his family, but by all who knew him. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 1 Col. 2--THOMPS. DAMERON IMPROVING--The many friends throughout the county of Thomps. Dameron, who has been in a Moberly hospital, where he underwent a very serious operation three weeks ago, will be glad to learn that he continues to improve and that at the present rate he will soon be able to be up and around, which will be as pleasing to them as it will be to "Thomps." Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 1 Col. 3--MRS. TRUE AGAIN OPERATED ON--Mrs. Ruth True, who was taken to the hospital at Boonville last week, was operated on again Monday, since which time she has been doing as well as could be expected. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 1 Col. 5--THOS. WARFORD HOLDING HIS OWN--Thos. Warford, who was operated on at Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, last week for tumor of the brain, as mentioned in our last issue, was thought to be some better, or at least holding his own, when last heard from yesterday morning. The operation left him partially paralyzed, which affected his left side and his speech but it is gradually disappearing. Nothing as to the outcome of the operation can be determined, however, as yet, although Mr. Warford has survived by many days far beyond the point where recovery is generally assured, and his condition is still very critical. His legion of friends join the NEWS in the hope that he will soon be fully restored. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 1 Col. 5--Henry Lay, an old Higbee boy, now making good in Denver, where he is president of the Utterback Shade and Curtain Holder Co, makers of the world's best shade and curtain holder, writes us under date of the 6th: "Enclosed you will find check for $3.00 for which please move my subscription date up two notches. We are always glad to get the News each week, but sorry to see the death of so many old friends listed in its columns from time to time. We meet lots of Missouri people here, and several from Higbee and vicinity, all of whom are as well as usual, so far as I know, at the present writing. We have had a wonderful winter here this year with the exception of one or two spells which were real cold, but only lasted a few days at a time. There are very few days that the sun does not shine nice, which helps out a lot. Please remember us to all inquiring friends. Our address is still the same, 1414 Emerson St, Denver, Co. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 1 Col. 5--Speed Burton, who was called to Huntsville Sunday by the death of his brother, Judge Thos. Burton, spent the first of the week here with his brothers, H. W. and Medley Burton, and meeting the few who remain of those he knew in his boyhood. Mr. Burton, now 80 years old, was born and reared on the old Burton farm just southwest of town and is the eldest of the five children surviving out of a family of seventeen. As his visits to Higbee in late years have been few and far between, he found many changes and very few he knew in the long ago. Thursday, 10 Mar 1927, Vol 40, No 44, Pg. 1 Col. 5--Mr. and Mrs. Walton Burton were here from Maryville Tuesday to see the former's father, Medley Burton, who has been suffering from erysipelas for the past week. They returned yesterday, Mr. Burton being much better. "Brig." who is in the grocery business in Maryville, informed us that he is enjoying a fine trade, even though business is all lines seems to be in a general slump, and is more than satisfied. His many friends will be glad to know that he is prospering. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

Judy, This is a long shot .... but Andrew Feland was married to Frances Mason in Lincoln County, Kentucky in 1791. They had 11 children in KY then moved to Howard Co. MO. Andrew Feland died in 1838 in Fayette, Howard Co, MO. and believe his wife died before he did. I think Frances Mason's father was William Mason, but I don't have anything on her mother or siblings. Hope this helps. Lynne Downing In a message dated 9/4/2003 3:02:22 PM Central Standard Time, sbarger@uark.edu writes: > Judy, > > I'm not sure who this Mason family is. However, by comparing at the 1850 > census entry for Presley NEAL in Howard County, Missouri and the 1820 > census entry for Presly NEAL in Franklin County, Kentucky, it appears > that it could possibly be Presly's daughter....whether Philisa is the > same female under age 10 living with Presly in the 1820 census, I couldn't > tell you for certain though. > > Good luck. > > -Sherryl > MOHOWARD-L listowner > Howard County MOGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mohoward/ > > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Richard Rasmussen wrote: > > > 5,5, Philisa Mason 34, f, KY > > John, 19, m, KY > > Sarah, 16, f, KY > > Cynthia, 14, f, KY > > James, 10, m, KY > > Elizabeth, 8, f, KY > > Mildred, 6, f, MO > > Almeda, 4, f, MO > > Samuel, 3, m, MO > > Z.T., 1, m, MO > > > > Does anyone know who this Mason family is? She is living next door to > Presley Neal 73, and Nancy age 70 are they her parents or is Nancy a daughter > age 40 possibly the 7/4 are confused? Who was the husband/father Unknown Mason? > > Thanks > > Judy Brown Rasmussen > > CO

Judy, I'm not sure who this Mason family is. However, by comparing at the 1850 census entry for Presley NEAL in Howard County, Missouri and the 1820 census entry for Presly NEAL in Franklin County, Kentucky, it appears that it could possibly be Presly's daughter....whether Philisa is the same female under age 10 living with Presly in the 1820 census, I couldn't tell you for certain though. Good luck. -Sherryl MOHOWARD-L listowner Howard County MOGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~mohoward/ On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Richard Rasmussen wrote: > 5,5, Philisa Mason 34, f, KY > John, 19, m, KY > Sarah, 16, f, KY > Cynthia, 14, f, KY > James, 10, m, KY > Elizabeth, 8, f, KY > Mildred, 6, f, MO > Almeda, 4, f, MO > Samuel, 3, m, MO > Z.T., 1, m, MO > > Does anyone know who this Mason family is? She is living next door to Presley Neal 73, and Nancy age 70 are they her parents or is Nancy a daughter age 40 possibly the 7/4 are confused? Who was the husband/father Unknown Mason? > Thanks > Judy Brown Rasmussen > CO > > >

5,5, Philisa Mason 34, f, KY John, 19, m, KY Sarah, 16, f, KY Cynthia, 14, f, KY James, 10, m, KY Elizabeth, 8, f, KY Mildred, 6, f, MO Almeda, 4, f, MO Samuel, 3, m, MO Z.T., 1, m, MO Does anyone know who this Mason family is? She is living next door to Presley Neal 73, and Nancy age 70 are they her parents or is Nancy a daughter age 40 possibly the 7/4 are confused? Who was the husband/father Unknown Mason? Thanks Judy Brown Rasmussen CO

My ancestor was Marium HOOD WITT, born Howard Co. 1825, died Howard Co. 1903. Perhaps her middle name came from one of your HOODS? All I can find are a couple of HOODS whom my WITTS and McCRARYS knew at their Baptist church. Does any of this ring a bell? Have you found out much about the HOODS? Glad to share all I know, too. Linda On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 08:31:59 -0600 "Richard Rasmussen" <rtrasmussen@worldnet.att.net> writes: > Anyone researching the following I'd love to hear from you. > > Maddox - John Samuel, Albert C. > > McBride - John Patton > > Lawson - Emily Stanfield, Lucinda > > Hood - Lucinda Hood Lawson > > Mason - John Willis, Henry, Martha > > Starke - Augusta Eugenia, Dryden, Sarah > > Robinson - Martha Robinson Mason > > Pryor - Sarah Pryor Starke > > > > There are many siblings with more last names, willing to share > what I > > have as well. > > > > Looking for their resting place, I'm especially missing my > McBride's and > > Masons. > > > > Henry and Martha Robinson Mason are living in Benton County in 1860 > then disappear. Anyone know if possibly he and his wife passed away > shortly thereafter. There was one child born in 1862 so did Martha > die in childbirth possibly. Was he in the Civil War and never came > home? So many questions. Henry and Martha Robinson Mason were > married 1841 in Howard County, have the 1850 census. William H. > Mason born 1862 I can't find in the 1860 as a 7,8,9 year old unless > he is living with an unrelated family in Knox County. Is Knox > close? Can't find him or his parents in 1870, 1880, 1890. His > brother my GGgrandfather is living in Cooper County with his family, > why didn't he live with them? Also a girl E.C., James, and Thomas > are missing as well. Hope you don't mind me venting my frustration > with this family. Thanks for any insight you may share. > > > > Judy Brown Rasmussen > > CO > > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors were W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 3-LOCAL AND PERSONAL--S. C. Blythe, who has been making his home in Denver, Colo., for the past year or two, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Laight. We had thought uncle John Stone was about the most remarkable man in the whole country for holding his age, but his ability in this respect is equaled by Mr. Blythe, who, despite his 80 years, is as young looking, and is apparently as stout as when he used to wield the hammer in the blacksmith shop at the old mine west of town forty years ago. He would have a hard time convincing any but those who have known him all these years that he has reached such a great age. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 3-LOCAL AND PERSONAL--The many Higbee friends of Ernest Foley, who has been connected with the Ford agency at Fayette for a year or two, will be glad to learn that he is now in the business for himself having formed a partnership with Mayor Geo. Todd of that city and will handle the Chevrolet, the fastest selling car on the market today, and which seems destined, at the present rate, to put Ford on the rocks if he persists in his refusal to make any material changes in his car. The new firm, it is said, will likely open a sub-agency in Armstrong. The NEWS joins Mr. Foley's legion of friends in best wishes for success. