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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thurs, 30 Dec 1926,---------No paper issued. Thursday, 6 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 35, Pg. 1, Col 1--ANOTHER FAYETTE KILLING--Mary Stemmons, colored, of Fayette, died Christmas morning from a gunshot wound, she being shot by Gus Lyle with whom she was living. The Advertiser says it was at first reported that she had committed suicide, but that prosecuting attorney Tyre Burton had dug up enough evidence against Lyle to warrant holding him for first degree murder. Thursday, 6 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 35, Pg 1, Col 2--HOUTZ-LONG--At 4 o'clock on Christmas eve at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Houtz, 2919 Victor, Kansas City, Mo., Dr. Raphael Harwood Miller of the Independence boulevard Christian church read the Episcopal ceremony that united in marriage Miss Harriet Houtz and Mr. Walter A. Long. As Miss Alberta Andrews of Higbee played Mendelssohn's wedding march, Mr. Miller, Mr. Long and Mr. George Long, brother of the groom, and best man, took their places under an arch of hemlock. Miss Juanita Lauderback of Kansas City, bridesmaid, led the march down the broad stairway into the living-room. Miss Gloria Houtz, sister of the bride, was the charming little flower girl scattering rose petals along the way. The bride was given in marriage by her father. The bride wore a wedding gown of white satin and old Spanish lace. Her veil was held by a wreath of orange blossoms. She carried a shower bouquet of rides' roses and lilies of the valley. The bridesmaid wore orchid georgette over yellow satin, and carried a bouquet of Premier pink roses. The flower girl wore flesh georgette over blue, and carried an ivory flower basket tied with pink tulle. Miss Andrews wore a black satin dress with a corsage of pink roses. Poinsettias and Christmas bells, suggesting the holiday season, decorated the home. After the ceremony the wedding party and guests were served a real Christmas dinner in what looked like Santa's dining-room. The bride is a former Higbee girl, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Houtz, formerly of this place, is an exceedingly pretty and accomplished young lady, and is popular among a wide circle of acquaintances here. She attended Kansas City Junior College and the University of Missouri, and taught for several years in the Kansas City schools. Mr. Long is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Long of Drexel, Mo. He is a graduate of Warrensburg and is now employed as buyer for Montgomery Ward & Co. Mr. and Mrs. Long are at home 5346 Highland, Kansas City, Mo. The NEWS joins other friends in congratulations and best wishes. Thursday, 6 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 35, Pg 1, Col 2--A CLOSE CALL--Thos. E. Pitney, while at work at the strip mine at Russell Thursday of last week, met with an accident that might easily have cost him his life, and that it did not do so is almost a miracle. With Thos. Osburn he had been placing dynamite in drill holes in the ground that the dirt might be blown off some coal for use at the plant, when one shot went off before he could get out of the way. One side of his face was quite badly cut, as was one of his hands, but fortunately his injuries proved only minor ones. It was at first thought that the sight of one eye might be damaged, but we are glad to state that such will not be the case. Mr. Osborn, who was standing almost directly over the drill hole, being within a foot of it, felt only a slight jar and was not hurt in the least. Thursday, 6 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 35, Pg 1, Col 2--HAD HAND BLOWN OFF--Robert Green, residing south of Franklin and a brother of Mrs. Everett Golden of near town, met with a most distressing accident during the holidays, having most of his right hand blown off by the discharge of a shotgun. He was out fox hunting and was waiting for the dogs to bring the fox by him, and was resting the gun on a stump, when it slipped or he dropped it, both barrels being discharged and tearing off his right hand with the exception of the thumb. Several of the shot lodged in his shoulder, while a button on the lapel of his coat was blown off, as was the right brim of his hat. Thursday, 6 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 35, Pg 1, Col 2--GOOD-SWETNAM--Mr. Forrest Good of Cairo and Miss Margaret Swetnam of west of town, stole a march on their friends by quietly slipping away to Moberly where they were united in marriage, but by whom we could not learn, on December 28. The bride is the pretty and capable daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Swetnam and is popular among a wide circle of acquaintances. The groom is a substantial young farmer of the Cairo vicinity and comes from one of the county's best families. The NEWS joins others in hearty congratulations and best wishes. Thursday, 6 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 35, Pg 1, Col 2--HOME DAMAGED BY FIRE.--The farm residence of Mrs. Hiram Land was damaged several hundred dollars by fire about noon Friday, the roof catching fire from a spark, and the fire had gained considerable headway before it was discovered. The fire engine was called from town but the fire was about under control when it arrived. An examination of all the flues following the fire showed that it could have originated from no other source than from a spark. The loss is fully covered by insurance. Thursday, 6 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 35, Pg 1, Col 2--MRS. J. N. GARVER DEAD--The Higbee friends of Mrs. J. N. Garver will be pained to learn of her death which occurred at the family home in Slater during the holidays. She is survived by her husband, one son, Will, and one daughter, Mrs. Perry Goin. Thursday, 6 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 35, Pg 1, Col 3--MCKENDER-SHOCKLEY--Mr. Wilbert K. McKender and Miss Lorene E. Shockley were united in marriage by Father Douglas of St. Anne's Parrish, 4200 Page Blvd., St. Louis, Tuesday morning, December 21, at 9:00 o'clock mass. They were attended by Mr. and Mrs. August Creel, Gida Mae Dougherty, cousin of the bride, and Edward S. McKelvey of Middletown, Mo., Mr. Ira Kender and Miss Viola Wilbur. The bride was arrayed in a gown of white silk crepe, the veil of tulle was held in place by a coronet of orange blossoms. She carried a bouquet of bridal roses and lilies of the valley. The bride's attendants were dressed in pink crepe with hats to match, and carried bouquets of pink rosebuds. Following the ceremony Mrs. Shockley served a bountiful breakfast at her home, 5081 Vernon Ave. Those attending were Mr. and Mrs. Creel, Gida Dougherty and Edward McKelvey, Ira McKender and Viola Wilbur, Mr. and Mrs. McKender, parents of the groom, Mrs. Creel, Mr. and Mrs. Bartlow, Sr, Mr. and Mrs. Bartlow, Jr., and two children, Mrs. B. H. Ditter, aunt of the bride, and Mr. and Mrs. Riddle. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. McKender of 4321 Evans Ave., St. Louis. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Shockley formerly of Slater, and granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Avery of Higbee. Thursday, 6 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 35, Pg 1, Col 3--TRIPLE WEDDING ANNIVERSARY--Few married couples ever live to have the good fortune to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary, and fewer still anniversaries beyond the 50th, and very seldom do such folks have children and grandchildren whose wedding anniversaries fall on the same date. But such a triple celebration was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Laight, two of our best known and most esteemed residents, New Year's, it being their 57th wedding day. It was also the 29th anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John Lambier and the 7th of Mr. and Mrs. George Lambier, daughter and grandson, respectively. A dinner fit for a king was served, and all joined the day immensely, none more than Mr. and Mrs. Laight. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Ed Laight and son, Roger. The NEWS joins others in hearty congratulations and in the hope that similar celebrations will be held for many more years to come. Thursday, 6 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 35, Pg 1, Col 3--SET FIRE TO APPLEMAN HOME--Sunday night some one set fire to the Appleman home west of this city. Mr. Appleman lives on the farm of Mrs. John Thurman, moving there last March. The fire was started under the house and burned through the floor. Mrs. Appleman smelt the smoke and aroused Mr. Appleman and the fire was put out. The party that set fire to the house also cut the telephone wire leading to the Appleman home.--Armstrong Herald. Thursday, 6 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 35, Pg 1, Col 5--PAULSON-SPURLING--Moberly relatives and friends of the bride have received the announcement of the marriage of Ernest Paulson and Mrs. Thelma Spurling which took place in Des Moines, Iowa, the 17th of December. The newlyweds will make their home in Des Moines. Mr. Paulson is a traveling salesman. Mrs. Paulson is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ess and formerly resided in Moberly. While the notice of the marriage is a little late her friends and former schoolmates will be glad to hear of her new found happiness.--Moberly Home Press. Thursday, 6 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 35, Pg 1, Col 5--ROBB-BOWMAN--Mr. Ivan Robb and Miss Melba Bowman, two of Burton's promising young people, were united in holy wedlock at 2 o'clock Friday, December 24, by the Rev. Notley Magruder at his home in this place. The bride is the pretty daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ad Bowman of Burton, and Katy agent at that place for the past two years. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Robb of near Burton, and is a most exemplary young man. They will reside on the farm. All join in wishing the happy couple a long and happy wedded life. Thursday, 6 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 35, Pg 1, Col 5--U. M. THOMPSON DEAD--Uriah M. Thompson, a former well known resident of this vicinity, but who had been making his home in Moberly since his return from New Mexico some two or three years ago, died in a hospital in that city on December 28, following an illness of two weeks from pneumonia. Deceased was 58 years old and is survived by three brothers, L. R. and J. C. Thompson of Moberly and W. C. Thompson of Neodesha. Kans, and two sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Warford of Armstrong, and Mrs. Mary Moberly of Bloomington, Ill. Funeral services were conducted at New Hope, Howard County, by the Rev. Notley Magruder of this place and interment made by the side of his first wife. Thursday, 6 Jan 1927, Vol 40, No 35, Pg 1, Col 5--Harry Dinwiddie, who has been located at Hollister for about a year, orders his paper sent to Shawnee, Okla, to which place he has moved. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: We are two little boys 17 years old. We will tell you what we want for Christmas. Please bring a kiddy car, a scooter and a little rubber dolly that will say "Mamma." Lots of candy and nuts. From your radio friends, Lester Jones and Edwin Harris. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am a little boy seven years old and go to school every day. I will tell you what I want for Christmas. Please bring me a coaster sled, BB gun, a box of dominoes, a pair of ice skates and a lot of candy and nuts.--Harold Jones. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Old Santa: I am seven years old and in the second grade. I go to West Point school. My teacher's name is Mrs. Osa Sumpter. I like my teacher very much. I want a Mamma doll for Christmas, one that will walk talk, and go to sleep. And old Santa please do not forget little brother and sister, Max and Marie.--Lucille Stevenson. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 3--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am a very teeny-weenie boy of 11 months and I want to tell you that I am not at home, so please come to see me at my grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Feland, and bring me a rocking chair, silver set, teddy bear, rubber ball and doll, and also candy and fruit.--Jimmie Snell. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 3--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: Will you please bring me a big velocipede and a gun, and Santa I will be awful good to my little brother after this if you would bring me a scooter and I would like a pair of light top shoes. Daddy said you could not bring so many things to one little boy but maybe you can, but don't forget other boys to bring mine. I would rather have less. And Santa please remember my little brother. He wants a kiddy car and a little pair of house slippers. I guess you will be sure to bring us nuts and candy. I am just a little boy not five years old yet, so please remember me and brother.--Paul Robert Reuter. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 3--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Yates, Mo. Dear Santa: I am a little boy 5 years old. I am in the 1st grade at school. Please bring me a pump gun, a saxophone, a stencil set, a football, some candy and nuts.--Marion Fray. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 3--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Yates, Mo. Dear Santa: Please bring me a table, chairs and a set of knives and forks. Please don't forget to bring Blanche and Edith something too. Our stockings will be hung by the chimney. Don't forget to put some candy and oranges and nuts in them.--Wilma Jean Benton. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 3--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Yates, Mo. Dear Santa: I am in the second grade of school and I haven't missed a day. Please bring me a football, BB gun and a storybook. My little sister and brother are looking for you too. Bring us all some nice candy and nuts and oranges.--Frank Sires. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 3--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Yates, Mo. Dear Santa: I am a little girl 7 years old. I am in the second grade. I want a toy car, a doll, a wrist watch, and some nuts, candy and fruit.--Edith Benton. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 3--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Yates, Mo. Hello Santa! Just a line to let you know what I want for Christmas. Please bring me a spinning top, a BB gun, a story book, a toy wagon and a necktie. And Santa, Billy said tell you he wanted a fountain pen and a gun.--Parks Morris. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 3--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Yates, Mo. Dear Santa Claus: Do not forget to put a BB gun in your pack, also please give me some story books, a football and candy and nuts, and oranges and chewing gum.--Foster Sires. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 3--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Yates, Mo. Dear Santa Claus: I will be looking for you Christmas eve night. Please bring me a sewing machine, a set of knives and forks, and a doll, also candy, nuts and fruit. Santa, don't forget the other little boys and girls.--Martha Wayland Williams. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 4--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Yates, Mo. Dear Santa: I want a chair, a sled, a table, a little cook stove, a bed and a doll. Please don't forget to bring mamma and papa something nice. Please put some candy, nuts and fruit in my stocking.--Phyllis Stark. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 4--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Yates, Mo. Dear Santa: Please bring me a fountain pen, a pair of gloves, and a sewing machine, some candy and nuts. I am in the third grade. I study hard to know my lessons. My teacher is Miss Helen Burton.--Blanche Benton. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 4--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Yates, Mo. Dear Santa: I want a basketball and a popgun, and a fountain pen, some candy, nuts and fruit. Don't forget Virginia and Lawrence. Come soon Christmas eve, while I am at the Christmas tree.--Kenneth Goon. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 4--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Yates, Mo. Dear Santa: Please give me a dresser, a cabinet, some water colors, a set of toy dishes (I want China dishes this time, not tin ones). Bring Billy a car and a jumping jack. Ray wants candy and nuts and a kiddy car.--Nina Norine Thomas. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 4--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Yates, Mo. Dear Santa: Please bring me a football and a basketball and a 22 rifle. I would also like to have a wagon. Please bring me lots of nuts and candy, some English walnuts and some picture cards.--Glenn Fray. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 4--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Yates, Mo. Dear Santa: I am a little boy 8 years old. Will you please bring me a basketball and a cap pistol, some story books and candy, oranges and nuts.--Vernon Fray. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 4--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy 11 years old. I go to Hamilton school. Haven't missed but one day since school started. I want to tell you what I want for Christmas. Please bring me a gun and a pair of skates, some candy, oranges and nuts. Please don't forget my three little sisters and brother.--Herschel Hogan. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 4--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: We are two little boys 18 years old. I want to tell you what to bring us for Christmas. Please bring us a wagon, toy pistol, a pair of skates and some candy and nuts, and you can bring us a sweetheart about our age if you want. Please don't forget our mamma.--Benton Avery and Edward White. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: We are three little girls living about two miles south of town. We have been good little girls and don't ask for much. Santa, please bring us a doll, doll buggy, some dishes and anything else you think nice for us. Also bring us some candy, nuts and fruits. Please do not forget June Rose, and other little boys and girls. Your little friends, Toinette, Elmona and Connie. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Old Santa: I want you to bring me a rocking horse, a big gun, and please don't forget my sled and a lot of candy.--Mark Charles Murphy. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Old Santa: I am a little boy two years old. I am going to tell you what I want for Christmas. A tooto train, ball and a horn and also some candy and nuts and some fruit.--William Edwin Robb. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Old Santa Claus: I am a little girl five years old. I want you to bring me a big doll and rocking chair and pocketbook and a string of beads some candy and nuts and oranges. Don't forget daddy and mother and little brother.--Voncille Cooper. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Old Santa: I am a little boy 4 years old and have tried to be a good little boy. I live in the north end of town, and now Santa when you come up that way don't forget to stop, as I am sure looking for you. Please bring me a little red wagon, watch, popgun, and a little knife with a chain on it. Also candy, oranges and nuts, and please don't forget all the other little boys and girls--Donald Sharp. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Old Santa: I am a little girl five years old. I go to Oak Grove school and am in the second grade. I want you to bring me a wrist watch that will run, a box of paints, a little doll, a doll buggy, a doll table, a little stove, a doll bed, a doll house, also some candy, nuts and oranges. Please come to our Christmas program December 22.--Clara Moore. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa Claus: Please don't forget your little friend, Thelma Orton. I am going to Oak Grove school and Miss Willmuth Baker is my good teacher. I want you to bring me a diamond ring, a wrist watch, doll bed, doll stove, a horn, a little doll, a pencil box, a pencil and please Santa Claus don't forget to bring me some candy and bananas for I like them.--Thelma Orton. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am in the second grade and go to Oak Grove school. I want a cap pistol, a knife, box of colors and candy and grapes, oranges. I have been very good all year. Please don't forget our teacher, Miss Willmuth Baker.--Roscoe Duncan. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa Claus: I am 6 years old and in the second grade. I want you to bring me a sack of marbles, rubber ball and a knife life Dad's; also candy, gum, nuts, oranges and dear Santa, please don't forget my mother, father and sisters. Bring my teacher, Miss Baker, a lot of nice presents.--Eldor Moore. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am nine years old and in the fifth grade. I go to Oak Grove school and want you to bring me a doll, gold bracelet, a green linen dress, candy, nuts, oranges, apples and grapes. Please do not forget mother, daddy and brother; also my teacher, Miss Baker.--Ethel Jobson. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: Please do not forget me because I think I have been a pretty good little boy. I want a coaster wagon and some candy and some nuts and oranges and bananas. Please bring these to me because I want them very bad.--Marshall Baker. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy 8 years old and am in the third grade. I go to school at Oak Grove and I want you to bring me a box of colors, a horn, and plenty of candy, oranges, nuts, bananas, and a slate. Don't forget our Christmas program is December 22.--Herbert Caliner. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am a good boy 6 years old. My teacher says I am good anyway. I want a small slate, a big sack of marbles and plenty of candy. Anything else that you can bring.--Lawrence Summers. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am a little boy 9 years old. I go to Oak Grove school. Will you please bring me a pearl handle knife, a coat, also candy, nuts oranges, grapes. We are also preparing for a program it will be the 22nd of December, so Santa, be sure and come to our Christmas program.--Charles Orton. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am 9 years old and go to school every day. Will you bring me a box of candy with great big nuts on top, story book, slate, box of colors, also bring my brother and sister a lot of nice things. Also my teacher, Miss Baker, she has been so nice to us, so don't miss her.--Kenneth Sly. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy six years old. I go to school most every day. I want you to bring me a horn, a wagon, toy pony, all kinds of fruit, candy, and please don't forget my mother, daddy and little Aleen. My cousin Miss Willmuth Baker is my teacher and you can write to her and she will tell you how good I am and how well I get my lessons. So bring her a lot of nice things.--Junior Duffield. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am 8 years old and go to Oak Grove school. My teacher's name is Miss Willmuth Baker. I want you to bring me a box of colors and candy, nuts, oranges and bananas and also a doll.--Virginia Duncan. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am ten years old. I want you to bring me a pearl handle knife, harp, gun, candy, nuts, oranges, and don't forget mother, daddy, sister and brothers. Don't forget our teacher, Miss Baker.--Wilson Moore. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am 11 years old in 4th grade. I have been a good boy. Bring me a horn, pencil box, knife, B. B. gun, nuts, oranges and candy.--Ralph Moore. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am a little boy 8 years old, and am in the fifth grade at Oak Grove school. I will be glad when the night of December 24 comes so I can hang up my stocking. Well, I will begin to tell you what I want because it might take a long time. Please bring me an air rifle, electric train, a top, an aeroplane. Don't forget mother, daddy and sister, and please don't forget Miss Baker, our good teacher.--Urbane Sumpter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 2, Col. 1-6--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, By W. T. Dameron--(Kathy's notes: This letter again quotes from several issues of the Randolph Citizen of 1855 and later years. Some of these quotes give the paper they were from, some don't, and it's very hard to determine where this letter ends and the regular news begins. Bearing that in mind, I will attempt to glean some useful information.)-- "Elizabeth Adams, G. A. Adams, Richard Adams, D. E. Jones, Susanah Jones and Sarah Day, give notice to Franklin Adams and Robert Adams, minor heirs of Polly Adams, deceased, that they are heirs of James Adams, deceased, and that they will make application to the Randolph county court on the 4th Monday in July, 1855, for the allotment of dower in the distribution of the slaves belonging to the said decedent, among the heirs and distributees." "William I. Ferguson gives notice that he has obtained from the county court of Randolph county, Mo., letters of administration on the estate of Holland Ferguson, deceased, bearing the date of April 23, 1855." "Gideon Haines and Josiah Harlan, executors, give notice that they have obtained from the county court letters of administration, with will annexed, on the estate of Evan Haines, deceased, bearing date of May 28, 1855." "Died, in this county on May 29, 1855, of cholera, Miss Elizabeth Swetnam, aged about 16 years. Mrs. Caroline Swetnam, wife of George Swetnam, also died of cholera on June 3, 1855." "Died, near Mt. Airy, June 9th, 1855, after an illness of one week, Mrs. Anna Hurt, consort of Joshua Hurt, aged 69 years. The deceased was a native of Garrard county, Ky., whence she emigrated with her husband and father, Alexander Denny, deceased, to Howard county in 1818. She had been a resident of this county for more than a quarter of a century. By her eminent social virtues and christian piety, she had won the esteem and love of al who knew her." "The Citizen announces Shelton Lessy as a candidate for county surveyor at the ensuing August election." "Mr. William Patton, living about five miles north of Huntsville, had a negro to run off on the 23rd, inst. He offers a liberal reward for his recovery." "Married, on May 3, 1855, by the Rev. Harvey Lawson, Mr. Reuben F. Polson of this county, to Miss Elizabeth R. Hayley, of Macon county." Mr. Polson was Probate Court judge of this county back in the early '90's. "Died, in this county, Thursday night, June 24, 1855, Elizabeth McDavitt, consort of Basil McDavitt, Sr., in the 83rd year of her life. She was born in Orange county, Va., where she attached herself in early life to the Baptist church. She then moved with her parents, John Finnell and wife, to Scott county, Ky., in the year 1800. Thence she emigrated with her husband from Woodford county, Ky., to the place she died in this county, in the year 1825."(should have been 1855). The family settled in Silver Creek township, near Mt. Airy. "William E. Walden gives notice that he has obtained form the county court, letters of administration of the estate of Asa Kirby, deceased, bearing date of June 18, 1855." "July 19, 1855: A little son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. D. Malone of Huntsville accidentally fell into a deep cistern and was drowned before he could be taken out." "Terry Bradley, postmaster of Huntsville, gives notice on July 5, 1855, that there are remaining in the post office about 50 letters--giving the name and address of each--which if not taken out in three months, would be sent to the post office department as dead letters." Mr. Bradley was Huntsville's first postmaster. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 2, Col. 6 and Pg 3, Col. 1--Mr. Nunley H. Stone and Miss Agnes Dunivent, two of Huntsville's prominent young people, were united in holy wedlock at 5 o'clock p.m. Sunday last at the Methodist church by the pastor, the Rev. O. L. Hunt, in a beautiful ring ceremony. While the engagement of these two excellent and popular young people had been announced at social parties, the date of their contemplated marriage was kept a secret and only a few people outside of their immediate families knew of the event when it occurred. While the wedding was informal, only members of the family were present. Both of the contracting parties were born and reared in Huntsville and both are active church workers, though not belonging to the same denomination, and groom being a leading musician in the Christian church and the bride an active Sunday School worker in the Methodist church. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Stone, and had been associated with his father in the Huntsville Telephone Co., until they sold the plant a few months ago, and is a fine young man. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Finis Dunnivent, prominent family of this city, and is a most excellent young lady. After the marriage they left for St. Louis to spend a few days of their honeymoon, and later they expect to locate in Kansas City, where the groom has a lucrative position offered him with the Bell Telephone Co. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 5, Col. 1--Miss Alice Rockett left Friday for a visit of several weeks in Hiteman, Iowa. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 5, Col. 1--Mrs. Thos. Longdon returned Friday from a visit with relatives in Mexico, Mo. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 5, Col. 2--(Kathy's notes: There is a photograph at the top of this column of Miss Charlotte Burkhalter. She is standing near a tree, with her right arm grasping a small branch and her left hand resting on her left hip. Her dress is dark, straight, sleeveless and reaches just below her knees. It is a snapshot and quite grainy, but might be of interest to her descendants.) MISS CHARLOTTE BURKHALTER--High School Queen.--One of the outstanding and interesting features of the recent High School Carnival was the election of the High School Queen. Each class selected a candidate for this high honor and gave loyal support to their choice. However, when the voting closed the candidate of the Senior Class had received the greatest number of votes and the honor of the ruling power of the student body was accorded to Miss Charlotte Burkhalter. The election of Miss Burkhalter expressed the sentiment of the student body. Since she entered school as a Freshman she has engaged in all high school activities, especially in the musical and literary programs of the school. She is a member of this year's basketball team and has proved her loyalty and ability many times in the contests of this school year. Not only has she been a leader in the school activities but also has supported and aided in the direction of class programs. The picture above is a silent tribute to the beauty and charm of the recently elected Queen. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 5, Col. 5--Will Thompson returned Saturday from a three weeks' stay at the Veterans' Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, where he went for treatment. He was much improved, his friends will be glad to learn. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 5, Col. 6--Omer Andrews advises us that his father, "Pole" Andrews, who was recently operated on at a Kansas City hospital, had so far recovered as to be able to be taken to his home in Olathe, Kas., last week. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 1, Col. 1--ANOTHER OLD RESIDENT GONE--Chas. Frisk Passes Away at Ripe Old Age of 82.--Chas. Frisk, one of our oldest and best known residents, passed away at the State hospital at Fulton Friday, the 17th, in his 83rd year. Deceased was born in Sweden on August 12, 1844, and came to this country in 1872, and came to this community a year or so later, where he had since resided, being engaged in farming until some ten years ago, when he retired and moved to town to spend his declining years in the rest he had so well earned. He was married about 50 years ago to Miss Bettie Wheeler, who preceded him to the grave about a year ago, and from the shock of which he never fully recovered. He is survived by one brother, Nelson Johnson, of this place, and one sister, whose home is in St. Louis, besides a wide circle of friends. Deceased was a devout member of the Higbee Baptist church, and of which he had been a member for many years, and when his health would permit was always to be found at the church services. He was as honest as the day is long and always had a pleasant greeting for you, and had the confidence and respect of all who knew him. Funeral services were held at the Baptist church Sunday by the pastor, the Rev. L. M. White, and interment made in the Higbee cemetery. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 1, Col. 2--The many Higbee friends of Mr. and Mrs. Miller Pyle of Sterling, Colo., will learn with the deepest regret of the death of their baby son, born August 11th, which occurred on the 16th from pneumonia, and all join the NEWS in sympathy. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 1, Col. 2--Mrs. B. F. Andrews, who recently returned from Kansas City where she was operated on , and who has not done much good since her return home is now under the care of a trained nurse. She was reported some better yesterday, we are glad to say. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 1, Col. 2--Mrs. Thomas Patterson of Yates, left Friday for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Williams, of Chicago. The many Higbee friends of Mrs. Williams who was stricken with paralysis several weeks ago, will be glad to learn that she is showing improvement from week to week. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 1, Col. 2--Mrs. J. W. Winn spent Monday in Marshall with Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Duncan and father, R. G. Duncan. The latter, who has been on the sick list for some time, is improving, his Higbee friends will be glad to know, and is able to be up and around most of the time. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 1, Col. 2--The many Higbee friends of Mrs. Geo. Manuel of Kansas City will regret to hear of a quite serious accident befalling her Friday of last week, she having broken her right ankle in a fall down the stairs at her home, and which will likely keep her in bed for several weeks. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 1, Col. 3--DUNCAN-MACHETTA--A wedding which we are rather late in announcing, but of which we were not informed until this week, was that of Joseph W. Duncan, formerly of this place, and Miss Marie Machetta, the marriage occurring in Los Angeles, Calif., on November 27, the bride leaving Higbee for the West about the 23rd. She is the pretty daughter of Jas. Machetta of west of town and is a most modest and refined young lady and has a wide circle of friends by whom she will be sadly missed. The groom is the son of Mrs. Mary Riley, formerly of Yates, and a grandson of Mrs. Joe Duncan of that place. He is a most exemplary young man, as all who know him can testify, and who has been in the navy for several years, and who is now located in Los Angeles, but whether connected with the navy or not, we are not advised. None of the bride's family mentioned the happy event to us, presuming that we knew about it, while Mr. Duncan in a letter to us dated the 1st, said: "Writing you to ask you to change my address to 139 1/2 E. 68th St., Los Angeles, Calif., as I am now living at that address. We are having wonderful weather and lots of sunshine, just like spring. Good old Higbee! Wish I could send some of our sunshine to you in this." Until we heard of the wedding, we judged from the above that Mr. Duncan had become a true Californian, who never loses an opportunity to boost their wonderful climate and sunshine, but we now understand why there is so much sunshine for him, and we join a legion of friends in the wish that the life of each will be filled with nothing but sunshine to the end of the chapter. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 1, Col. 3--Mrs. Guy Morter and children of Quantico, W.Va., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Robb and other relatives and friends. She will be joined later by Mr. Moter, who will drive through in his car. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 1, Col. 4--UNION CHRISTMAS TREE--For the first time in years, and perhaps for the only time when a community tree was tried out several years ago, the several churches will not have Christmas trees and exercises this year, but will unite and have a union tree at the school building. The exercises will begin promptly at 7:30. Everybody is invited. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 1, Col. 4--NO PAPER NEXT WEEK--As we are very much in need of rest, and as some of the office machinery needs overhauling, no paper will be issued from this office next week. The office will be open, however, to take care of any printing you may need. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 1, Col. 4--Thos. Robb, who has been visiting his sister, Mrs. G. W. Cook, of Springfield, Mo., left this week for Colorado for the benefit of his health. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 1, Col. 4--C. W. Cubbage, who is located at Mobile, Ala., where he is superintending the construction of a large river bridge, sends us his renewal and says: "Kindly apply check on subscription and keep the old paper coming as we enjoy reading it. My family is well and I am getting along nicely with my work. Will take about two months to complete the work here. Wish you and all my friends a merry Christmas and a very happy new year." Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 1, Col. 4--Oscar T. Solberg, who has a good position with the Sheridan Coal Co., with headquarters at Aberdeen, S. D., sends his renewal and encloses a small blotter, advertising the products of his company. They feature "Petroleum Carbon Coke," and offer $100 to anyone who can get as much as a peck of ash from a ton of it. A mighty clean product, it would seem. Oscar has been with the company for several years and his Higbee friends will be glad to know that he has long since made good and is considered one of the company's best men. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 1, Col. 4--Folks in the vicinity of Medley Burton's store one day last week, as well as others three blocks away, were rather startled to hear a sharp, but somewhat muffled explosion, but as no smoke or damage was to be seen, it was supposed to be workmen of the Winston-Dear Co. employed in blowing stumps at the strip mine south of town, as this work had been going on for a week or two, generally from ten to fifty shots being put off in succession. Mr. Burton, whose place of business was more or less shaken, rushed out to see what was wrong, and noticing a trash pile he was burning at the side of the store, was pretty well scattered, some of which was later found to have been blown on top of the store, and poking about in what remained found a bursted can of pineapple, which had been thrown on the trash pile by his daughter, Mrs. Ruby Hawkins, she having discovered that it was spoiled, and which had caused all the excitement. From the report it made, pineapple gas might be a good substitute for dynamite. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 1, Col. 6--Mr. and Mrs. Nat Dennis left Thursday for San Angelo, Texas, where they will spend the winter, and where they may decide to locate. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 1, Col. 6--Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Lee of Des Moines, N. M., are the guests of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Hare, and other relatives and friends. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

Jo - According to Coutts and Boggs Cemeteries of Howard County, Roanoke Cemetery was established 1854 and 1859. Intersection of Highway 129 and 3. Part of Black Cemetery is in Randolph Co. The listings for the Osburns: Mary Virginia dau William W Blair & Mrs S M Phelps b 9-26-1870 d 3-15-1941 71y m J J Osburn 12-18-1889 Lilly Blanche b 4-12-1894 d 7-18-1973 John J b 6-12-1858 d 11-19-1916 Good luck to you Carolyn -----Original Message----- From: Jo [mailto:jopace46@attbi.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:58 PM To: MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] ROANOKE CEMETERY I am looking for relatives that are buried in the Roanoke Cemetery. Am not sure if it is in Howard or Randolph County. Is there someone on the list that would be able to provide directions to this cemetery? I plan to visit there in a couple weeks and would like to photograph their headstones. I am interested in John J. OSBORN, died November 20, 1916, buried in the Roanoke Cemetery. His wife, Mary Virginia Blair OSBORN died March 15, 1941 and is also buried there. Any help, clues, or information regarding this cemetery would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Jo Pace, Denver, Colorado JoPace46@attbi.com

A big thank you to everyone that responded to my query regarding the Roanoke Cemetery. I received GREAT help and want to thank everyone, even those who provided names that I am looking to find. Jo Pace JoPace46@attbi.com

I am looking for relatives that are buried in the Roanoke Cemetery. Am not sure if it is in Howard or Randolph County. Is there someone on the list that would be able to provide directions to this cemetery? I plan to visit there in a couple weeks and would like to photograph their headstones. I am interested in John J. OSBORN, died November 20, 1916, buried in the Roanoke Cemetery. His wife, Mary Virginia Blair OSBORN died March 15, 1941 and is also buried there. Any help, clues, or information regarding this cemetery would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Jo Pace, Denver, Colorado JoPace46@attbi.com

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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, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 2, Col. 4,5,6&7 cont. on pg 7, Col. 1--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, By W. T. Dameron--(Kathy's notes: Although I edited sections of this letter, the information in this entry was taken exactly as written, with nothing left out of this old issue of the Randolph Citizen.)--71 years ago--Excerpts from the old Randolph Citizen, published at Huntsville in 1855. This issue, May 10, 1855, contains Gov. Sterling Price's Thanksgiving observed on the 31st day of May. Here it is in full: "Whereas, it is the duty of nations and states, as well as individuals, at stated times to gratefully return thanks for the many favors of a kind Providence, and at times to prostrate themselves at the throne of Divine Grace, and humbly petition the Giver of all Good for a continuance of His watchful care and that impending state or national calamity may be averted. Now, therefore, I, Sterling Price, Governor of the State of Missouri, under a full sense of obligation and duty, and at the urgent solicitation of many citizens, do by this proclamation, recommend to the people of this State, without distinction of denomination or creed, that they observe Thursday, the 31st day of May, as a day of Thanksgiving, humility and prayer, that they close their houses of business, assemble at their respective place of public worship and return thanks for the many blessings of Providence, and humbly beseech the Divine Ruler of the universe that our State may be blessed with health, plentifulness and prosperity, and that we may not be visited with famine, pestilence or civil strife." The Glasgow Times reports cholera raging on the "Upper Mississippi, and Western Rivers. The boat, Kate Casel, put off four dead bodies at Brunswick, and reported several deaths at Arrow Rock from cholera." The editor states that "farmers of Randolph county are gloomy over the continual dry weather and depredations of cinch bugs and other insects." In this issue of the Citizen, E. G. Clair, a pioneer printer of Huntsville announces the sale of his paper, "The Independent Missourian," to Francis M. Taylor, publisher of the Citizen. "Want of sufficient capital to conduct the Missourian," was the reason given for selling the paper and plant. The Independent Missourian was the second paper started in Huntsville. The old Randolph Recorder, I believe, was the first. James W. Foster advertises his 280-acre farm for sale, located on the Grand divide, 8 miles east of Huntsville, on the survey of the North Missouri Railroad. John W. W. Sears, administrator of the estate of John Elliott, deceased, gives notice of final settlement at the May term of the county court. St. Louis market, May 5, 1855: Tobacco, $9, to $12.60; flour, $9.50 to $12 bbl; wheat, $1.60 to $2.75 bu; corn, 80c to 95c; oats 56c to 58c; butter, 14c to 16c; cheese, .09c to 12 1/2c; whisky, 37 1/2c gallon; apples $2 bu; peaches, $2 bu; apples, green, $1.50 bbl; flax seed, $1.42 1/2 bu; hides, 5 1/2c to 9c; coffee, 11c to 11 3/8c; salt, $1.59 bbl; molasses, 30c. Patton & Samuel, Drygoods, Boots and Shoes, advertise their stock at cost. J. V. Hardy & Co, Druggists, "Just received a fresh line of drugs, paints, chemicals, dyes, etc." H. W. Miller, principal, Middle Grove High School, "Will spare no effort to render this institution inferior to none in the country." Rate of tuition for five-months term: For common English, $7; higher English, $10; classics, $15. Tracy & Chapman advertise foreign and domestic dry goods at the old stand of N. B. Tracy. James F. Goodman and B. McDavitt, administrators of the estate of Jane Monahan, deceased, give notice to all persons indebted to the estate to come forward and make payment of same. Peter M. Burris and Thos. B. Embree, give notice that they will make final settlement at the next term of the county court of the estate of Caleb Embree, deceased. The Huntsville district school opened April 3, 1855 with Jas. D. Head, A. M., as principal. A tuition fee of $6 to $10 was charged all students. Dr. Jas. J. Watts, physician, surgeon and accouter; offers his professional services to his friends and fellow citizens at the former residence of his brother, Wm. B. Watts, 8 miles south of Huntsville, on the plank road leading to Glasgow. Wm. D. Malone and W. R. Samuel, trustees, advertise the Huntsville Female School, in charge of Miss Ann Leland. Terms of tuition: Spelling and Reading, $6.50; Elementary Grammar, Geography, Writing and Mental Arithmetic, $8; English Grammar, Higher Arithmetic and History, $10; for Painting and Drawing, $5 extra. H. L. Rutherford and Wm. D. Malone advertise that they "keep on hand negro men, women, boys and girls, in Huntsville, for sale. All persons who wish to buy negroes can make it to their interest to call on or address us by letter, giving description of kind of slaves desired." The business and professional interests in Huntsville in May 1855, were: J. C. Shaefer, Tailor; G. c. Sauvinet, Sign Painter; Gerhard & Barado, Hardware merchants; A. J. Ferguson, Mfg. saddles, harness and trunks; S. W. Robertson, watch repairer and jewelry; Lewis Heether, proprietor Randolph House; g. H. Burckhartt, attorney-at-law; reed & Denny atty.'s-at-law; Dr. J. H. Miller, physician and surgeon; Patton & Samuel, merchants; J. V. Hardy, drugs; P. R. Hume, contractor and builder; Luther Collier, lawyer; W. G. Ruby & Co, drugs; W. C. Bohannon, physician and surgeon; Chas. H. Lewis & Co., hardware; J. B. and G. w. Taylor, merchants; Dr. Waldo Lewis, physician and surgeon; Dr. W. T. Dameron; J. F. Riley, gunsmith; H. M. Porter, attorney-at-law; R. H. Cunningham & Theodore Tedford, saw mill. George W. Hunt, a pioneer of the county, and liveryman of Huntsville in those days, thusly advertises his business. In part, he says: "Hear, Ye, Oh Friends, Hear! Again I have unfurled my flag to the breeze and it is proudly waving on my new stable, just below the Huntsville Hotel." Mr. Hunt was the father of Gov. Geo. W. P. Hunt of Arizona, who, at the State election there last month, was re-elected Governor for the sixth time. The Governor's father died on his farm, near Darksville, his county, about 30 years ago. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 7, Col. 1--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, By W. T. Dameron--(edited by compiler)--Another old citizen of the county has passed away. Thos. T. Towles died at his home about six miles north of Huntsville on the 10th, of a complication of diseases. Mr. Towles was born in Huntsville in 1847 and was nearly 80 years old when he died. He had been a successful farmer nearly all of his life. He entered the Confederate service in the spring of 1863 at the age of 15 years, and served through the remainder of the war, being in several hard-fought battles, but never received a scratch. At the age of 40 years, or in 1887, he married a Miss Hunt of this county. Of this union five children were born, three of whom are living, also his wife, who is quite feeble. Some 15 or 20 years ago Mr. Towles made a profession of religion and united with the Primitive Baptist denomination, placing his membership with Hickory Grove church, near Darksville. Thos. T. Towles was a quiet and inoffensive man, honest and true, and one who attended strictly to his own business. He was a true christian gentleman and a loyal citizen, just such a man as the county can ill afford to lose. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 4, Col. 2--OAK GROVE ITEMS--Mrs. Alice Smith and mother, Mrs. Lyle spent Thursday in Moberly with Mrs. Thomas Woods, who is in a hospital. She is reported better, but is still in a very serious condition. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 4, Col. 4--Mrs. Lousetta Dougherty went to Renick Saturday for a visit with her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Claude Lewis, and her two little grandchildren. Mrs. Lewis and children will leave this week for St. Louis where Mr. Lewis has a good position. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 4, Col. 5--Mrs. Mary Burke is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Otha Robb, of Mexico. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 4, Col. 5--Mrs. Ed Seibert of Paris was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Mabel Turner, Tuesday. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 4, Col. 5&6--Mrs. Lizzie Bottoms spent Sunday in Moberly with her mother, Mrs. Sue Burton, and Mr. and Mrs. E. Y. Keiter, and her brother, May M. Burton. The latter, who has been traveling for the Brown Shoe Co. for twenty-five years, and who has been located in Council Bluff, Ia., will leave the first of the year for Sacramento, Calif, to join his family, and will make his home there. Needless to add that he will be retained by his company, as he has long since ranked as one of their foremost salesmen. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 5, Col. 1--Mrs. B. F. Andrews, who recently returned from a Kansas City hospital, where she underwent an operation has not been quite so well for several days, we are sorry to learn. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 5, Col. 2--Mrs. Joe Hackward and daughters, Misses Vera and Jennie, spent Sunday with relatives in Moberly. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 5, Col. 2--Mrs. David Davis spent the first of the week in New Franklin with her daughter, Mrs. George Barnett. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 5, Col. 2--Jas. Rice left yesterday for Clinton, Ind., where he has secured employment, and to which place he will later move his family. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 8, Col. 2--IN MEMORIAM--In loving memory of our dear mother, Mrs. Margaret Comstock, who departed from this life one year ago, December 13, 1925. When we saw our mother drifting From this world of joy and woe, Our hearts were filled with sorrow To think she had to go. We asked our Heavenly Father To hear our tearful plea, That we might keep our darling mother But alas, it could not be. All our prayers were useless, And our pleadings were in vain, But what was our sad loss Was surely heaven's gain. Never more on earth will we her smiling face behold, But she is waiting now to meet us At those shining gates of gold.---Sadly missed by children and grandchildren. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 1 Col. 1--MT. PLEASANT ITEMS--Robert Wilbanks and family moved to the George Winn farm last week. We are glad to welcome them as new neighbors. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 1 Col. 1--CAL ROBB HAS LEG BROKEN--Cal Robb, who moved to Mexico from this place several months ago, had his right leg broken Thursday of last week while at work at the A. P. Green Fire Brick Co. plant, a rock which he was putting in a kiln falling on him. A letter to his father, Benton Robb, received yesterday, stated that the injury was paining him very much, and that the doctors thought the limb might have to be reset. Cal's many Higbee friends will be sorry to learn of his bad luck, and all join the NEWS in the hope that he will soon be as good as new. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 1 Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS NEXT WEEK--We are compelled to leave out a big lot of Santa Claus letters this week, but they will appear in our next issue--in ample time for the old gentleman to get them, even if he has to borrow the paper. If you have any such letters please get them to the office by noon Monday. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 1 Col. 6--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Thomas Hern was taken seriously ill Sunday night, but is improving now. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 1 Col. 6--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mr. and Mrs. Mart Mead were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Omar Asbury. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 1 Col. 6--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Blansett and children were Sunday guests of their daughter, Mrs. Wood Warford. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 1 Col. 6--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Jake Atkins and son, Olin, Mrs. Hattie Quick and son, Roy, were Sunday guest of John Mead and daughters. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 1 Col. 6--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mr. and Mrs. Ben Feland had as Sunday dinner guests Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Hern, Mr. and Mrs. Mart Mead, Mrs. Lou Fisher and children, Mrs. Lewis Snell and son of Rocheport and Miss Helen Atkins. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 1 Col. 6--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. John Colly of near Rucker died Tuesday of pneumonia, aged 63 years. She leaves besides her husband five sons, Richard, George, Dave, Elmer and Frank, and two daughters, Dolly and Lizzie, besides many other near relatives. Interment was made Thursday at Perche. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 2, Col. 1--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, By W. T. Dameron--(edited by compiler)--Mrs. Mary F. Gill, one of the good old ladies of the county, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Emma Agee, here on December 8, of paralysis, at the age of 83 years. She was the widow of A. Fisher gill, who died here about ten years ago. Mrs. Gill was born in St. Louis in 1843, and was married to Fisher Gill, who was a native of St. Louis county, during the Civil War. Soon after their marriage, or in 1866, they moved to this county and settled on a farm two miles south of Randolph Springs, where they resided for many years before they moved to Huntsville, and where Mr. Gill held a probate court clerkship for several years under Judge B. S. Head. Mrs. Gill was a long-time member of the Baptist church of this city, and prominent in church work. She leaves three children--Mrs. John H. Reed and Mrs. Emma Agee, of this city and one son, the Rev. Dr. Everett Gill, a prominent minister of the Baptist church, and general director of missions in foreign fields, with headquarters at Edinburg, Scotland; also ten grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. (should probably have been great-grandchildren) Her funeral was held at the Baptist church at 2:30 Friday, conducted by her pastor, the Rev. F. P. Davidson. Burial in the city cemetery. Thursday, 16 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 33, Pg 2, Col. 1,2&3--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, By W. T. Dameron--(edited by compiler)--"Today, December 8, 54 years ago, there was about three inches of snow on the ground," said Hon. W. T. Heathman to a bunch of friends in Day's drug store. "The reason I remember it so well is that it's Joe T. Kirby's birthday, who was born December 8, 1872. I was eight years old at the time and I was at the home of Joe's parents a few hours after the event transpired, and I walked through the snow there. My mother had gone there earlier in the day, and bade me stay at home and not to go out. But they used to tell it on me when a boy that I had a desire to regulate everything in the neighborhood--even in family affairs. When I heard of Joe's birth the thought struck me that I wanted a namesake, and I struck out through the snow to the home of Joe's father, Clifton Kirby, who resided not far from our home. My arrival there was a surprise to mother and others present. I demanded that the baby be given my name. This created a laugh, of course, but I could se no humor in it, and I stood pat on my demand. Well, my father's full name was William Lowry Heathman, and I wanted Joe named "William Thomas Kirby." Joe's mother was a cousin of mine, and for that reason, I presume, I pressed my demand. But it seemed that the family had agreed on a pre-birth name for either sex, as the case might be, and my name was not in it. The first name agreed on was "Joseph," the name of J. T. Kirby, an uncle. But I insisted that I had to have a part in the naming of the "first born," and I finally effected a compromise, and we named him "Joseph Thomas Kirby." But the little fellow grew up under the name of "Joe" instead of "Tom" and carries that name yet." Mr. Heathman must have been a pretty hard "nut" when a boy, as he can tell some pretty hard ones on himself when he was in his 'teens, and in later years also. Jumping from boyhood days to a few years ago, Mr. Heathman told this one: "While traveling for a farm implement firm a few years ago I pulled up at Van Buren, Ark. While seated in a hotel there I noticed a most beautiful young lady as a waiter, about the dining room. While seated in the lobby she came in to ask the clerk something, and inquired if he had any mail for her, and I heard him mention Aurora, Mo. When she left the lobby I asked the clerk if she formerly lived in that town and he said she was raised there and was a fine young lady and had a sweetheart there. The next morning at breakfast she waited on the table at which I was seated and the thought struck me to play a "medium" stunt. I had never been in Aurora, but the clerk gave me information about the town, so when she brought in my breakfast I said to her; "You are from Aurora, aren't you?" "Yes, sir. Do you live there?. "No, I've never been there," I replied. "Well," she asked, "how did you know that was my home? Are you acquainted with anyone there?" "No, I do not know a single person there." I replied. Then before she could ask another question I said to her, "You have a sweetheart there and are looking daily for a very sweet letter from him aren't you?" With sparkling eyes and a little blush she looked me in the face and said, "How do you know--who told you that?" "Oh, well, I just know things like that. Sometimes friends call me a medium," I replied. Then she became more interested and asked me about the age, size and looks of her "fellow." I guessed each question just about right, judging from the way she blushed and smiled. Then she said, "I bet you don't know his name." I heard the clerk call a name when she was talking to him the evening before, and I spoke that name, and said, "you are engaged to him, too." Then she became more interested and commenced to fire some questions at me that I could not answer, and I began to twist in my chair, and told her that it was too hard on my mind to foretell coming events, and then noticed she had not brought me any coffee, and I called for it. She hurriedly got it and with a very pleasing attitude asked me to tell her fortune, but I had run out of "pointers" and she had me cornered, but I told her she would soon be married and live a happy life, and that settled it for the time being and saved my "rep" as a medium--a fake one, to be sure,--and I never returned to Van Buren to see if my "prophecies" came true or not." Speaking of mediums recalls the story that Mr. Heathman told me about two years ago, about having his fortune told by a medium in Illinois one time, and which was published in the late Moberly Democrat. But it is a good one and it will do to repeat, what I now remember of it: Mr. Heathman was traveling for the Moberly Hay Press Co., and on this trip stopped in Springfield, Ill., to sell some hay presses. He had never had his fortune told, and while working along the streets there one evening he saw a "medium" sign on a residence door, and here is what happened, as he told me: "When I saw that sing," said Mr. Heathman, "I concluded to test that medium and see if she (the medium was a lady), could tell anything about my life that was really true. She seemed to be a very pleasant lady and invited me to a seat, surmising that I wished to have my fortune told. She commenced to ask me questions to size me up and get a line on my life. her charges were from 50 cents up, according to how much of my past life and future life I wished to know. I never hinted to her where I lived, nor what kind of occupation I was following, nor whether single or married. In fact, I had given no information about myself whatever, and I told her I would start in on 50 cents worth of information and if she hit the spot I might take another look. the first question she put to me was: "You're a stranger in the city, aren't you? I had to assent to that. "You are a married man and live in another state." I had to admit that it was true. Then she said: "You do not write to your wife very often when away from home, and when you do write to her you only state where you are and where you will likely be a week hence, just a cold business-like letter." I had to admit that was true also. Then she continued, "You should take time to write your wife an affectionate letter and write often. She would like it much better, and she would write you likewise, and soon both of you would take more pleasure in writing to each other." At this point of the "seance" my 50 cent fee was absorbed, and I concluded that I had enough of that kind of stuff, and bade her good evening. After I went to my room at the hotel and commenced thinking over the matter, I said to myself, maybe I have not been writing the kind of letters to my wife that I should write, so I sat down and wrote her several pages of the most loving letter I ever wrote in my life, and concluded it by telling her where to address her next letter to me. In all my travels I had never written my wife, before or after our marriage, such an affectionate letter, and I was quite anxious to get a reply from her. In due time I received it. Its contents were completely the reverse of what I had expected. It knocked all of the wind out of me. She didn't write much, but said a whole lot. After addressing me as her Dear Husband, she said: "Your affectionate letter received. After reading it over closely, I have concluded that when you wrote it, you were either drunk or crazy." I know the spirit in which my wife wrote, and I had a good laugh over it." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 9 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 32, Pg. 1, Col 1--MARY ELIZABETH WEBB--Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Webb, brief mention of whose death was made in our last issue, and who passed away from the infirmities of age at her home in the north part of town on Wednesday, December 1, was the daughter of Henry and Ann Turner, and was born at McKeysport, Pa., on October 5, 1842, and was married at Fairfield, Ia., on September 5, 1865, to James Stitt Webb, her soldier sweetheart. They were the parents of five children--three daughters and two sons--Alice J., Emma M., Anna Bell, William Pulaski and George H. W. Webb. The sons only survive, two daughters dying in infancy and one at the age of 11. She also leaves 12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, viz: James Oren Webb, Moberly; Mrs. Minnie Blakley, victor Webb and Mrs. Verna Avery, Fayette; Henry, Lester, Erma, Junior, Harley, Mildred and Edward Webb of Burlington, Iowa. Mrs. Webb united with the Christian church at New Hope thirty-three years ago, and where funeral services were held by the Rev. Myers of Moberly, interment being made by the side of her husband, who died on July 15, 1918. A devoted wife and mother, kind neighbor and friend, Mrs. Webb was truly a christian character, and tho' she lived a rather retired life following the death of her husband, she will be missed by a wide circle of friends, and as much by those who knew her best as she will by her loved ones. Thursday, 9 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 32, Pg. 1, Col 1--STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS--E. M. Whitmore, one of our best known residents, was stricken with paralysis shortly after breakfast last Friday morning, and just as he was about to get up from the table. He was found by a delivery boy who was making a delivery at the home. He assisted Mr. Whitmore to his bed and then summoned a physician, who found that the stroke had been quite severe, affecting the entire left side, but not the speech to any considerable extent. Mr. Whitmore, who has lived alone for several years, was taken to the home of his sister, Mrs. J. F. Leonard, and has since shown some slight improvement. His host of friends join the NEWS in the wish for his speedy and permanent recovery, for not to see him on the streets and hear his daily quaint remarks, is about the biggest change that the old town could experience. Thursday, 9 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 32, Pg. 1, Col 1--COOPER-MILLER--Romie Cooper of this place and Miss Mary Miller of Brookfield were united in marriage in that city on December 1, and paid Higbee a visit on their honeymoon trip, being the guest of Mr. Cooper's parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Cooper, Sunday. Romie is one of our most reliable and industrious young men and has been located at Brookfield for some time, holding a position as mechanic in the garage of Lib Noel, and numbers his friends by his acquaintances. The NEWS joins other friends in congratulations and best wishes. Thursday, 9 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 32, Pg. 1, Col 2--MRS. ROSA DIXON DEAD--Mrs. Rosa Dixon, formerly of this place, died at her home in Kansas City Tuesday from tuberculosis, from which she had suffered for a year or two. She was about 40 years old, and was the foster daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Graves of this place. She is survived by her husband and five children and one brother, Denny Graves. We could not learn anything relative to the funeral, but presume interment will be made in Kansas City. Thursday, 9 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 32, Pg. 1, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Jas. Daggs of Brookfield is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Jones. Thursday, 9 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 32, Pg. 1, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Pauline Terrill left Friday for Texarkana, Ark., where she will spend the winter with her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Nicholas. Thursday, 9 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 32, Pg. 1, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. B. F. Andrews, who had been in Kansas City for a month, where she underwent a surgical operation, was able to return home Saturday. Thursday, 9 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 32, Pg. 1, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. L. R. Weiser left Saturday for her home in Anacortes, Washington, after an extended visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Williams. Thursday, 9 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 32, Pg. 1, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--J. F. Whitmore, who is attending a Baptist Seminary in Kansas City, was called home the first of the week by the illness of his uncle, E. M. Whitmore, who is suffering from paralysis. Thursday, 9 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 32, Pg. 1, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Jesse Williams of Kansas city was the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Williams, Saturday. Jesse is now working out of Slater as a brakeman on the Alton, having quit his job as switchman with the Santa Fe at Argentine. Thursday, 9 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 32, Pg. 1, Col 6--Mrs. C. C. Smith and children left Saturday for Hardin, their new home, after a visit with Dr. C. F. Burkhalter and family. Dr. Smith, as mentioned last week, has located at Hardin, his old home, giving up a lucrative practice at Madison. Thursday, 9 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 32, Pg. 1, Col 6--Mrs. Chas. Lewis, on her way home from Kansas City, where she was called by the serious illness of her daughter, Mrs. Gus Bely, was the guest of Mrs. Lousetta Dougherty Sunday and Monday. She left the daughter improving. Thursday, 9 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 32, Pg. 1, Col 6--David Williams of Midwest, Wyo., is the guest of Higbee relatives and friends, arriving Tuesday from Chicago, where he had been to see his mother, Mrs. Robert Williams, who was recently stricken with paralysis. He reports her as very much improved. He will leave for the West tomorrow. Thursday, 9 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 32, Pg. 2, Col 3&4--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, By W. T. Dameron--In looking over an old Huntsville paper the other day, I observed an account of the suicide of John E. McCall, at Roanoke, Mo., Oct. 13, 1880. He shot his brains out with a pistol while lying on a couch in his room over the store of S. Carmichael. No one heard the shot and the body was not discovered until the next day. The pistol was still in his hand and a pool of blood on the floor when some boys discovered the dead body. Mr. McCall was 35 years old and a native of this county and was a fine young man. By profession he was a school teacher and had taught school in various parts of the county. He taught his last school at Clifton Hill about two years before moving to Roanoke, where he engaged in the livery business when he took his life. It was said that Mr. McCall was engaged to a young lady whom he devotedly loved, but soon after their engagement she saw reason to break it, and it was said this bore on his mind heavily and led to his suicide. The following letter was found on his person: Roanoke, Mo., Oct. 13, 1880. Mr. J. T. Ryle, Huntsville, Mo. Dear Brother: I will never see you any more, so I will write you a few words. I am tired of life and do not care to live any longer. I claim everyone as my friend, though I can't treat them so, on account of disappointment. It seems to me like everyone is turning the cold shoulder to me, but I know the fault is in myself and I hope and pray that none will say naught against me when I am dead. Write and tell mama and the children of my death. The subject is too tender--I can't write any more on that point. I want you to administer on my property, and what is left after my debts are paid you can have. I have sold my lot in Higginsville, Mo., for $200 cash. I have in my pocket $225. I would rather you keep my watch, trunk and clothes and such other things you can make use of. Jesse, I know you will think this is foolishness in me shooting myself, but I believe when anyone is tired of life they should be dead and out of other people's way. Some people will say I was crazy when I shot myself, but you can tell all such that is not so. Jesse, I want you to have me buried neatly, and have some nice mottled marble tombstone put up at my grave--have inscribed on the stone "Died by his own hand because of weary." P. S. Jesse, I have made out some accounts on three pieces of paper which will show you pretty well how my business stands. Some one will bring you these papers. Farewell forever.--J. E. McCall." Thursday, 9 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 32, Pg. 5, Col 3--Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Webb, who were called here last week by the death of Mr. Webb's mother, Mrs. M. E. Webb, returned to their home in Burlington, Iowa, Friday, having received a message that one of their children was very sick. Thursday, 9 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 32, Pg. 5, Col 4--Mrs. Roy Richards returned Friday from a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Evans, of Chicago. She reports that her brother, George Evans, who is in West Point, and who she got to visit, as he attended the Army-Navy football game, is looking fine and is doing nicely in his school work. Thursday, 9 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 32, Pg. 8, Col 2--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, By W. T. Dameron, cont.--(edited by compiler)--The funeral and burial of Dan Edwards, aged 25, who died at Cushing, Oklahoma, Thursday of last week, took place here Monday afternoon. The funeral was held at the Baptist church, and was conducted by the pastor, Rev. F. P. Davidson. The funeral was in charge of the Odd Fellow lodge of this city. Burial in the city cemetery. A large crowd attended the services. Deceased was born and reared in this county. He married Miss Maggie Jackson a few years ago, who was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene D. Jackson of this city. Soon after their marriage they moved to California, and only a few weeks ago they moved to Oklahoma. He leaves a wife and two children, mother and one brother, who reside here. The widow and children will remain here. About 18 years ago, Dan Edwards, Sr., the deceased's father, with his family started to Canada to make their home. While on the way there Mr. Edwards was attacked with pneumonia and died before arriving in Canada. The wife and children returned here with the body, and where the wife and children remained. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

Hi James, I suspect it's this fellow. I have him as George Warren Winn, from the 1930 census records for this family. From "the Higbee News" Friday, 17 June 1921, Vol 35, No 9--HIGBEE BOYS WINS HONOR--Our heartiest congratulations to Warren, son of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Winn, who made the highest grade in the examination held in Moberly on the 4th by County School Superintendent Wm. Robertson, for the purpose of selecting a boy to represent Randolph county at the State Fair at Sedalia August 14-20, and won the honor. Second place went to Hubert Harris of Huntsville. Warren, with one boy from each of Missouri's 114 counties, will be the guest of the state, which will pay all of his expenses and show him everything to be seen at the big fair, which is to be much larger than usual this year, and the largest, perhaps, ever held in the West, as Missouri's one hundredth birthday as a state of this glorious union will be celebrated at the same time and place, it having been admitted as a state in 1821, so the boys are slated for the best show and the best time of their lives. Nothwithstanding the big free trip to be won, but nine boys in all of Randolph county took interest enough in the matter to take the examination, and of this number, we are proud to say, there were from Higbee, the two others being Joe Spurling and Eugene Burton. Dr. and Mrs. Winn, whom we congratulate as well as Warren, have particular reason to be proud of the grades made by their son, as he completed grammar school only this year, while some of those from other sections of the county who took the examination had a year or more in high school. Kathy Bowlin ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jbagby4893@aol.com> To: <MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 8:34 PM Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] Winn > Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 3--HONORS FOR WARREN > WINN--Warren Winn, of Higbee, is an honor student at Central College, > Fayette, Mo., > according to results of a survey of the first quarter grades recently made by > the college. > He is a sophomore. > There are seventy-eight names on the Central Honor Roll for this quarter, and > to > be included indicates a high standard of scholarship for Winn. If this > standard is > maintained through the school year he will be cited for honors at the > commencement > exercises. > =================================== > I have a few Winn's. I'm wondering who this Warren Winn comes from? > James M. Bagby > >

Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 3--HONORS FOR WARREN WINN--Warren Winn, of Higbee, is an honor student at Central College, Fayette, Mo., according to results of a survey of the first quarter grades recently made by the college. He is a sophomore. There are seventy-eight names on the Central Honor Roll for this quarter, and to be included indicates a high standard of scholarship for Winn.  If this standard is maintained through the school year he will be cited for honors at the commencement exercises. =================================== I have a few Winn's. I'm wondering who this Warren Winn comes from? James M. Bagby

