I've had a request for a list of people who do contract genealogical research IN Howard County. This is actually the 2nd request I've received for such a list in the past month. The truth is, I don't know for sure of anyone that actually does research in Howard County for a fee. If you live in or around Howard County and are willing to do contract research in Howard County (most of the requests typically want records from one of the courthouse offices), please e-mail me personally at sbarger@uark.edu. (Please don't reply to the MOHOWARD-L address.) I'll compile a list of contract researchers and pass your name and contact information to those that request it. Thanks. -Sherryl MOHOWARD-L listowner Howard County MOGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~mohoward/

Dear members, I would like to request a kind soul owning the cemetery book for Washington Cemetery in Howard County please list all the surnames WHITE buried there. While in this cemetery recently, I viewed several John B WHITES near my family plot, and they surley looked familiar somehow. (I think I did photograph the graves just in case). After I checked my family file, they are connected. In an attempt to sort them out, all the listings for WHITE names in this cemetery would be a start. Thanks in advance, Anne Henderson Rupert

Kathy. Your point about the name Mt. Pleasant as a plentiful one when we look at churches and cemeteries is well-taken. I have not studied the county histories recently for the dates of establishment of the various Mt Pleasant churches and cemeteries. There are Mt. Pleasant churches in each county here in central MO. Mt. Pleasant Cemetery just north of New Franklin @ where the town of Estill was and where a church (Christian Discples of Christ, denomination, (?)) also was located, is a large, well-kept cemetery whose listing begins on page 357 in Mrs. Coutts & Mrs. Boggs cemetery book, pub 1994. I believe there are still gravesites to be had in this Mt. Pleasant cemetery (I see a listing for 1989) altho it originated as a "rural church cemetery" it is now close to the city limits of New Franklin and without its "mother church" you are correct in thinking I may be confusing our readers in describing it as a "rural church cemetery!" (There is no longer a Mt. Pleasant Church at that location) Laura Crane, Columbia. -----Original Message----- From: Kathy Bowlin <kjbowlin@earthlink.net> To: laura crane <lcrane@coin.org> Date: Saturday, July 26, 2003 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [MOHOWARD-L] Re:pre 1850 gravestones >I am a little confused? According to the Coutts and Boggs cemetery book, there is a Mt. Pleasant Cemetery and a Mt. Pleasant Church >Cemetery. The Mt. Pleasant Church cemetery is just south of the Randolph county line in northeast Howard if I am remembering >correctly. That is the Bonne Femme twp area. > >The Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, is on route 5 in the area that Anne was describing, and that is where the Lloyds and Rays are buried. >According to the number of burials, this isn't a small cemetery. Are both of these cemeteries the Mt. Pleasant CHURCH Cemeteries? > >Kathy Bowlin > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "laura crane" <lcrane@coin.org> >To: <MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 11:27 AM >Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] Re:pre 1850 gravestones > > >> Anne, Gravestones in central Missouri's rural church cemeteries previous to >> 1850 >> are rare. The 1840 death date for your John Sterne would >> make his gravestone a real find in a rural church cemetery in Howard >> or Boone County. 1840 may pre-date the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery >> by 15 years (?) My Lloyds and Rays were interred therein at around >> 1867 which would be early for the Mt. Pleasant Church and its >> cemetery. I did check the >> index to the Coutts/Boggs "Howard County Mo cemetery records and both >> the Sternes listed are @ Washington Cemetery. Laura Crane, president, >> Genealogy Society, Central MO. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Annerupert@aol.com <Annerupert@aol.com> >> To: MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com <MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com> >> Date: Friday, July 25, 2003 9:53 PM >> Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] Howard Co & South Howard Co >> >> >> >Just returned home from a very brief visit to Glasgow Missouri, and had a >> >nice cup of coffee at the soda counter of "Henderson's Rexall Drug Store". >> >Chatted a bit, then visited the Washington Cemetery in the town. >> > >> >As I left Glasgow travelling south and heading towards Fayette on Route 5 >> (I >> >think), I passed a cemetery called Mount Pleasant est 1832. A road sign >> said >> >I was in South Howard County. (I did not know there was a Howard County >> and >> >a South Howard County). >> > >> >This Mt Pleasant Cemetery interested me as I had per an obituary an >> ancestor >> >living in Howard County named John STERNE who died in Mt Pleasant 1840. I >> >drove through the cemetery, however did not see any old stones or related >> names. >> > >> >If someone could reference a burial in this cemetery for John Sterne d >> 1840, >> >I would be grateful. He was the father of a John Y STERNE buried in >> >Washington Cemetery. >> >Thanks in advance >> >Anne >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >