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 3-LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mr. and Mrs. Ira Hamilton of near Moberly were Higbee visitors Thursday of last week, making a special trip in order to subscribe for the NEWS. Mr. Hamilton, who was struck by lightning while at work on his farm last summer, and who was unconscious for many weeks, is slowly improving, his many friends will be glad to learn. The accident caused him to lose his hearing, and it was at first feared that his ear drums had been bursted, but as he can distinguish sound now and then, and can almost always hear the ringing of a bell, it is believed that some nerve may have been paralyzed and that his hearing will be eventually restored as the nerve grows stronger, and all who know Mr. Hamilton earnestly trust that such will be the case, for he is one of the best men in the county, as well as one of its most industrious ones, and is in the prime of life. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 4--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Sergeant Dewey Miles returned to Detroit, Mich., Monday after a visit of a month with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Miles, of south of town. (Kathy's Notes: For the last several months of the paper, they have been printing serialized novels, on pages 6 & &. That's why there is no news from those pages.) Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 8 Col 1--MT. PLEASANT ITEMS--Charley Dougherty who was quite seriously burned by the explosion of a gasoline stove several days ago, was getting along nicely when last heard from. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 8 Col 1--MT. PLEASANT ITEMS--Paul Naylor and wife and Mrs. Ezra Newman attended the funeral of their grandfather, Thos. Metcalf, Friday. His death occurred at his home in Moberly January 25 after an illness of several months. He is survived by his widow, three sons and four daughters, a host of grandchildren and several great and great-great grandchildren. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 8 Col 1--FAIRVIEW ITEMS--Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Franklin and family and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bradley attended the birthday dinner of Richard White Friday. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 8 Col 1--EAST OF TOWN ITEMS--Walter Haggard spent Saturday night with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Stone. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 8 Col 1--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Measles! Measles! Measles! Lowell, Ralph and Howard Hargis, Hilda and Junior Comstock are all confined in their homes with the measles. They are getting along nicely. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 8 Col 1--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Eunice Palmer, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Atkins, was taken suddenly ill with appendicitis at her home Wednesday night. A physician was called and she was rushed to the hospital at Boonville, and immediately operated on. She is in a serious condition, but is slightly improved at this writing. We truly hope she will soon be much better. Her small son is at the home of his grandparents, ill with the measles. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 8 Col 2--In mentioning the difficulties we labored under last week in getting out the NEWS, we didn't tell the half of it, for the item was written as the first run was being printed. When the second run was put on the press at 4 a.m., the real trouble began. The paper curled at the edges about as bad as wall paper, making feeding it almost impossible, and resulting in two dozen or more getting on the rollers, black and sticky with ink, and which had to be picked off, in pieces, some of them, no larger than a postage stamp. While press and paper were doing their stuff, the folder joined in in adding to the blue smoke in the office, when many more copies were ruined and the balance folded in all shapes, as you might have noticed, while others were sent out soiled and damaged and which, being on the inside pages, we did not catch, while about the most aggravating thing of all occurred when the mailing machine went wrong, although there wasn't a thing that matter with it, it refusing to work through pure cussedness. And on top of all, the night was one of the coldest of the winter, or so it seemed. It's a great game, this newspaper business, if you can manage to hold out and keep you religion. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 8 Col 3--Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Woods had as dinner guests last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Woods and children, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Ryle, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Deaton and two grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Carter and Mr. and Mrs. Willard Ridgway. (Kathy's notes: Only in a small town paper, where human obituaries were often overlooked, would a dog's obituary make the front page, first column. Since the editor accorded this good friend such a high place of honor, I didn't feel I should leave it out, either. So I transcribed it in it's entirety, including the poetry.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors were W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 1 Col 6--MOBERLY MAN KILLED BY CAR--Frank Borgmeyer of Moberly, was found fatally injured at the corner of Coates and Fifth street, that city, at 1 a.m. Tuesday, having been struck, presumably, by an automobile. He was found almost in the middle of the street, and his skull was crushed. He was rushed to a hospital and every effort made to restore him to consciousness, but all he was ever heard to utter was the single word "Buick." Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 2 Col 1&2--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, By W. T. Dameron--I have received a clipping from some newspaper containing an article or rather excerpts from some letters or article written by Dr. Victor C. Vaughn touching the benefits derived from "cold baths," and how such baths saved his life when young. To read some of the Doctor's statements how he liked to plunge into ice-cold water almost made me shiver. Dr. Vaughn is one of the most eminent physicians in this country. He was born and reared at Mt. Airy, this county, within a mile of where I was born and reared. When small boys we attended school at the "John Vaughn school house," a small frame building located on his father's, John Vaughn's, farm, within a few hundred yards of his house, and it is still standing, I believe. The Doctor is a few years older than I. In that school house one night is where I saw my first show, being four or five years old. It was a "Punch and Judy" exhibition given by a ventriloquist. My father carried me to the show. I thought the black faces of Punch and Judy, as they quarreled and fought with their decorated heads above the curtain was the real stuff, and it sure amused me. But back to "cold baths." The Doctor is quoted as saying that "when a young man I developed symptoms which led to a diagnosis of consumption." This is news to me. From a boy up, the Doctor's physical appearance and general makeup indicated nothing but robust health to my young mind. But the writer continues: "Two miles from my home there was a large, deep sulfur spring. Every morning I rode to the spring before breakfast. I stripped in the open air and jumped into the spring. I stood for a few minutes in the ice-cold water up to my neck. As cold weather approached frequently found think ice in cow tracks around the spring box. Soon I began to gain flesh and unfavorable symptoms faded away, and since then the only sign of consumption has been an old scar tissue at the top of one lung." He does not advise consumptives to follow his experience. Their treatment is a matter for their physician to decide. He does not think that he was cured by the sulfur or anything else in the water, but thinks the daily cold baths built up his resistance, stimulated his body vigor and thus indirectly cured him." The writer further says of Dr. Vaughn's love for ice cold baths: "His Ann Arbor, Mich., home had a large grass covered lawn surrounded by a high brick wall. At bedtime the boys and he would go into the yard, strip and turn the hose on, up and down their spines. I have broken the ice to take a plunge, diving into the cold water of Lake Superior, rush from a steam bath into a cold pool, rolled into a bank of snow and fled to a hot bath, but I know nothing more cooling than a garden hose played on the spines in a hot night. I believe the frequent employment of cold baths saved my life." The doctor and I are kinfolk and he is a truthful and a famous physician and all that, and I have great faith in him but when I take a bath in snow or ice cold water somebody will have to throw me into it. It even makes my teeth rattle to think of it. The Sulfur Spring alluded to by the doctor, is situated in the flat between Bagby's Mill and Sam C. Davis' residence. It was known and is now known as Sweet Spring, because of a sweet taste it has. Sweet Spring Creek derived its name from this spring. Long prior to the civil war Robert Smith, Dr. Vaughn's uncle, purchased the spring, including an acre of ground, with the intention of making a health resort there. But he never attempted to carry out that purpose, though lots of people drank the water and bathed there in that day. Dr. Vaughn has traveled extensively in foreign lands. He did his best in the Spanish-American war and the World War. Besides his Ann Arbor home he owns a winter home in Florida. He has two