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, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 5 Col. 3--Lon Greeno, drayman for Will Burke, has been laid up for several days with a sprained back, sustained when he slipped and fell with a case of eggs one day this week. The eggs were likewise seriously damaged. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 5 Col. 3--Mrs. Thos. Tongate left Friday for Chicago, to be with her mother, Mrs. Robert Williams, who was recently stricken with paralysis, and where she will likely remain, as Mr. Tongate has secured employment there. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 5 Col. 3--Aubrey Humphrey, who was laid-up for several weeks recently from a large carbuncle on his knee, is again temporarily on the shelf, we are sorry to say, having had his left foot mashed quite severely by a fall of rock in mine No. 11 Monday. No bones were broken, however, and he will likely be able to be out in a short time. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 5 Col. 4--B. F. Andrews, who has been quite sick for the past two weeks, is improving, we are glad to say. Mrs. Andrews, who has been in a Kansas City hospital, where she was operated on three weeks ago, is also doing nicely, her friends will be glad to know. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 5 Col. 4--Mrs. Roy Richards left Friday for Chicago for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Evans, and to take in the big Army-Navy football game, she being lucky enough to have secured a ticket thro' her brother, George Evans, a cadet at West Point. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 5 Col. 4--Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Wright and daughter, Mrs. Lester Bray, returned yesterday from Kansas City where they were called last week to see their son, John, an employee of the city, who was very painfully injured by being caught between two cars. They report him improved, but still in a very serious condition. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 5 Col. 4--Mrs. Ruby Weiser, who has been the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Williams, returned Thursday from a visit with relatives in Van Buren, Ark., accompanied by her mother-in-law, Mrs. H. Weiser, who returned home the latter part of the week. Mrs. Weiser will leave for her home in Washington Saturday. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 5 Col. 4--The following from a distance attended the funeral here Tuesday of Mrs. Agnes Jopling: Mrs. Fay Allen, Rich Hill, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Burton, Guthrie Center, Ia.; Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Crowder, Kansas City, her children; Mrs. Milton Logan, a niece, Boone, Iowa, Rev. and Mrs. E. Y. Keiter and Mrs. Sue Burton, Moberly. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 8 Col. 1--SOUTH OF TOWN--C. S. Hargis and family had as radio guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Milt Wheeler and children, Denver, Dale, Bernice and Ganelle, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Hargis and sons, Ralph and Lowell. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 8 Col. 1--SOUTH OF TOWN--On Thanksgiving day there was a pleasant gathering at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Blaise. The 25th was also the 38th wedding anniversary of the host and hostess. The long spacious table, extending nearly the length of two rooms, fairly groaned under the weight of the choicest viands to tempt the appetite of the most exacting, choice mutton, roast chicken, five capons, salads, lettuce, vegetables, jellies, cakes, pies, doughnuts, the center piece consisting of a full gallon of whipped cream. The lucky ones having an opportunity, to partake of the joys of this day were, one son and five daughters and their families, of Mr. and Mrs. Blaise, as follows: Mrs. Emma Ridgeway and son, Hugh; Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Owen Asbury and son, Rodney, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Harris and daughter, Belva; Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Hargis and sons, Lowell and Ralph; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Blaise and children, Miss Orphia, Junior, Marvel and Leta. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 8 Col. 1--MT. PLEASANT ITEMS--N. J. Fowler and wife visited their daughter, Mrs. Paul Naylor, and family, Monday night and Tuesday of last week. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 8 Col. 1--SOUTH OF TOWN--Everett Lyle and his cousin, Mrs. Warren Willbanks, and two children of Overland, arrived here Saturday for a visit with Mrs. Willbanks' father, Wm. Lyle. They made the trip in a car but had to be towed in with a team for the last mile, the roads were so very muddy. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 4 Col. 4--IN THE LONG AGO--By "Ye Old Timer."--Friend Scott: "Time rides with the old at a great pace." Yes, and there is nothing much left for the old but to wait--wait for Time to end life here. Meeting with a friend from the old home town recently, the hours I spent in his company created a desire to write the final chapter of my remembrances of Higbee. That friend-- "A living book, he seemed to me, Fresh come from memory's bindery. A book whose leaves were edged with gold, So many merry tales he told. Who meets an old friend on the way, Meets all the joys of yesterday, The laughter which he used to know, And all the charms of Long Ago." For awhile I regretted that I discontinued my articles in your paper, for I must confess to a little pride at seeing myself in print, but you know elderly people play out, and no doubt your subscribers grew weary of an old fellow's ramblings. Dear Old Higbee! With its splendid people, its indifferent ones, the ne'er-do-wells, the roughnecks--all towns have them--along with the soap box tobacco spitters, who were a common sight on our streets during spring, summer and fall. The muddy streets, cluttered up alleys, stray cats and dogs--ah! you have seen it all and heard the results of the factory. Yes, one of the largest of its kind, all towns have them--gossip factory. But the Higbee I see now is in the hearts of her people. I see the hungry fed, the widow's burden lightened, the poor given shelter and clothing, the fallen woman redeemed, the drunkard made to see the evil of his way, the sick nursed back to health, the dead laid away with reverence regardless of creed or color, its kindness to the stranger within its gates, its hospitality to the known and unknown, its charity to the deserving and the undeserving--she laughed and rejoiced, she wept and mourned. Ah! the real Higbee had a heart in her, and whose hearts were more loyal than the three whose passing on you recorded in your paper a few weeks ago, and the two in your last issue? Mr. Adams, Mr. Murphy and Aunt Ann Dysart. The going of Mr. Adams left a hurt, a what finer tribute could be paid to him than to say, with his son, "The hills are not so beautiful without him." Aunt Ann's going was like a beautiful flower keeping its fragrance and beauty to the last. Mr. Murphy's slipping gently away--just as he had lived--somehow, the town will not be visualized in just the same way,, it will not be so familiar since the going of the splendid old gentleman--Mr. Murphy. And now two more--one an old timer and the other a loyal citizen--Hiram Land and Ed Turner. A loss, indeed, to Higbee when such citizens pass on. In my articles I did not mention my nativity, but I grew up with the old town, and while the years have brought numerous changes, and broader vision, there is still a deep sentiment in my heart for the old town. The sentiments of the following poem express mine, but I cannot close without wishing you, yours and your subscribers the best of life--to those who have few remaining years because of age, I wish you that deep peace that passeth all understanding; to those in the bloom of youth, I wish you enthusiasm and joy; to those in middle life, I wish you fireside and home comforts. And now, Scott, I have again lost myself in remembrances of Higbee--my pipe is out, my faithful old dog lays his head upon my knee and tries to read my thoughts, so I shall push away from my desk, once more with the wish that my poorly written articles have touched the hearts of many and friendships and relationship will be all the sweeter for my having written them. "I cannot hope that Sorrow's feet forever and a day Will pass my little House of Love where latticed sunbeams stray, But when she lays her hand at last upon the swinging latch, And steps where happy years have smiled beneath our spring-sweet thatch, Grant me, ah God, this heartfelt prayer, that somewhere it may be Where little, small-town sympathy may fold and comfort me. "The little, small-town sympathy that runs across the fields, In blue-checked gingham apron, and with flour upon its hands. That bakes, and brews, and sweeps and dusts, that wakeful serves and shields, The little small-town sympathy that knows and understands. "Thy cities, God, are builded high with carven stone on stone, But hearts may ache and hearts may droop unheeded and alone; And souls may dwell unknown, unloved, a single wall between-- Not so the quiet, home-sweet lives that fringe the village green. Let others reap their splendors, Lord, but give instead to me The lonely round of living blent with small-town sympathy. "The little, small-town sympathy that steals on neighbor feet >From tiny lamp-lit houses down a maple-shaded street, That lends its strength on tear-dimmed ways its own bruised feet have trod, The little, small-town sympathy--the very soul of God." Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 5 Col. 1--Born, on Nov. 26th, to Mr. and Mrs. Estil Warford, a daughter. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 5 Col. 1--Joel Robb of Marshall was the guest of Higbee relatives and friends the latter part of last week. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 5 Col. 1--Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Howell and little son, Don, spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives in Moberly. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 5 Col. 2--Mrs. Fred Fuhrman of Moberly was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Dora Sperry, the latter part of last week. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 5 Col. 2--Mrs. Willie Petrie and son, Willie, of Marshall were the guests of her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Notley Magruder, the latter part of last week. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 5 Col. 2--Dr. Howard Turner, who was called here last week by the death of his father, E. J. Turner, returned to his home in Arkansas City, Kan., Tuesday. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 5 Col. 3--Mrs. Jas. Southwick, who had been the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Williams, left Friday for Michigan to join Mr. Southwick, and where they will make their home. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 5 Col. 3--Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Floyd of Mexico are the proud grandparents of a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Shire at Audrain Hospital on Nov. 28. Mother and babe are doing fine. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 5 Col. 3--Dr. and Mrs. G. H. Ewell and little daughter, Patricia Jane, returned to their home in Kansas City Sunday after a short visit with Mrs. Ewell's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wright. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 4--MRS. AGNES JOPLING DEAD--Mrs. Agnes Jopling, a resident of Higbee many years ago, and pleasantly remembered by many of our older residents, died at the home of her son-in-law, W. Christian Burton, of Guthrie Center, Ia., at 12:35 a.m., Sunday, November 28, 1926, following an illness that had made her an invalid for two years or more, and entirely helpless for about a year. The body arrived here Tuesday and was taken to the Baptist church where brief services were held by the Rev. E. Y. Keiter of Moberly, following which, the Eastern Star burial service was given by the local chapter of that order by special request of the chapter at Rich Hill, Mo., where deceased had held her membership for many years. Interment was made in Higbee cemetery by the side of her husband, who died in 1911. Deceased was the daughter of Thos. and Agnes Bain and was born in Galesburg, Ill., on November 21, 1861, and was 65 years and one week old. She was married to John Jopling in Lehigh, Iowa, in 1881, and about 1890 came with him to Higbee where they remained for a year or two. While a resident here she united with the Higbee Baptist church during the revival conducted by Evangelist James, and had since kept her membership here. She is survived by four children--Mrs. Fay Allen, Rich Hill; Mrs. W. C. Burton, Guthrie Center Iowa, Mrs. Floyd Crowder, Kansas City, and George Jopling of Los Angeles, Calif., all of whom, with the exception of the son, were here for the funeral. She also leaves six grandchildren, two sisters and two brothers--Mrs. John Hodgson, Boone, Iowa, Mrs. Elizabeth Dryborough, Rapid City, S. D., and Geo. Bain, Grant's Pass, Ore., and D. T. Bain of Rapid City, S. D., and several nephews and nieces. It had been our good fortune to have known Mrs. Jopling since her removal to Higbee, and a more kindly, gentle or sympathetic soul we never knew. She was a mother loving to the extreme, and simply idolized her children, as they did her in return, and were never happier than when she was in their homes, she living with one or the other most of the time since the death of her husband. She was a consecrated, christian character, charitable to an extreme, and the world is better for her having lived in it. To the bereft children and other relatives and friends, the NEWS, along with all who knew her, tenders it's warmest sympathy. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 4--Mrs. Bert Reese returned to her home in Columbia Sunday after a visit with Higbee relatives and friends. She was accompanied home by her mother, Mrs. Mary Williams. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 4--George Russell, a former citizen of the old town, but now a resident of Pitcher, Okla., was the guest of Higbee friends Friday, and found time to pay the NEWS a most appreciated call. Mr. Russell had been to Boonville to see his son, who is in Kemper Military school and drove over to Mexico to see the sons of a Pitcher friend who are in school there. George is another Higbee boy who has gone out and made good in a big way, and is engaged in the ice business, having plants in Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Pitcher, Joplin and several other places, having nine plants in all, and his many old friends will be glad to know that he is making wads of money. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 4--It was reported here last week that Ellison Pitney, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Pitney, of southwest of town, who has been in the army for several months, and who is located in the Philippine Islands, had been drowned, rumor having it that Mr. Pitney had received a message from the War Department to that effect. We are pleased to state that there was absolutely no truth in the rumor, and just how it started, the Lord only knows. If such stories are ever started as a "joke," about a $500 fine would be a mighty fine cure. Although it was all news to Mr. and Mrs. Pitney, they were given a shock and will not feel exactly at ease and free from worry until they hear from their son. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 5--Mrs. Robt. Williams, who was stricken with paralysis at her home in Chicago two weeks ago, and who last week was considered in a very precarious condition, is better, her host of Higbee friends will be pleased to hear, a letter to relatives received yesterday stating that her speech seemed to be improving and that some feeling was returning to her right side. She is under treatment of one of the city's best chiropractors, we understand, and it is his opinion that she will recover, but may have some trouble with her speech, and walk with a slight limp. This will be encouraging news to her many friends in old Higbee and all join the NEWS in the hope that her recovery will be rapid and complete. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 6--HE'S GOT US BESTED NOW--In the years gone by when the late Hiram Land lived next door to The NEWS office, and his son, Riley, was about six years old and made this office his loafing place, and where, at ten, he set some type, and made the long hours of press night pass more rapidly by his presence, his greatest ambition was to be as big and strong as we were (we carried a small "bay window" in those days). He has long since attained his ambition, we are glad to say, and without a superfluous ounce of flesh, he is pretty much of a modern Samson, due to his work as a structural iron worker several years ago and to most excellent physical training and boxing. As an amateur boxer he has knocked ten opponents cold, while he has taken the count but twice. His knockouts are easily explained when one sees and feels his muscles, which are almost as hard as steel. That he is very much of a man is proven by the fact that he has lifted 750 pounds on a test, and in the office the other day he lifted our little 150 pounds as easily as he would have a 6-year-old child, and in the same manner. To show us some real strength, however, he asked for a book that we were through with, and selecting one of 750 pages he pulled the stiff board backs off and then gripping the book he tore it half in two! He can also perform the same feat with a deck of playing cards. If you don't think the book stunt is some stunt, just try tearing a magazine in the same manner. Riley has not only made good physically, but in every other way, we are proud to say, for as long as he was in Higbee he was our pal, and to whom we always tried to give good advice and set a good example. Leaving Higbee some ten or twelve years ago, he assumed a position with the Ferguson construction Co., under his brother-in-law, Henry Angleberger, and being ambitious and as little bluffed by real hard work as was his good old dad, he commenced at the bottom, being promoted from time to time until now he is a superintendent of construction with one of the largest concerns in the country. It is unnecessary to add that the position carries with it a mighty good salary. The NEWS takes pride in all Higbee boys who have gone out in the world and made good in a big way--and they are far more numerous than you would guess, and whom we hope to give a write-up in a special edition some day--and especially in Riley, who was our pal and one of our very best friends from the time he could walk until he left the old home town, and we hope his advance in his chosen profession will be continuous and that his wonderful strength will last until he is an old, old man. Better nor truer men than Riley are not made these days. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 2 Col. 1--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, By W. T. Dameron--(edited by compiler)--Jas. A. Collett, a prominent attorney and politician of Salisbury, and father-in-law of County Clerk M. D. Evans, of this city, was married last Saturday, Nov. 27th, to Miss _____ Pierce, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pierce, of near Armstrong. After the ceremony they left for Kansas City, and will perhaps go south so spend their honeymoon. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 2 Col. 1--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, By W. T. Dameron--(edited by compiler)--Charley Trask, who for many years was a prominent farmer near Darksville, but who has been in the West and Southwest for many years, died at Portland, Oregon, Friday of last week. He was the father of John Trask of this place, and was about 75 years old. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 2 Col. 1--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, By W. T. Dameron--(edited by compiler)--There has been twenty-four sheriffs of Randolph county since it was organized January, 1829--ninety-seven years ago--and of that number eight are still living. Here is the list: Hancock Jackson, Wm. Upton, Benjamin Dameron, Henry Austin, Caswell Wisdom, Geo. w. Dameron, W. J. Samuel, Greenup Wilcox, John B. Taylor, John H. Austin, W. T. Elliott, W. H. Williams, N. G. Matlock, B. H. Ashcomb, G. N. Ratliff, W. T. Dameron, Joe L. Hogue, I. C. Grimes, F. K. Collins, W. G. Huston, Sam Magruder, Henry Owen, John C. Milam and Victor McCanne. Those living are G. N. Ratliff, W. T. Dameron, J. L. Hogue, I. C. Grimes, W. G. Huston, Henry Owen, John Milam and V, C. McCanne. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 1--E. J. TURNER--In commenting on the death of E. J. Turner, the Paris Mercury says: "Edgar J. Turner, formerly of Paris, died at his home in Higbee Sunday morning of indigestion and the remains were buried at Paris Tuesday with the honors of Odd Fellowship, the funeral sermon being preached by Rev. V. T. Wood at Higbee. Deceased was 58 years old and is survived by his wife and two children, Mrs. Ed. Seibert of Paris and Dr. Howard Turner of Oklahoma. During his residence at Paris he made many friends and was highly esteemed generally as a high-minded, forthright man. All were grieved to learn of his death and the bereaved wife and children have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement." Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 2--MRS. J. W. MAGRUDER DEAD--Mrs. J. W. Magruder, residing just south of Burton, died at the family home Tuesday night from cancer, from which she had been a sufferer for many weary months. Death is always sad, but it was made more so perhaps, if possible, in this case, as it occurred on the day of her golden wedding anniversary. She was 69 years old and is survived by her husband and eight children. The funeral will be held today at Sharon at 11 o'clock by the Rev. Alexander of Fayette, and interment made in the Sharon cemetery. We hope to give a more extended notice next week. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 2--DR. C. C. SMITH TO LEAVE MADISON--The following from the Madison Times will be of interest to our readers, Dr. Smith having taught school here before graduating in medicine, and having married one of Higbee's prettiest daughters, Miss Toinette Burkhalter: "Dr. C. C. Smith has arranged to leave Madison and will locate in Hardin. We along with many friends regret very much to see Dr. Smith and his most estimable family leave our little city. He has built up a nice practice here. He was reared at Hardin and feels that he wants to make the change at this time returning to his old home community. "The doctor has bought a 14-room modern home in Hardin and hopes to later open a hospital in that city. "Dr. Smith sent his household goods to Hardin by truck Wednesday. Mrs. Smith and the children have gone to Higbee for a visit with homefolks. Dr. Smith will be at the Hayden hotel until December 6th." Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 2--MRS. MARY E. WEBB DEAD--Mrs. Mary E. Webb, our oldest lady resident, so far as we know, who had been ill for ten days, passed away at her home in the north part of town at 11:20 a.m. yesterday from the infirmities of age. She seemed to realize from the first that it would be her last illness, and refused both medicine and nourishment for the past several days, stating that her time had come and that she was willing and ready to go. Mrs. Webb was 84 years old on October 5, last, and is survived by two sons, Will and George Webb. Funeral services will be conducted at New Hope, Howard county, today at 2 o'clock by the Rev. Meyers of Moberly, and interment made by the side of her husband who has been dead twenty years or more. An extended notice will be given next week. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 2--THOMAS-FULLINGTON--Mr. Harold D. Thomas of Kirksville and Miss Thelma Fullington of this place were united in marriage in Mobelry on Saturday, Nov. 27, at the home of the officiating minister, the Rev. E. V. Lamb. The bride is the pretty and accomplished daughter of Mrs. Jasper Fullington of northwest of town, and is generally conceded one of the community's sweetest and most sensible young ladies, and was teaching the school in the Ebenezar district, but which she has resigned. The groom comes from one of the best families in the county, being the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas of north of Huntsville, but who, since his graduation from the Huntsville high school has been located at Kirksville where he has a good position, and where the happy couple will make their home. The NEWS joins other friends in congratulations and best wishes. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 2--FUNERAL OF HIRAM LAND--The funeral of Hiram Land, as announced in our last issue, was held at the Christian church at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon of last week, and despite the mud the church was filled almost to capacity, and so far as we could observe, not a one was there through morbid curiosity, but all to mourn him as an old friend, and to pay their last respects to his memory, for his honesty and integrity and sterling worth as a man, friend and citizen. The services were conducted by the Rev. W. T. Henson of Moberly, and was of the kind he always preaches--sensible in the extreme. The flowers of which there was a profusion, were the prettiest seen here in years, and especially the blanket which covered the casket. Interment was made in the Higbee cemetery, in sight of his home, the cemetery having at one time been a part of the old home place and where he had spent practically all of his life. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 2--JESSE M. KIRBY DEAD--Jesse M. Kirby, a former well known resident of this vicinity, but who had been in Colorado for several years, died at his home in Colorado Springs Tuesday of last week, but as to the nature of his illness we are not advised. He was about 75 years old, and is survived by his wife and one sister, Mrs. J. L. Dougherty, of Fayette. Mr. Kirby was as fine a citizen as ever lived among us and was a christian gentleman, and his many friends will be pained to hear of his death. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 3--BURIED TREASURE?--Nat Dennis, who was a caller at the News office last week, and who turned in a corking good story, and as to the truth of which he is willing to make oath, besides furnishing witnesses who will do the same, called again Monday, and was telling of a circumstance that would cause us, if we were Nat, to postpone our trip to Texas until we could investigate. He states that years ago, when he and his brother, the late Tom Dennis, were mere kids, they notice a mound on a certain tract of land south of town, and which had the appearance of a grave. It had long aroused their curiosity, and they had often thought of digging into it, and one day screwed up courage enough to tackle the job. They had gone down but about two feet when their spades struck heavy wooden boards, and which they judged might be a rough coffin box or rude coffin, when they lost their nerve, and filling up the hole the best they could, they left the spot with their hair all but standing on end and never had the courage to go back. The field was broken up soon after and in the course of years the mound was obliterated. From the location of the home and a ravine, Nat is sure he could locate the spot within a hundred yards, and may undertake the job when he returns from Texas, or perhaps before he goes, as he now has nothing to do. Nat says he has often thought of this box and is sorry that he did not later investigate before its location was lost as he is convinced that, from the shallow depth and the mound it contained treasure of some kind, buried, perhaps during the Civil War. If we were in Nat's place we would see what that box contained, if our search lasted all winter. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 3--PIE ALMOST FATAL--A piece of custard pie, made in her own kitchen almost proved fatal to Mrs. Clarence Riley of near Clark. A piece of wire, from an egg beater, lodged in her throat and an operation was necessary to remove it. Soon after Mrs. Riley had eaten the pie she began to suffer intense pain in her throat. She was immediately taken to a Moberly hospital where an X-ray examination disclosed the lodgment of an object in her throat. When the object was removed it was found to be a piece of wire which evidently broke off the egg beater when Mrs. Riley was making the filling for the pie.--Sturgeon Leader. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 3--HONORS FOR WARREN WINN--Warren Winn, of Higbee, is an honor student at Central College, Fayette, Mo., according to results of a survey of the first quarter grades recently made by the college. He is a sophomore. There are seventy-eight names on the Central Honor Roll for this quarter, and to be included indicates a high standard of scholarship for Winn. If this standard is maintained through the school year he will be cited for honors at the commencement exercises. Thursday, 2 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 31, Pg 1 Col. 3--HUDSON-SHIPP--Mr. Joseph A. Hudson of this place and Miss Neta Shipp of New Franklin were united in marriage at the home of the officiating minister, the Rev. L. M. White of Fayette, on Wednesday, Nov. 24. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Shipp of New Franklin, and is popular among a wide circle of friends. The groom is the son of Mrs. Florence Hudson, and is one of the community's best known and substantial young men. The NEWS joins other friends in congratulations and best wishes. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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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, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 1, Col 3--THE NEWS OUT EARLY--The News is issued a day early this week owing to the fact that Thursday, our regular publication day, is Thanksgiving, when the post office will be closed and the rural carriers off for the day. Then, too, we want to enjoy Thanksgiving like other folks, if possible, (but we've no hopes for turkey) and perhaps take in the big football game at Fayette between Central and Westminster colleges, we never having seen such a battle. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 1, Col 5--DEATH'S HEAVY TOLL--Within the past year the Grim Reaper has had an abundant harvest in Higbee, taking in that time, some of our oldest--both in years and residence--and most beloved citizens, and seems to have picked most of his victims from the membership of the Christian church or a family closely connected with it. The deaths of Hiram Land and E. J. Turner, each of whom was called Sunday in the twinkling of an eye, brings the total to eleven, about eight of whom have passed away this year, and all of whom were called suddenly. Those we can recall, but we cannot give them in the order of their going, are, Mrs. Sallie Jackson, M. O. Fowler, Mrs. H. W. Burton, A. T. Burton, Mrs. S. E. Newman, J. A. Caldwell, H. A. Starkey, M. Murphy, Hiram Land, E. J. Turner and Jas. Shafer. While Mr. Murphy and Mr. Land did not belong to the Christian church, the former's daughter, Miss Lulu, is a member, as is also Mrs. Land and Mrs. Shafer. A peculiar and unusual record when one considers the fact that the membership roll of this church is no greater than that of the Baptist or Methodist. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 1, Col 6--HIRAM LAND PASSES AWAY UNEXPECTEDLY--Dies At His Farm Home Sunday Morning From Heart Failure--"Hiram Land is dead!" Such were the startling words that flew over the telephone wires in Higbee and vicinity Sunday morning, and those who had seen his familiar figure on the streets the day before and exchanged greetings with him, were loathe to believe them, but as Death has been striking here, there and yonder in the town and community for several months, and striking without warning, they reluctantly accepted the sad news, though many refused to believe that it was more than rumor until they had talked with those who knew. Mr. Land, while apparently his usual self, had not been well for a year or more, suffering from an affection of the heart, and only the day before was telling a friend of an attack a night or two before and which caused him to think he said, that his time had come. He was apparently as well as usual Saturday night and retired at the usual hour. Leaving him sleeping peacefully, Mrs. Land got up about 6 the next morning to get breakfast, intending to call him when the meal was ready. While at work she heard him groan or yawn and thinking he was getting up she did not go to awaken him for two or three minutes, and when she did she found him cold in death. Crazed with grief she rushed to the telephone and called central and a physician was speedily on the way to the home, but Mr. Land was beyond all mortal help, the physician giving it as his opinion that death had resulted from heart failure, and that it had been instantaneous and painless. Hiram Land, son of S. J. and Margaret Land, was born on a farm just north of town on January 29, 1861, and was the eldest of the family. The family moved to saline county in the early '80's but Mr. Land elected to remain here, and for many years made his home with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Baker, who then lived on what is now the land farm, and where he had spent practically all of his life. He was married on May 30, 1887, to Miss Corrinnah Lessly, and farmed for many years on the farm that adjoins the Rucker farm on the south, buying and moving to his present farm some twenty years or more ago. He was one of the most indefatigable workers we ever knew, and was never idle a minute as long as there was work to be done and he had the strength to do it, as his well-kept farm proves to all passers by. Being of a mechanical turn, he early learned the carpenter's trade, but worked at it only occasionally in late years, and never as a steady occupation. He was all but an expert with any kind of ordinary machinery, and if he ever tackled a job he didn't complete in a workmanlike manner we never heard of it. On selling his old home place he was employed for several years in the bridge department of the M-K-T railroad, and here, as on his farm, he always turned in an honest day's work, and then some, for he was that kind of a man. We had known him all the years we have been in Higbee, and intimately so since he lived in his residence property next to the NEWS office, and we never knew him to do a little or despicable thing. While he had his faults, like the rest of us, they were not grievous. We ever found him as honest as daylight not only in all business transactions, but in all things. Naturally retiring, he was considered by some as not so very sociable, but to those who really knew him he was the most sociable of men and a boon companion. While he had never united with any church, no man in the community had a higher regard for the truly christian character, and he believed in the church and its work, while he looked with contempt upon the hypocrite. We are indeed glad that it was our privilege to have known him so intimately and to have numbered him among our friends. We feel a personal loss in his going, and shall ever bear him in pleasant remembrance, and especially his visits to the NEWS office, which was one of his favorite loafing places--if it can be truly said that he ever did such a thing. He is survived by his widow and two children--Mrs. Pearl Angleberger and Riley H. Land, of Cleveland, Ohio, and one grandson, Cecil Anglebarger, of the same city. He also leaves four brothers and three sisters--O. P., J. R., and George Land of Saline county, and Lee Land of Kansas City, and Mrs. Maggie Rice and Mrs. Addie Brinkman of St. Louis, and Mrs. Alma Johnson of Cisco, Texas. Funeral services will be held from the Christian church today (Wednesday) by the Rev. W. T. Henson of Moberly at 2 o'clock and interment made in Higbee cemetery. In the passing of Hiram Land, Higbee has lost one of its upright and honorable citizens, and one of its old timers, for "Old Hi," as he was called by some--not in any terms of disrespect, but rather in endearment--grew up with it, and to many outside his immediate family it will never be the same again. When the Call shall come to those of us who remain, may it be that it can be said of us as it can of him, "he lived respected and died regretted." Peace to his ashes. The NEWS joins the community in deepest sympathy to his loved ones. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 4, Col 6--Miss Dorothy Coon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Coon of Montgomery City, and granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Cooper of this place, was operated on at a Moberly hospital Friday for appendicitis. She is doing nicely, we are pleased to say. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 5, Col 1--Mr. and Mrs. Luke Haggard and little sons James and Cecil, spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Reuben White, of near Clark. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 5, Col 1--Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dougherty returned Saturday from a visit with their son, George ("Cutter") Dougherty, of Diamond, Okla. They reported real winter weather in that state the day before, stating that the water in the radiator of their car froze while they were on their way to town. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 8, Col 1--SOUTH OF TOWN--Amos Comstock has the measles. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 8, Col 1--SOUTH OF TOWN--Misses Fratie Mead and Hilda Comstock spent Thursday night with Mr. and Mrs. Mart Mead. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 8, Col 1--SOUTH OF TOWN--Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Blansett and children Toinette, Josie and Oscar, were Sunday dinner guests at Mr. and Mrs. Woodie Warford. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 8, Col 5--Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Pattrick were made the happiest couple in town Sunday by receipt of a message from their son, John H. Pattrick, of Kansas City, advising them that they were grandparents, a son having arrived at his home that day they, and left for the city on the first train. They returned Monday night and advise us that the youngster has been christened Robert Riley, and that Mrs. Patrick is doing fine. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 1, Col 1&2--ANOTHER RESIDENT SUDDENLY CALLED--E. J. Turner Answered The Call Of The Grim Reaper Sunday--Funeral Yesterday--Burial At Paris, Mo.--The town had only partially recovered from the shock of the news of the death of Hiram Land at 6 o'clock Sunday morning, when folks were awe-struck on again going to their ringing telephones to be told that E. J. Turner had passed away at his home in the west part of town, his death being equally as sudden and unexpected, when all wondered over whose home the Death Angel might then be hovering, and many were those who asked, "Who will be next?" Like the death of Mr. Land, news of Mr. Turner's death came as a bolt from the blue, as few knew he had been sick, and those who did know it, not even his family even suspicioned that his end was so near. Though robust looking, and apparently in perfect health, Mr. Turner had been afflicted with high blood pressure for about a year, but this had been reduced to normal as tests showed some time ago, and all fear on this account was dismissed by himself and his family. He was taken quite sick the first of the week with a stomach disorder, but was able to be down town as usual Thursday. Not feeling so well the next day he remained in bed, his malady being diagnosed as a very bad case of indigestion. Rest and quiet and a minimum of light food, however, seemed to be restoring him, and he felt so much better Sunday morning that he got up for a few minutes, feeling fine, eating something, we understand, his physician had warned against, but a very small quantity, and smoked a cigarette, when he returned to bed. He soon had another attack, it being very acute this time, and his family physician summoned, as was, also, Dr. Payne of Paris, who had treated him for high blood pressure. he suffered intensely for a time, but got easier, and at 11 o'clock, when he seemed much better, the summons came an din an instant, even before those watching at his bedside could realize it, he passed out without a pain or struggle. He seemed to have a premonition of dissolution, for he asked Mrs. Turner earlier in the day if she was sure she remembered the combination to his safe, and also told her where he had put the key to his shop. Also, when his daughter, Mrs. Ed Seibert of Paris, told him that Dr. Payne was on his way, he remarked that he was afraid he would not be here when Dr. Payne arrived. news of his death was phoned to the physician and he was stopped at Madison. Mr. Turner moved to Higbee twenty-eight years ago, opening a barber shop, and later adding a pool hall. After several years, moving from there to St. Charles, and from the latter place back to Higbee some twelve years or more ago, engaging in the same business, adding a few months ago, a target gallery and bowling alley. Retiring and unassuming, and attending at all times strictly to his own business, and allowing other folks to do the same, he made no bid for popularity, but was always ready to meet folks half way, and had a legion of sincerest friends among those who knew him best. And among those were his neighbors, all of whom will tell you that he was all that a neighbor could be, and more, and especially in cases of sickness and distress, or in the matter of doing a favor or a kindness. What one's neighbors say, and his home life, is perhaps the truest measure of a man. Outside of business hours he stuck to his home as diligently as he did to his shop, and when not enjoying its pleasures, was busily engaged about the place, making it more attractive in every way he could. He owned several residences in town and those who rented from him, if they treated him only half-way decent, found him a most agreeable landlord, always ready to make any reasonable improvement and was most considerate when rents were not always paid on time. In his going the town has lost a public spirited citizen, and one who numbered among many good traits one that about heads the list--that of remaining silent when he couldn't speak well of anyone--and his family a loving kind and indulgent husband and father, and to those to whom he was a friend, a friend indeed. He is survived by his widow and two children--Dr. Howard Turner of Arkansas City, Kan., and Mrs. Ed. Seibert of Paris, as well as three grandchildren. He also leaves one brother, Richard, of Winfield, Kan, and three sisters--Mrs. Belle Taylor, Mrs. Sarah Burgess and Mrs. Nellie Mitchell, all of Woodward, Okla., beside a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. Funeral services were held at the home at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning by the Rev. V. T. Wood, pastor of the Christian church at Paris, who read the following obituary: "Edgar John Turner was born in Ohio on December 2, 1868. His father was Isaac Turner and was from an old family that pioneered in the first days of our country's birth. His grandfather was a sea captain and one of the big men of his time. His father when just a boy fought through the Civil War as a union soldier. His mother, Sarah Bissell Turner, came from the line of Bissells that first settled this country and whose sons as young boys fought in the war. His parents moved to Iowa when he was a small boy. he was united in marriage to Julia Mabel Jameson August 26, 1889, at Wiota, Iowa. Two children were born to this union, the first, Mrs. Edward Seibert of Paris, Mo., and Dr. Howard Turner of Arkansas City, Kan, both of who were raised in this town. Mr. Turner moved his family to Higbee 28 years ago. He united with the Christian church 23 years ago this month, and with his daughter was led into the water and baptized by Bro. A. N. Lindsey. he leaves his wife, two children, three grandchildren, one brother and three sisters. He was a faithful husband and a loving father, an honest citizen and loyal neighbor, making no elaborate pretensions, but quietly going about his tasks. He leaves many friends who will remember him for his fine honesty and true worth and miss him from his familiar pathways of duty." "They never quite leave us, The dear ones who've passed >From the shadow of death To the sunlight above. A thousand kind acts Holds their memory fast To the places they blest By their presence and love." The home was taxed far beyond its capacity, as it had been almost since the hour of death, and never was a minister given closer attention and never, in our humble opinion, was such a simple, appealing, heart-touching and consoling sermon ever delivered here on a similar occasion. After reading the obituary, the speaker never once referred to the deceased, but talked solely on God's love for man and Christ's life and mission, using at all times plain beautiful language that even a little child could understand, and callused, indeed, was the heart that was not touched as it had not been touched in years, if ever. Interment was made in the Paris cemetery by the side of a grandchild. The NEWS joins the community in sincerest sympathy to the stricken family. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 1, Col 2--FORMER RESIDENT SUFFERS STROKE OF PARALYSIS--Mrs. Robert Williams Stricken Sunday at her Home in Chicago--Condition Very Serious.--The many friends of Mrs. Robert Williams, who recently moved to Chicago with Mr. Williams, were very much pained Sunday when word came in a message that she had suffered a stroke of paralysis, and pained still more when another came Monday advising that she was in a very critical condition, with her right side effected and unable to speak or utter a sound. Her daughter, Mrs. Marietta Alexander, and her sister, Miss Elsie Lambier, left on the first train Sunday night for Chicago to be with her, and a letter received from them yesterday advised that she was in a very critical condition. The community joins the NEWS in a prayer for her recovery. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 1, Col 2--NAT DENNIS TO LEAVE US--As will be seen by an ad in this issue, Nat Dennis will sell out, lock, stock and barrel, the sale to be held at his farm south of town Saturday, and will leave as soon after the sale as possible for a more salubrious clime--Possibly Texas, where he lived for a short time several years ago. He is not going to remain permanently, his many friends will be glad to learn, but to find relief from the cold weather, for the present winter , at least. Here's wishing him health and happiness wherever he may cast his lot. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.