Anne, Gravestones in central Missouri's rural church cemeteries previous to 1850 are rare. The 1840 death date for your John Sterne would make his gravestone a real find in a rural church cemetery in Howard or Boone County. 1840 may pre-date the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery by 15 years (?) My Lloyds and Rays were interred therein at around 1867 which would be early for the Mt. Pleasant Church and its cemetery. I did check the index to the Coutts/Boggs "Howard County Mo cemetery records and both the Sternes listed are @ Washington Cemetery. Laura Crane, president, Genealogy Society, Central MO. -----Original Message----- From: Annerupert@aol.com <Annerupert@aol.com> To: MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com <MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, July 25, 2003 9:53 PM Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] Howard Co & South Howard Co >Just returned home from a very brief visit to Glasgow Missouri, and had a >nice cup of coffee at the soda counter of "Henderson's Rexall Drug Store". >Chatted a bit, then visited the Washington Cemetery in the town. > >As I left Glasgow travelling south and heading towards Fayette on Route 5 (I >think), I passed a cemetery called Mount Pleasant est 1832. A road sign said >I was in South Howard County. (I did not know there was a Howard County and >a South Howard County). > >This Mt Pleasant Cemetery interested me as I had per an obituary an ancestor >living in Howard County named John STERNE who died in Mt Pleasant 1840. I >drove through the cemetery, however did not see any old stones or related names. > >If someone could reference a burial in this cemetery for John Sterne d 1840, >I would be grateful. He was the father of a John Y STERNE buried in >Washington Cemetery. >Thanks in advance >Anne > > > > >

I am planning a trip to Howard County next month and would like to check on gravesites of several ancestors. Can anyone tell me if there is a locational list of Howard County cemeteries, AND, if I should be so lucky, and an index of any of those cemeteries. Charles Hanna Minneapolis MN

Just returned home from a very brief visit to Glasgow Missouri, and had a nice cup of coffee at the soda counter of "Henderson's Rexall Drug Store". Chatted a bit, then visited the Washington Cemetery in the town. As I left Glasgow travelling south and heading towards Fayette on Route 5 (I think), I passed a cemetery called Mount Pleasant est 1832. A road sign said I was in South Howard County. (I did not know there was a Howard County and a South Howard County). This Mt Pleasant Cemetery interested me as I had per an obituary an ancestor living in Howard County named John STERNE who died in Mt Pleasant 1840. I drove through the cemetery, however did not see any old stones or related names. If someone could reference a burial in this cemetery for John Sterne d 1840, I would be grateful. He was the father of a John Y STERNE buried in Washington Cemetery. Thanks in advance Anne