brothers and one sister living in Texas--John P. and Marvin Vaughn, and Mrs. Bettie Stapleton. The last time I heard from John P. Vaughn, about a year ago, he had lost his eyesight, or practically so. To show the grit of Dr. Vaughn when a young man, I relate this circumstance. Some years after the civil war he attended school at old Mount Pleasant College. J. W. Terrill was president of the college at the time. Victor roomed at the home of his uncle, John B. Taylor, in south Huntsville. On this occasion a deep snow was on the ground, and it had not been shoveled off of some of the sidewalks in Huntsville, and there was only a footpath on the walk. One morning Victor met a young buck negro in the path. The negro was evidently feeling his freedom and he refused to give any part of the path, and being larger and stronger than Victor, deliberately shoved him off the walk into the snow, scattering his books, and then beat it. Before going to school next morning Victor procured an old cylinder pistol, loaded it, then took it apart and put it in his coat pocket. One his way to school he saw the same negro coming towards him. By the time the negro got within twenty or thirty feet of him he had gotten the parts of the pistol together, and he leveled the gun on the negro and commenced firing. The negro ran and fell over in the snow and Victor picked up his books and went on to school, thinking he had killed the negro, but the negro proved to be only slightly wounded, or not seriously so. (Kathy's notes: It never ceased to sicken me, to realize how easily people in this time period believed that a minor slight to a man or woman's honor or person, was justification for killing someone. If he had killed this man, he probably would never have served a day in jail.) Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 4 Col 1--Forty years ago next Saturday--February 5, 1887--the first issue of the NEWS made it's appearance before a more or less expectant, curious and anxious world. How much water has passed over the dam since then? It has managed somehow, to live up to the salutation of its founder that it had come to stay. And here's hoping it will still be going at the end of another forty years. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 4 Col 1--Mrs. Thomas McVay, who ran a needle in her left hand five weeks ago, it entering the palm and burying itself just above the bone at the base of the thumb, had to have the hand cut open Monday, and the injury was paining her to such an extent that she had to be given chloroform. When the injury first occurred Mrs. McVay went to a physician who failed to locate the needle after probing and cutting the flesh at the point of entrance, and she went home thinking she might be mistaken, as had been suggested. As the pain continued to increase and the hand to swell worse, and especially within the last week, Mrs. McVay had an x-ray picture made by Dr. Pos, which showed the needle plain as day, and which had embedded itself so deep that it was just above the bone. Dr. J. W. Winn was called to the home and succeeded in getting the needle, but as the hand was so sore and badly swollen, it was not the trivial task one would suppose, since which time Mrs. McVay has been feeling like a new woman and is enjoying the real sleep in weeks. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Born, on January 29, to Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Littlejohn of St. Joseph, a son. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Walter Dougherty is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Emerson Littlejohn of St. Joseph. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Good were the guests of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Swetnam, during the week. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Misses Goldie and Susie Pitney of Moberly were the week-end guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Pitney. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Born, on January 23, to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gerard, of St. Louis, a son. Mrs. Gerard will be best remembered as Miss Margaret Griggs. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Steven Woods, who has been living on a farm near Moberly for the past year or two, moved back to his farm near Armstrong last week. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--W. L. Grapes, who was taken to a Moberly hospital last week to have a piece of steel from a sledge or chisel which pierced his cheek bone, removed, was able to come home Tuesday. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Frank Heathman, who had a leg broken while at work in the Mariott mine at Moberly four months ago which was his second accident in the mine, was able to return to work Monday. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. J. W. (Dr.) Winn, who had been in Boonville hospital for two weeks, was able to come home Sunday. She was greatly improved by her stay, we are glad to say, and is now able to be up most of the time. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 3-LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Lesslie Burton was very much surprised on opening a letter Sunday from her sister, Mrs. Willie Petrie, of Marshall, to find in it a check for a new automobile, the day being Mrs. Burton's birthday. Some birthday present. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 3-LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Cecil Angleberger returned to his home in Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday, after a visit of several weeks with his grandmother, Mrs. Hiram Land. He was accompanied as far as St. Louis by the latter who will spend two or three weeks with relatives in the city. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 3-LOCAL AND PERSONAL--T. L. Warford's big Studebaker coach went into the ditch with him and his family on the hill just west of Antioch church Sunday. Fortunately none of them were injured and after being pulled out the car was found to be in running order.--Madison Times. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 3-LOCAL AND PERSONAL--We printed bills this week for O. E. Farrell, who will sell a big lot of personal property at his farm near Myers on the 23rd, a list of which will be found in the NEWS of the 17th. Mr. Farrell will return to Moberly, from which place he moved to the farm a year or so ago in order to take off a lot of surplus flesh and put himself in better physical condition. He couldn't have selected a better method. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors were W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 1 Col 1--MRS. ALICE BROAD DEAD--The following from the Taylorville, (Ill.) Daily Breeze of February 1, will be read with the deepest regret by the many friends of the deceased, who was a resident of Higbee for many years, and who will always be kindly remembered by those who knew her best. The NEWS joins other friends in sympathy to the bereaved ones: "Mrs. Alice Broad, 75, widow of the late Thomas Broad, died at 10:50 o'clock last night at her home at 1009 East Oak street. She had been ill a year, suffering from cancer. Mrs. Broad's maiden name was Miss Alice Maloan. She was born August 14, 1851, at Newton, Ill., the daughter of Morris and American Maloan. She was united in marriage on Jan. 28, 1868, at Camp Point, Ill., to William A. Burnham. Four sons were born to this union, two dying in infancy. Mrs. Burnham was then married March 25, 1886 to Thomas Broad, at Centerville, Ia. After their marriage they moved to Missouri. Twenty-four years ago they came to Taylorville. Mr. Broad died Jan. 22, 1917. Mrs. Broad was a faithful member of the Latter Day Saints church, attending church regularly until her illness prevented. "She is survived by two sons, R. O. Burnham and C. A. Burnham, both of Taylorville and three step sons, William, John and David Broad. She also leaves a sister, Mrs. Olive M. Laux, Oklahoma City, Ok., a brother, Frank Maloan of Springfield, and a grandson, Clifford Burnham of Taylorville. "The funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon Elder Jenkins will have charge. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 1 Col 3--The home of Mr. and Mrs. R. P, Kroggel was the scene of a very pleasant gathering Sunday, the occasion being Mrs. Kroggel's 22nd birthday, and which was fittingly celebrated with a dinner calculated to do honor to such an occasion. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kroggel and daughter, Irene, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McCully and daughter, Susan, Judge N. F. Haworth and Samuel McCully, all of Moberly. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 1 Col 3--Wm. Robb, after a brief visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joel Robb, of Marshall, and Higbee relatives and friends, left Thursday for his home in Los Angeles, Calif. He says he had a fine visit and a big lot of sport through the hunting season. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 1 Col 4--AND THEY WERE MARRIED--A moral crusade to correct if possible irregular sex relations among Paris negroes, begun by Prosecuting Attorney Barnes on the urging of the better class of colored people, resulted last Thursday in the arrest and subsequent marriage of Wesley Martin and Maxine Hinton, who, it appears, had been enjoying connubial felicity without going through the sanctifying form and ritual prescribed by statute. When arrested Wesley, who declared that he had done nothing more than "walk home with that gal late o' nights," signified his readiness to take on the holy bonds--Maxine seemed not so keen--but said he was without the price of a license. County Clerk Gwynn offered to furnish a hunting license free in order to consummate the romance, but Judge Barnes, who teaches a Sunday school class, and who is a very sentimental man, insisted on "regularity," and paid Recorder Heathman himself for the license. Rev. Berry, colored, was summoned, an din the presence of county officials, men and women, united the radiant couple in the bonds of most holy matrimony, the legal charge thereupon being immediately dismissed. Janitor Ely and Col. Marr, who were to have sung "Oh Promise Me" as a duet, and who had been up in the dome practicing, arrived on the scene a moment too late. Questioned as to the possibility of the crusade becoming general, Judge Barnes smiled in a non-committal fashion--Paris Mercury. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 1 Col 5--The Kansas City Times of Monday carried a picture of the Missouri Valley College basketball team, the Vikings, and number one in the first row was Virgil Dougherty. Said the Times: "Coach Godfrianx has a promising squad this winter and his team is expected to finish high in the state race. Mills, Fette and Dougherty are the big cogs in the Marshall quintet." "Demus" many Higbee friends will be delighted to know that he is making as much headway in his college work as he is in basketball. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 1 Col 6--BASKETBALL TEAM TO FULTON TOURNAMENT--Higbee Girls' Team Goes To Fulton today For the District Tournament.--The Girl's basketball team of the Higbee High School, which has not a single defeat to mar it's record this season, and who brought home the trophy, a cup, by their last victory, that over Fayette, will go to Fulton today for the tournament to be held on the court of William Woods College today and tomorrow, and in which twenty-two teams, each a winner in its district, will battle for supremacy. They are scheduled to meet, we understand, the Warsaw team, an exceptionally strong one, but from the record our girls have hung up for the season--making a total of 331 points against 148 for opponents--their friends are confident they have a fine show for the cup award, and all are quite sure that, with even breaks in the fortune of the game, they will make any and all teams they meet realize that they have been in a scrap. Their record for the season follows, the first name being the team played, the second where played, while the first figures are the Higbee scores and the second the scores of opponents: New Franklin at New Franklin 9-9 Myers at Myers 10-3 Myers at Higbee 30-0 Harrisburg at Higbee 24-2 Cairo at Cairo 31-9 Armstrong at Armstrong 22-16 Huntsville at Huntsville 19-6 Huntsville at Higbee 13-1 Yates at Yates 23-18 Harrisburg at Harrisburg 12-1 Fayette at Higbee 21-9 New Franklin at Higbee 43-21 Yates at Higbee 23-19 Clark at Clark 18-12 Clark at Higbee 24-11 Fayette at Fayette 14-11 ---------- Total 336-148 The games of the Randolph County Tournament do not count in this list. The team is composed of the following young ladies, each of whom plays the game for all she is worth, and none of whom ever give up until the final whistle sounds--remembering, no matter how goes the battle, that they are fighting for good old Higbee High: Misses Nellie Sperry, Marjorie Burton, Charlotte Burkhalter, Beulah Durnil, Maggie Longdon, Gladys Laight, Lois Buckler, Ruby Edwards and Delphia Lessly. Here's to you, young ladies. May you smother all opposition and come home with the cup you have striven so hard to win. But win or lose, old Higbee's for you. While each member of the team can't be praised too highly for her part in marking it a winner, the work of Wm. Paulfrey, the coach, should not be overlooked, for he has done his full part, as the record of the team shows. The NEWS joins other friends of the school in congratulating and thanking both the team and coach. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors were W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 27 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 38, Pg 1, Col 3--MRS. J. W. WINN BETTER--The many friends of Mrs. J. W. (Dr.) Winn, who has been in poor health for several months, and who was taken to a Boonville hospital last week by Dr. Winn, will be glad to learn that she is doing nicely and will likely be able to return home next week. They will also be delighted to learn that a very thorough examination showed that an operation was not at all necessary. Thursday, 27 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 38, Pg 1, Col 3--TO TEACH IN UNIVERSITY CITY--Miss Nelle Burton, who has been attending the University at Columbia, and who will graduate today, will leave Monday for St. Louis where she will teach mathematics in one of the schools in University City. Thursday, 27 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 38, Pg 1, Col 4--RENICK RESIDENT DIES SUDDENLY--John A. McRoberts, one of Renick's best known citizens, aged 67 years, was found dead in bed Sunday morning, death having resulted from heart failure some time during the night. His wife died only a week before, and this likely contributed to his own death. Deceased was quite well known here, and had many friends who will regret to learn of his death. Thursday, 27 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 38, Pg 1, Col 5--Mrs. Lewis Sachsenheimer was called to Clarence Saturday by a telephone message informing her that her brother, aged 16, had been accidentally shot and was not expected to live. So far as we know, nothing has been heard as to his condition. Thursday, 27 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 38, Pg 1, Col 5--The following from a distance attending the funeral of Evelyn Lucile Warren here Thursday of last week: Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Smith, Thos. Warford, Madison; Mr. and Mrs. Otto Dorman, Kansas City; Miss Evelyn Burkhalter, St. Louis, and Clyde Warren and Mrs. Ray Warren, Columbia. Thursday, 27 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 38, Pg 1, Col 5--Mrs. John Goin received a letter Monday advising her of the serious illness of her sister, Mrs. Sarah Garrington, of Hiteman, Iowa, who has been in a hospital in Iowa City since early in the month, but as to the nature of her illness Mrs. Goin is not advised. When last heard from she was not better. Mrs. Garrington has many friends and acquaintances in Higbee who join the News in the hope for her early recovery. Thursday, 27 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 38, Pg 1, Col 6--RENICK BOY ACCIDENTALLY SHOT--Junior Cottingham, 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cottingham of Renick, was accidentally shot Saturday morning by the son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Moss, of about the same age, the boys having started hunting. In some manner, the gun carried by the Moss boy was accidentally discharged, the shot penetrating Cottingham's abdomen. It was at first thought that the wound would prove fatal, but it is now said the boy has a good chance to recover. Thursday, 27 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 38, Pg 1, Col 6--Mose Blansett, who was stricken with paralysis several months ago, remains about the same, although he may have gained slightly. His legion of friends yet hope to see him about town as usual. Thursday, 27 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 38, Pg 8--(Kathy's notes: I just had to transcribe this. The Huntsville letter was missing because Mr. Dameron was ill, and the editor had complained earlier in the issue that there wasn't enough advertising to fill the paper, so this is what was printed on the last page. It was all that was on the left half of the page.) "We Tried our Best To Fill It but couldn't and dedicate this space to the firms that should have advertised but didn't." Thursday, 27 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 38, Pg 8 Col 4--PAINFULLY INJURED--W. G. Grapes, employed at Russell by the Winston-Dear co., was painfully hurt Thursday of last week, when a piece of steel from a chisel or sledge struck him on the cheek just below the eye, going through the bone. Mr. Grapes was taken to a Moberly hospital where he was operated on, and when heard from yesterday, he was doing nicely. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

Anyone researching the following I'd love to hear from you. Maddox - John Samuel, Albert C. McBride - John Patton Lawson - Emily Stanfield, Lucinda Hood - Lucinda Hood Lawson Mason - John Willis, Henry, Martha Starke - Augusta Eugenia, Dryden, Sarah Robinson - Martha Robinson Mason Pryor - Sarah Pryor Starke There are many siblings with more last names, willing to share what I have as well. Looking for their resting place, I'm especially missing my McBride's and Masons. Henry and Martha Robinson Mason are living in Benton County in 1860 then disappear. Anyone know if possibly he and his wife passed away shortly thereafter. There was one child born in 1862 so did Martha die in childbirth possibly. Was he in the Civil War and never came home? So many questions. Henry and Martha Robinson Mason were married 1841 in Howard County, have the 1850 census. William H. Mason born 1862 I can't find in the 1860 as a 7,8,9 year old unless he is living with an unrelated family in Knox County. Is Knox close? Can't find him or his parents in 1870, 1880, 1890. His brother my GGgrandfather is living in Cooper County with his family, why didn't he live with them? Also a girl E.C., James, and Thomas are missing as well. Hope you don't mind me venting my frustration with this family. Thanks for any insight you may share. Judy Brown Rasmussen CO

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors were W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Born, on the 15th, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Sunderland, a son. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Born, on the 13th, to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Coons, a daughter. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. W. R. Jones returned Wednesday from a visit with her daughter Mrs. Geo. Blankenship, at Moberly. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--George, the 10 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Warford, fell from a ladder Saturday and broke his right arm. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--I will not be responsible for debts contracted by Minnie Ellen Shafer after this date.--Aubrey M. Shafer, Liberty, Mo. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Belle Murphy left Friday for Columbia where she has accepted a position as chaperon in a college fraternity home. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. S. N. Metcalf of Moberly is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. N. J. Fowler, and will likely make her home with the latter. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. J. W. Marshall of Moberly was the guest of her sisters, Mrs. Susie Dinwiddie and Mrs. John Miller, the first of the week. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--As will be seen by his ad in this issue, Wm. Bartee will sell a lot of personal property at his farm near Yates, tomorrow, the 18th. Mr. Bartee, who is quitting the farm, will likely move to St. Louis. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--We printed bills this week for Claude Barron who will sell a lot of personal property at the old Minor farm north of town on the 26th. See bills, or ad in our next issue, for list. Mr. Barron will move to Iowa. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Elbert, the 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hayden, who has been very sick for the past week, at first suffering from tonsillitis, but now from stomach disorder, was no better late yesterday, we are sorry to say. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Joe Hackward went to Moberly Tuesday to be with her brother, Jake Owen, who has been dangerously ill from pneumonia for two weeks, but who is now believed to be out of danger. Mrs. Owen is also suffering from the same malady. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Asa Durnill is laid up at home with a very bad injury to his right ankle, and which will very likely keep him indoors for several weeks. While at work in the Block mine Thursday he got his foot caught by a car of rock, the muscles being torn loose from around the ankle. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Swetnam will be glad to know that their son, Embree, who has been critically ill from pneumonia in Moberly for two weeks, and who was not believed to have a chance Saturday, is very much improved and whose recovery, with no back-set, is now assured. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--J. F. Whitmore, who has been in poor health for some time, suffering from neuritis, left Tuesday for St. Louis where he will enter the Baptist Sanitarium. He stated that he wouldn't be at all surprised to come back with every tooth gone, as he had been advised that bad teeth, and especially two impacted wisdom teeth, were perhaps the cause of his trouble. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--A wind which blew great guns here Tuesday night made folks think that March had arrived ahead of time. It lasted but a few minutes, however, and as a red dust was observed on walks and porches the next morning, it was likely the last gasps of a Kansas or Oklahoma sand storm. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--J. T. Rother, merchant tailor at Moberly for the past twelve years, is to leave that city and will locate in St. Louis, which will leave Moberly, so far as we know, without a tailor, for about the first time in its history. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 7 Col 3--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Nettie Sumpter visited her granddaughter, Valeta Nell Hargis. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 7 Col 3--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Roxie Asbury was "helping guest" of her mother, Mrs. Emma Blaise, Saturday. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 7 Col 3--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--The little six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Westfall, is seriously ill with the measles. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 7 Col 3--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Claib Dougherty who is in a Moberly hospital from blood poisoning, is some improved at this writing. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 7 Col 3--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mr. and Mrs. Marion Hern had as radio guests Friday eve. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hern, Mrs. Lou Fisher and children, Mrs. Jake Atkins and children and Aubrey and Marjorie Avery. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 7 Col 3--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Little Valeta Nell Hargis was ill with the measles last week. She is recovering rapidly now and is celebrating her very first birthday today--Valentine day. She was the recipient of many remembrances. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 7 Col 3--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Robert Palmer is still in St. Joseph hospital at Boonville now much improved. She has not been improved sufficiently enough to sit up yet and her physician says that she will probably not be discharged from the hospital for three weeks or more. Her husband went to Boonville Saturday to visit her. We are very sorry for Eunice and her many friends and relatives of this vicinity are hopeful for a speedier recovery than is rumored. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 7 Col 3--EAST OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Laura Palew of Moberly is visiting her niece, Mrs. Cleve Dougherty. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 8 Col 6--L. T. Burton, known to his familiars as "Old Soc," and a former resident of Higbee, was here from Moberly Tuesday to attend the W. M. Burton sale, and found time to pay the NEWS an appreciated call. Mr. Burton, who recently disposed of his grocery store, and which made him good money for two years, advised that he would leave soon for an auto trip to Oklahoma and Texas, not with a view of locating, but on a pleasure trip. He threw up his hands in horror when several suggested to him that he get in the race for sheriff next year, saying that he is too old now for any such strenuous life and is going to take things as easy as possible from now on, and we see where he is right. Mr. Burton made the race for sheriff many years ago, and went into Moberly with 1600 votes ahead of the bunch, but was defeated--being robbed, his friends always claimed, by the Moberly ring. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors were W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 1 Col 3--SCHOOL NOTES--The Higbee Boys basketball team went to Marshall Thursday evening to a tournament. They played Alma first and were defeated. Alma won the cup in "A" class. They next played Grain Valley and defeated them. The third game was with Sedalia. As Sedalia won the cup in class B, they defeated the Higbee team. The boys returned Saturday night. Those that went were Earl Durnill, Emerson Hare, Joe Jones, Franklin Atkins, Carl Lloyd, Virgil Ancell, Wilford Ware and James Cadmus. They were accompanied by their coach, William Paulfrey. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 1 Col 3--DOUGHERTY-PEMBERTON--Mr. Jas. C. Dougherty and Miss Ruby Evelyn Pemberton, two of the community's popular young folks, stole a march on family and friends Tuesday by being quietly married by Squire T. B. Magruder at his home in this place, taking the train north before anyone was aware of the wedding and returning the next day. The bride is the pretty daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Pemberton and is popular among a wide circle. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dougherty of Howard county and is a hard working and most worthy and deserving young man. The NEWS joins other friends in best wishes. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 1 Col 4--SURPRISE BIRTHDAY DINNER--Thursday, the 10th, being Arthur Hudson's 47th birthday, his daughter, Mrs. Harrell Dinwiddie, surprised him with a big birthday dinner, the guests being Mr. and Mrs. George Morgan, Moberly; Mr. and Mrs. John Chesser, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Hudson, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kelso and Marvin Hudson. The day was most pleasantly spent by all, and by none more than by Arthur, whose friends hope he may enjoy many, many more such occasions. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 1 Col 5--SENIORS ENTERTAINED--Mr. and Mrs. Martin Robb and son, Billie, entertained the senior class of the Higbee High School on Tuesday evening from 7 to 11 o'clock. Those present: Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Korgel, Misses Claudine Robb, Juanita Walton, Marjorie Burton, Nellie Edwards, Dorothy Wheeler, Gladys Laight, Ruby Edwards, Charlotte Burkhalter, Mary Roberts, Helen Jones, Messrs. Franklin Atkins, Wilford Ware, Rankin Little, Dallas Wheeler, Virgil Ancell, Lewis Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kelso and Mr. and Mrs. John Ware. A most enjoyable evening was spent in games. Refreshments were served. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 1 Col 5--A SAD, SAD HOME--Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Orton, Jr., Lose Their Two Youngest Children From Croup--The home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Orton, Jr., is the saddest in the community, the Death Angel having invaded it twice this week, taking the baby boy, Henry Dale, aged one year and two months, on Sunday, and the next to the youngest, Harry Cecil, aged 3 years and 3 months, Tuesday night, death in each case being caused from croup and tonsillitis. The oldest child of the family is suffering from measles, while two others are quite sick, but their condition is not at all serious, we are glad to state, although under the circumstances the parents are tortured with apprehension. Funeral services for the baby were held Monday at the home by Elder W. C. Chapman, and the little boy laid to rest in the Higbee cemetery. Services for the second one will be held at the home today by Mr. Chapman at 1 o'clock and the little body laid to rest by the side of the baby brother. In their double sorrow Mr. and Mrs. Orton have the profoundest sympathy of all. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 1 Col 6--S. D. EDWARDS SERIOUSLY INJURED--The many Higbee friends of S. D. (Doug) Edwards, who was here on a visit a few weeks ago from Pearl, Ill., where he has been located for several years, he has been located for several years, will learn with regret of a very serious accident which befell him Thursday night of last week, he having his skull fractured in a collision between a handcar and a railroad velocipede or speeder. With his section crew Mr. Edwards was returning from a wreck, when the speeder being driven by an operator who was going to work, and going in the opposite direction met head-on in the dark, neither car, it is said, carrying a light. The operator escaped with a broken leg and other less injuries, while Mr. Edwards had his skull fractured. He was taken to a hospital in Springfield, Ill., and up to Sunday had not regained consciousness, and was operated on that day since which time he has been conscious part of the time. When heard from yesterday he was doing as well as could be expected. The NEWS joins his legion of friends in the hope for his speedy recovery. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 3 Col 1&2--THIS WEEK IN MISSOURI HISTORY, Compiled by The State Historical Society of Missouri. Floyd Shoemaker, Secretary, Columbia, MO.--February 19, 1821, one hundred and six years ago this week, there was born at Lexington, Ky., one of the most illustrious of Missouri's adopted sons--Francis Preston Blair, Jr., better known to Missourians as Frank Blair. "This great man," said Champ Clark, on the occasion of the presentation to Congress of the statues of Blair and Benton in Statuary Hall in Washington, "this great man, for great he was beyond even the shadow of a doubt, enjoyed the distinction unique among statesmen, of being hated and loved in turn by all Missourians, of changing his political affiliations violently twice long after he had passed the formative and effervescent period of youth, and, while spending nearly his entire life in the hurly-burly of politics, of dying at last mourned by every man and woman in the state whose good opinion was worth possessing. In that respect his career is without parallel." Born in Kentucky in 1821, the third son of Francis P. Blair, Sr., who was the devoted friend and champion of Andrew Jackson; reared in Washington in friendly intimacy from childhood with "Old Hickory; the pupil of one of Kentucky's ablest lawyers and most famous teachers of law, Lewis Marshall; the life-long friend and later political protege of Missouri's stern old free-soil senator, Thomas H. Benton, Frank Blair was steeped almost from infancy in the principles of Jacksonian democracy. He could scarcely have been expected to embrace any other career than that of politics, and, in the light of the political issues so soon to be become dominant in state and nation, eventually to have followed any other profession than that of a soldier. Blair was educated at Chapel Hill College, North Carolina, and at Princeton University, later completing the law course at Transylvania University in Kentucky. His early life was spent chiefly in Washington, where his father, Francis P. Blair, Sr., as editor of the Washington Daily Globe, was the light and guidance of the democratic forces during the administrations of both Jackson and Van Buren. Upon the advice of Senator Benton, young Blair came to St. Louis in 1843 to begin the practice of law. At the outbreak of the Mexican war in 1846, he enlisted in the famous regiment of Colonel Alexander W. Doniphan, which served with such distinction in the memorable campaign that led through Santa Fe, Chihuahua, Monterey and Sacramento. Returning to St. Louis in 1847, Blair again became active in politics, as one of the followers of Benton and a Democratic leader in the State. In 1852 he was elected to the legislature on the Benton ticket and was re-elected in 1854. In 1857, following Benton's final defeat, he served in the 35th Congress as Representative from the St. Louis district, and again in 1861 in the 37th session. However, the stand of the Democratic party on the question of slavery and the imminence of civil war over this issue, caused Blair to withdraw from the ranks of the Democracy and to join the Republicans. He resigned his seat in Congress early in 1861, and returning to St. Louis, without "leave or license" from any authority, either state or national, began the recruiting and training of four regiments of infantry, mostly Germans, which he armed in part with guns bought with money solicited from Northern and St. Louis Unionists. These regiments he offered to President Lincoln when Governor Jackson refused to supply Missouri's quota of the 75,000 volunteers. They were promptly accepted and from that time until the close of the war, Frank Blair was a soldier in the service of the Union and Missouri. The story of his zeal in fostering Union sentiment in St. Louis and the state at large; of his foresight in organizing and drilling troops; of his daring in ignoring constituted authority and defying interference; of his strategy in persuading General Scott to send General Nathaniel Lyon into Missouri with soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, that the St. Louis Arsenal might be held by Federal troops; of his cooperation with Gen. Lyon in capturing Camp Jackson--all of this is the story of the fight for Missouri and its ultimate success. Whatever one's personal bias in regard to the issues involved and the methods used, it must still be conceded that to Frank Blair more than to any other one man belongs the credit of Missouri's allegiance to the Union. At the close of the war, when he returned to St. Louis, Blair soon reentered the political arena, this time as a Democrat and as the champion of the restoration policy of the martyred Lincoln, as opposed to the reconstruction program of the Republican administration. In 1868 he was nominated for vice president of the United States, by the national Democratic convention, but the ticket was, of course, defeated. In 1871 he was again returned to the lower house of the Missouri General Assembly, and was at once elected to the U. S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles D. Drake. Blair served as a member of the senate until 1873. He died in St. Louis on July 8, 1875, at the age of 54. When Missouri was called upon to select her two most illustrious sons whose lives were to be commemorated in bronze in Statuary Hall in the national capitol, she chose to stand beside the figure of her veteran senator, Benton, that of her greatest soldier and statesman, Francis Preston Blair, Jr. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

For those of you seeking African American Ancestors in Missouri -- please check and post to the message boards provided below It has been some time since I have been able to update additional records to my African Americans in Missouri website -- but I do continue to get many, many queries and attempt to assistance each person who contacts me via email. If you have slave related documents you would like to share; please feel free to email, fax or snail mail them to me. Over the past year -- my computer died, but now I have a new system. I was unable to retrieve some documents from my old system. I now have a new powerful system with CD/DVD burner and everything so I can retain and hold much more data and images safely. If you have sent me photos in the past year; and recollect what you sent; please send me an email reminder so I can check my index of goodies and make sure I have it. I've literally got a collection of stuff on cd rom from Missouri folks. I just need another 24 hours in each day to get it online! If you visit my website here: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/ You can access the following: African American Genealogy ALHN Queries Discussion Board http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/webbbs/queries/index.cgi African American Genealogy Wills Index Board http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/webbbs/wills/index.cgi African American Probate Records Index Board http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/webbbs/probate/index.cgi African American Land Records Index Board http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/webbbs/land/index.cgi African American Private Family Records Index Board http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/webbbs/private/index.cgi BY THE WAY!!! The State of Missouri also has online an African American History Initiative http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/africanamerican/intro.asp Before Dred Scott: Freedom Suits in Antebellum Missouri http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/education/aahi/ St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project: Freedom Suits http://www.stlcourtrecords.wustl.edu/about-freedom-suits-history.cfm (this is a fascinating website. I found several lawsuits related to families I am researching -- and I am amazed at what lawsuits were about and what slaves were put through in fighting for freedom) Thanks --- Traci Wilson-Kleekamp African Americans in Missouri http://www.missouri-slave-data.org http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/ (you can view and post queries and responses here!)