All this stuff I mention is in Randolph county. We placed the mill already. It was at 53N, 15W, sec. 9 W1/2, SE). South on 3 off 24 hwy. Turn left (east) on the second road (CR 157) and drive to creek. We suspect it was on the west (and north) bank of Sweet Spring Creek, but not sure about that. Nothing at site anymore. The mill stones are in Huntsville Court House lawn. This mill was a big deal in Randolph county, so I'm sure there is some nice history on it somewhere. For one, you can read how in 1853 James Harrison Bagby fixed & restarted the old mill on this web site: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/a/g/James-Bagby/index.html Scroll down to Family Tree Maker Genealogy report of William Bagby. Go to "James Harrison Bagby" and hit the +- next to his name. I suspect the spring was on the north side of the creek in NW Sec. 16. There appears to be an old structure (house) there that is pretty far from any road. This could be incorrect though. The church has not been located yet. There is a church that is probably still standing today at CR 161 and BB called Sweet Springs METHODIST (and Presbyterian ) Church.. It may even still be in use. The one I want to locate is the Sweet Springs Baptist Church, and it's been history for at least 80 years now, but was probably in the same general area. Mike > Is it supposed to be in Howard or Randolph County?

Is it supposed to be in Howard or Randolph County? -----Original Message----- From: Mike Flannigan <mikeflan@earthlink.net> To: MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com <MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 11:03 AM Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] Bagbys Mill > >I would like to determine the locations for Bagby's Mill, >Sweet Spring, and Sweet Spring Baptist Church. I've >just started my search, but if anybody has any info >that can help me, it is much appreciated. I have nice maps >of the area, so section numbers, etc. are good for me, >and lat/long is even better. > >I suspect all 3 are just a little south of Huntsville, maybe >near Wright School, or maybe west (or east) of there. >I've just changed my mind on this. I now think it was >where HW 3 crosses Sweet Spring Creek, just NE of >Union Church in section 17. > >Here is the info I have on each one: > >Bagby's Mill - This was one of the oldest mills in the >county, built about 1830 on Sweet Spring Creek near >the old plank road between Huntsville and Glasgow. >Before the Civil War it was an important trading point. >It was named for Wm Bagby, who with Sam Davis >operated it. It remained standing until a few years >before 1933. > >Sweet Spring - All I have is what Kathy has listed below. > >Sweet Spring Baptist Church - This church was in Salt >Spring Twp, near Huntsville and was named from its >location on Spring Creek. It was originated in 1879, and >was defunct by 1933. > > >Mike Flannigan > > > >> 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.) > >

I would like to determine the locations for Bagby's Mill, Sweet Spring, and Sweet Spring Baptist Church. I've just started my search, but if anybody has any info that can help me, it is much appreciated. I have nice maps of the area, so section numbers, etc. are good for me, and lat/long is even better. I suspect all 3 are just a little south of Huntsville, maybe near Wright School, or maybe west (or east) of there. I've just changed my mind on this. I now think it was where HW 3 crosses Sweet Spring Creek, just NE of Union Church in section 17. Here is the info I have on each one: Bagby's Mill - This was one of the oldest mills in the county, built about 1830 on Sweet Spring Creek near the old plank road between Huntsville and Glasgow. Before the Civil War it was an important trading point. It was named for Wm Bagby, who with Sam Davis operated it. It remained standing until a few years before 1933. Sweet Spring - All I have is what Kathy has listed below. Sweet Spring Baptist Church - This church was in Salt Spring Twp, near Huntsville and was named from its location on Spring Creek. It was originated in 1879, and was defunct by 1933. Mike Flannigan > 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.)

When I tried to send the 27 Jan edition of the news, outlook express kept telling me I couldn't delete the message. I was hitting the send button, not the delete. When I went to check my sent messages, each time it told me I couldn't delete, it was also sending the message. So I sent multiple copies, when I only meant one. To all of you who have limited mailboxes, I am so sorry. It was not intentional. 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, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

Alas, but in order to take advantage of the year free of AOL with our new puter, I would have to lose too much, so we are continuing with the present screen/e-mail names. Too bad... I had had some interesting suggestions for new names from a few of my "friends!!" LOL bob and gentsia

Some of you may have heard about this new project already. To read more about it, visit this URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usfgs/missouri/ I'll be adding a link on the Howard County MOGenWeb page soon. -Sherryl MOHOWARD-L listowner Howard County MOGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~mohoward/