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors were W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 1 Col 6--Walter Dougherty went to Marshall Tuesday and saw the Missouri Valley team clean up on the Culver-Stockton basketball team 40 to 31. It was all the more pleasing to him as Culver-Stockton had given the strong Central College team a severe beating only a night or two before and as many Marshall fans feared a similar defeat. Walter, on remarking that it would take three or four to stop the Culver-Stockton star if he played as well as he did in Fayette, was made to feel good all over by some stranger, who didn't know him from Adam, remarking that if Dougherty (Mr. Dougherty's son) couldn't stop him he couldn't be stopped. And "Demus" did that very thing, playing the greatest game of his career. Marshall went wild following the victory, Walter states. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 3 Col 1--SOUTH OF TOWN--Frank Friedman of Kansas City came in Saturday for a week's visit with his sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Blaise and Mrs. Emma Blaise. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 3 Col 2--SOUTH OF TOWN--Mrs. Robert Palmer improves slowly at a Boonville hospital. Her small son, staying at his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Atkins, who was so sick Sunday, is some better now. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 3 Col 2--SOUTH OF TOWN--Omer Foley, who is attending school at Kirksville came in Saturday for a short visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Foley. Theodore Mead and wife brought him in their car from Moberly and spent the night at the Foley home. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 3 Col 2--SOUTH OF TOWN--Dave Comstock who has been working in Moberly came home Friday and took a peep at his children through the window. They were convalescing from the measles. Dave has never had the measles and don't want to run any risk catching them. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 3 Col 2--SOUTH OF TOWN--Mrs. Emma Ridgway has decided the virtue of long tresses is not as of old and has shorn her long pretty locks which she had carefully groomed for the past six months, and the impartial consent of her husband was very eagerly given this time. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 3 Col 2--SOUTH OF TOWN--Mrs. Claib Dougherty, who has been seriously ill from blood poisoning since last Thursday, was taken to a Moberly hospital for treatment the first of the week. She was placed on a bed in a wagon and four horses hitched to it and conveyed to Higbee where she took the train for Moberly. The roads were so deep with mud that no car could run. She was suffering intense pain when she left home. We hope that she has long since found relief and that all danger of the loss of the arm has passed. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Jas. Rice, who went to Indiana several weeks ago where he had employment, returned Friday and is again at work at the new strip mine. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--W. M. (Shy) Burton, as will be seen by an ad in this issue, will sell a lot of surplus farm machinery and feed at his farm south of town on the 15th. See bills, also, for list. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--J. H. Wagner, engineer of the big steam shovel at the strip mine, moved his family here from Minneapolis Tuesday and is occupying the old Dudley Bottoms residence property. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Joe Hackward spent most of the week in Moberly at the bedside of her brother, Jake Owen, who has been critically ill for ten days from pneumonia. He was better when last heard from yesterday. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Embree Swetnam, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Swetnam of near town, who has been critically ill for a week or more at Moberly, suffering from pneumonia, was little, if any, better, when last heard from yesterday. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mike Papagi, an employee at the strip mine, had the misfortune to break two ribs yesterday in a fall. He was using a heavy bar to move a log when the bar slipped and he was thrown with great violence against the log. He was brought to town and taken to the West Side hotel and given prompt medical treatment. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--S. H. Harlan, who has been living on the Hamilton farm east of town for the past year, has decided to give up farming and will return to Moberly, and later will likely go to California to locate, will sell a big lot of property at the farm on the 14th, a list of which will be found in this issue. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--We printed bills this week for H. N. Todd, who will sell a big lot of property at the Uriah Thompson farm 7 miles southwest of town on the 16th, a list of which can be seen in this issue. Mr. Todd will return to Moberly where he was engaged in the restaurant business before going to the farm. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--J. S. Warford and Leonard Ancell returned yesterday from Kansas city where they had been to see Fred Noel, who underwent his sixth operation in a government hospital in that city Friday. The physicians did not give him any encouragement, we are sorry to say, but as Fred has fooled them on five other occasions, his legion of friends join the NEWS in the hope that he will do so again. His visitors left him cheerful and full of pep and confident that he would be up in a short time. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Miss Genevieve Antonelli entertained at the home of her mother, Mrs. Joella Biswell, on Thursday, the 3rd, her teacher, Miss Lucile Humphrey and three of her school mates, Miss Berenice Hughes, Clay Wilson and T. Borden. Mrs. Biswell had a six o'clock dinner and after dinner dance which was enjoyed by a number of friends. They made candies, popped corn, played carts and numerous games. Music was furnished by the colored musicians of Glasgow, Hicks and Ward. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Will Thompson purchased a new Chevrolet truck Monday and will leave with his family for New Mexico and Texas for the benefit of his health as soon as the roads make travel possible. He will go to Plattsburg for a week's visit with his sister and then on to Kansas for a visit with his father, and then on into the Southwest. His many friends join the NEWS in the hope that he will soon be fully restored, and that peace and prosperity may ever attend him. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 1--MT. PLEASANT ITEMS--Mrs. Sam Naylor who has been ill for some time, is not quite so well. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 1--MT. PLEASANT ITEMS--Ed Wilhite and wife, who have been visiting Mrs. Wilhite's father, Wm. Lyle, the past several weeks, left last week for a visit with relatives in Kansas City. Should they like it there, they may locate. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 1--MT. PLEASANT ITEMS--The two-weeks-old infant daughter of Robert Bailey and wife died Sunday and was buried in the Perche cemetery Monday. The entire family have the flue and it is thought that the flu was the cause of the baby's death. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 2--NAYLOR ITEMS--Mrs. Orpha Fainter of Mexico is visiting her father, Tom Bailey. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 2--NAYLOR ITEMS--The two-weeks-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bailey, died Sunday February 6, of the flu. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 2--NAYLOR ITEMS--Edward Walker, Milton Walker and Archie Walker spent the weekend with their brother, Vernett Walker of Fayette. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 2--NAYLOR ITEMS--Mrs. Claibe Dougherty was taken to a Moberly hospital the first of the week suffering from a severe case of blood poisoning. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 2--NAYLOR ITEMS--Elgie Sinclair went to Moberly Saturday of last week to have some teeth pulled. His doctor told him he could do him no good until the teeth were out. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 4--Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Woods and two little sons, Clifford and J. B., were Sunday guests of Mrs. Woods' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bowen. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. 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The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors were W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 1 Col 1--OUR VERY BEST FRIEND GONE--Our very best and truest friend, "Don," our faithful and affectionate Airedale, who knew no greater happiness or contentment than to be our constant companion, and whose honest affection was as sincerely returned, is no more, having been found dead Sunday, lying on the Katy right-of-way about a half mile south of town, and who had been missing since Tuesday of last week, the supposition being that he was killed by a train. Is so, no blame attaches to anyone, nor does it if he was shot for killing chickens or running stock--something we never heard of his doing. But if his honest heart was forever stilled by someone who put out poison just to kill some poor hungry dog that might visit their premises, it is a different matter. We don't wish anybody any harm, but if poor Don went in any such manner, we hope the party responsible will be forever chased through a never-ending hell with the "Hound of the Baskervilles" at his heels, breathing fire and brimstone, and barely missing his shirt tail at every step. If hell ever disgorges, the last dregs of its last vomit will be the wanton poisoner of dumb animals. Did it ever occur to you that dogs, and other animals as well, might live again the same as yourself, especially in cases where they are the better men of the two? Take that dog of yours and look into the very depths of those liquid eyes, which all but talk, see an affection, no matter how unworthy you may be, as great, or greater, than that of your own mother's, and remember that whether he is sick or well, hungry or cold or crippled, his only desire and greatest happiness is to be with you or near you, asking only a kindly word or look now and then, and ready at any time without thought of self, to give his life for you, then ask yourself, seriously, if death can end such love. We don't believe it, and when we pass out we confidently expect "Don" to be one of the very first to greet us, and with him, as with all the loved ones gone, we shall know as we are known. In this connection, we don't know but what Lord Byron's poem, dedicated to a favorite dog, and at whose grave he erected a monument, wouldn't more properly convey our meaning, if we can quote it from memory. Teach it to that boy of yours. It will do him good, and won't hurt you. Here it is: "When some proud son of man returns to earth, Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe. And storied urns record who rest below. When all is done, upon his toms is seen-- Not what he was, but what he should have been. But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labors, breathes, fights, lives, for him alone, Unhonored falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth; While man, vain insect, hopes to be forgiven And claims himself a sole, exclusive heaven. O, man, thou feeble tenant of an hour, Debased by slavery or corrupt by power, Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust, Thou degraded mass of animated dust. Thy love is lust, they friendship all a cheat, Thy smile hypocrisy, thy words deceit. By nature vile, ennobled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Ye who perchance behold this simple urn,--pass on; It honors n one you wish to mourn. To make a friend's remains these stones arise-- I never knew but one, and here he lies." Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 1 Col 2--CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING--The 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Tip Mobley was fittingly celebrated at their beautiful country home near Myers on Tuesday, Feb 1, 1927. At an early hour the invited guests began to arrive until the number reached 62. At one o'clock, the long, spacious tables, reaching the entire length of the dining room were set with the most delicious edibles ever gracing a table on any occasion, including two hams, four chickens, dressings, salads, pickles, twenty-six pies, ten cakes, including the snow-white angel food wedding cake, which was cut by the bride at the close of the feast. This delicious dinner was served cafeteria style to all the guests and was as fine as they ever had an opportunity to partake of before. The joyous strains of the wedding march, played by Mrs. Jim Innes on the piano, was heard at 2:30, when the bride and groom slowly marched into the parlor, followed by the bridesmaid and best man, Mr. and Mrs. John Franklin, who were present at their wedding fifty years ago. These were followed by the flower girls--Misses Frances Dougherty and Elsie Franklin. T. J. Blakemore, justice of the peace, performed the wedding ceremony. Little Miss Alberta Dougherty, who was ring girl, presented the wedding ring at the opportune time during the ceremony. She was tastefully dressed in white silk crepe, with blue trimmings. The bride was becomingly attired in all white rayon, with long Moline veil and flower wreath. The bride and groom received many useful and valuable gifts, including a gold watch charm, gold rings, gold fruit stand, flower vase, gold pen, several $5 gold pieces, and last, but not least, which pleased the bride immensely, was a plain band ring, presented her by Misses Bessie Feland and Irene Dougherty. The remainder of the afternoon was spent in singing and music. The songs, "When You and I were Young, Maggie," and "Silver Threads Among the Gold," delighted the hearts of the bride and groom. All left at a late hour wishing the happy couple many more happy days. Those present: Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Innes, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Heath, Mr. and Mrs. George Rennolds, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Blakemore and little son, Jimmie, Mr. and Mrs. Andy Mead, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Piper, Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Dougherty, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Feland, Mr. and Mrs. Claib Dougherty and little son, Harry, Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Farrell, Mr. and Mrs. John Franklin, Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Comstock, Mr. and Mrs. John Newman, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Kirby, Mrs. J. S. Dougherty of Fayette; Irene, Francis and Beatrice Dougherty, Mattie Hayden, Elsie Franklin, Bessie Feland, Marsia Mae Piper, Mary Blessing Dougherty, Maude Franklin, Sadie Robertson, Mary Lucile Innes, Joe H. Andrews, Birch Dougherty, M. B. and Merrell Dougherty, Harold Blakey, Elmer Newman, Charley Strong, Tim Dougherty, Roy Quick, Cleo. Blakemore, Woodrow Mead, Harwood Innes, Glen and Earl Marly. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 1 Col 2--Thos. E. Pitney, who was recently injured by an explosion of dynamite at the strip mine south of town, his face and right hand being quite painfully injured, as well as the sight of one eye, was able to come home yesterday from Boonville where he had been having his eye taken care of for several weeks. The sight was not permanently injured, we are glad to state. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 1 Col 3--SCHOOL NOTES--The girls' basketball team returned from Fulton Saturday. Thursday night they played and defeated Warsaw's team, 27-12. The Warsaw team was an extremely good team, one of the best in the tournament. Friday the Higbee team played Dieblstadt. They were defeated 35-24. This is the second time in the entire year that the Higbee girls have been defeated. Dieblstadt was in turn defeated by Elven. Elven and Crystal City were the champions of last year, and they had exactly the same teams to the last player. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 1 Col 5--MRS. CLAIBE DOUGHERTY BETTER--Mrs. Claibe Dougherty, who has been suffering from blood poisoning in one of her hands, was taken to a Moberly hospital Sunday by Dr. J. W. Winn for treatment, and where the hand was operated on. She was not quite so well Tuesday, but yesterday she was reported as doing nicely, but all danger of amputation being necessary has not passed. The NEWS joins the many friends of Mrs. Dougherty in the hope that she can soon return fully restored. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 1 Col 6--ANOTHER HIGBEE BOY MAKING GOOD--Mrs. Ed Eubanks writes us from Kansas City under date of the 3rd: "I see in the paper that you very often give some Higbee boy a write-up, and I am sending you Ronald's picture, also what the Star has to say about him as an R. O. T. C. officer, and I will also add that he wishes he was a few years older so he could vote for Jim Reed. Kansas City is strong for Jim." The clipping sent by Mrs. Eubanks, which was headed "The Bantam of R. O. T. C. Officers," and carried a picture of Ronald in full uniform, follows: "Ronald Earl Paulfrey is 4 feet 11 inches tall, weighs 98 1/2 pounds including the sword, and on that basis is the smallest youth ever commissioned an R. O. T. C. officer in Kansas City. He is the son of Mrs. Mayme Paulfrey, 1025 East Eighth street. He is 16 years old and attends Lathrop trade school. His fellow cadets remember an inspection Paulfrey made of a 6-foot private. The cadet officer stood on a chair to examine the big fellow, then got down to bawl him out, in true military style, for having a dirty neck." Following the death of his father, the late John Paulfrey, Ronald moved to Kansas city with his mother, and his many Higbee acquaintances will be glad to know that he is making good, both at school and in his work. Shortly after going to the city he got a job in a first class printing office, working after school hours and on Saturdays and during vacation, with the result, being an exceptionally bright boy, he simply "ate it up," and is now well on the way to becoming one of the city's best printers. Steady as a judge and reliability itself, he is one of the firm's most popular and trusted employees. The NEWS joins Ronald's other friends in congratulations on his success in the art preservative and the distinction he has won in a military way, and hopes the years to come will find him the owner of the plant in which he is now an employee and that he will never be called to a battlefield. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.